SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ISSUES AND APPROACHES TO MECHANO- AND GRAVISENSING |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Chalfie (Columbia University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Ching Kung (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Forces from Lipids: A Unifying Principle for Microbes and Macrobes? |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Terri Lomax (NASA; Oregon State University)
Plant Gravity Sensing and Response |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Ruth Anne Eatock (Baylor College of Medicine)
Hair Cell Transduction in Vertebrate Gravity-Sensing Organs |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Maurice Kernan (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Mechanosensation in Invertebrates |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BACTERIAL CHANNELS AND RELATED PROTEINS |
| Discussion leader: Boris Martinac (University of Queensland) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Eduardo Perozo (University of Virginia)
Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Prokaryotic Mechanosensitive Channels |
9:40 am - 10:20 am | Ian Booth (University of Aberdeen)
Twist, Turn, and Lean - A Model for the Gating of the MscS Mechanosensitive Channel |
10:20 am - 10:40 am | Sergei Sukharev (University of Maryland)
The Functional Cycle of the Small Mechanosensitive Channel MscS |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Marcos Sotomayor (University of Illinois)
Mechanism of Mechanosensitive Channels and Mechanical Sensors Studies by Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Elizabeth Haswell (California Institute of Technology)
Plants Under Pressure: A Family of Mscs-Like Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HAIR CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Cathy Morris (Ottawa Health Research Institute) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Teresa Nicolson (Oregon Health and Science University)
Molecular Dissection of Sensory Hair Cell Function in Zebrafish |
8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Anthony Ricci (Louisiana State University Health Science Center)
Mechanoelectric Transduction: The Cilia Side of Hearing |
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Brian McDermott (Rockefeller University)
Identification of Genes Expressed in Zebrafish Hair Cells |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Kathleen Beckingham (Rice University)
Gravitaxis Mutants of Drosphophila melanogastor |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GENETIC AND GENOMIC APPROACHES TO PLANT GRAVITY RESPONSE |
| Discussion Leader: Patrick Masson (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jiri Friml (University of Tübingen)
Auxin Transport - A Common Mechanism in Plant Adaptation Development |
9:40 am - 10:20 am | Angus Murphy (Purdue University)
MDR P-Glycoproteins Implicated in Hypocotyl Graviresponsiveness Mediate Direct NPA- and Flavonoid-Sensitive Auxin Transport |
10:20 am - 10:40 am | Ranjan Swarup (University of Nottingham)
Molecular and Cellular Dissection of Root Gravitropism |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Glenn Hicks (University of California at Riverside)
Chemical Genomics to Uncover the Link between Gravitropism and Trafficking within the Endomembrane System |
11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Miyo Morita (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Exploration of Gravity Responsive Genes in Arabidopsis inflorescence stems |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Christian Fankhauser (University of Lausanne)
The interaction between light and gravity in orienting plant growth |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | IMPORTANCE OF LIPID FOR EUKARYOTIC MECHANOSENSING CHANNELS |
| Discussion Leader: Ellen Lumpkin (University of California at San Francisco) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University)
Effects of Lipids on TRP Channels |
8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Thomas Benzing (University Hospital Freiburg)
Organization of the Lipid Microenvironment of Mechanosensitive Protein Complexes |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Eric Honoré (Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire CNRS)
Regulation of the Mechano-gated K2P Channels by Cellular Lipids |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EUKARYOTIC MECHANSENSITIVE CHANNELS |
| Discussion Leader: Dan Tracey (Duke University) |
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Melissa Vollrath (Harvard Medical School)
TRPA1 is a Candidate for the Mechanosensitive Transduction Channel of Vertebrate Hair Cells |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Owen Hamill (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston)
TRPC1Forms the Vertebrate Mechanosensitive Ca2+ Permeable Cation Channel |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Miriam Goodman (Stanford University)
Mechanotransduction Channels That Mediate Touch Sensation in C. elegans |
11:45 am - 12:05 pm | Philip Gottleib (SUNY at Buffalo)
Bilayer Dependent Inhibition of Mechanosensitive Channels by the Peptide GsMTx4 |
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | Vera Moiseenkova-Bell (Baylor College of Medicine)
Electron Microscopy of TRPV1 Expressed in S. cerevisiae |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MECHANICAL AND GRAVITY SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Sarah Wyatt (Ohio University) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Nihal Dharmasiri (Indiana University)
TIR1 and related F-box proteins function as auxin receptors in plants |
8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Mike Gustin (Rice University)
The role of transmembrane helix association in osmosensing by the Sln1 protein |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Imara Perrara (North Carolina State University)
Altering Phosphoinositide-mediated Signaling affects the Gravitropic Responses of Arabidopsis |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CELLULAR AND TISSUE RESPONSES TO MECHANICAL STIMULI |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Kohorn (Bowdoin College) |
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Daniel Tschumperlin (Harvard Medical School)
Mechanical signaling through the EGF receptor in the lateral intercellular space |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Mark Johnson (Creighton University)
Role of lipoprotein-related receptor 5 on bone mass |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Viola Vogel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Insights How Mechanical Force Regulates Protein Functions: Fibronectin and Integrins |
11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Matthew Thompson (University of Kentucky)
Top-down Analysis of Plant Morphogenesis: Wavy Roots |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | IONIC CONTROLS OF PLANT GRAVITY RESPONSE |
| Discussion Leader: Roger Hangarter (Indiana University) |
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Ines Fuchs (Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biophysics)
Gravity Activates Hormone-Sensitive Ion Channels in Plants |
8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Simon Gilroy (Penn State University)
Ca2+ Microdomains and Gravity/Mechanosensing in Arabidopsis |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Business Meeting |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |