SUNDAY JULY 1 |
AFTERNOON | ARRIVE AND REGISTER |
6:00p | Dinner |
7:30-7:35p | Welcome |
| I. Principles of mechano- and gravity sensing: Plants and Animals |
| Manning Correia / Mike Evans |
7:35-7:45 | Manning Correia (UTMB, Galveston) |
7:45-8:30 | David Corey (Harvard) Principles of mechanotransduction in animal sense organs |
8:30- 8:40 | Mike Evans (Ohio State) |
8:40- 9:25 | Janet Braam (Rice) Molecular and developmental responses of plants to mechanical forces |
9:25-9:35 | Discussion |
9:45- | POSTER SESSION |
MONDAY 2 JULY |
| II. Mechanosensing in microorganisms/ organisms with cell walls |
| Ian Booth / Stan Roux |
9:00-9:05a | Ian Booth |
9:05-9:45a | Ching Kung (Madison) MscL, a mechanosensitive channel of bacteria |
9:45-10:25a | Sergei Sukharev (Maryland) The gating transition in the large bacterial mechanosensitive channel, MscL |
10:25-10:30a | Discussion |
10:30-11:00a | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:05a | Stan Roux |
11:05-11:45a | Roymarie Ballester (UCSB) Cell wall sensor proteins of yeast |
11:45-12:25p | Colin Brownlee (MBL, Plymouth, UK) Intracellular signaling mechanisms distinguishing mechanical and osmotic stresses in plants |
12:25-12:30p | Discussion |
12:30-1:30p | Lunch |
1:30- 6:00p | Informal discussions, activities |
6:00-7:30p | Dinner |
| III. Signal transduction cascades evoked by mechanical stress and gravity |
| Fred Sachs |
7:30-7:40p | Fred Sachs (SUNY Buffalo) |
7:40-8:15p | Mike Sheetz (Columbia) Cell force transduction: Role of tyrosine phosphatases and kinases |
8:15-8:50p | Dan Cosgrove (Penn State) Mechanisms of cell wall loosening in plants, or how a coleoptile gets bent |
8:50-9:20p | Eric Honoré (CNRS Valbonne) Mechano-gated 2P domain K+ channels |
9:20-9:30p | Discussion |
9:30p - | POSTER SESSION |
TUESDAY, JULY 3 |
| III. Signal transduction cascades evoked by mechanical stress and gravity, cont'd |
| Owen Hamill / John Kiss |
9:00-9:05a | Owen Hamill |
9:05-9:45a | John Frangos (UCSD) The membrane-free volume theory of mechanochemical transduction |
9:45-10:25a | Elisabeth Burger (Free Univ.) Mechanotransduction in bone: Role of the osteocyte network |
10:25-10:30a | Discussion |
10:30-11:00a | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:05 | John Kiss (Miami University, Ohio) |
11:05-11:45a | Wendy Boss (N. Carolina State) Phosphoinositide signaling in gravitropism in plants |
11:45-12:25p | Heribert Hirt (Vienna) MAP kinase pathways: Molecular plug-and-play chips of cellular bioinformatics |
12:25-12:30p | Discussion |
12:30-1:30p | Lunch |
1:30-6:00p | Informal discussions, activities |
6:00-7:30p | Dinner |
| IV. Mechanosensitive and other ion channels in mechano- and gravisensing |
| Jaime García-Añoveras / Nina Allen |
7:30-7:40p | Jaime García-Añoveras (Harvard) |
7:40-8:05p | Miriam Goodman (Columbia) The molecular basis of touch in C. elegans |
8:05-8:30 | Ellen Lumpkin (UCSF) Characterizing touch reception by Merkel cell-neurite complexes |
8:30-8:40 | Discussion |
8:40-8:50p | Nina Allen (North Carolina State
University) |
8:50-9:30p | Simon Gilroy (Penn State) Ionic signaling during root gravitropism |
9:30- 9:40p | Discussion |
9:45p- | POSTER SESSION |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 |
| IV. Mechanosensitive and other ion channels in mechano- and gravisensing, cont'd |
| Roger Hangartner / Corné Kros |
8:45-8:55a | Roger Hangartner (Indiana) |
8:55-9:20a | Gethyn Allen (UCSD) Molecular mechanisms in the signaling network in guard cells of plants |
9:20-10:00a | Rainer Hedrich (Wurzberg) Ion signaling mechanisms in coleoptile growth and gravitropism |
10:00-10:25a | Chris Wolverton (Ohio State) Identification of a new gravity sensor in plants: A mechanosensor? |
10:25-10:30a | Discussion |
10:30-11:00a | Coffee Break |
11:00 - 11:10 | Corné Kros (Sussex) |
11:10-11:35a | Maggie Price (Iowa) The role of DEG/ENaC ion channels in mechanosensation |
11:35-12:20 | Robert Fettiplace (Madison) Forward and reverse transduction in auditory hair cells |
12:20-12:30p | Discussion |
12:30-1:30p | Lunch |
1:30- 6:00p | Informal discussions, activities |
6:00-7:30p | Dinner |
| IV. Mechanosensitive and other ion channels in mechano- and gravisensing, cont'd |
| Cathy Morris |
7:30-7:45p | Cathy Morris (Ottawa) |
7:45- 8:30p | Andrew French (Dalhousie) Transduction and adaptation in arthropod mechanosensory neurons |
8:30-9:15p | Jim Hudspeth (Rockefeller) Mechanical amplification by the transduction channels of hair cells |
9:15-9:30p | Discussion |
9:30p- | POSTER SESSION |
THURSDAY, JULY 5 |
| V. Genetic approaches to mechanosensing and gravitropism |
| Maurice Kernan / Paul Blount |
8:45-8:55a | Maurice Kernan (SUNY Stonybrook) |
8:55-9:20a | Bassem Hassan (Baylor) From flies to mice and back: Conservation of mechanoreceptor specification |
9:20-9:45a | Richard Walker (UCSD) A mechanosensory transduction channel in Drosophila |
9:45-10:10a | Teresa Nicolson (MPI, Tübingen) Mechanosensory mutants in Zebrafish |
10:10-10:20a | Discussion |
10:20-10:50a | Coffee Break |
10:50-11:00 | Paul Blount (UT Southwestern) |
11:00-11:40a | Patricia Wolff (MPI, Köln) Auxin and its role in gravity perception in plants |
11:40-12:20p | Patrick Masson (Madison) Genetic analysis of root gravitropism in Arabidopsis thaliana |
12:20-12:30p | Discussion |
12:30-1:30p | Lunch |
1:30-6:00p | Informal discussions, activities |
6:00-7:30p | Dinner |
| V. Genetic approaches to mechanosensing and gravitropism, cont'd |
| Martin Chalfie |
7:30-7:45p | Martin Chalfie (Columbia) |
7:45- 8:45p | Karen Steel (MRC, Nottingham) Genetics of inner ear defects |
8:45- 9:00p | Discussion |
9:15-10:15p | BUSINESS MEETING |
FRIDAY, JULY 6 |
7:30-8:30a | Breakfast |
9:00a | BUS DEPARTS |