| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Actin Organization and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Chris Staiger (Purdue) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Martin Hulskamp (Univ. Köln)
"Arp2/3 complex in trichome development" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | John Cooper (Washinton Univ. Med School)
"Yeast actin patches are networks of branched actin filaments" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Laurent Blanchoin (CEA/CNRS/UJF, Grenoble)
Short talk: "Plant formin AtFH5 is an evolutionarily conserved actin nucleator involved in cytokinesis" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Thomas Huckaba (Columbia Univ.)
Short movie: " Live cell imaging of the assembly, disassembly, and actin cable-dependent movement of endosomes and actin patches in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Conference Photo Session |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microtubule Organization and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Dutcher (Washington Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Clive Lloyd (John Innes Centre)
"Characterization of plant MAPs" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Tim Huffaker (Cornell)
"Coordinated regulation of cytoplasmic and spindle microtubule dynamics by plus-end binding proteins" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Marilyn Vantard (CEA/CNRS/UJF, Grenoble)
"Arabidopsis katanin" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Susan Dutcher (Washington University)
"Comparative genomics to begin to unravel the assembly and function of the basal body" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Andrei Smertenko (Durham University)
Short talk: "Functional analysis of MAP-65" |
| 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 | Signaling to the Cytoskeleton |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Snyder (Yale Univ.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Zhenbiao Yang (UC Riverside)
"ROP/RAC GTPase signaling to the cytoskeleton in plants" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Mike Snyder (Yale)
"Septin/kinase checkpoint control" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Noni Franklin-Tong (Univ. Birmingham, UK)
"Self-Incompatibility involves actin depolymerization
… is gelsolin involved, and does this signal to PCD?" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mitosis and Cytokinesis |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Cyr (Penn State) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Yves Barral (Swiss Fed Inst Technol)
"Spindle orientation and cytokinesis in S. cerevisiae" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Richard Cyr (Penn State)
"Deciphering the activities of the preprophase band zone" |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Stefan Westermann (UC Berkeley)
Short Talk: "The function of the Dam1 complex in mitotic spindle integrity and chromosome segregation" |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Tom Pollard (Yale Univ.)
"Assembly and constriction of the contractile ring in fission yeast" |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Fred Sack (Ohio State Univ.)
"Microtubules, divisions, and morphogenesis in stomatal development" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Zac Cande (UC Berkeley)
Short talk: "Mitosis in the binucleate parasite Giardia intestinalis" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Mohan Balasubramanian (Natl Univ. Singapore)
Short talk: "Physiological Role for a Cytokinesis Checkpoint in Fission Yeast" |
| 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 | Cellular Morphogenesis/Cell Polarity |
| Discussion Leader: Tony Bretscher (Cornell) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Dan Szymanski (Purdue)
"Arabidopsis trichome morphogenesis: distorted insights into ARP2/3 and WAVE complex functions" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Dave Pruyne (Cornell)
"Isoform-specific roles for the Bni1p and Bnr1p formins in actin cable assembly in budding yeast" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Patrick Masson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
"A novel class of plant proteins with in vitro microtubule bundling activity functions in the control of spiral organs growth and anisotropic cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Fred Chang (Columbia Univ.)
"Cell centrifugation and laser microsurgery in fission yeast cells" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organelle Positioning and Motility |
| Discussion Leader: Liza Pon (Columbia Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Michael Yaffe (UCSD)
"Mitochondrial movement and inheritance in fission yeast" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Masamitsu Wada (Tokyo Metro Univ.)
"Cytoskeletal basis of chloroplast photo-orientation movement" |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Roger Hangarter (Indiana Univ.)
Short talk: "Identification of novel proteins required for light-dependent chloroplast movements in Arabidopsis" |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Motoki Tominaga (Kansai Adv. Res. Center)
"Single molecule analysis of higher plant myosin XI responsible for cytoplasmic streaming" |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Liza Pon (Columbia)
"Mitochondrial motility and inheritance in budding yeast: new directions, mediators and forces" |
| 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 | Vesicle trafficking, exo- and endocytosis |
| Discussion Leader: David Drubin (UC Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Ben Glick (Univ. Chicago)
"Transitional ER and Golgi formation" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Erfei Bi (Univ. Penn)
"Role of the Rab GAPs Msb3p and Msb4p in exocytosis and actin organization" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Gerd Jürgens (Univ. Tübingen)
"Cytoskeleton and membrane dynamics in plant cell division" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | David Drubin (UC Berkeley)
"Harnessing actin dynamics for membrane trafficking events" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cellular Morphogenesis/Cell Polarity II |
| Discussion Leader: Dan Szymanski (Purdue) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Magdelena Bezanilla (Washington University)
"RNAi silencing in Physcomitrella patens reveals that actin dynamics are essential for plant cell patterning" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Jeremy Thorner (UC Berkeley)
"Yeast septins" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Geoff Wasteneys (Univ. of BC, Vancouver)
"Microtubules and the Shape of Plants" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Gero Steinberg (Univ. Marburg)
"A microtubule-binding site in the tail of conventional kinesins" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Peter Hepler (Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Actin and pollen tube 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 - 8:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Signaling II |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Danny Lew (Duke Univ.)
"Polarization of Cdc42p in yeast" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Gloria Muday (Wake Forest)
"Actin and auxin signaling" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | David Amberg (SUNY)
"Regulation of actin dynamics during times of stress" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |