Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Diverse Polymers Make the Cytoskeleton Work
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Integration of Actin Dynamics and Adhesion in Innate Immunity"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm
"In Vitro Reconstitutions of Dynamic Microtubule Systems"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm
"An Overview of the Functions of Intermediate Filaments in Cell Mechanics and Motility"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:15 am
"Ena/VASP Proteins in Cell Migration and Adhesion"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
"How Does a Cell with No Interphase Microtubules Build a Mitotic Spindle?"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
"The Flagellar Length Control System"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:00 am
"Ciliary Assembly and Transport"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:20 am
"Using Contractility and Motility to Build Emergent Cell Behaviors: Lessons from the Unicellular Predator Lacrymaria olor "
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
"The Actin Nucleator CYK-1/mDia Drives Chirality of Actomyosin Flows and Facilitates Left-Right Symmetry Breaking in Early C. elegans Embryos"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:50 am
"Cooperation Between a MyTH4-FERM Myosin and VASP Is Critical for Filopodia Initiation"
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
"Direct Observation of Individual Tubulin Dimers Binding to Growing Microtubules"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"Effect of Cytoplasm Density on Cytoskeleton Dynamics"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Modes and Mechanisms of Transport
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
"Fragmentation and Rupture of Strained Actin Filaments"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
"Actin Dynamics Regulate Spatial Mixing of Mitochondria in Dividing Cells"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
"Kif15 Supports the Mechanical Integrity of the Mammalian K-Fiber"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
"Structural Studies of Actin Severing, Microtubule Crinkling and Other 'Deviant' Filament Behaviors"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
"Spatial Control of Microtubule Dynamics and Microtubule-Dependent Traffic by Septin GTPases"
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cytoskeletal Patterning Through Evolution
9:00 am - 9:15 am
"Assembly of the Yeast Actin Fusion Focus"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
"Mechanical Tension Drives Cell Membrane Fusion"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
"Further Adventures in Cortical Excitability"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:00 am
"Microtubules in Mechanotransduction"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:25 am
"A Ubiquitin Ligase Pair Compete to Regulation Filopodia Stability and Axon Turning"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
"MAPping the Neuronal Landscape of Microtubule-Based Transport"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
"Microtubules Dynamics in Development"
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Cell Division
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
"Cytoskeletal Regulation in Late Cytokinesis"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
"Filament-Oriented Filament Assembly Provides Structural Memory to Build and Maintain Filament Alignment During Cytokinesis"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
"Alternative Paths to Amphitelic Attachment and Their Significance for Proper Chromosome Segregation"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"Microneedle Manipulation Reveals Local Reinforcement and Local Force Dissipation in the Mammalian Spindle"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
"Two Modes of Mechanical Regulation in Kinesin-Driven Disruption of Microtubule Bundles"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
"CetZ1 in Cell Shape Control of Haloarchaea: Understanding the Functional Divergence of Tubulin Superfamily Proteins"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Membranes as Platforms for Cytoskeleton Assembly
9:00 am - 9:15 am
"Modulation of Acto-Myosin Dynamics During Cell Migration Through Complex Environments: Organelles as Cell Deformation Sensors"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
"Regulation of Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Homeostasis by Actin Filament Pointed-End Binding Proteins"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
"Mechanistic Contributions of Coronin 1B and Coronin 1C in Directed Migration"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
"Arp3B Is a Negative Regulator of Arp2/3 Driven Actin Dynamics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
"Capping Protein Regulators at Membranes"
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
"Self-Organization and Load Adaptation by the Mammalian Endocytic Actin Network"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:50 am
"Towards Understanding the Role of BAR Domain Proteins in Membrane Tension Sensing"
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
"Blebbing Assembles Septin Signaling Scaffolds to Drive NRAS/PI3K Survival Signaling in Melanoma Cells"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"Dynamic RhoA Regulation Establishes the Shape of a Contractility Gradient and Tissue Curvature"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Insights from Reductionist Systems
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
"The Structural Basis for the Regulation of Tubulin Dimer Biogenesis and Polymerization"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
"Cytoskeletal Organization in Artificial Confinement"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
"Cytoskeletal Networks as Active Matter"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
"Dynamics and Instabilities in Contracting Actin Networks"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
"Reconstituting the Eukaryotic Cytokinetic Machinery"
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Controlling Shape and Size of Cytoskeletal Assemblies
9:00 am - 9:15 am
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
"Pathways for Actin Polymerization Mediated by Formins"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
"Defining the Divergent Structural and Cellular Mechanisms of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Giardia"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
"Kinetics of Microtubule Nucleation"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
"Polymerization as a Mechanism for Allosteric Tuning of Metabolic Enzyme Activity"
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
"Reading, Writing and Erasing the Tubulin Tyrosination Cycle"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
"Building a Minimal Functional Kinetochore: From Microtubule to Centromere"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
"Microtubules Form by Progressively Faster Tubulin Accretion, Not by Nucleation-Elongation"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Frontiers in the Cytoskeleton
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"A Complex Containing Lysine-Acetylated Actin and Cyclase-Associated Protein Inhibits the Formin INF2"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"Structural-Functional Mechanism of Actin Nt-Acetylation"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
"Dissecting the Formation and the Regulation of Actomyosin Structure at the Apical Adherens Junction"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
"Cytokinesis Without Myosin II in Chlamydomonas: Roles of Actin, Microtubules and Septin"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
"Katanin Grips the Beta-Tubulin Tail Through an Electropositive Double Spiral to Sever Microtubules"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"Cataclysmic Acceleration of Actin Depolymerization by Cyclase-Associated Protein and Cofilin Synergy"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
General Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure