Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Organelle Partitioning and the Cytoskeleton |
| Discussion Leader: Magdalena Bezanilla (University of Massachusetts, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Opening Remarks |
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm | Arash Komeili (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Dynamic Assembly of a Bacterial Organelle Requires an Actin-Like Cytoskeleton" |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Susan Dutcher (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) "Establishing the Barrier Between the Cytoplasm and the Cilium" |
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cytoskeletal Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Katherine Osteryoung (Michigan State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:40 am | Chris Staiger (Purdue University, USA) "Actin Remodeling During the Plant Innate
Immune Response" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Kathryn Ayscough (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) "Actin
Filament Initiation, Polymerisation and Regulation at Cell Membranes" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Geoffrey Wasteneys (University of British Columbia, Canada) "Motors and MAPs
Coordinate Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Jenna Christensen (The University of Chicago, USA) "Competition and Cooperation Between Actin Binding Proteins Drive Their Sorting to Different Actin Cytoskeleton Networks" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Brad Nolen (University of Oregon, USA) "Coordinate Regulation of
Arp2/3 Complex by WASP and WISH/DIP/SPIN Family Proteins" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 | Cytoskeletal Regulation |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Lew (Duke University Medical Center, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Bruce Goode (Brandeis University, USA) "Mechanisms Controlling Yeast Actin Cable Formation" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Ram Dixit (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) "New Mechanisms to Regulate Plant Kinesins" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Melissa Gardner (University of Minnesota, USA) "Load Sharing Between Dynamic Kinetochore Microtubules in Mitosis" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cytokinesis: Placing the Machinery |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Pollard (Yale University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:40 am | Kathy Gould (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA) "Organizing the Split - Mechanisms Regulating Division Site Assembly in Fission Yeast" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna, Austria) "Unconventional Breakups: Division Anomalies
of Bacterial Symbionts" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: William Hardin (University of Washington, USA) "Microtubule Based Force Generation Drives Daughter Cell Separation in Giardia lamblia" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Carolyn Rasmussen (University of California, Riverside, USA) "Tangled1 Function in Growth and Division Plane Orientation in Maize" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Joshua MacCready (Michigan State University, USA) "The Oscillating Min System of Cyanobacteria" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Elisabeth Lipka (Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tuebingen, Germany) "POK2 Is a Processive Plus-End Directed Class-12 Plant Kinesin Required for Phragmoplast Guidance" |
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
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 | Selected Poster Presentations |
| Discussion Leader: David Kovar (University of Chicago, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Arnaud Chastanet (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France) "Beyond the Helical World: A Super-Resolution Approach Reveals the Sub-Diffraction Limited Structure of the Actin-Like Cytoskeletal Protein MreB in B. subtilis" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Iker Lamas (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) "Study of Cdc42 Feedback Regulation by Optogenetics" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Shu-Zon Wu (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) "Myosin VIII Links Actin to Microtubules During Polarized Growth" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Rajesh Arasada (Yale Univeristy, USA) "Super-Resolution Imaging of the Spatial Organization of Actin Machinery in Fission Yeast Endocytic Patches" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Pauline Durand-Smet (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Quantitative Evaluation of Feedback Mechanisms Between Cell Shape and Cytoskeleton Organization" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Hung-Hsueh Lai (Duke University, USA) "Temporal Regulation of Morphogenesis in Baker's Yeast" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Weihong Qiu (Oregon State University, USA) "OsKCH2 Is a Homodimeric Processive Minus End-Directed Kinesin Motor" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Erkan Tuzel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) "Modeling of Boundary Effects in FRAP Helps Elucidate the Role of Vesicle Diffusion in Polarized Growth" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Driving Division in Cells and Organelles |
| Discussion Leader: Sabine Muller (University of Tübingen, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Harold Erickson (Duke University, USA) "FtsZ Drives Cytokinesis in Bacteria and Chloroplasts" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Moe Gupta (Iowa State University, USA) "Ensuring Genome Stability: A Novel Experimental System Reveals That Reduced Tension Directly Activates the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Independent of Kinetochore Detachment" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Georgia Drakakaki (University of California, Davis, USA) "Endomembrane Dynamics During Cytokinesis and Cell Elongation" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Safia Omer (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) "Dynein Cortical Attachment Molecule Num1 Regulate Dynein Spindle Pulling Mechanism" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) "Building the Z-Ring for Cell Division in Caulobacter" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Natalie Petek (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Alp7A Reveals Conserved Mechanisms of Actin-Based Plasmid Segregation in Bacteria" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Maitreyi Das (University of Tennessee, USA) "Cdc42 GEF Gef1 Promotes Uniform Protein Organization Along the Cytokinetic Ring to Enable Concentric Furrowing" |
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 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 | Segregation Mechanics During Mitosis and Cytokinesis |
| Discussion Leader: Fulvia Verde (Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Trisha Davis (University of Washington, USA) "Kinetochores Get a Grip" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Daniel Van Damme (VIB, Ghent University, Belgium) "Interplay Between MAP65 and Alpha Aurora Kinases in Arabidopsis and Physcomitrella" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Benjamin (Buzz) Baum (University College London, United Kingdom) "Coupling Changes in Cell Shape to Chromosome Segregation" |
9:15 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 | Cellular Morphogenesis |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Szymanski (Purdue University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Ethan Garner (Harvard University, USA) "The Role of Dynamics in Bacterial Cell Division: Coupling Between Filament Motions and Cell Wall Synthesis" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Christopher de Graffenried (Brown University, USA) "Cytoskeletal Morphogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Fred Chang (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Mechanical Regulation of Fission Yeast Cell Growth" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | David Ehrhardt (Carnegie Institution for Science / Stanford University, USA) "Keeping Interphase Microtubule Arrays Limber – Essential Roles of End Associated Proteins in Array Reorientation" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:05 pm | Andrew Bridges (Dartmouth College, USA) "Septins Sense Micron Scale Cell Curvature" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Makoto Yanagisawa (Purdue University, USA) "ROP Signaling in a Microtubule Depletion Zone Controls Trichome Morphogenesis" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 | Membrane Trafficking |
| Discussion Leader: Anja Geitmann (McGill University, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | David Drubin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "A Synthetic Biology Approach to Uncovering the Roles of Actin, Myosin and WASP in Budding Yeast Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Ying Fu (China Agricultural University, China) "Multifunctional MAP18 Regulates Plant Cell Tip Growth" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Scott Dawson (University of California, Davis, USA) "Novel Microtuble Binding Proteins of the Giardia Ventral Disc" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |