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: Evolution of the Cytoskeleton
Discussion Leader: Magdalena Bezanilla (Dartmouth, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Marko Kaksonen (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Evolutionary Cell Biology of Actin-Dependent Endocytosis"
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm
Nina Salama (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States)
"Cross Membrane Signaling Orchestrates Helical Cell Wall Patterning"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Proliferation and Reproduction
Discussion Leader: Christopher de Graffenried (Brown University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
Alex Bisson (Brandeis University, United States)
"In Between Kingdoms: the Multiple Facets of Archaeal Cytoskeleton"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Jordan Barrows (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States)
"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Regulate FtsZ Function in Caulobacter crescentus Cell Division"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Simonetta Piatti (Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center (CRBM), France)
"Control of Septin Dynamics During Cytokinesis in Budding Yeast"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Ingrid Billault-Chaumartin (UNIL, Switzerland)
"Condensation of the Fusion Focus by the Intrinsically Disordered Region of the Formin Fus1 is Essential for Schizosaccharomyces pombe Cell-Cell Fusion"
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Carolyn Rasmussen (University of California, Riverside, United States)
"Division Plane Orientation in Plant Cells"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Sean Ritter (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"TOR Story: Investigating a Role for CLASP in TOR-Regulated Growth Transitions"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Mariana Romeiro Motta (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"B-Type Cyclins Control Spindle Architecture in Arabidopsis "
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Dan Zhang (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore)
"Coordinated Cortical ER Remodeling Facilitates Actomyosin Ring Assembly"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Hiral Shah (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany)
"Evolution of Mitosis in Unicellular Relatives of Animals"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States) and Geoffrey Wasteneys (University of British Columbia, Canada)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Interactions with Membranes
Discussion Leader: Anthony Vecchiarelli (University of Michigan, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Aoife Heaslip (University of Connecticut, United States)
"An Unconventional Myosin-Based Cargo Transport Mechanism in Toxoplasma gondii "
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Alaina Willet (Vanderbilt University, United States)
"Conserved Ankyrin Repeat Proteins Promote Myosin-1 Localization and Function in Fission and Budding Yeast"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Snezhka Oliferenko (King's College London and The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
"Size Dependency of Membrane-Based Cell Biological Processes"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Liam Elliott ( ENS de Lyon, France)
"A Regulatory Module Co-ordinating Membrane-Cytoskeleton Dynamics During Plant Cell Cytokinesis?"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Géraldine Laloux (University of Louvain, Belgium)
"Growing and Dividing Inside Another Bacterium"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Wall Polymer Placement and Cell Morphogenesis
Discussion Leader: Sabine Mueller (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
Chris Ambrose (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
"CLASP Balances Two Competing Cell Division Plane Cues to Modulate Cell Arrangement in Leaves"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Ryan Eng (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
"Microtubules Guide the Growth and Contraction of Cells that Contribute to Explosive Seed Dispersal of Cardamine hirsuta "
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Yi Zhao (Michigan State University, United States)
"Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate Regulates SCAB1-Mediated F-actin Reorganization During Stomatal Closure in Arabidopsis "
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Rut Carballido-Lopez (INRAE - AgroParisTech - Paris-Saclay University, France)
"Shaping the Bacterial Cell Wall: Actin-Like MreB Proteins, from Single Molecules to Cell Morphogenesis"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Gustavo Santiago-Collazo (University of Missouri-Columbia, United States)
"Misregulation of Cell Division Activates the ChvG-ChvI Pathway in Agrobacterium tumefaciens "
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Masayuki Onishi (Duke University, United States)
"Association of Chlamydomonas Septin and Chloroplast Suggests an Ancient Role in Regulation of Organelle Division"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Nicolas Minc (Institut Jacques Monod, France)
"Cell Wall Mechanosensation"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Jenna Christensen (University of California, San Diego, United States)
"Uncovering Design Principles of Intracellular Transport Using Fungal Comparative Biology"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Weiwei Zhang (Purdue University, United States)
"Arabidopsis Myosin XIK Interacts with the Exocyst Complex to Facilitate Vesicle Tethering During Exocytosis"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
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
Selected Poster Presentations
Discussion Leader: Fulvia Verde (Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Josiah Morrison (University of Rhode Island, United States)
"FtsA-FtsZ Interactions During Bacterial Cell Division are Nucleotide Regulated and Critical for Division"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Julia Torvi (Univeristy of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Reconstitution of Kinetochore Motility and Microtubule Dynamics Reveals a Role for a Kinesin-8 in Establishing End-On Attachments"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Wasim Sayyad (Yale University, United States)
"The Number of Cytokinesis Nodes in Mitotic Fission Yeast Scales with Cell Size"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Einat Sadot (Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel)
"Collisions of Cortical Microtubules with Membrane Associated Myosin VIII Tail"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Satoshi Fujita (CNRS / University of Toulouse 3, France)
"Bridging a Cell Surface Receptor and Cortical Microtubules"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Katrina Velle (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
"Microtubules, Who Needs ‘Em?: Actin Drives Cellular Processes in the Evolutionarily Divergent Amoeba Naegleria "
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Pai Li (Michigan State University, United States)
"The Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Function of Actin Depolymerization Factors (ADFs) in Plant Immunity"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Elena Kudryashova (The Ohio State University, United States)
"F-Actin Processive Polymerization at the Minus End"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cell Polarity and Polar Growth
Discussion Leaders: Sophie Martin (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
Michelle Facette (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States)
"Polarly-Localized WPR Proteins Bind Actin and PAN Receptor Proteins in Maize"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Shu Yao Leong (Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Germany)
"The C-terminus of the Phragmoplast Orienting Kinesin 2 Binds Microtubules and Lipids"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Daniel Lew (Duke University Medical Center, United States)
"Exploratory Polarization in Mating Yeast"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Marcus Harrell (Boston College , United States)
"Endocytosis Regulates Negative Feedback to Promote Bipolar Growth"
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Luis Vidali (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States)
"Myosin XI Functions in Moss Tip Growth by Vesicle Clustering and Local F-actin Enrichment"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Céline Dinet (CNRS / LCB and Aix Marseille University / IBDM , France)
"Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Polarity Complex"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Viktor Zarsky (Charles University and the Inst. of Exper. Botany, CAS, CZECH REP., Czech Republic)
"Evolution and Functional Diversification of EXO70 Subunits of Exocyst Complex in Land Plants"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Fredrik Hurtig (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
"The Patterned Assembly and Stepwise Disassembly of ESCRT-III by Vps4 Drives Cell Division in Archaea"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
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(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Motors and Motility
Discussion Leader: Lillian Fritz-Laylin (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Ram Dixit (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
"How Plants Do the Twist"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Jeff Moore (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
"Division of Labor in the Mitotic Spindle: Budding Yeast Kinesin-5 Motors Cin8 and Kip1 use Distinct Microtubule-Binding Modes to Control Anaphase Spindle Elongation"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Christopher de Graffenried (Brown University, United States)
"Cytoskeletal Architecture and Cell Morphogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei "
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Holly Goodson (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Actin Inhibitors Reversibly Inhibit Bidirectional Mitochondrial Movement in the Rhizoid of a Red Alga (Porphyra umbilicalis ) that Lacks Myosin"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Regulating Cytoskeletal Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Marc Edwards (Amherst College, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Shane McInally (Brandeis University, United States)
"Scaling of Subcellular Actin Structures with Cell Length through Decelerated Growth"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Shashank Shekhar (Emory University, United States)
"Depolymerization - the Forgotten Child of Actin Dynamics"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Alphée Michelot (Aix-Marseille University, France)
"Tracking the Actin-Bound Nucleotide"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Vani Pande (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India, India)
"Nucleotide-Dependent Remodeling of the Membrane by the Bacterial Actin MreB"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Hiroyasu Motose (Okayama University, Japan)
"Finding a Way to Grow, Lessons from the Ancient Rooting Cells"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Masayoshi Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
"An Anchoring Complex Stabilizes the Association of Daughter Microtubule Minus Ends to their Nucleation Sites"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Mohan Gupta (Iowa State University, United States)
"Differential Regulation of Astral Microtubules in a Shared Cytoplasm"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Yansong Miao (Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore)
"ADP-actin Remodeling During Energy Starvation via Molecular Condensation"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
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
Keynote Session: Host-Microbe Interactions
Discussion Leader: Alexander Paredez (University of Washington, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Dominique Soldati-Favre (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Zoom In of the Role of Conoid Extrusion in Apicomplexa"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
"Arabidopsis, the Cytoskeleton, and Growing Plants in Space"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure