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Saturday
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Emergent Concepts in Adhesion Signaling
Discussion Leader: Karin Wang (Temple University, USA)
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| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm |
Kandice Tanner (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
"Mechanisms Underlying Cell Adhesion and Motility in Metastasis"
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| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Adhesion Structure and Function in Development, Health and Disease
Discussion Leader: Paulina Moreno Layseca (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)
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| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm |
Clémentine Villeneuve (Institut Curie, France)
"The Polarity Protein aPKCi: A New Key Player of Basal Cell Extrusion, an Amergent Mechanism for Early Tumor Cell Dissemination"
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| 7:45 pm - 7:55 pm |
Discussion
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| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm |
Tendayi Samuriwo (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Role of ErbB2 in Cellular Transformation Through Modulation of Cell Adhesion"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm |
Sudha Kumari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Specialized Actin Architecture Mechanically Tunes T Cell Contact Lifetime"
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| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm |
Kayla Wolf (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Tumor Invasion Through Hyaluronic Acid Matrices Is Mediated by CD44-Dependent Microtentacles"
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| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm |
Maria Bota (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)
"3D Model to Study EMT-Driven Interactions Between Cancer Associated Fibroblasts and Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells that Drive Early Metastasis"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Sunday
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| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Adhesion Signaling and Mechanobiology
Discussion Leader: Maite Vidal-Quadras (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
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| 9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Sudong Kim (Boston University, USA)
"Transcription-Independent Notch Signalling Regulates Blood and Lymphatic Vessel Separation"
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| 9:15 am - 9:25 am |
Discussion
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| 9:25 am - 9:40 am |
Kate Cavanaugh (University of Chicago, USA)
"Optogenetic Control of RhoA Identifies a Formin-Dependent Mechanism for Determining Junction Rest Lengths"
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| 9:40 am - 9:50 am |
Discussion
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| 9:50 am - 10:05 am |
Jessica Li Chang Teo (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia)
"Interplay Between Caveolae and Junctional Mechanics"
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| 10:05 am - 10:15 am |
Discussion
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| 10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Lisa Fischer (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
"Force Transduction Across Tensin 1 in Cell-Matrix Adhesions Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy"
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| 10:30 am - 10:40 am |
Discussion
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| 10:40 am - 10:55 am |
Maximilian Huber (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Quantification of Cell Adhesion Modulation During Mitosis"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Scientific Opportunities After Your PhD or Post-Doctoral Training
Discussion Leader: Carlos Perez Gonzalez (Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain)
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Scientific Opportunities After Your PhD or Post-Doctoral Training
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Kandice Tanner (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
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Christopher Chen (Boston University / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA)
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Ann Miller (University of Michigan, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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| 3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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