SCHEDULE
The conference started on June 13th at 12 Noon with a symposium on
the Fort Collins campus of Colorado State University. Participants will
depart by bus (provided) or car to Pingree Park, CSU's Rocky Mountain
campus at about 9,000 ft elevation. The main conference commenced on
Monday, June 14 with a combination of talks, poster sessions and
workshops. It concluded on the morning of 18th June. Buses
transported participants back to Fort Collins and Denver International
Airport at 9:00 AM.
Sunday, June 13: Opening Day Symposium
CSU anouncement
Location: CSU main campus, Clark Room A203
Driving
directions to CSU Sunday symposium, Local
map
Chair: Jim Bamburg
12:00-12:10 Jim Bamburg, welcome and session overview
12:10-12:45 Laurent Blanchoin "Spatiotemporal organization of actin
networks for motility"
12:45-13:20 Jennifer Schwartz "Modeling the formation of in vitro filopodia"
The Leeds Precision Instruments
Lecture*
13:20-13:55 Douglas Robinson "Biochemical-mechanical feedback loops in
cytokinesis"
13:55-14:10 Break
14:10-14:45 Kerry Bloom "Chromatin organization within the mitotic
spindle"
14:45-15:20 Jennifer DeLuca "Microtubule capture by kinetochores"
15:20-15:55 Stephan Grill "Forces and flow for cellular polarization"
The Cytoskeleton, Inc. Lecture*
16:00 Buses depart for Pingree Park
*Major Corporate Sponsors of this Conference
Monday, June 14: Actin Organization, Cell Structure and Motility
Morning Session
Chair: Ashok Prasad
08:50 Naoki Watanabe "Mechanosensitive actin nucleation by mDia1
and a possible role of actin polymer homeostatis"
09:30 Alex Mogilner "Two redundant mechanisms of cell motility"
10:10 Break
10:20 Jim Bamburg "Steering nerve growth cones using
asymmetric gradients of ADF/cofilin activity "
11:00 Mark Bathe "Reverse engineering the molecular mechanism of
actin-driven chromosome transport in starfish oocytes"
11:40 Discussion
Afternoon Session
Chair: Meredith Betterton
14:00-14.40: Arpita Upadhaya "Actin driven
spreading dynamics of immune cells"
14.40-15.20: Andy Lau "Microrheology and stress fluctuations in
living cells"
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
19:30-21:30 Evening Presentations
Tuesday, June 15: Microtubules, Spindles and Mitosis
Morning Session Chair: Daniel
Needleman
08:50 Daniel Needleman "Spindle assembly and architecture: from
laser ablation to microtubule nucleation"
09:30 Rafael Carazo-Salas "Reconstructing the networks that regulate
microtubules and cell morphogenesis"
10:10 Break
10:20 Elaine Yeh "Structural determinants of kinetochore and
pericentric chromatin geometry in mitosis"
11:00 Iva Tolic-Norelykke "Microtubules and motor proteins:
mechanically regulated self-organization in vivo"
11:40 Discussion
Evening Presentations
19:30– 21:30
Wednesday, June 16: Mechanisms of Cell Polarity
Morning Session
Chair: Jim Bamburg
08:50 Andrew Goryachev "Cytoskeleton polarization starts on the
membrane: mechanisms and models"
09:30 Fulvia Verde "Long-range competition for Cdc42 in the control
of fission yeast polarized cell growth"
10:10 Break
10:20 Dimitrios Vavylonis "Actin turnover kinetics in polarized
cells"
11:00 David Lubensky "Cell packing and rearrangement in epithelial
tissues"
11:40 Discussion
Evening Presentations
19:30– 21:30
Thursday, June 17: Cytokinesis
Morning Session
Chair: Dimitrios Vavylonis
08:50 Jian-Qiu Wu "Roles of formin nodes and myosin motor activity in
contractile-ring assembly in fission yeast cytokinesis"
09:30 Dannel McCollum "Proper timing of cytokinesis is regulated by
S. pombe Etd1"
10:10 Break
10:20 Ewa Paluch "Blebs, cortex mechanics, and the control of cell shape
during cytokinesis"
11:00 Ben O'Shaughnessy "Mechanisms of force-production by cytoskeletal machines"
11:40 Discussion
Evening Presentations
19:30– 21:30
Friday, June 18
09:00 Buses depart for Fort Collins and Denver International Airport.
Expected arrival time at DIA: 1:00pm.
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