Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Morning Session
Molecular Aspects of Actin
Roberto Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania
Molecular Mechanisms of Actin Filament Nucleation
Edward Egelman, University of Virginia
Plasticity and Conservation in Filaments Formed by Actin and Actin-like Proteins
Shin’ichi Ishiwata, Waseda University, Japan
Polymerization, Strain and Function of Actin as a Substrate for Myosin Motors
Jean-Francois Joanny, Curie Institute, CNRS
Role of ATP Hydrolysis in the Treadmilling of Actin Filaments
Robert Robinson, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Capping and Uncapping Actin Filaments
Afternoon Session
Molecular Aspects of Actin
Michael Sheetz, Columbia University
Actin Dependant Stretching of Talin In Vivo
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago
A Molecular Scale Perspective on Actin Filament Structure and Dynamics
Jie Yan, National University of Singapore
Magnetic Tweezers Studies of Stretching and Refolding the Actin-Binding Protein Filamin A
Toshio Yanagida, Osaka University, Japan
Actin Dynamic Polymorphism Observed by Single Molecule FRET
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Morning Session
Nuclear Actin and Nuclear Mechanics
Brian Burke, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
Meiotic Recombination: LINCs to the Cytoskeleton
Primal de Lanerolle, University of Illinois, Chicago
Actin Based Motors in the Nucleus: What They Are and What They Do
Ohad Medalia, The Ben-Gurion University, Israel
From the Nuclear Periphery to Cell Adhesion by Cryo-Electron Tomography
G.V. Shivashanker, National University of Singapore
Mechanosignaling to the Cell Nucleus & Gene Regulation
Maria Vartiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dynamics of Nuclear Actin
Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University
The Perinuclear Actin Cap in Health and Disease
Afternoon Session
Actin, Cytokinesis and Signaling to the Cytoskeleton
Mohen Balasubramanian, University of Singapore
Fission Yeast as a Model for Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cytokinesis
Jay Groves, University of California, Berkeley
Spatial Organization and the Mechanics of Signal Transduction in Cell Membranes
Issei Mabuchi, Gakushuin University, Japan
Dynamics of the Contractile Ring During Cytokinesis
Edward Manser, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
How Cdc42-like CT Pases Signal to the Actin Cytoskeleton
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Morning Session
The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
Alexander Bershadsky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Mechanical and Biochemical Regulation of the Interplay Between Cell
Adhesion and the Actin Cytoskeleton
Gaudenz Danuser, Harvard Medical School
Probing Mechanical and Chemical Signal Integration in Cell Motility
Dorit Hanein, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Seeing the Structural Organization of the Actin Cytoskeleton at the Leading Edge of Migrating Cells in Situ Electron Cryo-Tomography
Paul Matsudaira, National University of Singapore
The Mechanics of Epithelial Cell Migration
Pernille Rorth, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Dynamics of Collective Cell Migration
Afternoon Session
The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
Iva Tolic-Norrelykke, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Nuclear Oscillations
Clare Waterman, NHLBI, NIH
Integrating Actin Dynamics with Adhesion in Cell Migration
Dan Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley
Mechanical Regulation of Actin Network Assembly
Birgit Lane, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
Polarized Remodeling of the Keratin Cytoskeleton in Response to Wounding: Localized Keratin Dynamics Revealed by Mutations in Keratinopathies
Cecile Sykes, Curie Institute, CNRS
Shells of Actin That Behave Like a Cell Cortex: A Biomimetic Experiment
Friday, November 12, 2010
Morning Session
The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Cortactin: An Effector of Cell Propulsion
Pekka Lappalainen, Institute of Biotechnology, Finland
Mechanisms of Actin Stress Fiber Assembly in Motile Cells
Tom Pollard, Yale University
Quantitative Analysis of Arp2/3 Complex-Dependent Actin Assembly In Vitro
and In Vivo
Michael Dustin, New York University
Actin & Intermediate Filaments in Regulation of the Immune Response
Jan Faix, Hanover Medical School, Germany
Actin Filament Elongation by Ena/VASP Proteins
Afternoon Session
The Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
Rong Li, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
The Role of the Arp2/3 Complex in Cellular Motility in Mouse
Laura Machesky, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Scotland
Rac1 Controls Morphology, Motility and Growth of Melanoblasts
Shuh Narumiya, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
Phenotype Analysis of Mice Deficient in Actin Nucleator, mDia
W. James Nelson, Stanford University School of Medicine
Regulation of Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics by the Cadherin-Catenin Complex
Dorothy Schafer, University of Virginia
Dynamin GTPase: a Novel Regulator of Actin Filament Networks