Daily Schedule

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October 2

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October 3



Sunday, September 29

4:00 PM             Registration
6:00 PM Welcome Reception
7:30 PM                    Opening Session
Chair: Bert Poolman, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
7:45 PM Keynote Lecture 
Rob Phillips, Californina Institute of Technology, USA
"Measuring Sticks, Clocks and Scales: The Cell as a Measuring Device"

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Monday, September 30

 
7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM SESSION 1: Biophysical Tools to Study the
Mechanics of Proteins and Cells

Discussion Leader: Ian Booth, University of Aberdeen,
United Kingdom
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Discussion Leader's Remarks
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM Zoya Ignatova, University of Potsdam, Germany
"Global Quantification of Osmotic Stress Response in Bacteria with
Nucleotide Resolution"

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Discussion
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM Siewert-Jan Marrink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"Computational Microscopy View on the Gating Mechanism of
Mechanosensitive Membrane Channels"
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM Discussion
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Short Talk A* 
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM Discussion
10:05 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM Dorit Hanein, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA
"Structural Basis of Force Transmission During Directed Cell Migration,
One Assembly at a Time"

10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Discussion
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM Kerwyn C. Huang, Standford University, USA
"It Was Quite a Shock: How Bacteria Growth Depends on
Turgor Pressue"
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Discussion
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Short Talk B*
11:50 AM - 11:55 AM Discussion
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Short Talk C*
12:05 PM - 12:10 PM Discussion
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Short Talk D* 
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch 
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Free Time (on one's own)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Poster Session
6:00 PM Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM SESSION 2: Cellular Osmoregulation and Ion
Homeostasis

Discussion Leader: Bert Pooman, University of Groningen,
The Netherlands
7:30 PM - 7:40 PM Discussion Leader's Remarks
7:40 PM - 8:05 PM Kevin Strange, Mount Desert Island Biological Lab, USA
"Protecting Your Proteome: The Upside of Folding Under Stress"
8:05 PM - 8:15 PM Discussion
8:15 PM - 8:30 PM Introduction to Special Lecture
8:30 PM - 8:55 PM Reinhard Kraemer, University of Cologne, Germany
"BetP: Solute Transport in Response to Osmotic Stimuli"
8:55 PM - 9:05 PM  Discussion

*Short talks to be selected from amongst submitted abstracts

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Tuesday, October 1

7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM SESSION 3: Mechanosensing and Transduction
Discussion Leader: TBD
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Discussion Leader's Remarks
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM Samantha Miller, University of Abderdeen, United Kingdom
"The MscS Family of Mechanosensitive Channels"
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Discussion
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM Eric Honore, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et 
Cellulaire, France
"Polycystins and Pressure Sensing" 
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM Discussion
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Short Talk E* 
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

Discussion

10:05 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM Jill Helms, Stanford University, USA
"Mechanobiological Regulation of Wnt Signaling"
10:55 - 11:05 AM Discussion
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
"MS Channels and Their Lipid Surround" 
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Discussion
11:40 AM - 11:55 AM Short Talk F*
11:50 AM - 11:55 AM Discussion
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Short Talk G*
12:05 - 12:10 PM Discussion
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Short Talk H*
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch 
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Free Time (on one's own)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Poster Session
6:00 PM Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM SESSION 4: Structural Biology of Channels
and Transporters

Discussion Leader: TBD
7:30 PM - 7:40 PM Discussion Leader's Remarks
7:40 PM - 8:05 PM Christine Ziegler, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
"Structural Insigts into Regulated Transport by Crystallography
and Cryo-electron tomography"
8:05 PM - 8:15 PM Discussion
8:15 PM - 8:40 PM

Ming Zhou, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
"Osmoregulation of Mammalian Urea Channels"

8:40 PM - 8:50 PM Discussion
8:50 PM - 9:25 PM Maike Bublitz, University of Aarhus, Denmark
"Understanding a Molecular Pump: How the Ca2+ ATPase
Converts Chemical Energy into Transmembrane Ion Transport"
9:15 PM - 9:25 PM Discussion
*Short talks to be selected from amongst submitted abstracts

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Wednesday, October 2

7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM SESSION 5: Cellular Osmoregulation and Ion
Homeostasis

Discussion Leader: TBD
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Discussion Leader's Remarks
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM

Linda Kenney, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"Environmental Sensing by the EnvZ Histidine Kinase"

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Discussion
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM Janet Wood, University of Guelph, Canada
"Bacterial Osmosensory Transporter ProP"
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM Discussion
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Short Talk I*
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM Discussion
10:05 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Miriam Goodman, Stanford School of Medicine, USA
"Illuminating the Mechanics of Touch Sensation"

10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Discussion
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM Jim Naismith, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
"Assessing the Structure and Gating of the
Mechanosensitive Protein MscS Using Pulsed EPR Methods"
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Discussion
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Short Talk J*
11:50 AM - 11:55 AM Discussion
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Short Talk K*
12:05 PM - 12:10 PM Discussion
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Short Talk L* 
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch 
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Free Time (on one's own)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Poster Session
6:00 PM Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM SESSION 6: Structure of Cytoplasm and
Intracellular Networks

Discussion Leader: TBD
7:30 PM - 7:40 PM Discussion Leader's Remarks
7:40 PM - 8:05 PM Jim Weisshaar, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
"Single-Molecule Studies of the Transcription/Translation Machinery
in Live E. Coli Cells"

8:05 PM - 8:15 PM Discussion
8:15 PM - 8:40 PM Ivan Surovtsev, Yale University, USA
"Mesoscale Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytoplasm"
8:40 PM - 8:50 PM Discussion
8:50 PM - 9:15 PM Jan Lowe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
United Kingdom
"Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton"
9:15 PM - 9:25 PM Discussion
  *Short talks to be selected from amongst submitted abstracts

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Thursday, October 3

7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM SESSION 7: Cytoskeleton and
Mechanotransduction

Discussion Leader: 
Paul Blount, UT Southwestern
Medical Center, USA
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Discussion Leader's Remarks
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM Michael Sheetz, Columbia University, USA
"Cellular Mechanosensing of Microenvironment by Local Sarcomere
Contractions of Matrix"

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Discussion
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM Gijsje Koendernik, FOM Institute AMOLF, The Netherlands
"Active Contractility of Cytoskeletal Protein Networks"
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM Discussion
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Short Talk M*
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM Discussion
10:05 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM David Corey, Harvard Medical School, USA
"Structure of a Forec-Conveying Cadherin Bond Essential for
Inner-ear Mechanotransduction"
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Discussion
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM Short Talk N*
11:15 AM - 11:20 AM Discussion
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM Short Talk O*
11:30 AM - 11:35 AM Discussion
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM Closure of Conference
12:00 PM Lunch

*Short talks to be selected from amongst submitted abstracts

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