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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
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| 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
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 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*
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| 11:50 AM - 11:55 AM |
Discussion |
| 11:55 AM - 12:05 PM |
Short Talk C*
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| 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"
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| 8:05 PM - 8:15 PM |
Discussion |
| 8:15 PM - 8:30 PM |
Introduction to Special Lecture
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| 8:30 PM - 8:55 PM |
Reinhard Kraemer, University of Cologne, Germany
"BetP: Solute Transport in Response to Osmotic Stimuli"
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| 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"
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| 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
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 8:05 PM - 8:15 PM |
Discussion |
| 8:15 PM - 8:40 PM |
Ivan Surovtsev, Yale University, USA
"Mesoscale Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytoplasm"
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| 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"
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| 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
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| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
*Short talks to be selected from amongst submitted abstracts
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