The 2014 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
Invited Faculty Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Daniela Cimini
From aneuploidy to the mitotic spindle and back
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Virginia Tech
Migration and Adhesion
David Sherwood
B-LINK: a newly identified adhesion system that connects tissues by linking adjacent basement membranes
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Duke University
Mechanotransduction
Richard Superfine
Cell Mechanotransduction: New Tools for Molecular Insight
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill
Cell Cycle
Debra Silver
Seeing is believing: Imaging mitosis in the developing brain
Assistant Professor, Institute for Brain Sciences
Duke University
Selected Talks
Cell Division
Distinct pools of γ-tubulin regulate centrosome activity during epidermal differentiation.
Andrew Muroyama, Terry Lechler.
Centrosomes’ orientation in the symmetric divisions of Drosophila epithelial cells.
John S Poulton, John C Cuningham, and Mark Peifer.
at the KinetochoreMicrotubule Interface.
Aussie Suzuki, Benjamin L. Badger, Julian Haase, Tomoo Ohashi, Harold P. Erickson, Edward D. Salmon, Kerry Bloom
Cell migration and Adhesion
Basolateral Filopodia Lead Collective Migration in Epithelial Cells.
David S. Courson, Katy C. Liu, Alan S. Fanning, and Richard E. Cheney.
UNC Chapel Hill
F-actin bundles containing fascin 1 direct the initiation and orientation of lamellipodia in migrating fibroblasts.
Heath E. Johnson, Samantha J. King, Sreeja B. Asokan, James E. Bear, and Jason M. Haugh.
North Carolina State University
From Cells to Mice: Vimentin in Lung Cancer.
Alessandra Salgueiro, Lauren Havel, Melissa Gilbert-Ross, Adam Marcus.
Emory University
TRIM9, a neuronally expressed E3 ubiquitin ligase, is a novel regulatory component of the filopodia tip complex.
Shalini Menon, Nick Boyer, Leslie McClain, Stephanie Gupton.
UNC Chapel Hill
Probing the role of a novel TOG family protein in regulating cilia structure and function.
Alakananda Das, Daniel Dickinson, Cameron Wood, Bob Goldstein, Kevin Slep.
UNC Chapel Hill
Mechanotransduction
Novel Actin Related Protein ACTL7B Required for Male Fertility and Acrosome Attachment.
Tracy Clement, Chris Geyer, Garrett Warren, Eugenia Goulding, William Willis, Mitch Eddy.
NIEHS
Identification of the conformational changes in the vinculin tail domain that drive actin bundling.
Peter M Thompson, Gregory M Alushin, Sharon L Campbell.
UNC Chapel Hill
The function of cellular junctions during dorsal closure in Drosophila embryos.
U. Serdar Tulu, Daniel P. Kiehart.
Duke University
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