The 2017 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting

Pre-Meeting

6:00-9:00 PMSunday, September 11th

6:00-9:00 PM

Sunday, September 11th

YesterYears Brewery
300 E Main St, Carrboro, NC 27510
(Parking available)

Optogenetics

Optogenetics

Klaus Hahn

Building proteins to peek and poke at GTPase circuits in vivo.

Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
UNC Chapel Hill

Super-Resolution Microscopy

Super-Resolution Microscopy

Caroline Laplante

Quantitative single molecule localization microscopy: visualizing the organization of proteins in live fission yeast cells. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine,
North Carolina State University

Invited Faculty Speakers

 
Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

François Nédélec

Dynamics of disorganized cytoskeletal networks driven by molecular motors.

Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Stephanie Gupton

TRIM proteins: Connecting filopodia to axon guidance.

Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Daniel Lew

Cell polarity, tracking of chemical gradients.

James B Duke Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology,  Duke University

Selected Talks

Quantitative and modeling approaches in studying the cytoskeleton

PP2A-B55 and Lamin B collaborate in regulating centro- some migration during mitotic spindle formation.

Vincent Boudreau, R. Chen, V. Archambault & Paul Maddox.

UNC-Chapel Hill

Cytoskeleton in development and disease

Actin assembly through CRMP-1 via Arp2/3-dependent and -independent mechanisms.

Hui-Chia Yu-Kemp, J P. Kemp Jr., William M Brieher.

UNC-Chapel Hill

Genomic knockout of Myosin-X in mouse results in semi-lethality and decreased filopodia.

Ernest Heimsath, Y I. Yim, M. Mustapha, J. Hammer III, Richard Cheney.

UNC Chapel Hill

A microtubule depolymerase regulates stem cell number and position in the skin.

Rebecca Moreci & Terry Lechler.

Duke University

Mechanics and structure of cytoskeletal complexes

The TOG Tales of the Tail of the XMAP215 Family.

Rebecca C. Adikes, A. Xue, B F. Saway, Kevin C. Slep.

UNC-Chapel Hill


Physical Confinement of Cells Induces Compression of the Focal Adhesion Protein Vinculin.

Katheryn E. Rothenberg, A S. LaCroix, A R. Koss, S S. Neibart, Brenton D. Hoffman.

Duke University

Programmed Variations of Cytokinesis Contribute to Morphogenesis in the C. elegans embryo.

Xiaofei Bai, B C. Chen, R. Simmons, C. Turpin, L. Uehlein, D. Mitchell, Eric Betzig, Joshua N. Bembenek.

University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Janelia Research Campus


Crosstalk between the Cdc42 GEFs Gef1 and Scd1 comprise a sign- aling network that coordinates sequential cytokinetic events.

Brian Hercyk & Maitreyi Das.

University of Tennessee – Knoxville