The 2020 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting

November 2nd, 2020 on Whova

Guidelines for Navigating Whova

Invited Faculty Speakers

 
Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

Sabine Petry

How to make microtubules and build the mitotic spindle

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

James Bear

What are lamellipodia for anyway?

Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Thomas H. Barker

Exploring a novel class of cis-regulators of integrin that impact focal adhesion dynamics

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Alberto Bartesaghi

Expanding the Structural Biologist's Toolbox with High-Resolution Cryo-EM

Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Masayuki Onishi

Actin-independent, microtubule-dependent cleavage-furrow ingression in Chlamydomonas

Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke University

Selected Talks

Cytoskeleton in Development and Disease

Nuclear LINC Complex Proteins Regulate Endothelial Cell-Cell Communication

Danielle B Buglak, Allison P Marvin, Ariel L Gold, Bryan N Johnson, and Victoria L Bautch

UNC-Chapel Hill

Non-canonical roles of an RNA-binding protein in axonal development and microtubule regulation

Fernando C. Alsina, Bianca Lupan, Lydia Lin, Emily Miller, Carly Newman, Camila M. Musso, and Debra L. Silver

Duke University

Asymmetric regulation of centrosome activity during neural development requires the RNA-binding protein Orb2

Beverly V Robinson and Dorothy A Lerit

Emory University

Cytoskeletal Regulation of Cell Mechanics

Splice it like it’s hot: Splice forms of F-actin capping protein affect skeletal muscle cell morphology and dynactin levels

Emma Hinkle, Hannah Wiedner, Tasneem Essader, Micaela Jackson, Eddie Torres, Daniel Dominguez, and Jimena Giudice

UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Principles of Cell Adhesion and Migration

Spatial segregation of plasma membrane signaling components in the blebs by actin retrograde flow

Ankita Jha, Ankit Chandra, Jason Haugh, and Clare M Waterman

NIH-NHLBI

 

Regulation of Cell Shape and Division

Nonmuscle Myosin II Drives Actomyosin Bundling at Nascent Adherens Junctions

Hui-Chia Yu-Kemp, Nicole C. Gadda, Rachel A. Szymanski and Mark Peifer

UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Structural Biology of the Cytoskeleton

How enzymes add short and long glutamate chains to tubulin tails to functionalize microtubules

Kishore K. Mahalingan, E. Keith Keenan, Madeleine Strickland, Yan Li, Yanjie Liu, Haydn L. Ball, Martin E. Tanner, Nico Tjandra & Antonina Roll-Mecak

NIH-NINDS