The 2015 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
Invited Faculty Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Mechanics and Structure of Cytoskeletal Complexes
Sharon Campbell
Vinculin-Actin Interaction: Role in Vinculin Activation, Force Transmission
and Focal Adhesion Organization.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Chapel Hill
Cytoskeleton in Development and disease
Scott H. Soderling
Cytoskeletal Drivers of Neuropsychiatric Disorder.
Associate Professor, Departments of Cell Biology & Neurobiology, Duke University
Quantitative and Modelling Approaches in Studying the Cytoskeleton
Kerry Bloom
How DNA loops make tension.
Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, UNC Chapel Hill
Selected Talks
Cytoskeleton in development and disease
Indispensable pre-mitotic endocycles promote aneuploidy in the Drosophila rectum.
Kevin Schoenfelder, Ruth Montague, Sarah Paramore, Anthony Mahowald, Donald Fox.
Duke University
The Arp2/3 complex is required for integrin-dependent macrophage functions, but is dispensable for Fc-mediated phagocytosis, chemotaxis and in vivo directional migration.
Jeremy D. Rotty, Hailey E. Brighton, James E. Bear
UNC Chapel Hill
A Novel Non-Neuronal Role of Acetylcholinesterase in Intestinal Development.
Melissa A. Pickett, Nanette Nascone-Yoder.
NCSU
RhoGTPase Regulatory Signatures Define Distinct Stages of Synaptic Development.
Karen Newell-Litwa*, Samuel Martin-Vilchez*, Leanna Whitmore, Hannelore Asmussen, Jessica Zareno, and Rick Horwitz.
University Of Virginia
Mechanics and structure of cytoskeletal complexes
Construction and use of an Ezrin tension sensor to measure actin-plasma membrane loading.
Matthew Berginski, Andrew LaCroix and Brenton Hoffman.
Duke University
Genetically separable cytokinetic signaling pathways contribute distinctly to cell shape changes in cytokinesis.
Michael Werner, Raphaël Cautain, Paul Debabrata, Jonas Dorn, Amy Maddox.
UNC Chapel Hill
FtsZ minirings curvature is the opposite of tubulin rings.
Max Housman, Masaki Osawa and Harold P. Erickson.
Duke University
Quantitative and modeling approaches in studying the cytoskeleton
Mathematical models of mechanosensory feedback.
Krithika Mohan, Tianzhi Luo, Eric Schiffhauer, Douglas N. Robinson, Pablo A. Iglesias.
NCSU
Simultaneous imaging of signaling nodes regulating breast cancer cell migration using novel biosensors for Dbl family RhoGEFs and long-wavelength biosensors for Rho family GTPases.
D.J. Marston, M. Vilela, G. Glekas, G. Danuser, J. Sondek, K.M. Hahn.
UNC Chapel Hill