The 2016 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
Pre-Meeting
6:00-9:00 PM
Sunday, September 11th
YesterYears Brewery
300 E Main St, Carrboro, NC 27510
(Parking available)
Light Sheet Microscopy
Paul Maddox
LITE sheet microscopy: great NA, less bleaching
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
UNC Chapel Hill
Biophysical Principles of MT dynamics
Marija Zanic
New insights into microtubule dynamic instability
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University
Invited Faculty Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Julie Theriot
Cell Mechanics, Motility and Shape Determination.
Profesor of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Investigator, HHMI
MacArthur Fellow
Membrane-Cytoskeleton Interactions in a Nontraditional Model Organism
Amy S. Gladfelter
Septins, cell shape, fungi.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UNC Chapel Hill
Mechanical Properties of Cytoskeletal Complexes
Brenton D. Hoffman
Mechanotransduction, focal adhesions, FRET-based tension sensors.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Selected Talks
Development and Disease
Centrosome activity relies on structural rearrangement of pericentrin.
Karen Plevock, Carey Fagerstrom, Brian Galletta, Greg Rogers, Kevin Slep, Nasser Rusan.
UNC Chapel Hill
Qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative analysis of medioapical actomyosin arrays: a driving force for development.
Regan Moore, Dong Li, U. Serdar Tulu, Eric Betzig, Daniel P. Kiehart.
Duke
The role of O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine in vimentin function.
Heather Tarbet, Timothy Smith, Michael Boyce.
Duke
Intestinal crypt morphogenesis.
Kaelyn D Sumigray and Terry Lechler.
Duke
Quantitative Approaches
An Optogenetic approach reveals an integrin mediated feedback loop necessary for efficient Rac based protrusion and directed migration.
Seth P. Zimmerman, Sreeja Asokan, Brian Kuhlman, James E. Bear.
UNC Chapel Hill
Permeabilization activated reduction in fluorescence: A novel method to measure kinetics of protein interactions with intracellular structures.
JL Hawthorne, PP Singh, PR Mehta, NQ Wong, CA Davis, OA Quintero.
University of Richmond
Unraveling PAR polarity protein interactions with single-cell biochemistry.
Daniel J. Dickinson and Bob Goldstein.
UNC Chapel Hill
Processive motility of multi-motor kinesin-14 teams underlies regulation of microtubule minus-end dynamics.
Stephen R. Norris, Claire E. Strothman, Ryoma Ohi and Marija Zanic.
Vanderbilt University