
The 2017 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
Pre-Meeting
6:00-9:00 PM
Sunday, September 11th
YesterYears Brewery
300 E Main St, Carrboro, NC 27510
(Parking available)
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
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
François Nédélec
Dynamics of disorganized cytoskeletal networks driven by molecular motors.
Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Invited Speaker
Stephanie Gupton
TRIM proteins: Connecting filopodia to axon guidance.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill
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