
The 2020 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
November 2nd, 2020 on Whova
Invited Faculty Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Sabine Petry
How to make microtubules and build the mitotic spindle
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Invited Speaker
James Bear
What are lamellipodia for anyway?
Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC-Chapel Hill
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
Alberto Bartesaghi
Expanding the Structural Biologist's Toolbox with High-Resolution Cryo-EM
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University
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