Invited Faculty Speakers
Natasha Snider
Abnormal form – abnormal function: intermediate filaments and neurodegeneration
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC-CH
Local Speaker
Julio Monti Belmonte
Linking local connectivity and biochemical properties to large-scale actin contractility
Assistant Professor of Physics, NCSU
Local Speaker
Michelle Momany
Septins, sterols, sphingolipids and cell wall integrity
Professor of Plant Biology, UGA
Ehssan Nazockdast
The Physical basis of curvature sensing by septins
Assistant Professor of Applied Physical Sciences, UNC-CH
Local Speaker
TCM Awardees
Gabriel Kreider-Letterman and Jiayi Chen
Art by Sophia Tintori
selected talks
Cytoskeleton in development and disease
ARHGAP17, a Cdc42-specific GAP, localizes to invadopodia and regulates their turnover as part of an ARHGAP17/Cdc42/CIP4 complex
Gabriel Kreider-Letterman
University of Toledo
ECM-derived pressure and actomyosin--derived stiffness shapes the inner ear
Akankshi Munjal
Harvard/Duke University
Abnormal form – abnormal function: intermediate filaments and neurodegeneration
Natasha Snider
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
INVITED SPEAKER
Septins and Cell Membranes
An Integrated Modeling and Experimental Study of the Curvature Sensing Mechanisms of Septins
Wenzheng Shi
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Physical basis of curvature sensing by septins
Ehssan Nazockdast
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Septins, sterols, sphingolipids and cell wall integrity
Michelle Momany
University of Georgia
INVITED SPEAKER
Cytoskeletal Dynamics
XMAP215 promotes microtubule catastrophe by disrupting the growing microtubule end
Veronica Farmer
Vanderbilt University
How α-tubulin tail posttranslational modifications regulate microtubule dynamics
Jiayi Chen
NIH NINDS
Cell Division
What are the material properties of kinetochores
Jiali Zhu
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
AGS3 negatively regulates LGN to prevent asymmetric cell divisions
Carlos Patino Descovich
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Mechanics and structure of cytoskeletal complexes
Identification of Green-lineage osmotic pathways uncovers a novel role for actin during stress acclimation
Josep Vilarrasa
Stanford University
The Cell Junction Protein Polychaetoid/ZO-1 Ensures Junction Robustness during Morphogenetic Movements of Drosophila Embryogenesis
Anja Schmidt
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Linking local connectivity and biochemical properties to large-scale actin contractility
Julio Belmonte
North Carolina State University
INVITED SPEAKER