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Organized by Wei Guo, Erika L. F. Holzbaur, and E. Michael Ostap
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Registration Deadline: November 30, 2010
Abstract Deadline: November 15, 2010
Download Flyer HERE
9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Harrison Auditorium
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
[click HERE for directions]
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Refreshments, Poster Setup and Vendor Show |
| 9:45 - 10:00 |
Welcome
E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D.
Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| 10:00 -10:45 |
General mechanistic principles of actin filament nucleation
Roberto Dominguez, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Structural design of the actin cytoskeleton for pushing and pulling
Tatyana Svitkina, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Mammalian dynein is a microtubule plus-end tether
Jacob Lazarus (E. Holzbaur Lab)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Competition between fimbrin and tropomyosin regulates endocytosis and cytokinesis dynamics in fission yeast
Colleen T. Skau (D. Kovar Lab)
University of Chicago, Chicago IL |
| 12:00 - 1:45 |
Lunch, Poster Session, and Vendor Show |
| Robert E. Davies Honorary Lectures |
| 1:45 - 2:30 |
New role for actin dynamics during clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Tom Kirchhausen, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA |
| 2:30 - 3:15 |
A new view of how myosin V attaches to cargoes
Lois Weisman, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI |
| 3:15 - 3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30 - 3:45 |
Myosin VI and its binding partner optineurin are involved in secretory vesicle fusion at the plasma membrane
Lisa M. Bond (F. Buss Lab)
University of Cambridge and National Institutes of Health
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| 3:45 - 4:00 |
Identification of a pathway for anchorage of mitochondria at sites of polarized surface growth in budding yeast
Chun Zhou (L. Pon Lab)
Columbia University, New York NY |
| Andrew P. Somlyo Honorary Lectures |
| 4:00 - 4:45 |
Myosin V function in vivo: From melanosomes to memory
John A. Hammer, III, Ph.D.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda MD |
| 4:45 - 5:30 |
Control of neuronal polarity and plasticity: the role of cargo trafficking
Casper C. Hoogenraad, Ph.D.
Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands |
| 5:30 - 6:30 |
Poster Session and Vendor Show |
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