Subgroup Co-Chairs: Stuart Campbell, Yale University, USA and Sarah Heissler, Ohio State University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  201C

Business Meeting:  8:30 - 8:40 AM EST

Speakers:

8:40 AM Shiladitya Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Shaping Cells by Actomyosin Pulses

 

9:00 AM Antonina Roll-Mecak, National Institutes of Health, USA
Readout of the Tubulin Code

 

9:20 AM Binyam Mogessie, Yale University, USA
Emerging Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation in Mammalian Eggs

 

9:40 AM Thomas Kampourakis, King's College, London, UK
Discovery of a Novel Cardiac-Specific Myosin Modulator Using AI-Based Virtual Screening

 

10:00 AM Flash Talks: Alexa Price, Cristina Risi, Brent Scott, Crystal Noell, and Mengqi Xu

 

10:50 AM Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Early Career Award Talk: Mary Elting

 

11:10 AM Julien Robert-Paganin, Institut Curie/ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UK
Dissecting the Plasmodium Actomyosin System, A New Perspective Against Malaria

 

11:30 AM Kenneth Campbell, University of Kentucky, USA
Multiscale Simulations That Predict Cardiac Growth in Response to Clinically Relevant Conditions Including Altered Myofilament Function

 

11:50 AM Claire Friel, University of Nottingham, UK
Ultra-Rapid Microtubule Depolymerisation by the Ancestor of the Kinesin-13 Family

 

12:10 PM Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, USA
An Interphase Actin Wave Promotes Mitochondrial Content Mixing and Organelle Homeostasis