EMBO Conference Series
Microtubules - Structure, Regulation and Functions
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Wednesday 2 June - Saturday 5 June 2010
Programme
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Day One: Wednesday 2 June 2010 |
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| 10.00 -12.30 | Registration |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | BUFFET (ATC Foyer) |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| Session : MTs in Cell Division 1 | |
| 14.15 - 16.00 | Session Chair: Andrea Musacchio |
| 14.15 - 14.40 | Andrea Musacchio |
| Molecular bais of feddback control at the kinetochore-microtubule interface | |
| 14.40 - 15.05 | Alexey Khodjakov |
| Typical kinetochore behaviour in human cells | |
| 15.05 - 15.30 | Charles L. Asbury |
| New strategies for uncovering how chromosomes are moved during mitosis | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Patricia Wadsworth |
| Dynamics of GFP Eg5 in the Mammalian Spindle | |
| 15.45 - 16.00 | Alexander Bird |
| Aurora A dependent recruitment of TACC3 to spindles reveals a comples containing clathrin and a novel + TIP | |
| 16.00 - 16.35 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| Session : MT Organisation I | |
| 16.35 - 18.05 | Session Chair: Gohta Goshima |
| 16.35 - 17.00 | Pavel Draber |
| Regulation of microtubule formation in activated mast cells | |
| 17.00 - 17.25 | Gotha Goshima |
| Mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and growth in cells | |
| 17.25 - 17.50 | François Nédélec |
| Microtubule organisation in Xenopus meiotic spindles | |
| 17.50 - 18.05 | Johanna Höög |
| A cellular corset: the sub pellicular microtubule array of the kinetoplastids | |
| 18.05 - 19.35 | DINNER (EMBL Canteen) |
| 19.35 - 20.35 | Keynote Lecture: Timothy J. Mitchison |
| How does a large cells find its center? | |
| Get together - beer and wine reception (ATC Lounge/ Helix A) | |
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Day Two: Thursday 3 June 2010 |
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| Session: MT Structure | |
| 09.00 - 10.45 | Session Chair: Andreas Hoenger |
| 09.00 - 09.25 | David A. Agard |
| Gamma tubulin complexes and the mechanisms of microtubule formation | |
| 09.25 - 09.50 | Andreas Hoenger |
| 3D Cryo Electron Tomography Studies on Microtubule - MAP interactions in vitro and in situ | |
| 09.50 - 10.15 | Claude Antony |
| Microtubule Network 3D Reconstructions in Yeasts | |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Marcel Knossow |
| The tubulin structural, nucleotide and microtubule assembly cycles | |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Carolyn Moores |
| 8Å structure of MAP stablized microtubules | |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| Session: MT Regulators I | |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Session Chair: Carsten Janke |
| 11.10 - 11.35 | Didier Job |
| Toward a functional and molecular understanding of the tubulin tyrosination cycle | |
| 11.35 - 12.00 | Linda Wordeman |
| Catalysis of the microtubule on rate is the major parameter regulating the depolymerase activity of MCAK | |
| 12.00 - 12.35 | Carsten Janke |
| Enzymatic mechanism and functions of tubulin polyglutamylation and polyglycylation | |
| 12.25 - 12.40 | Jose Andreu |
| Stathmin and interfacial microtubule inhibitors recognise a naturally curved conformation of tubulin dimers | |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | LUNCH (ATC Foyer) |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | POSTER SESSION I (odd numbers - ATC Helix A) |
| Session: MTs in Differentiation and Development I | |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Session Chair: Renata Basto |
| 16.00 - 16.25 | Peter Baas |
| Mitotic motor proteins regulate microtubule behaviours during the growth and navigation of the axon | |
| 16.25 - 16.50 | Renata Basto |
| Investigating the role of the MT associated protein ASP in asymmetric cell division and neurogenesis | |
| 16.50 - 17.15 | Gregg G. Gundersen |
| Microtubule capture mechanisms in migrating cells | |
| 17.15 - 17.30 | Krzysztof Rogowski |
| A family of protein deglutamylating enzymes associated with neurodegeneration | |
| 17.30 | Buses to Heidelberg/ Beer & snacks poster session (ATC Helices) |
| 18.30 - 20.00 | DINNER (EMBL Canteen) |
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Day Three: Friday 4 June 2010 |
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| Session: MT + TIPs | |
| 09.00 - 10.45 | Session Chair: Michel Steinmetz |
| 09.00 - 09.25 | Anna Akhmanova |
| Functional analysis of microtubule plus end binding proteins | |
| 09.25 - 09.50 | Torsten Wittmann |
| Phosphoregulation and function of CLASP proteins | |
| 09.50 - 10.15 | Michel Steinmetz |
| Molecular basis of EB mediated microtubule tip tracking | |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Marvin Tanenbaum |
| Regulation of microtubule dynamics by the novel plus end tracking kinesin Kifl8b | |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Roman Koning |
| Cryo electron tomography on cellular microtubule plus ends | |
| 10.45 - 11.10 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| Session: MTs in Cell Division II | |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Session Chair: Rebecca Heald |
| 11.10 - 11.35 | Daniel W. Gerlich |
| Microtubule and membrane dynamics during cytokinetic abscission | |
| 11.35 - 12.00 | Rebecca Heald |
| Katanin mediated interspecies spindle length scaling in Xenopus | |
| 12.00 - 12.25 | Arshad Desai |
| A Kinetochore Independent Mechanism Drives Anaphase Chromosome Separation during Acentrosomal Meiosis | |
| 12.25 - 12.40 | Stefan Westermann |
| Reconstitution of kinetochore microtubule interactions in vivo and in vitro | |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | LUNCH (ATC Foyer) |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | POSTER SESSION II (even numbers/ ATC Helix B) |
| Session: MT Organisation II | |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Session Chair: Thomas Surrey |
| 16.00 - 16.25 | Marileen Dogterom |
| Regulation of microtubule (aster) dynamics by 'cortical' dynein | |
| 16.25 - 16.50 | Robert A. Cross |
| Motorized self organisation of S. pombe microtubules | |
| 16.50 - 17.15 | Thomas Surrey |
| How mitotic kinesins and antiparallel bundlers determine microtubule organisation and dynamics | |
| 17.15 - 17.30 | Gero Fink |
| Ase1 brakes kinesin 14 driven microtubule sliding in vitro | |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| Session: MT Regulators II | |
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Session Chair: Franck Perez |
| 18.00 - 18.25 | Franck Perez |
| CLIP 170, GTP tubulin and the regulation of microtubule dynamic instability | |
| 18.25 - 18.50 | Isabelle Arnal |
| Structural basis of the interaction between microtubules and +TIPs | |
| 18.50 - 19.15 | Jonathon Howard |
| Regulation of Microtubule Dynamice by Depolymerizing Kinesins and Polymerases | |
| 19.15 - 19.30 | Jennifer Ross |
| Single Molecule Studies of Microtubule Severing Enzymes | |
| 19.40 - 23.30 | BBQ and Party (EMBL Canteen and Terrace) |
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Day Four: Saturday 5 June 2010 |
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| Session: MT Organisation III | |
| 09.00 - 10.30 | Session Chair: Kenneth E. Sawin |
| 09.00 - 09.25 | Matthiew Piel |
| Mechanotransduction during mitosis: how external forces affect dividing cells | |
| 09.25 - 09.50 | Kenneth E. Sawin |
| Organising microtubule organisers | |
| 09.50 - 10.15 | David Odde |
| Kinetics of Microtubule Assembly | |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Marylin Vantard |
| Molecular analysis of the microtubule bundling activity of the mitotic microtubule associated protein, AtMAP65 4 | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| SESSION: MTs in Differentiation and Development II | |
| 11.00 - 12.45 | Session Chair: Anne Ephrussi |
| 11.00 - 11.25 | Damian Brunner |
| Microtubule mediated membrane organisation and cell polarity | |
| 11.25 - 11.50 | Kristen Verhey |
| Ran, importins, and ciliary targeting of kinesin motors | |
| 11.50 - 12.15 | Anne Ephrussi |
| Microtubules and motors in oskar RNP transport | |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | Niels Galjart |
| A role for the microtubule plus end tracking protein CLASP2 in hematopoietic stem cell maintenance | |
| 12.30 - 12.45 | Lukas Kapitein |
| Mixed microtubules steer dynein driven cargo transport into dendrites | |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | LUNCH (EMBL Canteen) |
| Hot Topics Session | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Session Chair: Ronald D. Vale |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Babet van der Vaart |
| SLAIN1 and SLAIN2 are novel microtubule plus end tracking proteins that control microtubule growth in interphase | |
| 14.15 - 14.30 | Sarah Goodwin |
| Patronin Regulates the Microtubule Network by Protecting Microtubule Minus Ends | |
| 14.30 - 14.45 | Remigio Picone |
| A polarised population of dynamic microtubules mediates homeostatic length control in animal cells | |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Isa Rishal |
| Microtubule Motors in Cell Size Sensing | |
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Johanna Roostalu |
| Biochemical Characterisation of Cin8, the Kinesin 5 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae | |
| 15.15 - 15.30 | Mamta Amrute |
| A novel in vitro assay provides evidence that microtubule motor copy number controls differential mRNA sorting | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | COFFEE BREAK (ATC Foyer) |
| Session: MT motors | |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Session Chair: Michio Tomishige |
| 16.00 - 16.25 | Stan A. Burgess |
| Structure and mechanism of the microtubule motor dynein | |
| 16.25 - 16.50 | Michio Tomishige |
| Structural basis for the coordinated processive movement of kinesin | |
| 16.50 - 17.15 | Ronald D. Vale |
| New microtubule associated proteins involved in mitosis | |
| 17.15 - 17.30 | Masanori Mishima |
| 14-3-3 and Aurora B cooperately regulates the clustering of the centralspindlin kinesin-6/RhoGAP complex that is essential for its accumulation to the spindle midzone during cytokinesis | |
| 17.30 - 17.40 | Closing Remarks, feedback on conference, proposals for 2012 conference |
