SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Biophysics and Molecular Function of Fusion Machineries |
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Michael Kozlov (Tel Aviv University, Israel) "Modeling membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins" |
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Eukaryotic Cell- Cell Fusion |
| Discussion Leader: Leonid Chernomordik (National Institutes of Health, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Boaz Gildor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Fusion competence is repressed in migrating Drosophila myoblasts by Notch signaling" |
7:45 pm - 7:54 pm | Discussion |
7:54 pm - 8:09 pm | Fuiboon Kai (Dalhousie University, Canada) "Myopodin is a novel positive regulator of myogenesis" |
8:09 pm - 8:18 pm | Discussion |
8:18 pm - 8:33 pm | Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai (University of Oxford, UK) "The developmental fusion proteins AFF-1 and EFF-1 induce membrane bending" |
8:33 pm - 8:42 pm | Discussion |
8:42 pm - 8:57 pm | Meital Oren-Suissa (Technion - IIT, Israel) "The fusogen EFF-1 controls dendrite sculpting" |
8:57 pm - 9:06 pm | Discussion |
9:06 pm - 9:21 pm | Jenny Adriana F. Vermeer (Academic Centre for Dentistry, Netherlands) "Visualization of osteoclast fusion" |
9:21 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Intracellular and Viral Membrane Fusion |
| Discussion Leader: Benjamin Podbilewicz (Technion - IIT, Israel) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Martin Rabe (Leiden University NETHERLANDS) "Mimicking Nature? - Insights into a reduced model system for SNARE mediated membrane fusion" |
9:15 am - 9:24 am | Discussion |
9:24 am - 9:39 am | Yongsoo Park (Max Planck Institute for biophysical chemistry, Germany) "Reconstitution of large dense-core vesicle (LDCV) fusion in vitro: electrostatic effect of ATP is required for Ca2+-dependent fusion" |
9:39 am - 9:48 am | Discussion |
9:48 am - 10:03 am | Rui Xu (Scripps Research Institute, USA) "Structural characterization of an early fusion intermediate of influenza virus hemagglutinin" |
10:03 am - 10:12 am | Discussion |
10:12 am - 10:27 am | Jolene Read (Dalhousie University, Canada) "The Reovirus p15 FAST Protein Contains a Cytosolic Non-Canonical Amphipathic Lipid Packing Sensor (ALPS) Motif That Functions in Cell-Cell Fusion" |
10:27 am - 10:36 am | Discussion |
10:36 am - 10:51 am | Sung-Tae Yang (National Institutes of Health, USA) "Fusogenic activity of annexins A1 and A5" |
10:51 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:05 pm | Mentorship Session - How to Publish in top Journals |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Paula A. Kiberstis (Senior Editor, Science) "How Manuscript Selection Works at Science" |
2:00 pm - 2:05 pm | Discussion |
2:05 pm - 2:50 pm | The Universal Mechanisms of Intracellular Membrane Fusion |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
2:05 pm - 2:40 pm | Randy Schekman (UC Berkeley, USA)
"Genetic and biochemical dissection of the secretory pathway" |
2:40 pm - 2:50 pm | Discussion |
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |