| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MECHANOSENSATION IN MICROBES |
| Discussion Leader: Ching Kung (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Randal Bass (Caltech)
"E. coli MscS, a voltage-modulated and mechanosensitive ion channel" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Paul Blount (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Prokaryotic mechanosensitive channels: it's not just MscL anymore" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Boris Martinac (University of Western Australia)
"Gating of mechanosensitive channels by bilayer deformation forces" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DEG/ENaC, STOMATIN, AND TWO-PORE CHANNEL PROTEINS IN MECHANOSENSATION |
| Discussion Leader: Miriam Goodman (Stanford University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Monica Driscoll (Rutgers University)
"DEG/ENaC channels in touch sensation" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Amanda Patel (Institut de Pharmacologie-CNRS)
"Molecular analysis of mechanosensitive 2P domain K+ channels" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Gary Lewin (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin)
"Stomatin family proteins are essential regulators of mechanotransduction in vertebrate sensory neurons" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Wayne Johnson (University of Iowa College of Medicine)
Proprioceptive mechanosensory signaling in Drosophila multiple dendritic neurons |
| 12:30 pm | Group Photo |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EFFECTORS OF MECHANO-SIGNALING IN PLANTS AND FUNGI |
| Discussion Leader: Simon Gilroy (Penn State) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Bob Deschenes (University of Iowa College of Medicine)
"Two-component signal transduction in yeast: integrating osmotic and oxidative stress sensing pathways" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Mary Beilby (University of New South Wales)
"Touch and turgor-sensing mechanisms in charophyte algae" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Elison Blancaflor (Noble Foundation, Oklahoma)
"The actin cytoskeleton and its role in the gravitropic response of plant roots" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN PLANT GRAVITROPISM |
| Discussion Leader: Alison DeLong (Brown University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Gloria Muday (Wake Forest University)
"Modulation of gravity-directed plant growth by auxin transport" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Roger Hangarter (University of Indiana)
"Shape shifting in plants: the influence of light and gravity on plant architecture" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Patrick Masson (University of Wisconsin)
"Gravity signal transduction in roots" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Iris Ottenschlaeger (University of
Freiburg)
"Regulation of auxin transport during plant gravitropism" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MECHANOELECTRICAL SIGNALING IN HAIR CELLS I |
| Discussion Leader: Ruth Anne Eatock (Baylor College Of Medicine) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Christine Petit (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
"Deciphering of the molecular mechanisms underlying the cohesion of the hair bundle through deafness genes" |
| Discussion Leader: Sergei Sukharev (University of Maryland) |
| 8:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topics (4 talks, 20 min ea) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MECHANOSENSING IN MAMMALIAN CELLS |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Sheetz (Columbia University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Benjamin Geiger (Weizmann Institute)
"Mechanosensitive regulation of focal adhesion assembly" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | John Shyy (UC Riverside)
"Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells in Response to Fluid Shear Stress: Is Anything and Everything Activated?" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| Discussion Leader: Cathy Morris (Ottawa Health Research Institute) |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Don Ingber (Harvard University)
"Mechanical signal processing in living cells" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Fred Sachs (State University of New York at Buffalo)
"Mechanosensitive ion channels: kinetics, spider spit and capacitance" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CELLULAR MECHANISMS IN GRAVITY SIGNALING |
| Discussion Leader: Karl Hasenstein (Univ. SW Louisiana) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Sarah Wyatt (Ohio University)
"The gps mutants of Arabidopsis: a search for the mechanisms of signal transduction" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Masao Tasaka (Nara Institute of Science & Technology)
"Genes required for shoot gravitropism in Arabidopsis" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Stan Roux (University of Texas at Austin)
"Molecular analysis of a gravity response in single cells" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TRP CHANNELS IN MECHANOSENSATION |
| Discussion Leader: David Julius (UCSF) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Maurice Kernan (SUNY- Stoneybrook)
"Ion channels required for hearing in Drosophila" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Jing Zhou (Harvard University)
"Polycystins, mechanosensors of renal epithelia" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Dan Tracey (Caltech)
"Genetics of thermal and mechanical nociception in Drosophila" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Wolfgang Liedtke (Rockefeller University)
"TRPV4, a candidate vertebrate osmo- and mechanoreceptor" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MECHANOELECTRICAL SIGNALING IN HAIR CELLS II |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Avraham (Tel Aviv University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Teresa Nicolson (Max Planck Institute, Tubingen)
"Mechanoelectrical transduction by hair cells in the ear: forward and reverse genetics in zebrafish" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Andrew Griffith (NIDCD)
"TMC1: A novel deafness gene required for cochlear hair cell function" |
| 9:00 pm | Business meeting |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
