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 | Tension Sensing at Adhesion Sites |
| Discussion Leaders: Guillaume Jacquemet (Turku Center for Biotechnology) and Nina Brahme (Harvard School of Public Health) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ana Pasapera (National Institutes of Health)
"Integrin-Rac1- and PKC Signaling Regulate Myosin IIA Phosphorylation to Enhance Its Recruitment to Focal Adhesions, Cell Migration and ECM Mechanosensing"
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4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (Last names A-M) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Adhesion Signaling |
| Discussion Leaders: Nisha Mohd Rafiq (Mechanobiology Institute) and Cheng-Han Yu (National University of Singapore) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Ed Horton (University of Manchester)
"Systems-Level Analyses of Cell-Matrix Adhesion Complexes"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Matthew Jones (University of Manchester)
"Cell Cycle-Dependent Regulation of Adhesion Complexes"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Maria Georgiadou (Turku Center for Biotechnology)
"The Metabolic Regulation of Integrin Activity in Cell Adhesion and Migration"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Elizabeth Kennedy (University of Pennsylvania)
"Integrin αV is Necessary for Generation of Human Epidermis"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Regulation of Cell Migration |
| Discussion Leaders: Kenji Matsuzawa (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine) and Vinay Swaminathan (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Colin Choi (Boston University)
"Branching Actin and Adhesion Formation Drive 3D Migration"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Niels Heemskerk (Sanquin Research Landsteiner Laboratory)
"A RhoA-Mediated Transmigratory Pore Facilitates Neutrophil Transendothelial Migration"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Madeleine Oudin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Haptotaxis: New Mechanistic Insight into How Cells Migrate on FN Gradients and How This Might Affect Tumor Progression"
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10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Colleen Skau (National Institutes of Health)
"A Novel Actin-Adhesion Structure Involved in Nuclear Positioning Requires the Formin FMN2"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II (Last Names N-Z) |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Career Session: Research and Teaching in Academia |
| Discussion Leaders: Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku) and Michelle Smith (University of Maine and RiSE Institute) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku) |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Michelle Smith (University of Maine and RiSE Instiute) |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |