Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Frontiers in Adhesion Signaling
Discussion Leader: Maik Bischoff (UNC Chapel Hill, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Vanessa Barone (Stanford University, United States)
"Echinoderm Embryos to Model Epithelial Morphogenesis: From Cell Biology to Evo-Devo"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Adhesion Structure and Function in Development, Health and Disease
Discussion Leader: Oleg Dobrokhotov (King's College London, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Maik Bischoff (UNC Chapel Hill, United States)
"A Novel Role for Semaphorin/Plexin Signaling in Collective Cell Migration"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Sandra Tavares (i3S - Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, Portugal)
"Multi-Omics Analysis of TNBC Organoids Reveals an Endosomal Recycling Regulation Landscape Specific of Invasive Cells"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Paola Vagni (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, United States)
"Mechanisms of Tissue Repair in the Zebrafish Skin"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Hélène Vignes (CNRS Institut Jacques Monod UMR 7592 , France)
"Understanding the Impact of Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity of Metaplastic Breast Cancer on Tumor Progression"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Anna Yui (Tufts University, United States)
"Chemotherapy Directly Drives Fibroblast Activation and Increased ECM Production to Drive Invasion and Recurrence in Breast Cancer"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Adhesion Signalling and Mechanobiology
Discussion Leader: Shuxia Fan (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Milan Collins (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"SKT, A Novel Mechanosensitive Focal Adhesion Protein Linking Cell Adhesion and Cancer Metabolism Via Novel Activation of mTORC2"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Waruni Dissanayake (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
"Adherens Junctions Regulating the Traffic: Novel Role of Plakoglobin in the Modulation of Insulin Release in Beta-Cells"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Prachi Joshi (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India)
"Novel Role for Receptor Tyrosine Kinase AXL in the Regulation of Adhesion-Independent Golgi Organization and Golgi Function in Non-Adherent Cancer Cells"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Oleg Dobrokhotov (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Examining the Role of Integrins at Cell-Cell Adhesions"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Mikaela Keyser (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ, Australia)
"How Integrin-Talin Signalling Regulates Cellular Phenotypes in Vascular Malformations"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: What’s Next? Jobs After Your PhD or PostDoc
Discussion Leader: Fernando Valencia (University of Toronto, Canada)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
What’s Next? Jobs After Your PhD or PostDoc
Timothy Fessenden (Journal of Cell Biology, United States)
Jennifer Landino (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes