Microsymposium 16

Regulation of the Cytoskeleton 2

Tuesday, December 11
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 28B
Moderator: Brooke Gardner, University of California, Berkeley

11:00 am   E91    Reconstitution of aster movement and cell division plane positioning mechanisms in Xenopus egg extract.  J.F. Pelletier^1,2,3, C.M. Field^1,2, N. Fakhri³, J.S. Oakey^2,4, J.C. Gatlin^2,5, T.J. Mitchison^1,2; ¹Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, ³Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, ⁵Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

11:10 am   E92    Live imaging of acentrosomal microtubule dynamics controlling early mammalian development.  J. Zenker^1,2, M. White², R.M. Templin³, R.G. Parton³, O. Thorn-Seshold⁴, Y.D. Alvarez², M. Gasnier², H. Lim², M. Biro⁵, S. Bissiere², N. Plachta²; ¹ARMI, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ²IMCB, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore, ³University of Queensland, IMB, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Ludwig-Maximilians-University , 3Department of Pharmacy, Center for Drug Research, Munich, Germany, ⁵University New South Wales, EMBL Australia, Single Molecule Science node, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney, Australia

11:20 am   E93    Dynamics and regulation of microtubule minus ends.  C. Strothman¹, M. Podolski¹, N. Rodgers², V. Farmer¹, G. Arpag¹, S. Wang¹, A. Rahman³, M. Zanic^1,3,4; ¹Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Chemical and Physical Biology , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ³Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁴Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

11:30 am   E94    Lis1 promotes the formation of maximally activated dynein complexes.  J.P. Gillies^1,2, Z.M. Htet^1,3, M.E. DeSantis¹, S.L. Reck-Peterson^1,2; ¹Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³Biophysics Graduate Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

11:40 am   E95    A quantitative model for BicD2/cargo interactions.  K.M. Loftus¹, H. Cui¹, C.R. Noell¹, C. Grewer¹, E.W. Debler², S.R. Solmaz¹; ¹Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, ²Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

11:50 am   E96    Optical control of fast and processive engineered myosins in vitro and in living cells.  P.V. Ruijgrok¹, R.P. Ghosh^1,2,3,4, M. Nakamura¹, R. Chen¹, V. Vachharajani¹, J.T. Liphardt^1,2,3,4, Z. Bryant^1,5; ¹BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Bio-X Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Chem-H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁵Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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