Microsymposium 2

Centrosome and Cilia Dynamics

Sunday, December 9
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 28D
Moderators: Caitlyn Blake-Hedges, Florida State University; and Krishnakumar Vasudevan, Stanford University

11:00 am   E7    Now you see it, now you don’t: dynamics and mechanisms of primary cilia disassembly.  M. Mirvis¹, K.A. Siemers^1,2, W.J. Nelson^1,2, T. Stearns^2,3; ¹Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

11:10 am   E8    Super-resolution Detection of PI(4,5)P2 in the Ciliary Pocket: Toward Mechanisms of Pocket Form and Function.  G. Garcia¹, J.F. Reiter¹; ¹Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

11:20 am   E9    Cell specific effects of cilia loss on drug-induced and motivated behaviors.  J.C. McIntyre¹, K. Jasso¹, J. Roberts¹, B. Setlow²; ¹Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:30 am   E10    Genetic and functional approaches highlight a novel ciliary complex implicated in Joubert syndrome.  J.C. Van De Weghe¹, T.D. Rusterholz², B. Latour³, A.E. Gomez¹, R. Roepman³, R. Bachmann-Gagescu², D. Doherty¹; ¹Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

11:40 am   E11    Molecular architecture of a cylindrical self-assembly at human centrosomes.  L. Zhang¹, J.I. Ahn¹, T. Kim¹, Y. Chen¹, R. Ghirlando², K.S. Lee¹, J. Park¹; ¹Metabolism, National Institutes of Health, NCI, Bethesda, MD, ²Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD

11:50 am   E12    A free-running oscillator times and executes centriole biogenesis.  M.G. Aydogan¹, T.L. Steinacker¹, A. Wainman¹, L. Gartenmann¹, S. Saurya¹, M.A. Boemo¹, J.W. Raff¹; ¹Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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