Microsymposium 4

Membrane Architecture and Structure

Sunday, December 9
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 29C
Moderators: Ashley Lakoduk, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and Matthew Akamatsu, University of California, Berkeley

11:00 am   E19    Developmental regulation of an organelle tether coordinates mitochondrial remodeling in meiosis.  E.M. Sawyer¹, P.R. Joshi¹, L.E. Berchowitz², E. Ünal¹; ¹Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ²Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

11:10 am   E20    The functional architecture of the endocytic coat analyzed by FRET.  M. Skruzny^1,2, E. Pohl^1,2, S. Gnoth^1,2, G. Malengo^1,2, V. Sourjik^1,2; ¹Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, ²LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

11:20 am   E21    Architecture of interfaces between lipid droplets revealed by electron cryo-tomography.  I. Ganeva¹, K. Lim², D. Savage², W. Kukulski¹; ¹Cell Biology, MRC LMB, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom

11:30 am   E22    AP-3 vesicle budding regulates Golgi structure in yeast.  G. Odorizzi¹, R.L. Plemel², M. West¹, A.J. Merz²; ¹Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, ²Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

11:40 am   E23    Structural and mechanistic bases of Drp1-cardiolipin interactions in mitochondrial fission.  B. Lu¹, M. Mahajan¹, A. Mandal², N. Bharambe¹, B. Kennedy¹, P. van der Wel², M. Buck¹, X. Qi¹, R. Ramachandran¹; ¹Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, ²Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

11:50 am   E24    Regulation of mtDNA synthesis in human cells.  S.C. Lewis¹, L. Uchiyama¹, M. Besprozvannaya¹, Y. Shi², M. Falkenberg², J. Nunnari¹; ¹Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, ²Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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