Microsymposium 6

Regulation of the Cytoskeleton 1

Sunday, December 9
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Room 30C
Moderators: Courtney Schroeder, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; and Valerie Tutwiler, University of Pennsylvania

11:00 am   E31    Shaping actin cables at the yeast bud neck: a collaboration of septins, formins, and the F-BAR protein Hof1.  M. Garabedian¹, O.S. Sokolova², B.L. Goode¹; ¹Biology Dept., Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, ²Bioengineering Dept., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

11:10 am   E32    Retrograde flow-induced biased distribution of actin probes in live cells.  S. Yamashiro^1,2, D. Taniguchi², S. Tanaka², T. Kiuchi², D. Vavylonis³, N. Watanabe^1,2;  ¹Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ²Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ³Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

11:20 am   E33    Pointed- and barbed-end filament binding by Spire bridges networks of filaments in vitro.  A.O. Bradley¹, C.L. Vizcarra², M.E. Quinlan¹; ¹Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY

11:30 am   E34    Arp2/3 complex-dependent spatial organization of the BCR impacts immune synapse formation, BCR signaling and B cell activation.  M. Bolger-Munro¹, K. Choi¹, L. Abraham^1,2, R. Chappell², J. Scurll², D. Sheen¹, M. Dang-Lawson ¹, X. Wu³, D. Coombs², J.A. Hammer III³, M.R. Gold¹; ¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology , University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC, ²Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC, ³Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

11:40 am   E35    Label-free tracking of immunological synapse kinetics using optical diffraction tomography.  M. Lee^1,2, Y. Lee¹, C. Kim³, Y. Park^1,4; ¹Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, ²KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, ³Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, United States, ⁴TOMOCUBE Inc., Daejeon, South Korea

11:50 am   E36    Superresolution microscopy reveals that PAR and Crumbs groups of proteins pattern the epithelial tight junction region to organize its cytoskeleton.  P. Mangeol¹, D. Massey-Harroche¹, P. Lenne¹, A. Le Bivic¹; ¹Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IBDM, Marseille, France

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