Program
9.00 Opening remarks
Session One--Chair: Ulrike Gruneberg
9.05-9.25 Bram Prevo. University of Edinburgh. Desai/Earnshaw Labs. Kinetochore dynein orients chromosomes for segregation
9.25-9.45 Joe Atherton. King’s College London. The structural mechanisms behind kinesin binding protein's discriminatory kinesin member inhibition
9.45-10.05 Vladimir Volkov. Delft University of Technology. Dogterom Lab.
Harnessing the microtubule-generated force through multivalent disordered sequences
10.05-10.25 Evelyn Smith. University of Sheffield. Twelvetrees Lab. A new assay to study kinesin-1 activation
10.25-10.45 Amadeus Xu. Francis Crick Institute. Way Lab. Reconstituting microtubule-based motility of Vaccinia virus invitro
10.45-11.20 Coffee break
Session Two--Chair: Hiro Okhura
11.20-11.40 Ondrej Kucera. CEA Grenoble. Blanchoin/Thery Labs. Actin-assisted microtubule guidance is governed by anisotropy of actin architecture
11.40-12.00 Isabel Palacios. Queen Mary University of London. Optical flow analysis reveals that Kinesin-mediated advection impacts on the orientation of microtubules in the Drosophila oocyte
12.00-12.20 Harinath Doodhi. University of Dundee. Tanaka Lab. In vitro reconstitution of kinetochore–microtubule interface reveals a fundamental error correction mechanism
12.20-12.40 Andrew Carter. MRC-LMB. A survey of the neuronal cytoskeleton by cryo-electron tomography
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Posters
Session Three--Chair: Dhanya Cheermabathur
14.40-15.00 Susana Godinho. Bart’s Cancer Institute, QMUL. Microtubule motors imbalance drives organelle displacement in cells with extra centrosomes
15.00-15.20 Thomas Tischer. MRC LMB. Barford Lab. Negative feedback between the APC/C and Cep152 at the centrosome regulates mitotic spindle assembly
15.20-15.40 Gurusaran Manickam. University of Newcastle. Davies Lab. Feel the force! How the LINC complex links and mechanically transduces forces between the cytoplasm and the nucleus.
15.40-15.50 Comfort break
Session Four--Chair: Anthony Roberts
15.50-16.10 David Salvador-Garcia. MRC-LMB. Bullock Lab. Insights from a new mutation in Drosophila dynein that selectively affects embryonic mitosis
16.10-16.30 Ines Hahn. University of Manchester. Coordination of microtubule dynamics by GSK3b during axonal growth and maintenance
16.30-16.50 Erithelgi Bertsoulaki. University of Liverpool. Clague Lab. USP31- bridging two cellular codes
16.50 Closing remarks
17.00 Walk to Teviot Hall
18.30 Dinner