Cell News 1/2015
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International Meeting
15:00 – 18:00 Plenary Session PS3: Signal transduction and
trafficking
Chair: Philippe Bastiaens (Dortmund, Germany)
15:00 – 15:30 Alexander Sorkin (Pittsburgh, USA):
Regulation of EGF receptor by endocytosis
15:30 – 16:00 Bruno Goud (Paris, France):
Spatiotemporal selection of downstream partners of
phosphoinositide-binding proteins through phosphoino-
sitide clustering
16:00 – 16:30 Marko Kaksonen (Heidelberg, Germany):
Visualizing the dynamic architecture of the endocytic
machinery
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30 Philippe Bastiaens (Dortmund, Germany):
RTK trafficking switches from a cyclic safeguard to a
finite signaling mode
17:30 – 18:00 Peter Devreotes (Baltimore, USA):
The cell’s compass: How cells move and know where to
move
18:00 – 19:00 Frontiers in Science Lecture
Joseph Penninger (Vienna, Austria):
Forward and reverse genetics using haploid stem cells
19:00
Posters and Party
Friday, March 27, 2015
09:00 – 11:00 Plenary Session PS4: 40 Years DGZ: Past and present
scientific breakthroughs in cell biology
Chaired by the DGZ Board
09:00 – 09:30 Harald Herrmann (Heidelberg, Germany): Electrons and
photons: From electron microscopy to super-resolution
techniques and back
09:30 – 10:00 Jan Ellenberg (Heidelberg, Germany): Systems biology of
the human cell using light microscopy
10:00 – 10:30 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Bethesda, USA): Cell sur-
vival under starvation: crosstalk between mitochondria,
lipid droplets and autophagy
10.30 – 11:00 Matthias Mann (Martinsried, Germany): High through-
put proteomics and it application to insulin signaling
11:00 – 12:00 Coffee break with lunch
12:00 – 15:00 Symposia 9-11
12:00 – 15:00 Symposium S9: New functions of actin
Chair: Robert Grosse (Marburg, Germany)
12:00 – 12:30 Gregg Gundersen (New York, USA):
LINCing actin cables to the nuclear envelope for nuclear
movement
12:30 – 13:00 Peter Lénárt (Heidelberg, Germany):
An Arp2/3 nucleated F-actin shell fragments nuclear
membranes at nuclear envelope breakdown
13:00 – 13:15 Sven Bogdan: Shaping cells into organs – The WAVE
regulatory complex (WRC) acts through FAT2 to control
Drosophila egg chamber elongation (short talk, A-107)
13:15 – 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 – 14:15 Maria Vartiainen (Helsinki, Finland):
Regulation of nuclear actin - from dynamics to function
14:15 – 14:45 Robert Grosse (Marburg, Germany):
Actin dynamics during entotic cell-in-cell invasion
14:45 – 15:00 Marco Rust:
A novel function of ADF/cofilin-dependent actin
dynamics in neurotransmitter release and behavior
(short talk, A-225)
12:00 – 15:00 Symposium S10: Cell biology of mitochondria
Chair: Elena Rugarli (Cologne, Germany)
12:00 – 12:30 Benedikt Westermann (Bayreuth, Germany):
Mitochondrial inheritance and dynamics in yeast
12:30 – 12:45 Timothy Wai:
Metabolic intervention rescues heart failure caused by
unbalanced mitochondrial dynamics (short talk, A-297)
12:45 – 13:15 Heidi McBride (Montreal, Canada):
Establishing the function of mitochondrial vesicle
transport
13:15 – 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 – 14:15 Janet M. Shaw (Salt Lake City, USA):
Cellular and physiological roles for mitochondrial
motility
14:15 – 14:45 Elena Rugarli (Cologne, Germany):
Cluh and regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis
14:45 – 15:00 Sven Thoms:
Functional translational readthrough enables protein
import into organelles (short talk, A-201)
12:00 – 15:00 Symposium S11: Epithelial structure and function
Chair: Inke Näthke (Dundee, Scotland/UK)
12:00 – 12:30 Lindsay Hinck (Santa Cruz, USA):
The role of SLIT/ROBO signaling in mammary stem cell
self-renewal
12:30 – 13:00 Marija Plodinec (Basel, Switzerland):
An in vitro epithelium that bears the mechanobiologi-
cal hallmarks of living tissue with the implications for
cancer progression
13:00 – 13:15 Vanessa Weichselberger:
Interface mechanics between transcriptionally divergent
cell groups cause epithelial cyst formation (short talk,
A-237)
13:15 – 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 – 14:15 Helen McNeill (Toronto, Canada):
Regulation of epithelial structure and branching
morphogenesis in the developing mouse kidney
14:15 – 14:45 Inke Näthke (Dundee, Scotland/UK):
Gut epithelial tissue changes during early transformation
14:45 – 15:00 David Schneider:
Cellular mechanics in keratinocyte differentiation and
epidermal stratification (short talk, A-158)
15:00 – 15:30 End of the meeting
