Cell News 1/2015
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Content
Preface
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DGZ Member Meeting
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International DGZ Meeting 2015 in Cologne
General Information
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Scientific Program
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Perspective
Angelika Hausser, Kornelia Ellwanger & Thomas Kufer: Sensing of pathogen-
induced F-actin perturbations – a new paradigm in innate immunity?
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Research News
Jessica Morgner and Sara A. Wickström: Cellular force generation
in focal adhesion maturation and extracellular matrix remodeling
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Meeting Reports
Franziska Lautenschläger: 5
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Annual Symposium “Physics of Cancer”
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Katharina Kubatzky, Frank Entschladen, Klaudia Giehl, Ottmar Janssen
and Ralf Hass: Meeting report of the DGZ study group ‘Signal Transduction’
and its participation in the 18
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Joint Meeting "Signal Transduction –
Receptors, Mediators and Genes"
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Steeve Boulant and Claudia Claus: 13
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Annual Workshop on
“Cell Biology of Viral Infection”
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Future Meetings
6
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Symposium Physics of Cancer
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3
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International Meeting of the DGZ on Actin Dynamics
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Impressum
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Missing Members
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Executive Board
President:
Ralph Gräf (Potsdam)
Vice President:
Carien Niessen (Köln)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Oliver Gruss (Heidelberg)
Vice CEO:
Klemens Rottner (Braunschweig)
Advisory Board
M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt)
Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg)
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried)
Volker Gerke (Münster)
Harald Herrmann-Lerdon
(Heidelberg)
Ingrid Hoffmann (Heidelberg)
Eugen Kerkhoff (Regensburg)
Thomas Magin (Leipzig)
Zeynep Ökten (München)
Britta Qualmann (Jena)
Manfred Schliwa (Frankfurt/M.)
Doris Wedlich (Karlsruhe)
Office:
Sabine Reichel-Klingmann
c/o Deutsches Krebsforschungs-
zentrum (DKFZ)
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
69120 Heidelberg
Tel.: 0 62 21 /42-34 51
Fax: 0 62 21 /42-34 52
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Newsletter of the German Society
for Cell Biology
Cover image: Integrin-linked kinase is required for focal adhesion maturation,
cellular force generation and extracellular matrix deposition
Immunofluorescence analysis of paxillin as a marker for focal adhesions and F-actin in fibroblasts. Wild
type fibroblasts display small focal complexes (arrow), focal adhesions (open arrowhead), and fibril-
lar adhesions (arrowhead), which are tightly connected to the actin cytoskeleton. Note lack of focal
complexes and fibrillar adhesions, reduced amount of actin stress fibers, and accumulation of large pe-
ripheral focal adhesions (open arrowhead) in ILK-deficient cells. Scale bar 25 mm. See article by Jessica
Morgner and Sara A. Wickström
