Cell News 2/2016
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CONTENT
Preface
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Call of Topics
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DGZ Member Meeting 2016 in Martinsried
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DGZ Award Winners 2016
Binder Innovation Prize: Melina Schuh
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Nikon Young Scientist Award: Sophie Steculorum
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Future Meetings
7th Annual Symposium “Physics of Cancer” 04.-06.10.2016, Leipzig
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11th GfE School: "Cell Dynamics in Development & Evolution",
06.-08.10.2016, Günzburg
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Workshop “Cell Biology of Viral Infections”, 02.-04.11.2016, Schöntal
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20th Joint Meeting “Signal Transduction – Receptors, Mediators and Genes”,
09.-11.11.2016, Weimar
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Obituary Prof. Eberhard Schnepf
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Intern / Impressum / Missing Members
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Executive Board
President:
Carien Niessen (Cologne)
Vice President:
Oliver Gruss (Bonn)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Thomas M. Magin (Leipzig)
Vice CEO:
Karin Schumacher (Heidelberg)
Advisory Board
M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt)
Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg)
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried)
Volker Gerke (Muenster)
Ralph Gräf (Potsdam)
Harald Herrmann (Heidelberg)
Ingrid Hoffmann (Heidelberg)
Heinrich Leonhardt (Martinsried)
Zeynep Ökten (Munich)
Britta Qualmann (Jena)
Simone Reber (Berlin)
Office:
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Newsletter of the German Society
for Cell Biology
Cover image: “Live” human MCF10A breast epithelial cells that expresses LifeAct-GFP (green) and
mcherry-photoactivatable Rac1 (not shown). The activation of Rac1 through light induces massive
remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton. This snapshot shows the different actin structures within a
living cell (filopodial and lamellopodial strucutres, stress fibers etc). For more information about
photoactivatable Rac1 check out:
Grikscheit K, Frank T, Wang Y, Grosse R. Junctional actin assembly is mediated by Formin-like 2
downstream of Rac1. J Cell Biol. 2015 May
11:209(3):367-76
Wu YI, Frey D, Lungu OI, Jaehring A, Schlichting I, Kuhlman B, Hahn KM. A genetically encoded
photoactivatable Rac controls the motility of living cells. Nature. 2009 Sep 3;461(7260):104-8
