| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Mechanisms of Cell Shape Change In Vivo |
| Discussion Leader: Elaine Fuchs (The Rockefeller University, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:25 pm | Bob Goldstein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Mechanisms of Cell Shape Change In Vivo" |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Measuring Cell Polarity – Analytical Imaging Tools and Modelling |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Lew (Duke University Medical Center, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Aaron Mertz (Rockefeller University, USA)
"How Is a Stratified Epithelium Built Mechanically In Vivo?" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Abhijit Deb Roy (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA)
"An Optogenetic Approach to Delineate Spatial Regulation of Semaphorin-Plexin Signaling in Contact Inhibition of Locomotion" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Floris Bosveld (Institut Curie, France)
"Spindle Orientation in Epithelial Tissue" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Dynamic, Stochastic Actomyosin Pulses Promote Collective Cell Migration and Rapid Embryonic Wound Repair" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Olga Loza (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"A Synthetic Biology Approach for Studying Fat4-Ds1 Planar Cell Polarity Signaling" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Allyson Sgro (Princeton University, USA)
"From Intracellular Signaling to Collective Behavior: Understanding the Dynamical Origins of Collective cAMP Oscillations in Dictyostelium discoideum" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Polarity in Cell Migration and Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Luke McCaffrey (McGill University, Canada) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Danielle Park (Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
"Extracellular Matrix Anisotropy in Cancer Invasion and Metastasis" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Yuliya Petrova (University of Virginia, USA)
"Roles of E-Cadherin Mutations and Adhesion Activity in Cancer" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Mukhtar Ahmed (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"The Par3-Exocyst Interaction Is Central for Mammary Epithelial Cell Survival" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Vanesa Jimenez-Amilburu (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany)
"Cardiomyocyte Polarity Dynamics During Heart Trabeculation" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Manuel Hotz (Stanford University, USA)
"Pumilio-Dependent Transcript Asymmetry Drives Polarization of Chemotactic Cells" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Paulina Mrozowska (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Regulation of Podocalyxin Trafficking by Rab Small GTPases in 2D and 3D Epithelial Cell Cultures" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Polarity in Morphogenesis and Signal Transduction |
| Discussion Leader: Jody Rosenblatt (Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Andrea Dimitracopoulos (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom)
"The Role of Mitotic Rounding in Spindle Positioning" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Mitchell Butler (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"The Control of Planar Cell Polarity Patterning Dynamics During Vertebrate Development" |
| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Matias Escobar (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Dissecting Microtubule-Actin Crosslinking Factor (Macf1) Function in Establishing Oocyte Polarity and Nuclear Positioning" |
| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
