Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Developmental Control of Polarity
Discussion Leaders: Xin Chen (HHMI, Johns Hopkins University, United States) and Ankita Jha (National Institutes of Health, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Daniel Dickinson (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Reprogramming the Polarity Machine: How Development Controls PAR Polarity"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Polarity Axis Establishment
Discussion Leaders: Daniel Lew (Duke University Medical Center, United States) and Sherzod Tokamov (University of Chicago, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Ida Calvi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"The Protein Phosphatase PP1 Regulates Cell Polarity by Promoting PAR-2 Cortical Localization in C. elegans Embryos"
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:25 pm
Bryce LaFoya (University of Oregon, United States)
"An Actomyosin-Polarized Membrane Reservoir Mediates the Unequal Divisions of Drosophila Neural Stem Cells"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Jason Town (UCSF, United States)
"Dynamic Polarity: How Migrating Neutrophils are Decisive Without Being Stubborn"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:15 pm
Lauren Cote (Stanford University, United States)
"Connecting Insides and Outsides with Epithelial Bridges in the C. elegans Digestive Tract"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Polarity in Migration and Tissue Morphogenesis
Discussion Leaders: Yu-Chiun Wang (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan) and Benjamin Lin (New York University School of Medicine, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Sarah Paramore (Princeton University, United States)
"Vangl Functions Outside of the PCP Pathway to Regulate Lung Morphogenesis"
9:30 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
Audrey Williams (University of Chicago, United States)
"Building a Planar Signaling System for Collective Epithelial Cell Migration"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Negar Balaghi (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Myosin Waves and a Mechanical Asymmetry Guide the Oscillatory Migration of Drosophila Cardiac Progenitor"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:45 am
Joseph Campanale (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
"Specialized Protrusions Coordinate Migratory Border Cell Cluster Cohesion via Scribble, Cdep, and Rac"
10:45 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:00 am
General 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dynamics of Polarity in Development and Disease
Discussion Leaders: Sally Horne-Badovinac (University of Chicago, United States) and Paola Molina (Vanderbilt University, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:35 pm - 1:55 pm
Lena Basta (Princeton University, United States)
"Restoring Planar Cell Polarity After Cell Division"
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Kristen Loesel (University of Michigan, United States)
"RhoA Regulates Contact Guidance in Collectively Migrating Breast Cancer Cells"
2:20 pm - 2:25 pm
Discussion
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
General Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
