Saturday
2:00 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
Emerging Topics in Cell Migration Research
Discussion Leader: Brian Graziano (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Neil Neumann (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
"Coordination of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling and Interfacial Tension Dynamics Drive Radial Intercalation and Tube Elongation"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Anna Labernadie (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain)
"A Mechanically Active Heterotypic E-Cadherin/N-Cadherin Adhesion Enables Fibroblasts to Drive Cancer Cell Invasion"
4:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Discussion
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
General Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
In Vivo Cell Migration
Keynotes and selected talks.
Discussion Leaders: Adam Marcus (Emory University School of Medicine, USA) and James Mondo (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Abhijit Deb Roy (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA)
"An Optogenetic Approach to Elucidate Contact Inhibition of Locomotion Between Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Irene Aspalter (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom)
"On the Move: Migration Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Ritankar Majumdar (NCI, National Institutes of Health, USA)
"Nuclear Lipid Microdomains as a Novel Niche for Exosome Biogenesis: Interplay of ESCRT Dependent and Independent Processes During Relay of Chemotactic Signals in Neutrophils"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Paul Kulesa (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
"Neural Crest Invaders: Calm, Cool, and Coordinated"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
Fanny Jaulin (Institut Gustave Roussy, France)
"Collective Epithelial-Based Metastatic Cascade"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Invasion and Metastasis
Discussion Leaders: Rachel Lee (University of Maryland, USA) and Cynthia Reinhart-King (Vanderbilt University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Samer Hanna (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
"Tunneling Nanotubes: Yet Another Way of Tumor Cell-Macrophage Communication"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Kumud Poudel (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Endophilin Membranes Related to Cell Migration"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Danahe Mohammed (University of Mons, Belgium)
"The Dynamic Mechanical Adaptation of Confined Epithelial Keratocytes"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Minna Roh (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Macrophage-Dependent Cytoplasmic Transfer Drives Melanoma Metastasis In Vivo "
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Hailing Zong (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
"MCAK Contributes to Cell Migration by Promoting MTOC Reorientation"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Christalyn Rhodes (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA)
"Rhinovirus Induces TGF-Beta Dependent Collective Cellular Migration in Airway Epithelial Cells in Normal and Asthmatic Donor"
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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Ask the PI
Discussion Leader: Joseph Campanale (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Open Discussion with the PIs
Denise Montell (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Orion Weiner (UCSF School of Medicine, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes