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
Signal Integration in Cell Migration
Discussion Leader: Tamas Nagy (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Andrew Kennard (University of Washington, USA)
"Migratory 'Start' and 'Stop' Signals During Wound Healing In Vivo "
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Korbinian Kienle (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany)
"Signal Adaptation Controls Neutrophil Swarming Dynamics at Local Sites of Inflammation and Infection"
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
Keynote Session: Cell Migration at the Crossroad of Form and Forces
Discussion Leaders: Xiaoguang Li (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) and Maria Lastra-Cagigas (University of New South Wales, Australia)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Cecilia Moens (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Directed Cell Migration in Zebrafish Nervous System Development"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Audrey Williams (University of Chicago, USA)
"Building a Planar Signaling System that Coordinates Migration Across an Epithelium"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Anne Pipathsouk (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"A Template for Actin Organization at the Leading Edge"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Abdiwahab Moalim (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Calcium Sparks in Focal Adhesions Drive Cell Migration Along ECM Stiffness Gradients"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
Pere Roca-Cusachs (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
"Steering Migration and Mechanosensing Through Molecular Clutch Dynamics"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Emerging Paradigms in Cellular Dynamics
Discussion Leaders: Shailaja Seetharaman (Institut Pasteur, France) and Shannon Collins (University of Arizona, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Tadamoto Isogai (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
"Arp2/3-Nucleated Dendritic Actin Networks Are Required Structures for Adhesion Formation and Cell Spreading in 3D"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Ananya Mukherjee (Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India)
"Eyes in the Cell: Visualizing Active Kinases Using Genetically Encodable Fluorescent Biosensors"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Sven Flemming (University of Potsdam, Germany)
"How Actin Wave Dynamics Governs the Evolution of Cell Shape"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Amit Das (Northeastern University, USA)
"Different Modes of Fluidization in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells: Unjamming Transition vs. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Zainalabdeen Alhashem (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Cell Cycle Regulates Leader Follower Identities During Collective Cell Migration"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Sarah Hyun Ji Kim (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"CD4+ T Lymphocytes Migrate Upstream and Need VCAM1 to Display Directional Persistence After Flow"
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 Leaders: Suvrajit Saha (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and Florian Gaertner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Ask the PI
Peter Friedl (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands)
Sally Horne-Badovinac (University of Chicago, USA)
Cecilia Moens (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
Michael Sixt (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria)
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
