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: Membrane Shaping in the Endoplasmic Reticulum |
| Discussion Leaders: Tina Liu (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Tslil Ast (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Tom Rapoport (Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA) "How the ER Gets into Shape" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Protein Targeting and Trafficking |
| Discussion Leaders: Maya Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Brooke Gardner (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Shankar Mukherji (Harvard University, USA) "The Role of mRNA Localization in Organelle Receptor Targeting Specificity" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Naama Aviram (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "The SND Proteins Target SRP-Independent Substrates to the Endoplasmic Reticulum" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Richard Baker (Princeton University, USA) "Structural Evidence for a v-SNARE-Dependent Role
of Sec1/Munc18 Proteins" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Birgit Blank (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany) "Calcium-Dependent Secretory Cargo Sorting at the Trans-Golgi Network" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Organelle
Remodeling and Dynamics / Lipids and Membrane Identity |
| Discussion Leaders: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (National Institutes of Health, USA), Sha Sun (Nankai University, China), Frederick Hughson (Princeton University, USA) and Liang Ge (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Jing Pu (National Institutes of Health, USA) "BORC, a Multisubunit Complex that Regulates Lysosome Positioning" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Lina Carlini (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) "A Super-Resolution Microscopy Study of Mitochondrial Fission Events in Living Cells" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Itay Budin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "A Lipid Engineering Approach Reveals Cellular Roles for Membrane Viscosity" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Florian Horenkamp (Yale University, USA) "The Legionella Anti-Autophagy Effector RavZ Uses Novel PI(3)P- and Curvature-Sensing Motifs to Target the Growing Autophagosome" |
10:50 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 | Mentorship Component: How to Get Your Research Published |
| A Q&A session with Dr. Andrea Leibfried (editor at EMBO), Dr. Steve Mao (editor at Cell), and Dr. Sandra Schmid (former
editor-in-chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell and co-founding editor of Traffic) on what they look for in a manuscript submission, how to effectively communicate your results, and other tips on getting published. |
| Discussion Leaders: Tina Liu (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Tslil Ast (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "An Inside Look at the Editorial and Peer Review Process" |
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- Andrea Leibfried (The EMBO Journal, Germany)
- Steve Mao (Cell, Cell Press, USA)
- Sandra Schmid (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |