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
Keynote Session: Emergent Concepts in Adhesion Signaling
Discussion Leader: Karin Wang (Temple University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Kandice Tanner (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
"Mechanisms Underlying Cell Adhesion and Motility in Metastasis"
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
Adhesion Structure and Function in Development, Health and Disease
Discussion Leader: Paulina Moreno Layseca (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Clémentine Villeneuve (Institut Curie, France)
"The Polarity Protein aPKCi: A New Key Player of Basal Cell Extrusion, an Amergent Mechanism for Early Tumor Cell Dissemination"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Tendayi Samuriwo (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Role of ErbB2 in Cellular Transformation Through Modulation of Cell Adhesion"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Sudha Kumari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Specialized Actin Architecture Mechanically Tunes T Cell Contact Lifetime"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Kayla Wolf (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Tumor Invasion Through Hyaluronic Acid Matrices Is Mediated by CD44-Dependent Microtentacles"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Maria Bota (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)
"3D Model to Study EMT-Driven Interactions Between Cancer Associated Fibroblasts and Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells that Drive Early Metastasis"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Adhesion Signaling and Mechanobiology
Discussion Leader: Maite Vidal-Quadras (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Sudong Kim (Boston University, USA)
"Transcription-Independent Notch Signalling Regulates Blood and Lymphatic Vessel Separation"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Kate Cavanaugh (University of Chicago, USA)
"Optogenetic Control of RhoA Identifies a Formin-Dependent Mechanism for Determining Junction Rest Lengths"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Jessica Li Chang Teo (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia)
"Interplay Between Caveolae and Junctional Mechanics"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Lisa Fischer (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
"Force Transduction Across Tensin 1 in Cell-Matrix Adhesions Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Maximilian Huber (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Quantification of Cell Adhesion Modulation During Mitosis"
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: Scientific Opportunities After Your PhD or Post-Doctoral Training
Discussion Leader: Carlos Perez Gonzalez (Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Scientific Opportunities After Your PhD or Post-Doctoral Training
Kandice Tanner (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
Christopher Chen (Boston University / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA)
Ann Miller (University of Michigan, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes