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9.00-9.05

Opening remarks

Session One: cell division

Chair: Vladimir Volkov

 

 

9.10-9.30

Nicolas Joly, IJM Paris

Characterization of Katanin's Microtubule Binding Domains unveils the critical role of its regulatory subunit (p80) for microtubule-severing activity

9.30-9.50

Viji Draviam, QMUL

Orderly recruitment of Ndc80-Nuf2 onto interphase microtubules promotes Astrin loading along microtubule walls

9.50-10.10

Gerard Pieper (Marston lab) University of Edinburgh

A weak spindle assembly checkpoint can explain the error-prone first mitosis of human embryos

10.10-10.30

Isabel Leitch (Gruneberg Lab), University of Oxford

Using the dTag system for rapid targeted protein degradation to investigate the role of PP1 in mitosis

10.30-11.00

Coffee 

11.00-11.30

Posters 

Session Two: Cilia

Chair: Jose Ferreira

 

 

11.30-11.50

Atlanta Cook, University of Edinburgh

Large-scale interaction analysis and modelling of Trypanosoma brucei flagellar dynein networks reveals novel interacting factors

11.50-12.10

Sam Lacey, (Pigino lab) Milan

Global rearrangement of retrograde intraflagellar transport trains underpins bidirectional transport in cilia

12.10-12.30

Elisa Vitiello, (Gergely lab) University of Oxford

CAPture - a new method to unravel centrosome composition -identifies RNA binding proteins

12.30-13.00

Paul Guichard, University of Geneva, EMBO YIP lecture

Time series reconstruction of centriolar assembly using ultrastructure expansion microscopy

13.00-13.45

Lunch 

13.30-14.30

Poster 

Session Three: Transport

Chair: Clinton Lau

 

 

14.30-14.50

Girish Mali, University of Oxford

DNAAF9/Shulin and ARL3 promote ciliary outer arm dynein trafficking and activation

14.50-15.10

Ammaar Saeed (Carter lab), MRC-LMB

JIP1, JIP3, and KLC1 tether a dynein/kinesin super-complex

15.10-15.30

Lucas Albacete (Bullock lab), MRC-LMB

Oxidative stress drives dynein-dependent relocation of multiple membraneous organelles

15.30-15.50

Astrid Bostrom, (Allan lab), University of Manchester

Using a kinesin-1 auxin-inducible degron system to investigate cargo transport in C. elegans

15.50-15.55

Lumicks

16.00-16.45

Coffee 

Session Four: Microtubules and MIPs

Chair: Natalia Bulgakova

 

 

16.45-17.05 

Lee-Ya Chu, (Molodstov lab) Crick Institute

Force-transducing molecular ensembles at growing microtubule tips control mitotic spindle size

17.05-17.25

Jessica Cross, (Dodding lab) University of Bristol

Allosteric regulation of a microtubule motor through de novo protein design

17.25-17.45

David Keays, University of Cambridge

The role of EB2 in neurodevelopment and disease

17.45

Concluding remarks and poster prizes


9.00

Opening remarks

9.05

Sponsors

Session One: Mitosis

Chair: Bungo Akiyoshi

9.10-9.30

Dionn Hargreaves (Woolner Lab), University of Manchester

Mitotic Spindle dynamics in stretched epithelial tissue in vivo and in silico

9.30-9.50

Francois Nedelec, University of Cambridge

A Model of Spindle Assembly in Plant Roots

9.50-10.10

Nooshin Sheidaei (Tanaka Lab), University of Dundee

Spatial regulation of kinetochore with the mitotic spindle interaction by perinuclear acto-myosin network contraction in early mitosis

10.10-10.30

Nooshin Sheidaei (Tanaka Lab), University of Dundee

Spatial regulation of kinetochore with the mitotic spindle interaction by perinuclear acto-myosin network contraction in early mitosis

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-11.30

Posters

Session Two: Cilia

Chair: Viki Allan

11.30-11.50

Aakash Mukhopadhyay (Roberts Lab), Birkbeck UOL

IFT-A structure reveals carriages for membrane protein transport into cilia

11.50-12.10

Helen Foster (Pigino Lab), Human Technopole, Milan

Cryo-electron tomography shows FAP256/Cep104 is a master controller of ciliary tip ultrastructure

12.10-12.30

Daniel O Dodd (Mill Lab), University of Edinburgh

TUBB4B, a beta tubulin isotype with essential roles in mammalian motile cilia

12.30-12.50

Dominika Kwecka (Philip Lab), University of Edinburgh

Protein Kinase A regulates axoneme stability during transmission of malaria parasites

12.50-13.20

Lunch

13.20-14.30

Posters

Session Three: Motors

Chair: Claire Friel

14.30-14.50

Charlotte Aumeier, University of Geneva

Running kinesin-1 shapes the microtubule acetylation gradient

14.50-15.10

Ferdos Abid Ali (Carter Lab), MRC-LMB

KIF1C activates dynein by relieving FHF cargo adaptor autoinhibition

15.10-15.30

Alice Bittleston (Derivery Lab), MRC-LMB

How a two amino acid deletion can break polarized trafficking of fate determinants: Insights from structural and functional studies of an uncharacterized kinesin mutant.

15.30-15.50

Dhanya Cheerambathur, University of Edinburgh

Repurposing the Chromosome-Microtubule Coupling Machinery for Dendrite Branching

15.50-16.50

Coffee and posters

Session Four: Microtubule dynamics

Chair: Joe Atherton

16.50-17.10

Hermes Gadelha, University of Bristol

The surprising mechanics of microtubules

17.10-17.30

Sam Wallis (Godinho Lab), Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL

Regulation of microtubule acetylation during the DNA damage response promotes efficient repair

17.30-17.50

Beth Lawrence (Zanic Lab), Vanderbilt University

CLASPs stabilize the intermediate state between microtubule growth and catastrophe

17.50

Closing remarks

 


The program and speakers are listed below. Poster title and presenters will be sent out to participants. 

9.00

Opening remarks

Session One: Cell division

Chair: Dhanya Cheerambathur

9.10-9.30

Daniel Hayward, University of Oxford

MPS1 regulation at the kinetochore

9.30-9.50

Nawseen Tarannum, University of Manchester

Mechanical regulation of cell division orientation: investigating the role of NuMA

9.50-10.10

Xinhong Song, Queen Mary University of London

Cells protect chromosome-microtubule attachments, independent of biorientation, using an Astrin-PP1 and Cyclin-B-Cdk1 feedback loop

10.10-10.30

Isaac Siu-Shing Wong, University of Oxford

Co-existing liquid- and solid-like phases organize centrosomes

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-11.30

Posters

Session Two: Motor and microtubule structure

Chair: Anthony Roberts

11.30-11.50

Sami Chaaban, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Structure of dynein-dynactin on microtubules shows tandem recruitment of cargo adaptors

11.50-12.10

Mark Dodding, University of Bristol

Molecular architecture of the autoinhibited kinesin-1 lambda particle

12.10-12.30

Josie Ferreira, Birkbeck, University of London

Luminal helices and microtubule giants revealed in the Plasmodium parasite

12.30-12.50

Vladimir Volkov, Queen Mary University of London

Electron cryo-tomography reveals organisation of microtubule end-tracking protein assemblies

12.50-13.20

Lunch

13.20-14.30

Posters

Session Three: Microtubules and diseases

Chair: Girish Mali

14.30-14.50

Amadeus Xu, Francis Crick Institute

Kinesin-1 drives motility of intracellular mature virions during Vaccinia infection and in vitro

14.50-15.10

Kriti Gupta, University of Liverpool

Neuronal ageing: the roles and regulation of microtubules

15.10-15.30

Anne Straube, University of Warwick

Force generation of KIF1C and its impairment by pathogenic mutations

15.30-15.50

Jovana Deretic, Koç University, Turkey

Ciliopathy-linked protein, CCDC66, regulates microtubule stability to promote cilia formation and timely mitotic progression

15.50-16.50

Coffee and posters

Session Four: Motor and microtubule regulation

Chair: Emmanuel Derivery

16.50-17.10

Benjamin Craske, University of Edinburgh

CENP-E and PRC1 cooperate to organise microtubule bundles

17.10-17.30

Yean Ming Chew, University of Warwick

Taxol affects different metazoan microtubules differently

17.30-17.50

Evelyn Smith, University of Sheffield

Development and optimisation of a new single molecule assay to study kinesin-1 activation

17.50

Closing remarks

18.00

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