8.30-9 Coffee/tea on arrival
9-9.05 Opening remarks
Session One: Cell division
Chair: Kyle Muir
9.10-9.30: Rayane Kaade, (Ohkura lab) University of Edinburgh
Slender lobes: a spindle matrix protein crucial for the bipolar spindle in Drosophila oocytes
9.30-9.50: James Holder, (Gergely lab) University of Oxford
Spatial control of mitotic Aurora-A activity
9.50-10.10: Danny Gold, (Barr lab) University of Oxford
Super-resolution imaging of the microtubule-kinetochore interface during spindle formation
10.10-10.30: Yvonne Winterborn (Barford lab), MRC-LMB, Cambridge
Mechanism and regulation of Bim1 (MAP) interaction with the outer kinetochore Ndc80 complex.
Coffee 10.30-11
Posters 11.00-11.30
Session Two: Cilia and centrosomes
Chair: Carolyn Moores
11.30-11.50: Mamata Bangera, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Tubulin variations alter Plasmodium microtubules
11.50-12.10: Richard Wheeler, University of Edinburgh
Structural and mechanistic insights into the microtubule machinery necessary for the flagellar beat
12.10-12.30: Katerina Toropova & Anthony Roberts, University of Oxford
Beta-hairpin Mechanism of Autoinhibition and Activation in the Kinesin-2 Family
12.30-12.55: Elif Firat Keralar, Koç University, EMBO YIP lecture
Diverse functions of ciliary microtubule-associated proteins provide new insight into ciliopathies
Lunch 13-13.45
Poster 13.30-14.30
Session Three: motors
Chair: Anne Straube
14.30-14.50: Shivam Shukla (Dodding Lab), University of Bristol
Molecular mechanism for cargo-mediated initiation of kinesin-1 activation
14.50-15.10: Marcin Leda (Goryachev lab), University of Edinburgh
Heads or tails? Ask microtubules!
15.10-15.30: Sankar Sundaram (Bullock lab), MRC-LMB, Cambridge
Molecular mechanisms of co-translational mRNA trafficking
Coffee and posters 15.30-16.10
Session Four: Microtubules and MIPs
Chair: Alex Fellows
16.10-16.30: Maxim Igaev, University of Dundee
Microtubule dynamics are defined by conformations and stability of clustered protofilaments
16.30-16.50: Eleanor Hargreaves (Zech/Barsukov labs), University of Liverpool
The 'Dock and Lock' model: investigating EB1-SxIP ligand binding
16.50-17.20: KEYNOTE LECTURE: Jordan Raff
Reconstituting centriole and centrosome assembly on a synthetic bead
17.25 Concluding remarks and poster prizes
17.30 Photo outside
17.35 Free time/Walk around Arthur seat/Bar/Scottish highland games
19.00 Dinner
20h30 Ceilidh