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Workshop 6: Transport in a Cell: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, April 12
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky, Anatoly Kolomeisky, and Michael Diehl
9:00-9:50am Michael Fisher: How Kinesin Walks on a Microtubule: A View of the Story So Far
9:50-10:10am Break
10:10-11:00am Joanna Sulkowska
11:00-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm John Cooper: The Function of Dynein in Budding Yeast: Mechanism, Regulation and Checkpoint Activity
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Paul Selvin: FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run
2:50-3:10pm Break
3:10-4:00pm Sarah Rice: The conserved L5 loop establishes the pre-powerstroke conformation of the kinesin-5 motor, Eg5
4:00-6:00pm Reception and poster session
6:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, April 13
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:50am Vladimir Gelfand: Dynamic instability of organelle transport
9:50-10:10am Break
10:10-11:00am Arne Gennerich: Toward a unified walking model for cytoplasmic dynein
11:00-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Sean Sun: Mechanics of Actomyosin Interaction and the Role of Substrate Stiffness on Actin Network Dynamics
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Charles Brooks: Functional mechanical deformations in Nature's machines
2:50-3:10pm Break
3:10-4:00pm Kristen Verhey: Road signs for kinesin transport
4:00-4:20pm Break
4:20-5:10pm Michael Diehl: Collective behaviors of multiple interacting kinesin motors: Can kinesin number regulate intracellular transport?
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, April 14
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:50am Debashish Chowdhury: Motoring along a nucleic acid strand: template-dictated polymerization of macromolecules of life
9:50-10:10am Break
10:10-11:00am Alexei Kornyshev: DNA chasing DNA: physics of homology recognition and the secret of perfect match
11:00-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Alexander Nemukhin: Modeling adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis in myosin
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Alan Hunt: Spindle Pole Mechanics: Architecture, Compliance, and Force Distribution
2:50-3:10pm Break
3:10-4:00pm William Guilford: Pushmi-pullyu: The peculiar dynamics of microtubule-based motors in Chlamydomonas
4:00-4:20pm Break
4:20-5:10pm Jed Macosko: Multiple motors cooperating in vivo and in vitro: What have we learned?
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:30pm Cash bar at Crowne Plaza (Fusion Room)
7:00pm Banquet Dinner at Crowne Plaza (Fusion Room)
Thursday, April 15
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:50am David Odde: 1D versus 2D models for microtubule self-assembly: New tests at the nanoscale
9:50-10:10am Break
10:10-11:00am Peter Vekilov: Viscoelasticity in homogeneous protein solutions
11:00-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Erwin Peterman: Illuminating the way Kinesin-1 walks using FRET between the motor domains
12:10-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Liviu Movileanu: Single-molecule Science with A Nanopore: Inspiration from Nature
2:50-3:10pm Break
3:10-4:00pm Anatoly Kolomeisky: Channel-Facilitated Molecular Transport Across Cellular Membranes
4:30pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)