Cell Motility Journal Club

Name: Interplay of active processes modulates tension and drives phase transition in self-renewing, motor-driven cytoskeletal networks
Start: 2016-10-19T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-10-19T13:00:00-04:00

August 2016
Clustering of a kinesin-14 motor enables processive retrograde microtubule-based transport in plants

August 10, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Kevin Chen
Tau co-organizes dynamic microtubule and actin networks

August 17, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD
Crystal structure of a nuclear actin ternary complex

August 24, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Daniel Safer, PhD
September 2016
Identification of an ATP-controlled allosteric switch that controls actin filament nucleation by Arp2/3 complex

September 7, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Austin Zimmet
Role and structural mechanism of WASP-triggered conformational changes in branched actin filament nucleation by Arp2/3 complex

September 7, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Dominguez Lab
Modeling actin dynamics in cell division and motility

September 12, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Dimitrios Vavylonis, PhD, Professor, Department of Physics, Lehigh University. "Modeling actin dynamics in cell division and motility"
Fast live-cell conventional fluorophore nanoscopy with ImageJ through super-resolution radial fluctuations

September 14, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Michael Woody Ostap/Goldman Labs
Engineered kinesin motor proteins amenable to small-molecule inhibition

September 21, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Vishakha Karnawat, PhD Goldman Lab
October 2016
Oxidative stress decreases microtubule growth and stability in ventricular myocytes

October 5, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Patrick Robison, PhD Prosser Lab
Interplay of active processes modulates tension and drives phase transition in self-renewing, motor-driven cytoskeletal networks

October 19, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Ahmet Mentes, PhD Ostap Lab

August 2016

September 2016

October 2016