Tum/RacGAP functions as a switch activating the Pav/kinesin-6 motor
Speaker: Ionas Pyrpassopoulos, PhD Ostap Lab
Speaker: Ionas Pyrpassopoulos, PhD Ostap Lab
Pekka Lappalainen, PhD Research Director, Institute of Biotechnology and Professer, University of Helsinki. "Assembly of mechanosensitive actomyosin bundles in migrating cells"
Ovit Chaudhuri, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. "Rubber vs. Silly Putty: Extracellular matrix viscoelasticity and its impact on cells"
About the Speaker: Lucas Smith Wells Lab
Speaker: Matthew Caporizzo, PhD
Jan Lammerding, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University. "Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics in 3-D cell migration”
Eugen Kerkhoff, PhD Professor, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Regensburg. "Coordinated actin nucleation and myosin motor protein functions in intracellular vesicle transport processes"
About the Speaker: Dan Safer, PhD Ostap Lab
Speaker: E. Michael Ostap, PhD
David Kovar, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago. "Self-organization of functionally diverse actin cytoskeleton networks."