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Sep
20
2024

The Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting

When: Friday, September 20, 2024
3:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT

Where: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Vanessa González   (312) 503-7959

Group: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The Chicago Cytoskeleton is a forum for cytoskeletal researchers from the greater Chicago area to meet, hear great talks, exchange ideas, and socialize. For additional information, please visit: https://chicagocytoskeleton.net/

Friday, September 20, 2024, 3:00 - 7:30 PM
Simpson-Querrey Auditorium, SQ 1-230
303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Two flash talk winners:
• Madeline Lovejoy (Garcia-Mata lab, U. Toledo)
"SGEF, a RhoG-specific GEF, influences the morphology and collective migration of 3D epithelial cysts"

• Amruta Nayak (Glotzer lab, U. Chicago)
"Spatiotemporal Analysis of Requirement of Rap1 Activity in Early Embryonic Morphogenesis

Four faculty:
Jenna Christensen (Northwestern)
"Using comparative genomics to explore dynein motor complex function"

Sally Horne-Badovinac (U. Chicago)
 "Symmetry-breaking and initiation of rotational epithelial migration"

Benjamin Perrin (Indiana University Indianapolis)
"Formin-dependent adhesion complexes at the base regulate actin assembly at stereocilia tips"

Margaret Titus (U. Minnesota)
"Modulation of Filopodial Myosin Activity"

And one additional guest speaker!
Silvia Jansen (Washington University St. Louis)

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