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)