Day 2: Tuesday, 21/06/2016

Session 2: Actin and myosin on membranes: endocytic trafficking and plasma membrane dynamics

Talk: 9:00-9:30 Giorgio Scita, IFOM, Milan, Italy

“Endocytic control of multicellular motility and mechanics.”

Short talk: 9:30-9:45

Assembly of the WASH complex by HSBP1 promotes mammary carcinoma invasiveness

Selected Oral Communication - Sai Prasanna Visweshwaran (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Talk: 9:45-10:15 Folma Buss, University of Cambridge, UK

"Myosin motors in cell signalling and migration."

Short talk: 10:15-10:30

The adaptor protein APPL1 regulates cancer cell migration through Î±5Î²1 trafficking and Rac signaling

Selected Oral Communication - Nicole Diggins (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.)

Coffee break: 10:30-11:00

Talk: 11:00-11:30 Kathryn Ayscough, University of Sheffield, UK

“Actin filament initiation and regulation at cell membranes.”

Short talk: 11:30-11:45

Links between filopodia, cell adhesion and intracellular transport through the formin FMNL3

Selected Oral Communication - Lorna Young (Dartmouth College, U.S.A.)

Short talk: 11:45-12:00

ACF7 regulates intestinal response to epithelial injury by orchestrating microtubule and tight junction dynamics

Selected Oral Communication - Xiaoyang Wu (University of Chicago, U.S.A.)

Lunch break 12:00-13:30

Session 3: Regulation of actin and integrins in cell migration

Talk: 13:30-14:00 Michael Way, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

“Arp3 isoforms differentially regulate the activity of the Arp2/3 complex.”

Short talk: 14:00-14:15

WNK1 kinase regulates T cell adhesion and migration

Selected Oral Communication - Robert Kochl (The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)

Short talk: 14:15-14:30

LAR protein tyrosine phosphatase regulates the actin cytoskeleton and cell adhesion via CDK1

Selected Oral Communication - Neil Hotchin (The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Talk: 14:30-15:00 James Bear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

“Life without the Arp2/3 complex: what’s broken, what still works.”

Short talk: 15:00-15:15

Stonin1 regulates focal adhesion dynamics and cell motility

Selected Oral Communication - Tanja Maritzen (Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Germany)

Short talk: 15:15-15:30

Sharpin is a novel activator of the Arp2/3 complex

Selected Oral Communication - Meraj Hasan Khan (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)

Talk: 15:30-16:00 Johanna Ivaska, University of Turku, Finland

“Regulation of integrin activity – new roles for metabolism and actin scaffold proteins.”

Coffee break: 16:00-16:30

Flash poster presentations 1: 16:30-17:30

Poster Session 1: (with dinner and drinks) even numbers present 18:00-21:00

21:00- Bar open