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Mechanics and control of cytokinesis

9—12 January 2008

Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK



Organizers:
Gwyn Gould (University of Glasgow, UK)
Iain Hagan (University of Manchester, UK)
Wednesday 9 January 2008
16:00 - 18:00 Registration

18:00 - 18:05
Opening remarks
Gwyn Gould (University of Glasgow, UK)
18:05 - 19:05
Mitotic controls: origins and consequences of numerical chromosome aberrations
Plenary lecture - Erich Nigg (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany)
19:05 - 20:30 Welcome reception

Thursday 10 January 2008
08:45 - 09:25
Genetic analysis of mitosis and cytokinesis in vertebrate cells
Bill Earnshaw (University of Edinburgh, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
Dividing the spoils: positioning the plane of cell division
Michael Glotzer - sponsored by Cancer Research UK (University of Chicago, USA)
10:05 - 10:25
Inn1 couples contraction of the actomyosin ring to membrane ingression during cytokinesis in budding yeast
Selected oral communication - Alberto Sanchez-Diaz (University of Manchester, UK)
10:25 - 11:05 Coffee/tea break

11:05 - 11:45
Spatial and temporal control of protein kinases during cytokinesis
Francis Barr (University of Liverpool, UK)
11:45 - 12:25
Control of cytokinesis by Rho GTPase flux
Bill Bement (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
12:25 - 12:45
Split Decisions: Regulating the end of the cell cycle
Selected oral communication - Kathleen Gould (Vanderbilt University, USA)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40
Cytokinesis furrow positioning by microtubule asters
Henrik Bringmann (Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
14:40 - 15:20
Cell Polarity is established in deuterostome embryos by cytokinesis
David Burgess (Boston College, USA)
15:20 - 17:30 Poster session

17:30 - 18:10
Asymmetries during mitosis and their consequences
Stephen Doxsey (University of Massachusetts, Worcester, USA)
18:10 - 18:50
Coordination of cytokinesis with chromosome segregation in yeast
Yves Barral (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Friday 11 January 2008
08:45 - 09:25
The mechanisms regulating the targeting of recycling endosome to the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis
Rytis Prekeris (University of Colorado, USA)
09:25 - 10:05
Polarization of lipid domains essential for cytokinesis by the Rab35 endocytic pathway
Arnaud Echard (Institut Curie, France)
10:05 - 10:25
Rho-dependent control of Anillin behaviour during cytokinesis
Selected oral communication - Gilles Hickson (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
10:25 - 11:05 Coffee/tea break

11:05 - 11:45
Girds an¿ Cleeks o¿ Cytokinesis
David Glover (Cambridge University, UK)
11:45 - 12:25
Control of mitotic exit and cytokinesis by the Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC/C)
Catherine Lindon (Cambridge University, UK)
12:25 - 12:45
Final stages of cytokinesis and midbody ring formation are controlled by BRUCE
Selected oral communication - Christian Pohl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40
Regulators of the SIN in meiosis and mitosis
Viesturs Simanis (ISREC, Switzerland)
14:40 - 15:20
Coupling spindle positioning with mitotic exit and cytokinesis in budding yeast
Roberta Fraschini (University of Milan, Italy)
15:20 - 17:30 Poster session

17:30 - 18:10
The Cytokinetic Phragmoplast: proteomic analysis, microtubules and MAPs
Patrick Hussey (Durham University, UK)
18:10 - 18:50
The microtubule cytoskeleton and cytokinesis in the African Trypanosome
Keith Gull (University of Oxford, UK)
Saturday 12 January 2008
09:00 - 09:40
Assembly of the cytokinetic contractile ring in fission yeast by a search, capture, pull, and release mechanism
Thomas Pollard (Yale University, USA)
09:40 - 10:20
Cell division screens and dynamin
Ahna Skop (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
10:20 - 10:40
ARF6 interaction with JIP4 controls a Kinesin-I to Dynein/dynactin switch mechanism regulating endocytic recycling during cytokinesis
Selected oral communication - Guillaume Montagnac (Institut Curie, France)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee/tea break

11:10 - 11:50
A Cul3-based E3-ligase regulates AuroraB dynamics during mitosis
Matthias Peter (ETH-Hönggerberg, Switzerland)
11:50 - 12:50
Dynamin¿s roles in apical constriction and cytokinesis
Plenary lecture - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
12:50 - 13:00
Closing remarks
Iain Hagan (University of Manchester, UK)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch