NSF BII for Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution's Annual 2024 Symposium
Date
The CME Symposium on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution is being organized by the Biology Integration Institute for Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution at Arizona State University. The event is scheduled to take place from November 6-9, 2024, in Tempe, AZ. The symposium is the third in a series of annual events focused on the emerging interdisciplinary field of evolutionary cell biology (ECB). This field combines evolutionary biology and cell biology with other related disciplines, including biochemistry, biophysics, population genetics, molecular biology, and mathematics. The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers and experts from diverse fields to discuss current advances and future directions in ECB, and to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
A full event schedule will be available closer to the event date.
The organizing committee:
Michael Lynch, Wayne Frasch, Ke Hu, John McCutcheon, Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Jeremy Wideman, Navish Wadhwa, Douglas Shephard
The following list includes the identified themes and their respective speakers:
November 6th, Wednesday
Keynote Lecture
Extreme Cell Biology
Wallace Marshall (University of California, San Francisco, CA)
November 7th, Thursday
Complex Cellular Features
Session A
Speakers:
How Stentor rebuilds its membranellar band
short talks selected from abstracts
Session B
Loren Williams (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA)
TBD
Betul Kacar (University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI)
Earliest life: Making macroevolutionary deep time available for cell biology
November 8th, Friday
Cytoskeleton and Flagella
Monica Bettencourt Dias (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciencia, Portugal)
Centrosomes and Cilia in Development, Disease and Evolution
Rui Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, MI)
Atomic Structure of the Conoid from Human Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii
Thomas Kiorboe (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Functional diversity of the flagella of free-living protists
Ke Hu (Arizona State University, AZ)
The Initiation and Symmetry Transition of a Highly Ordered Microtubule Array
November 9th, Saturday
ATP Synthase coli Biology Energy Generator
Werner Kuhlbrandt (Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Germany)
Wayne Frasch (Arizona State University, AZ)
Evolutionary aspects of the ATP synthase mechanism
We will be soliciting for abstracts during the event registration process for both poster presentations and selected talks. The deadline for submission will be August 15, 2024 @11:59pm Arizona time. Responses to abstracts will be sent out no later than September 30, 2024.
June 10, 2024 Event Registration OPENS Call for abstract submissions OPENS
August 15, 2024 Call for abstract submissions CLOSES
October 15, 2024 Registration CLOSES
Contact Info For abstract or symposium related questions, contact the Program Manager, Victor Chai, at victor.chai@asu.edu.
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