PROGRAM
Sunday, November 25, 2007 Lectures will take place in the Botnar Auditorium, Belfer Building |
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| 9:15-12:00 | Session I | Chairperson: Benny Geiger |
| 9:15 | Welcome By Prof. Haim Garty, Vice-President of the Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Manfred Schliwa | Molecular Mechanics of Kinesin |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dietmar Manstein | Allosteric inhibitors of myosin function |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Jurgen Wehland | Subversion of the host cell cytoskeleton by pathogens: learning from bacteria |
| 11:30-12:00 | Anne Bernheim | Active self-organization of myosin II motors and actin filaments |
| 12:00-3:00 | Lunch & Poster Session in Wix Auditorium lobby, with demonstration of 3D theater for Molecular Structures Wix Auditorium |
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| 2:00-2:30 | Tutorial on proteopedia – see www.proteopedia.org | |
| 3:00-5:00 | Session II | Chairperson: Beate Sodeik |
| 3:00-3:30 | Alexander Bershadsky | Cell adhesion and the crosstalk between microtubules and the actin cytoskeleton: focus on formins |
| 3:30-4:00 | Francisco Rivero | Linking Ras to Myosin function: Rasgef Q, A dictyostelium factor for rasb, affects myosin ii functions |
| 4:00-4:15 | Shosh Ravid | The non helical tailpiece of non muscle myosin ii: a regulating factor in filament assembly |
| 4:15-4:30 | Yuliya Zilberman | Regulation of microtubule dynamics by HDAC6: more than just deacetylation of a-TUBULIN |
| 4:30-5:00 | Nir Gov | Physics of cellular shapes |
Monday, November 26, 2007 |
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| 9:00-12:00 | Session III | Chairperson: Eckhard Mandelkow |
| 9:00-9:30 | Ueli Aebi | Tracking down multiple forms of actin in different cellular compartments |
| 9:30-10:00 | Ulrich Kubitscheck | Single molecules and nanoparticles as tools in intracellular transport studies |
| 10:00-10:15 | Kerstin Dreblow | molecular mechanisms of kinesin bypassing artificial roadblocks |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Michael Elbaum | Nucleocytoplasmic transport: a reversible gate |
| 11:15-11:45 | Rony Granek | Active transport in microtubule networks |
| 11:45-12:00 | Leah Gheber | Function and regulation of the S. Cerevisiae kinesin-5 mitotic motor cin8 during anaphase spindle elongation |
| Afternoon tour in Jerusalem | ||
Tuesday November 27,2007 Lectures will take place in the Botnar Auditorium, Belfer Building |
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| 9:00-12:30 | Session IV | Chairperson: Michael Eisenbach |
| 9:00-9:30 | Ralf Graf | The centrosome on a leash: characterization of proteins involved in the attachment of the centrosome to the nucleus |
| 9:30-10:00 | Eva Mandelkow | Intraneuronal transport inhibition by tau protein leads to choking of synapses |
| 10:00-10:15 | Thomas Timm | Gsk3β Phosphorylates and inhibits Mark/Par-1 |
| 10:15-10:45 | Orly Reiner | Mark2/Par1; linking the polarity pathway to dynein dependent centosomal motility in migrating cortical neurons |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | I. Ginzburg & Y. Blumenthal | Zinc as a translation regulator in neurons: effect on rnp interactions |
| 11:30-12:00 | Mike Fainzilber | The importins of retrograde signaling in injured nerve |
| 12:00-12:30 | Beate Sodeik | Herpes simplex virus receptors for microtubule motors |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch break | |
| 2:00-5:30 | Session V | Chairperson: Dietmar Manstein |
| 2:00-2:30 | Michael Eisenbach | The flagellar switch complex of bacteria is getting more complex |
| 2:30-3:00 | Lotte Sogaard-Andersen | Moving Parts: coupling protein localization and cell movements in Myxococcus Xanthu |
| 3:00-3:15 | Yaron Shav-Tal | The in vivo dynamics of p body transport and assembly |
| 3:15-3:30 | Marco van Ham | Role of CLASP2 in microtubule stabilization and the regulation of persistent motility |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee break | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Jonathon Howard | Regulation of microtubule dynamics by depolymerizing kinesins and polymerases |
| 4:30-5:00 | Benny Geiger | Regulation the integrin adhesome network |
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