Special Interest Subgroups
The following member-organized sessions were selected by the ASCB Program Committee. All meeting attendees are welcome to participate. Meeting registration is required.
There are Two Subgroup Sessions, with 11 Subgroups each, on Saturday, December 2: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm; and Two shortened Subgroups on Wednesday, December 6: 8:30 am – 11:05 am.
Saturday, December 2, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Subgroup A: 4D Nucleome Organization: Unlocking the structure-function relationships of genome organization and nuclear morphology
Organizers: Sean E. Hanlon, National Cancer Institute; and Andrew Stephens, Northwestern University
Subgroup B: Advanced Imaging for Quantitative Cell Biology
Organizers: Melike Lakadamyali, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine; and Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Subgroup C: Cell Biology in Adaptive Immune Response
Organizers: Xiaolei Su, University of California, San Francisco; and Jonathon Ditlev, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Subgroup D: Cilia: Traffic, Signals, Disease
Organizers: Max Nachury, University of California, San Francisco; Peter Jackson, Stanford; and Jeremy Reiter, University of California, San Francisco
Subgroup E: Microtubule Motors: Emergent Phenomena and New Paradigms
Organizers: William Hancock, Penn State University; and Weihong Qiu, Oregon State University
Subgroup F: Optogenetics: From Molecular Switches to (Multi-)Cellular Circuits
Organizers: Harald Janovjak, IST Austria; and Jared Toettcher, Princeton University
Subgroup G: Spatial and Temporal Control of Cell Signaling
Organizers: Ivan Yudushkin, Medical University of Vienna; and Brendan D. Manning, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard
Supported by PicoQuant
Subgroup H: The Cell Biology of Glycoconjugates
Organizers: Michael Boyce, Duke University; and Richard Steet, University of Georgia
Subgroup I: The Cell Biology of Organoids
Organizers: Jason C. Mills, Washington University; and Xuebiao Yao, University of Science & Technology of China
Subgroup J: Building a Multiscale, Multidimensional Human Cell Atlas
Organizers: Emma Lundberg, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Human Protein Atlas; Richard Conroy, National Institutes of Health; and Jonah Cool, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Subgroup K: When Cytoskeletal Networks Collide
Organizer: Shae B. Padrick, Drexel University, College of Medicine
Saturday, December 2, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Subgroup L: Actin Functions across the Tree of Life
Organizers: Ronen Zaidel Bar, Tel-Aviv University; Buzz Baum, University College London; and Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago
Subgroup M: Bottom-Up Cell Biology
Organizers: Daniel Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley; and Matthew Good, University of Pennsylvania
Subgroup N: Building the Cell 2017
Organizers: Susanne Rafelski, Allen Institute for Cell Science; and Steph Weber, McGill University
Subgroup O: Cell Cycle Regulation of Morphogenetic Behavior
Organizers: David Q. Matus, Stony Brook University; and Benjamin L. Martin, Stony Brook University
Subgroup P: Cell-Cell Fusion
Organizers: Elizabeth Chen, UT Southwestern Medical Center; and Mark Rose, Georgetown University
Subgroup Q: Emerging Model Systems
Organizers: Bob Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University
Subgroup R: From Motors to Cancer: Integrating Mechanical Forces across Scales
Organizers: Johanna Ivaska, University of Turku; and Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
Subgroup S: Sharing and Reusing Cell Image Data
Organizer: Assaf Zaritsky, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Weizmann Institute of Science
Subgroup T: The Intersection of Lipids and Proteins in the Secretory Pathway
Organizers: Guillaume Thibault, Nanyang Technological University; and Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Subgroup U: Translating Cell Biology Research into Effective Immunotherapies for Cancer
Organizers: Daniel J. Powell, Jr., University of Pennsylvania; and Keith L. Knutson, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Subgroup V: Tunneling Nanotubes: Intercellular Highways, New Frontiers for Deciphering Intercellular Communication in Disease
Organizer: Emil Lou, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, December 6, 8:30 am – 11:05 am
Subgroup W: Neurite Formation: From Neurite Initiation to Outgrowth
Organizer: Kazuhito Toyooka, Drexel University College of Medicine
Subgroup X: Neuronal Cytoskeleton: A Complex Interplay of Cytoarchitecture and Dynamics
Organizers: Laura Anne Lowery, Boston College; Kassandra Ori-McKenney, University of California, Davis; and Le Ma, Thomas Jefferson University