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Schedule    
     
9.00 - 9.45 Registration Waterside 3
9.45 Welcome and Session 1
Chair: Harry Mellor
Cinema 1
10.00 - 10.20 Cytoskeletal remodelling mediated by the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein in dendritic cells is required for the formation and function of the immunological synapse
Gerben Bouma, Institute of Child Health
 
10.20 - 10.40 Evidence of a novel role for human desmoglein 3 in the regulation of actin organisation through activation of ezrin Thr-567
Louise Brown, Queen Mary University
 
10.40 - 11.00 Live imaging of innate immune cell sensing of transformed cells in zebrafish larvae: initiation of 'trophic' response
Yi Feng, University of Bristol
 
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Waterside 2/3
2.00 Session 2
Chair: Vania Braga
Cinema 1
11.40 - 12.00 Formin function in angiogenesis
Clare Hetheridge, University of Bristol
 
12.00 - 12.20 Novel NET-works in plants - an exclusive actin-binding protein superfamily for plants
Elizabeth Ingle, University of Durham
 
12.20 - 12.40 Identification and characterisation of an interaction between Tiam1 and the utrophin-associated DGC complex
Natalie Mack, Paterson Institute
 
12.40 - 2.00 Buffet Lunch & Posters Waterside 2/3
2.00 Session 3
Chair: Giles Cory
Cinema 1
2.10 - 2.30 Mechanical disruption of cell division by F-actin in a model of X-linked neutropenia
Dale Moulding, Institute of Child Health
 
2.30 - 2.50 Spatial regulation of RhoA activity during mutant p53-driven pancreatic cancer cell invasion in vivo
Paul Timpson, Beatson Institute
 
2.50 - 3.10 Rho subfamily GTPases have distinct roles in migration and invasion by acting through different targets
Francisco Vega, King's College
 
3.10 - 3.40 Coffee Waterside 2/3
3.40 Session 4
Chair: Patrick Hussey
Cinema 1
3.40 - 4.00 ROCK-induced actomyosin contraction drives apoptotic body formation and protein release to modulate immune response
Grant Wickman, Beatson Institute
 
4.00 - 4.20 Mitotic spindles are positioned by a dynamic balance between microtubule and actomyosin forces
Sarah Woolner, University of Manchester
 
4.20 - 4.40 Plasma membrane targetting of Scar/WAVE by a Sec3-exocyst complex drives sustained lamellipodia formation and cell migration
Tobias Zech, Beatson Institute
 
5.00 - 6.00 Drinks and Prize Giving Waterside 2/3