Schedule
DAY 1 (Monday)
12:00-12:45 Check-in and poster set up (refreshments available)
12:45-13:00 Opening Remarks and Keynote speaker introduction
13:00-14:00 Keynote lecture: Dr. Andrew Holland
14:00-15:00 Talk session 1 (Spindle Architecture, session chair: Todd Stukenberg)
15:00-16:30 Poster session 1 and refreshments
16:30-17:30 Talk session 2 (Cell Cycle Control, session chair: Michael Matunis)
18:00-20:00 Networking event (Turner Concourse, JHU)
DAY 2 (Tuesday)
08:45-09:00 Poster set up and refreshments
09:00-10:30 Talk session 3 (Chromosome Seg. and Recomb., session chair: Yumi Kim)
10:30-12:00 Poster session 2
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Talk session 4 (Kinetochores and Centromeres, session chair: Alex Kelly)
14:30-15:30 Workshop(s) and refreshments
15:30-16:30 Keynote lecture: Dr. Ekaterina Grishchuk
The Mid-Atlantic
Mitosis and Meiosis
Meeting 2018
Monday, April 2nd- Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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M4 is a local meeting organized by graduate students and post doctoral fellows from a diversity of Mid-Atlantic institutions
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Oral and poster presentations will focus on various aspects of mitosis and meiosis
Contact us:
Organizers:
Ellen Garcia (Virginia Tech)
Hawa Racine Thiam (National Institutes of Health)
Danielle Bouchard (Johns Hopkins University)
Arunika Das (University of Pennsylvania)
Karen Plevock (National Institutes of Health)
Roshan Lal Shrestha (National Institutes of Health)
Please direct your email inquiries at mitomeiosis.meeting@gmail.com
Accomodation details
Please call 410-539-8400 ext. 0 or visit the link below for reservations at Lord Baltimore Hotel using the following group ID
GroupID: 1804JHBSPH or M4 2018
For assistance with handicap or disabled parking permits, please contact Danielle Bouchard (dboucha2@jhu) at least 3 days before the event to ensure access to closer parking.
Talk session details
Session 1, Spindle Architecture
Chair: Todd Stukenberg (University of Virginia)
April 2
14:00-14:15 Collapse of bipolar spindles upon rapid degradation
of gamma-TuRC component GCP2
14:15-14:30 Exploring Myosin 10’s role in mitotic spindle
positioning and supernumerary centrosome clustering
14:30-14:45 Building the Centriole: Polo-like Kinase 4 Promotes
Centriole Assembly Through Phosphorylation of STIL
14:45-15:00 Asymmetry in mitotic centrosome clustering brings
balance to centrosome number in tetraploid cells
John Hammer
(NHLBI, NIH
Tyler C Moyer
(Johns Hopkins)
Nicolaas Baudoin
(Virginia Tech.)
Elizabeth Turcotte
(NICHD, NIH)
Session 3, Chromosome Segregation and Recombination
Chair: Yumi Kim (Johns Hopkins University)
April 3
09:00-09:15 Non-overlapping functions of AURKB and AURKC in
regulating the spindle assembly checkpoint during
oocyte meiosis
09:15-09:30 Genetic commonality and dependency in a
karyotypically heterogeneous aneuploid population
09:30-09:45 Fine-structure analysis of meiotic recombination products
09:45-10:00 Exploring the dynamic regulation underlying synchronous
sister chromatid separation at anaphase onset
10:00-10:15 Genetic interactions among the Aurora kinases reveal that
AURKC drives their compartmentalization in mouse oocytes
10:15-10:30 Mixing of parental genomes after fertilization in C. elegans
involves fusion and fenestration of pronuclear membrane
Cecilia S. Blengini
(Rutgers Univ.)
Hung-Ji Tsai
(Johns Hopkins)
Jasvinder S. Ahuja
(NCI, NIH)
Silke Hauf
(Virginia Tech.)
Karen Schindler
(Rutgers Univ.)
Mohammad Rahman
(NIDDK, NIH)
Session 2, Cell Cycle Control
Chair: Michael Matunis (Johns Hopkins University)
April 2
16:30-16:45 Spatiotemporal regulation of cell de-adhesion at
the G2/M transition of the cell cycle
16:45-17:00 Kar4 regulates yeast meiosis at multiple levels
17:00-17:15 Centromere activated microtubule bound non-
centromeric CPC enables robust kinetochore
phosphorylation
17:15-17:30 Evidence that APC regulates Survivin expression:
a mechanism by which APC mutations contribute
to increased mitoses during colon cancer development
Bruce M Boman
(Univ. of Delaware)
Todd Stukenberg
(UVA, Charlottesville)
Mark D. Rose
(Georgetown Univ.)
Hawa Racine Thiam
(NHLBI, NIH)
Session 4, Kinetochores and Centromeres
Chair: Alexander Kelly (NCI, National Institutes of Health)
April 3
13:00-13:15 A balance between elastic and rigidified centromeric CENP-A
nucleosomes required for RNA polymerase 2 recruitment
13:15-13:30 The RZZ complex enables SAC maintenance by tethering
Mad1-Mad2 to structurally expanded kinetochores
13:30-13:45 Causes and consequences of CENP-A mislocalization in
cancer
13:45-14:00 CENP-A/Cse4 regulates the centromeric association of
Shugoshin in budding yeast
14:00-14:15 Chromosome passenger complex recruitment to
replication forks in response to DNA damage
14:15-14:30 Asymmetric sister centromeres crosstalk with temporally
asymmetric microtubules to ensure nonrandom sister
chromatid segregation during Drosophila male germline stem
cells
Rajesh Ranjan
(Johns Hopkins)
Katherine Pfister
(UVA, Charlottesville)
Prashant K. Mishra
(NCI, NIH)
Jonathan Nye
(NCI, NIH)
Jose-Antonio Rodriguez-Rodriguez
(Mem. Sloan Katt.)
Daniël Melters
(NCI, NIH)
The Mid-Atlantic Mitosis and Meiosis
Meeting 2018
Monday, April 2nd- Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Johns Hopkins University, Turner Auditorium,
720 Rutland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205
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M4 is a local meeting organized by graduate students and post doctoral fellows from various Mid-Atlantic institutions
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Oral and poster presentations will focus on various aspects of mitosis and meiosis.
Registration for this meeting is closed
Venue: Turner Auditorium
720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore, MD-21205
Time: Monday, 12.00 p.m.-5.30 p.m.
Tuesday, 09.00 a.m.-4.30 p.m.
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