EMBO workshop - program
Sunday evening, March 6, 2011
15.00
17:00
18:00-19:00
19:00-20:30
20.45-21:45
Start of registration
Guided Tour through Castle Rheinfels
Get together
Dinner
Keynote speaker
Pascale Cossart
Entrapment of Intracytosolic Bacteria by Septin Cage-Like
Structures
Monday, March 7, 2011
Session 1 – Structure of Septins
9:00 – 9.30
Jeremy W. Thorner
Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-Bisphosphate Promotes Budding Yeast
Septin Filament Assembly and Organization
9:30 – 10.00
Helge Ewers
Superresolution Microscopy of Mammalian Septin Complexes
10.00 –10:30
Eldar Zent/Fred Wittinghofer
Structural and Biochemistry Studies on Sept7
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Septin Interactions
11:00-11:30
Makoto Kinoshita
What is the Physiological Role of the Cdc42-Borg/Cdc42ep-Septin
Pathway?
11:30-12:00
Kirstin Sandrock/Barbara Zieger
Characterization Human endothelial and platelet septin SEPT11
12:00-12:30
Koh-ichi Nagata
Role of Septins in Neural Cell migration during brain developmentScreening of Novel Interacting Partners
12.30-14:00
Lunch
Session 3 – Septins and Yeast
14:00-14:30
Daniel J. Lew
Dynamics of Septin Ring Formation in Yeast
14:30-15:00
Two short talks:
Fabrice Caudron: Asymmetric Segregation of a Prion-mediated
Memory in Budding Yeast
Franz Meitinger: Characterization of the Cell Cycle Regulated
Association between the F-BAR Protein Hof1 and Septins
15:00-15:30
Erfei Bi
Revisiting the Role of Septins in Cytokinesis in Budding Yeast
15:30-16:00
Boarding the boat on the River Rhine
16:00-18:00
Septin Research Discussion during
River Cruise with Coffee and Cake
18:30-20:30
Poster Session and Drinks
20:30-22:00
Dinner and Wine
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Session 4 – Septins and Cytokinesis/Cell division
9:00 – 9.30
William Trimble
Septin Assembly and Function During the Cell Cycle
9:30 – 10.00
Xuebiao Yao
Molecular Dissection of Acetyl-Regulation of Septin Dynamics in
Mammalian Cell Division
10.00 –10:30
Two short talks:
Amy Maddox:
High-Resolution imaging and Computational Modeling propose Roles
for Septins During Cytokinesis.
Roland LeBorgne:
Role of Septins in Asymmetric Cell Division and Notch Signaling in
Drosophila
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Session 5 – Septins and Mammals
11:00-11:30
Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer
Conditional Deletion of Septin9 in Mice
11:30-12:00
Two short talks:
Aminata Toure:
The Membranous Anion Transporter Tat1 (Testis anion transporter 1)
Co-Localizes and Interacts with Septin 4 at the Annulus of Mouse and
Human Sperm Flagellum
Werner Hauke:
A Septin Filament Stabilizes Central Nervous System Myelin
12:00-12:30
12.30-14:00
Elias Spiliotis
Sensory Axon Branching Requires the Sequential Action of SEPT6
and SEPT7
Lunch
Session 6 – Novel Septin Assemblies
14:00-14:30
Amy Gladfelter
Dynamic, Paired Septin Filaments Form in Vivo With a Molecular
Organization Conserved From Fungi to Mammals
14:30-15:00
Two short talks:
Mikael Sellin
Assembly Order and Subgroup Configurations of Septin Oligomers in
Human cells
Richard Garratt
Septin Structure and Assembly: a Look at the C-Terminal Domain
15:00-15:30
Yves Barral
Septins and the Assembly of Diffusion Barriers in Yeast
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Session 7 – Septins and Cancer
16:00-16:30
Hilary Russell
The Pathobiology of Perturbed Septin Expression in Neoplasia
16:30-16:45
1 short talks:
Cristina Montagna
The Expression of Septin 9 in Human Breast Cancer
16:45-17:15
Nuno Cerveira
MLL-SEPTIN rearrangements and gene fusions in haematological
malignancies
17.30-19:00
Poster Session and Drinks
19:30
Meeting Dinner and Wine Tasting
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Session 8 – Septin and Diseases
9:00 – 9.30
Nicola J. Mabjeesh
Bivalent Roles of SEPT9 in HIF-1 activation
9:30 – 10.00
Hermann Steller/Sarit Larisch
Role of the pro-apoptotic ARTS (Sept4_i2) Protein in Apoptosis and
Tumor Suppression
10.00 – 10:30 Ian G. Macara
A New DNA Repair Nuclease Links Mammalian Septins to the DNA
Damage Response
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Session 9 – New and special Functions of Septins
11:00-11:30
Two short talks:
Yasin Dagdas
Septin-mediated Morphological Transitions during Plant Infection by
the Rice Blast Fungus
Björn Sandrock
Filamentous Septin in the Corn Smut Fungus Ustilago maydis is
Specifically Recognised by Gap7, a novel Cdc42 specific GTPaseactivating protein
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:00
13:00-15:00
Special Lecture
John R. Pringle
Septin Research: Genesis and future aspects
Plenary Discussion and Summing up of the Meeting
Lunch or Lunch Boxes and Departure