December 1-10, 2021
#cellbio2021
Keynote and Symposia
2021 Keynote Lecture
Monday, December 6, 10:00 am EST
Spatially Resolved Single-cell Genomics and Cell Atlas of Complex Tissues
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Xiaowei Zhuang develops advanced imaging methods, such as the super-resolution imaging method known as stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) and the single-cell transcriptome imaging method known as multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH), to reveal the molecular mechanisms of cellular function. Over a distinguished career, Zhuang has fashioned ingenious methods of imaging to observe the fretwork and interplay of molecules in cells.
2021 Symposia
Symposia sessions will be held from 10:00 am to 11:00 am EST from Monday, December 6 to Friday, December 10. Symposia speakers will also be available for a live informal Q&A discussion following their sessions from 11:00 am to 11:30 am EST.
Intra- and Intercellular Communication
Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Specialized Cell and Evolution
Chenghua Gu
Harvard Medical School
The Neuro-vascular Interactions In The Brain
Maya Schuldiner
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Systematic Analysis Of Contact Site Proteomes Reveals Novel Players In Cellular Homeostasis
The Nucleus
Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Track: Cellular Genome
Tracy Johnson
University of California, Los Angeles
Deciphering the Mechanism of RNA Splicing Reveals the Secret Life of Introns
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins
University of Pennsylvania
Spatially Coordinated Heterochromatinization of Distal Short Tandem Repeats in Fragile X Syndrome
Biomolecular Condensates
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Physical Cell
Simon Alberti
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Biomolecular Condensates At The Nexus Of Cellular Stress, Disease And Aging
Amy Gladfelter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Temperature Adaptation In Phase Separating Systems
Signaling and Metabolism
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Track: Signaling and Metabolism
Donita Brady
University of Pennsylvania
New Sides for an Old Coin: Copper as an Intracellular Mediator of Kinase Signaling in Cancer
Bao-Liang Song
Wuhan University, China
Feeding-induced Cholesterol Biosynthesis
Cell and Tissue Mechanics
Thursday, December 9, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Track: Physical Cell
Enrique De La Cruz
Yale University
Torsional Response of Actin Filaments
Sara A. Wickstrom
University of Helsinki, Finland
Nuclear Mechanotransduction: Regulation of Cell Fate and Beyond
Imaging Across Scales
Thursday, December 9, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Signaling and Metabolism
Jan Ellenberg
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Advanced Imaging Of Cell Division Processes Across Scales
David Van Valen
California Institute of Technology
Towards A Bright Future For Artificial Intelligence-powered Cell Biology
Disease and Aging
Friday, December 10, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cells in Distress and Disease and Signaling and Metabolism
Vishva M. Dixit
Genentech, Inc.
Why so Many Ways to Die? The non-canonical Inflammasome Pathway
Noburo Mizushima
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Organelle Degradation By Autophagy-dependent And Independent Pathways
Modeling Organogenesis
Friday, December 10, 2021, 10:00 am EST
Track: Communal Cell
Madeline Lancaster
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Exploring Mechanisms Of Human Brain Expansion In Cerebral Organoids
Prisca Liberali
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland
Design Principles of Multicellular Systems
* Heinz Herrmann Symposium. Heinz Herrmann was Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. A symposium in his honor was endowed at the ASCB in 1990. A founder of the ASCB, Professor Herrmann was well known for his pioneering approach to research in developmental biology, which has led to over 100 publications. He also wrote two books—Cell Biology and From Biology to Sociopolitics.