December 2-16
#cellbio2020
Keynote and Symposia
2020 Keynote Lecture
Monday, December 7, 10:00 am EST
Archaic Genomics
Svante Pääbo
Director, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Japan
Svante Pääbo is known as one of the founders of paleogenetics. Pääbo and his team developed a technique of isolating and sequencing the DNA of creatures long extinct, using a variety of fragile, ancient source material from Homo sapiens and other human species.
2020 Symposia
Cells in Distress and Disease
Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cells in Distress and Disease and Specialized Cell and Evolution
Peter Friedl
Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherland
Jamming-unjamming Transitions in Cancer Progression
Lalita Ramakrishnan
University of Cambridge
How the Tubercle Bacillus Co-opts Host Pathways to Cause Cell Distress and Death
Dynamic Intracellular Organization
Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Physical Cell
Cliff Brangwynne
Princeton University
Fluid Forces: Mechanics of Intracellular Phase Separation
Manuel Théry
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Microtubule Network Mechano-sensation
Cell Shape, Cell Division, Migration and Death
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Cellular Genome
Petra Anne Levin
Washington University in St. Louis
E. Coli Meets World: How The Environment Shapes A Bacterial Cell
Ann L. Miller
University of Michigan
Maintenance and Remodeling of Epithelial Cell-Cell Junctions during Cell Shape Changes
Growth, Pattern and Form
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Communal Cell and Physical Cell
Hiroshi Hamada
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
Sensing Fluid Flow by Immotile Cilia for Left-Right Patterning
Kristy Red-Horse
Stanford University
Using the Cell Biology of Embryogenesis to Inform Tissue Regeneration and Repair in the Heart
Information Processing
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Signaling and Metabolism and Specialized Cell and Evolution
Diane M. Bautista
University of California, Berkeley
Getting in Touch with Mechanical Pain
Yitzhak Pilpel
Weizmann Institute of Science
Dynamic Changes in tRNA Modifications and Abundance during T-cell Activation
Cellular Identity
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Dynamics and Signaling and Metabolism
Rong Li
Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
A Numbers Game Goes Awry: How Aneuploidy Affects Cell Behavior and Identity
Anne Spang
University of Basel, Switzerland
Principles of Cellular Compartmentalization
How Different Cells Interact: Sex, War, Competition
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cells in Distress and Disease and Specialized Cell and Evolution
Max Gutierrez
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Macrophages: A Tug of War
Musa Mhlanga
Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (RIMLS), Radboud University Medical Center,
& Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Epic-genetic Battles and Other Tales of Innate Immune Memory
Collective Cell Behavior
Friday, December 11, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Communal Cell and Cells in Distress and Disease
Leanne Jones
University of California, Los Angeles
Gut Instinct: The Intestine as a Model to Study Age-related Changes to Stem Cells and the Niche
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research/HHMI
Sources of Regenerative Capacity in Animals
The Genome
Friday, December 11, 2020, 10:00 am EST
Tracks: Cellular Genome and Physical Cell
Wendy Bickmore
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
The Role of Spatial Proximity in Genome Regulation
Leonid Mirny
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Loop Extrusion with Barriers as a Genomic Communication System
* 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.