Keynote and Symposia

SvantePaabo-KEYNOTE

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

FriedlPeterRadboud

Peter Friedl

Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherland
Jamming-unjamming Transitions in Cancer Progression

 

ramakrishnan_lalita_174-240x300

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

HOPEWELL, NJ - SEPTEMBER 14: Portrait of Clifford Brangwynne at his Princeton University lab and office on September 14, 2018. (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

Cliff Brangwynne

Princeton University
Fluid Forces: Mechanics of Intracellular Phase Separation

TheryManuelCEACROP

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

LevinPetrawustlCROP

Petra Anne Levin

Washington University in St. Louis
E. Coli Meets World: How The Environment Shapes A Bacterial Cell

MillerAnnUMich

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

HamadaHiroshiRiken

Hiroshi Hamada

RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
Sensing Fluid Flow by Immotile Cilia for Left-Right Patterning

RedHorseStanfordCROP

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

DBautista

Diane M. Bautista

University of California, Berkeley
Getting in Touch with Mechanical Pain

PilpelYitzhakWeizmann

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

ronglisingaporejhuCROP

Rong Li

Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
A Numbers Game Goes Awry: How Aneuploidy Affects Cell Behavior and Identity

SpangAnneBaselCROP

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

GutierrezMaxFrancisCrick

Max Gutierrez

The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Macrophages: A Tug of War

MhlangaRadboudCROP

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

JonesLeanneUCLACROP

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 headshot highres2

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

BickmoreWendyMRC

Wendy Bickmore

MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
The Role of Spatial Proximity in Genome Regulation

MirnyLeonidMIT

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.