2022 Keynote Lecture
Saturday, December 3, 4:30 pm EST
Tracks: Physical Cell; and Cellular Dynamics

Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular networks
Alice Y. Ting
Professor of Genetics, Biology, and by courtesy, Chemistry, Stanford University, and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
Alice Y. Ting and her lab are credited with developing several influential techniques, some of which have been broadly adopted by academic and industrial researchers across the world. These techniques include Proximity labeling, monovalent streptavidin, site-specific biotinylation in mammalian cells, small monovalent quantum dots for single molecule imaging, APEX2 as a genetic tag for electron microscopy, split horseradish peroxidase for visualization of synapses in vivo, FLARE for gaining genetic access to activated neural ensembles, SPARK for transcriptional readout of protein-protein interactions, and PRIME (PRobe Incorporation Mediated by Enzymes).
2019 Symposia
Beyond Figure 7: Integrating modeling and experiment in cell biology
Sunday. December 8, 8:00 am
Supported by Anatomical Record/American Association of Anatomists

Margaret Gardel
University of Chicago
Physics Of Adherent Cells

Iva Tolic
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
Theory And Experiments In The Study Of The Mitotic Spindle

Petra Schwille
Attack of the Killer Bugs: The cell biology of infectious disease*
Sunday. December 8, 9:45 am

Sebastian Lourido
Whitehead Institute and MIT
Unravelling the Hallmarks of Apicomplexan Parasitism

Emily R. Troemel
University of California, San Diego
Characterization Of The Intracellular Pathogen Response In C. Elegans
Decisions, Decisions: How cells choose their fates
Sunday. December 8, 9:45 am

Alex Schier
University of Basel, Switzerland and Harvard University
Cellular Biographies: Reconstructing Developmental Trajectories

Andrea H. Brand
The Gurdon Institute, UK
Time To Get Up: Awakening Stem Cells In The Brain
21st Century Machinery: The structure, function, and evolution of protein machines
Monday, December 9, 8:00 am

Andrea Musacchio
Max-Plank Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
The Kinetochore, An Intrinsically Divisive Molecular Machine

Pierre Gönczy
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Mechanisms Of Centriole Assembly

Tatsuya Hirano
Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan
Condensin-based Chromosome Organization: New Insights From In Vitro Assays
What Blueprints Tell Us: How genomics informs cell biology
Monday, December 9, 9:45 am
Supported by Illumina

Harmit S. Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/HHMI
Centromeres: Scanning Genomes for Signs of Conflict

Brenda Andrews
University of Toronto, Canada
From Phenotypes To Pathways: Global Analysis Of Cellular Networks Using Systematic Yeast Genetics And Single Cell Image Analysis
Getting from Here to There: Individual and collective cell migrations
Tuesday, December 10, 8:00 am

Ana Maria Lennon-Duménil
Institut Curie, France
Dendritic Cell Migration At Various Scales

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
University of Toronto, Canada
Collective Cell Movements: Cellular And Molecular Dynamics At The Leading Edge

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Mechanosensation Of Tight Junctions By Zo-1 Phase Separation And Flow
Google Maps of the Cell: Controlling intracellular traffic flow and direction
Tuesday, December 10, 9:45 am

Daniel Colón-Ramos
Yale University
Building Memories: Cell Biological Mechanisms Underpinning Synapse Assembly And Function

Elina Ikonen
University of Helsinki, Finland
Slippery Cargo Takes Multiple Routes: Identifying Bottlenecks In Lipid Transport And Storage
D'Arcy Thompson at 100: Controlling Cell Shape and Function
Wednesday, December 11, 11:20 am

Ethan Garner
Harvard University
How Cell Shape Arises - The Minimal, Self-propagating Systems That Create Rod Shaped Cells And Determine Their Width

Jennifer Zallen
Sloan-Kettering Institute/HHMI
Signals, Forces, And Cells: Decoding Tissue Morphogenesis
* 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 andFrom Biology to Sociopolitics.