Keynote and Symposia
2023 Keynote
Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm EST
Cell Biologists and Climate Change: What Can Cell Biologists Do to Address Climate-Scale Problems?
Natalie Kofler
Founder, Editing Nature and Senior Advisor, Scientific Citizenship Initiative, Harvard Medical School
Manu Prakash
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Daniel Goodwin
Founding Co-Director, Homeworld Collective
Schmidt Climate Innovation Fellow
Drs. Kofler and Prakash will each deliver short talks followed by an interactive and moderated panel discussion where Daniel Goodwin will join them in conversation moderated by Jing-Ke Weng from Whitehead Institute, MIT.
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.