Imaging Cellular and Molecular Dynamics
An MBL Symposium to Honor Shinya Inoué, July 9, 2004
| Welcome, Opening Remarks |
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| 8:45 - 8:50 |
Welcoming Comments from MBL Director and CEO William T. Speck |
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| 8:50 - 9:00 |
Introduction by Symposium Organizer Ted Salmon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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| Session I |
Imaging Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Cell Motility and Cell Division |
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(Chaired by Dan Kiehart, Duke University) |
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| 9:00 - 9:35 |
Gary Borisy, Northwestern University Medical School |
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Nanomachinery for Cell Protrusion |
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| 9:35 - 10:00 |
Kip Sluder, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
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Cell cycle progression after cleavage failure: Mammalian somatic cells do not possess a "tetraploidy checkpoint" |
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| 10:00 - 10:35 |
Tim Mitchison, Harvard Medical School |
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How Do You Build a Meiotic Spindle? |
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| 10:35 - 10:55 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:55 - 11:20 |
Ted Salmon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy of the Kinetochore/Microtubule Interface |
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Special Lecture by the Winner of the 2003 International Prize for Biology
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| 11:20 - 12:10 |
Shinya Inoué, Marine Biological Laboratory |
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Half-Century of Explorations of Living Cells with Polarized Light Microscopy |
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| 12:10 – 1:45 |
Lunch Break - available at Swope Center for a fee |
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| Session 2 |
Pushing Resolution and Imaging of Single Molecule Dynamics |
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(Chaired by Kip Sluder, University of Massachusetts Medical School) |
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| 1:45 - 2:20 |
David Agard, University of California, San Francisco |
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Breaking Resolution Barriers in Widefield Fluorescence Microscopy |
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| 2:20 – 2:45 |
Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory |
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A New Pol-Scope Improves In vitro Fertilization |
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| 2:45 - 3:20 |
Jeff Gelles, Brandeis University |
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Mechanisms of Transcription and Transcription Regulation Studied by Single-Molecule Light Microscopy |
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| 3:20 - 3:40 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session 3 |
Imaging Molecular and Cellular Dynamics in Membrane Traffic and Development (Chaired by Ted Salmon) |
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| 3:40 - 4:15 |
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institutes of Health |
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Insights into Molecular Compartmentalization and Protein Trafficking Using GFP Technology |
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| 4:15 - 4:50 |
Scott Fraser, California Institute of Technology |
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Imaging the Cell Motions and Signals that Pattern Vertebrate Embryos |
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| 4:50 - 5:15 |
Dan Kiehart, Duke University |
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Molecular and Biophysical Analysis of Drosophila Development |
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| 5:15 - 5:50 |
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University |
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Monitoring naturally occurring synapse elimination in fluorescent neonatal mice |
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Following the Symposium attendants may wish to attend MBL’s Friday Evening Lecture
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| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Ron Vale, University of California, San Francisco |
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Molecular Motor Proteins: A Story Home-Grown from the Marine Biological Laboratory |
