Location: Frick Fine Arts Center, Pittsburgh

08:00 – 09:00  Continental Breakfast/Poster Set-Up/Vendor Set-Up 

09:00 – 09:10  Welcome Address, Deepika Vasudevan (Co-chair of the organizing committee)

The Short talks 

Session 1 – Chair: Gerry Hammond

09:10 – 09:25 Should I stay or should I go? Regulation of misfolded membrane protein biogenesis by mammalian UBX domain-containing proteins

Katherine G. Sharp

09:30 – 09:45  Regulation of Atlastin-1 fusion activity by the ER shaping protein REEP1 

Alexa Vulgamott

09:50 – 10:05 Ring canal mediated pairing of adipocytes in Drosophila confers acute stress tolerance

Shyama Nandakumar

10:05 – 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 2 – Chair: Jeffrey Brodsky

10:30 – 10:45  Developing a cellular model for hair cell mechanoelectrical transduction channel trafficking

Abby J. Carney

10:50 – 11:05  Impact of α-arrestins on cellular metabolism and organelle function

Elif Filiztekin

11:10 – 11:25 Cortical continuity of actin cables requires microtubules and the dynamic maintenance of actin filaments

Shannon (Wei-Chien) Chou

11:30 – 1:30    Lunch/Poster Session/Vendor Show 

The Medium Talks 

Session 3 – Chair: Sasha Sorkin

1:35 – 2:00      Dynamic information encoding across the plasma membrane in the IKK-NF-kB signaling axis

Robin Lee 

Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 

2:05 – 2:30      Msp1: The Bouncer at the Mitochondrial Door

Matthew Wohlever

Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

2:35 – 3:00    RNA-binding proteins moonlight as transcriptional cofactors in gene regulation

Jon Henninger

Dept. of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

3:05 – 3:30    In situ architecture of the flagellar base reveals the spatial organization and docking of intraflagellar transport trains

Stella Sun

Dept. of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break

The Big Talk: Hunt Optics & Imaging keynote address

Session 4 – Chair: Deepika Vasudevan

4:00 – 5:00 RaceCAR-M: from Drosophila border cell migration to an improved cancer immunotherapy

Denise Montell

Duggan Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara 

5:00 – 5:05 Closing remarks, Deepika Vasudevan (Co-chair of the organizing committee)