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A mile-high view
November 2011
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DENVER—There's an elevated sense of anticipation for the
American
Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) as it prepares to hold its
annual
meeting in December. Hopes are high—as high as the city hosting the event—and
the society hopes to go above and beyond with this year's
program.
"As we set our
sights high for the next 50 years, it's
appropriate that we meet here in Denver, the Mile-High City," says ASCB
President Dr. Sandra L. Schmid.
"Unlike small conferences, the annual ASCB
meeting showcases both the depth and breadth of cell biology. The cell is the
fundamental unit of life. To
highlight this, symposia speakers will present a
continuum of research approaches and problems."
The Sunday symposia are "Molecular Mechanisms," presented by
Jennifer A. Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Frydman of
Stanford University and Thomas Surrey of the Cancer Research UK London Research
Institute, and "Function of Multi-Molecular Machines" by Raymond
Deshaies of
the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
David Drubin of UC Berkeley
and Melissa Moore of the University of
Massachusetts Medical School.
Monday's symposia are "Cellular Networks and Information
Processing" by
Michael Elowitz of Caltech, Christine Jacobs-Wagner of Yale
University and Chris Marshall of the Institute of Cancer Research in
London,
and "Self-Organization of Cellular Structures" by Gaudenz Danuser of Harvard Medical
School, Benjamin Glick of the University of Chicago and Francois Nedelec of the
European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
On Tuesday will be "Complex
Cellular Functions: Linking
Networks and Structures" by Kristin Baldwin of the Scripps Research Institute,
William Bement of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and W. James Nelson of
Stanford, and "Mechanism of Multicellular Functions" by
There will be only one symposium on Wednesday, which is
"Design Principles of Cells and Tissues" by
Linda Griffith of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and
Wallace Marshall of the University of California,
San Francisco.
There are also nearly 30 mini-symposia currently scheduled,
which, Schmid says, "will dig deeper
into individual areas of cell biology and
will allow young and active scientists to present their latest findings." (For
a full lineup of the mini-
symposia, see listing below.)
The ASCB is also offering three working groups, which are
described
as "town halls for big questions." They are "Using Large Data Sets as
Tools to Understand Cell Biology" by Lani Wu of the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center and Wolfgang Huber
of EMBL; "Learning from Heterogeneity and
Stochastic Cell Behavior" by Johan Paulsson of Harvard Medical School and Lucas
Pelkmans of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) in
Switzerland; and
"Imaging Cellular Structure Across Scales" by John Briggs of
EMBL and Melike Lakadamyali of the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in
Spain.
Aside from the educational activities and exhibitions, there
is much to see and do in Denver and Colorado in general (a few of which we'll
cover in other articles in this section). The ASCB cites the city's "historic,
walkable downtown, great restaurants, frugal fare … and 300 days of
sunshine
annually" as well as the "nearby magnificent mountains" that will beckon visitors.
In addition, Schmid points out, "there'll be snow on
the mountains, so plan on
coming early or staying late."
The ASCB annual meeting will be held at
the Colorado
Convention Center in downtown Denver Dec. 3 to
7. For more information, visit
the website for the ASCB annual meeting at www.ascb.org/meetings/.
(For some ideas of what to do and sights to see in Denver, click here.)
The following 29 mini-symposia will examine more specific
areas of cell biology not covered in depth by the full symposia:
Actin Dynamics
Bioengineering and
Mechanobiology
Cancer Cell Biology
Cell Biology of
Micro-Organisms and the Evolution of the
Eukaryotic Cell
Cell
Biology of RNA
Cell
Cycle Dynamics
and Checkpoints
Cell Migration
Cell Polarity
Cell-Cell and
Cell-Matrix Interactions
Cell-Pathogen
Interactions (Viruses and Bacteria)
Cellular Functions of
Ubiquitin and Ub-related
Proteins
Cellular
Mechanism of
Disease and Aging
Chemical Biology:
Probes and Therapeutics
Chromosome Structure
and Epigenetics
Cilia and Centrosomes
Collective Cell
Behavior and Morphogenesis in Development
Ryoichiro Kageyama and Denise Montell
Innovations in Cell
Biology
Graduate Education
Meiosis and Oogenesis
Membrane Fission and
Fusion
Mitosis
Modeling and
Simulation of Cellular Functions
Motors and
Microtubule Dynamics
Nuclear Organization
and Control of Gene
Expression
Organelle
Biogenesis
and Autophagy
Signal Transduction
Networks
Stem Cells and
Pluripotency
Synthetic Cell
Biology
The Nuclear Periphery
Brian Burke and Valérie Doye
(For some ideas of what to do and sights to see in Denver, click here.) Code: E111130 Back |
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