Speakers are selected from the sign-up form with the aim to balance gender, geography, career stages and topics.
SUMMER HOLIDAYS
9 September 2020
Jessica Cross (Dodding lab) - Bristol | A designed high-affinity peptide that hijacks microtubule-based transport
Will Hancock - Penn State
| Understanding the diversity of dynein motility in vitro
16 September 2020
Folma Buss - Cambridge | The MYO6 interactome – regulating endosome dynamics and cytoskeletal architecture
Kristen Verhey - Michigan
| A rogue kinesin leads to microtubule destruction
23 September 2020
Michelle Peckham - Leeds | The structure of the shutdown state of smooth muscle myosin
Florian Berger - Utrecht
| Force generation of molecular motors in optical traps
30 September 2020
MEET-YOUR-HERO: Ron Vale - Janelia
The first of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field.
7 October 2020
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Steven Markus - Colorado
| Regulation of dynein-mediated transport
14 October 2020
Isabel Palacios - QMUL / Cambridge | A holistic approach towards understanding the relationship between cytoskeletons and all active motions displayed by cytoplasmic components
Ondrej Kucera (Blanchoin lab) - CEA Grenoble
| Myosin-independent actin contractility
06 May 2020
Adam Hendricks - McGill | MAPs regulate kinesin and dynein to control organelle motility
Chris Toseland - Sheffield | Nuclear myosin VI regulates the spatial organization of mammalian transcription initiation
13 May 2020
Alex Thompson (Stumpff lab) - Vermont | Motor and Coiled-Coil Domain Mutations of the Chromokinesin KIF22 Disrupt Mitotic Chromosome Segregation and Cause Skeletal Dysplasia
Mira Krendel - SUNY | Myosin-dependent regulation of actin and membrane dynamics during phagocytosis
20 May 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Morgan DeSantis - Michigan | LIS1 promotes the formation of activated cytoplasmic dynein-1 complexes
Rob Cross - CMCB
| Interlocking nanomechanics of kinesin and tubulin
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27 May 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Naila Alieva (Manser lab) - A*STAR | The role of myosin II in filopodia dynamics
Amadeus Xu (Way lab) - Crick
| Reconstituting microtubule-based motility of Vaccinia virus in vitro
2 June 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Steven Rosenfeld - Mayo Clinic | Molecular Motors as Therapeutic Targets in Brain Tumors
Sabrya Carim (Hickson lab) - Montreal
| Rho-dependent control of anillin-septin network facilitates contractile ring closure
10 June 2020
Kassandra Ori-McKenney - UC Davis | Microtubule Cartography: The Role of Microtubule-Associated Proteins in Directing Motor Transport.
Alf Mansson - Linnaeus
| Towards solving intractable mathematical problems using actin and myosin
17 June 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Ashley Arthur (Titus lab) - Minnesota | MyTH4-FERM myosin and VASP cooperation during filopodia initiation
Roop Mallik - TIFR Mumbai
| Specific Linkages within the Dynein-Dynactin Machinery Needed to Activate and Sustain Dynein’s Force generation
24 June 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Jing Xu - UC Merced | Cholesterol in cargo membrane modulates effect of MAP tau on kinesin
Gant Luxton - Minnesota
| One AAA+ ring to rule them all? Investigating the mechanism(s) of torsinA-dependent nuclear-cytoplasmic communication
1 July 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Radhika Subramanian - Harvard | Imaging Microtubule Depolymerases in Action within bundles at Protofilament Resolution by Atomic Force Microscopy
Girish Mali (Carter lab) - MRC-LMB
| Mechanistic insights into dynein motors of cilia
8 July 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Jia Wang (Hammer lab) - NIH | Integrin-dependent actomyosin arcs drive B cell immune synapse formation
Sebastian Baumann (Maurer lab) - CRG
| In vitro reconstitution of mammalian RNA transport
15 July 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Rong Liu (Sellers lab) - NIH | Molecular mechanism of myosin-7a translocation and actin-bundle assembly
Richard McKenney - UC Davis
| Reconstitution of Kinesin-1 Activation
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Map of average number of attendees per webinar
The data are based on first 6 webinars (live and on-demand attendees).
Comparison of affiliation of MiQ attendees and authors of papers in the motors field
Details of geographical paper analysis can be found here.
Anne Straube 
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Huong Vu 
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