Speakers are selected from the sign-up form with the aim to balance gender, geography, career stages and topics.
The registration link for each webinar is sent by email at the beginning of each week to everyone on the sign-up form and posted in the slack (see community tab).
12 May 2021
Alex Zwetsloot (Straube lab) - Warwick | Bidirectional transport by KIF1C and dynein
Lukas Kapitein - Utrecht
| Quantitative mapping of dense microtubule arrays in mammalian neurons
19 May 2021
Lara Krüger (Tran lab) - Institute Curie Paris | Kinesin-6 Klp9 orchestrates spindle elongation by regulating microtubule sliding and growth
Alfredo Sciortino (Bausch lab) - TU Munich
| Polar patterns of gliding actin filaments on flat and curved lipid membranes
26 May 2021
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Maria Zanic and Minhaj Sirajuddin
The seventh of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists will focus on the "Route to Independence". Marija and Minjah will share their experience of changing countries for PhD, postdoc and starting their independent labs.
2 June 2021
Marion Jasnin - MPIB Martinsried | Visualization of sarcomere contraction with in situ cryo-electron tomography
Alexander Phillips (Keays lab) - IMP Vienna
| How tubulin mutations affect MAP binding and brain development
9 June 2021
Jennifer van der Horst (Jepps lab) - Copenhagen | Dynein regulates the trafficking of voltage-dependent Kv7.4 channels in vascular smooth muscle
Abrar Bhat (Mayor lab) - NCBS Bangalore
| Myosin driven actin remodelling as an active sorting mechanism for membrane proteins
16 June 2021
Brittany Mactaggart (Kashina lab) - U Penn | title TBA
David Salvador-Garcia (Bullock lab) - MRC-LMB Cambridge
| Functional diversity of dynein's interaction with microtubules in mitosis and cargo transport
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
22 July 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Mohamed Antar Aziz Mohamed (Ökten lab) - TU München | Reconstitution of the first functional kinesin-IFT complex
Bernardo Chapa y Lazo (Mishima lab) - CMCB
| Polar relaxation by dynein-mediated removal of cortical myosin II
9 September 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
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 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
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 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
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 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: 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 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Pavan Vedula (Kashina lab) - UPenn | Functional differences between beta- and gamma-actin
Kari Ecklund (Markus lab) - Colorado
| The MAP She1 coordinates dynein-mediated spindle positioning by spatially restricting dynein activity in yeast
14 October 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
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
21 October 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Sozanne Solmaz - Binghamton | Coiled-coil registry shifts in the F684I mutant of Bicaudal D result in cargo-independent activation of dynein motility
José Alvarado - Austin
| Uncovering the dynamic precursors to motor-driven contraction of active gels
28 October 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Anna Akhmanova - Utrecht
The second of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field. Note, this talk will commence at a different time than usually! 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 17:00 UTC / 18:00 CET / 22:30 IST / 1:00 CST
4 November 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Marija Zanic - Vanderbilt | Collective effects of XMAP215, EB1, CLASP2, and MCAK lead to robust microtubule treadmilling
George Shubeita - Abu Dhabi
| Navigating the crowded cell: how macromolecular crowding regulates collective kinesin-1 function
11 November 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Katya Grishchuk - UPenn | Harnessing dynamic microtubule ends: lessons from reconstruction studies in vitro
Wen Lu (Gelfand Lab) - Northwestern
| Competition and gatekeeping: how an oocyte gets polarized by kinesin, myosin and dynein
18 November 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Julie Welburn - Edinburgh | Activation of human CENP-E kinesin motor and recruitment to kinetochores for correct chromosome segregation
Kabir Biswas - Hamad Bin Khalifa University
| Acto-myosin regulation of cadherin adhesion assembly
25 November 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan - NCBS Bangalore
The third of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field.
2 December 2020 - Joe's talk was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Nikki Reinemann - Ole Miss | Investigating Molecular Motors Within Reconstituted Cytoskeletal Hierarchy Using Optical Tweezers
Joe Atherton - KCL London
| The mechanism of selective kinesin inhibition by kinesin binding protein
9 December 2020
BREAK for ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio Virtual 2020
16 December 2020 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Colbie Chinowsky (Tyska lab) - Vanderbilt | Myosin-2 limits length of epithelial microvilli
Michael Vershinin - Utah
| Temperature dependence of kinesin motility
6 January 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Charlotte Aumeier - Geneva | Motor usage imprints microtubule stability in the shaft
Darius Köster - CMCB
| Myosin II Filament Dynamics in Actin Networks Revealed with Interferometric Scattering Microscopy
13 January 2021
Helene Bouvrais (Pecreaux Lab) - Rennes | The coordination of spindle-positioning forces during the asymmetric division of the C. elegans zygote.
Arne Gennerich - Einstein
| Single-molecule dissection of the force generation of the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A
20 January 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Linda Wordeman - Washington
The fourth of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field.
27 January 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Erika Holzbaur & Sydney Cason - UPenn | Regulation of autophagosome transport in neurons
Saurabh Shukla (Selvin lab) - Urbana-Champaign
| An ssDNA-based force sensor for multi motor transport as an alternative to optical tweezers
3 February 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Vladimir Volkov (Dogterom lab) - Delft | Disordered gears for the tubulin motor: how dynamic microtubule ends exert forces to move cellular cargos
Senthil Arumugam - Monash
| Molecular mechanisms to overcome stochasticity in endosomal networks
10 February 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Rebecca Goldblum (Gardner lab) - Minnesota | Oxidative stress pathogenically remodels the cardiac myocyte cytoskeleton via structural alterations to the microtubule lattice
Andreas Müller (Solimena lab) - Dresden
| 3D FIB-SEM reconstruction of microtubule–organelle interaction in whole primary mouse β cells
3 March 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Anita Jannasch (Schäffer lab) - Tübingen | Single depolymerizing and transport kinesins stabilize
microtubule ends
Anna Akhmanova - Utrecht
| Microtubule lattice defects promote catastrophes
10 March 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Gijsje Koenderink - TU Delft | Cytoskeletal crosstalk in cell mechanical behavior
Serapion Pyrpassopoulos (Ostap lab) - U Penn
| Modulation of Kinesin's Load-Bearing Capacity by Force Geometry and The Microtubule Track
17 March 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Katie Drerup - UW Madison | Mitochondrial population dynamics in neurons require retrograde transport
Scott Forth - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| The mitotic crosslinking protein PRC1 acts like a mechanical dashpot to resist microtubule sliding
24 March 2021 - This webinar was available on-demand for 48 hours afterwards.
Chao Liu (Spudich lab) - Stanford | Single molecule analysis of human cardiac myosin and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations
Ulrich Schwarz - Heidelberg
| Modelling non-muscle myosin II minifilaments
31 March 2021
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Stefan Diez - TU Dresden
The fifth of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field.
21 April 2021
Santiago Balseiro Gomez (Yogev lab) - Yale | Local microtubule regulators control synaptic patterning
Mohan Balasubramanian - Warwick
| Reconstituting Cytokinesis
28 April 2021
MEET-YOUR-HEROES: Jim Spudich - Stanford
The sixth of our special sessions targeted at early career scientists to hear about the career of pioneers in the motor field.
5 May 2021
Alex Cook (Moores lab) - Birkbeck | Molecular mechanism of a parasite kinesin motor and implications for its inhibition
Clinton Lau (Carter lab) - LMB Cambridge
| Cryo-EM reveals the complex architecture of dynactin's shoulder region and pointed end
Anne Straube 
Alexander Zwetsloot 
Huong Vu 
Paula Esquivias 
Darius Köster 
Jessica Bithell 
