BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

Still going strong for our members of our cilia and centrosome community, we will run the online mini-symposia series four times a year for 2026 where our PIs, students and postdocs can continue to share their exciting stories!

We're thrilled to bring our cilia and centrosome community together again this year –under the ethos of the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network, sharing unpublished data from emerging talent favouring talks from students, post-docs and early career researchers. Talks will only be recorded with permission of the speaker and will be available on-demand for a week after the event to registrants only. We realize there are many competing pressures for attention- we hope this change helps staying connected be easier for all.

Our goal with this online event was to provide an opportunity to support our young researchers during social distancing, to stimulate the discussion and feedback among our community they need and to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise across all things cilia.

We are thrilled to this event continues grow in popularity! As long as you all keep volunteering to speak, we will keep running the series! We will run another 4 sessions through 2026! Submit your talk abstract and title here or by emailing the organizer.

55th BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium

Date: Tuesday April 21st 2026 Time: 15:00 - 17:45 BST

15:00 -15:05 Pleasantine Mill Opening remarks

15:05 -15:25 Carla Abreu, (i3S, University of Porto, PT). Removal of the Ciliary Gate Allows Axoneme Extension in the Absence of Retrograde IFT.

15:25- 15:45 Efe Begar, (Firat-Karalar lab, Koç University, TR). A hierarchical PCM1-driven pathway builds centriolar satellites and regulates ciliary signaling.

15:45 -16:05 Isabel Stötzel, (Kiermaier lab, LIMES Institute, Bonn, DE). Centrosome integrity, function and organization in dendritic cells are critical for T cell responses.

16:05 -16:25 Johanna Streubel (Perreira lab, COS University of Heidelberg, DE). The ciliopathy-associated kinase Nek1 emerges as a novel regulator of centriole microtubule extension.

16:25 -16:45 Farah Haque (Subramanian lab, Harvard, US). A Stationary Motor: Repurposing the Kinesin Fold for Hedgehog Signaling.

16:45 -17:05 Helen Foster (University of Leeds, UK) In situ structures of the ciliary tip show the multi-step mechanism of axoneme assembly.

17:05 – 17:45 Panel discussion