BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

Back by overwhelming demand from members of our cilia community, we will be running an entirely virtual online mini-symposia series four times a year for 2025 where our PIs, students and postdocs can continue to share their exciting stories!

Open to all, from now a ONE-OFF registration for this free series in advance will be required- once you are on our list, you will be sent a recurring link to each event for the Zoom webinar and link to the cloud recording once processed after the event. YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER FOR EACH EVENT- I will transfer your registration for you for each subsequent event. If you wish to be removed from these events, please email pleasantine.millATigmm.ed.ac.uk to be taken off the list.

We will run the series under the ethos of the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network, sharing unpublished data from emerging talent favouring talks from students, post-docs and early career researchers.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! Submit your talk abstract and title here or by emailing the organizer.

52nd BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium

Date: Tuesday August 19th 2025 Time: 15:00 - 17:45 BST

5:00 -15:05 Pleasantine Mill Opening remarks

15:05 -15:25 Zhen Liu, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SR. RPGR regulates motile cilia by interfering with actin dynamics.

15:25- 15:45 Poulomi Das, Lechtreck lab, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, US. PKD2-like proteins targeted Chlamydomonas PKD2 to distinct subciliary regions.

15:45 -16:05 Yinwen Liang, Joyner lab, Developmental Biology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US. Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos.

16:05 -16:25 Maxime Bigotte, Stratton lab, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, CA. Cerebrospinal fluid-driven ependymal motile cilia defects are implicated in multiple sclerosis pathophysiology.

16:25 -16:45 Cayla Jewett, Pearson lab, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, US. The DNA damage response pathway is required for multiciliated cell differentiation.

16:45 -17:05 Mia Konjikusic, Reiter lab, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, US. Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development.

17:05 – 17:45 Panel discussion