In light of the ongoing pandemic, many important cilia and cell biology meetings have been postponed. In response to the overwhelming demand from members of our cilia community, to keep us connected we will be running an entirely virtual online mini-symposia series every fortnight where our PIs, students and postdocs can share their exciting stories that cannot wait until later. Even with social distancing, we can have great science, deep discussions and support our peers!

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We will run the series under the ethos of the UK Cilia Network, sharing unpublished data from emerging talent favouring talks from students, post-docs and early career researchers.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 72hrs 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 is 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.

We are very grateful to Journal of Cell Science, BSCB and GenSoc for their continued generous sponsorship and flexibility in light of COVID19 to keep it free and open to all!

22nd BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia Network e-symposium

Date: 09 March 2021 Time: 15:00 - 17:30 GMT

3:00 -3:05 Pleasantine Mill Opening Remarks

3:05 -3:25 Susana Godhino, PI (Queen Mary University London, UK) 'Centrosome amplification mediates small extracellular vesicle secretion via lysosome disruption'.

3:25 -3:45 Melis Dilara Arslanhan, graduate student, Fırat Karalar lab (Koç University, TR) 'Aurora Kinase A proximity interactome reveals centriolar satellites as regulators of its function at the primary cilium'.

3:45 - 4:05 Long Gui, postdoc, Nicastro lab (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, US) 'Cryo-electron tomography of Drosophila sperm flagella.'

4:05 - 4:25 Laura Bozal-Basterra, recently defended graduate student, Barrio lab (CIC bioGUNE, ES) 'LUZP1, a novel regulator of primary cilia and the actin cytoskeleton, is a contributing factor in Townes-Brocks Syndrome and cancer'.

4:25 - 4:45 Juan Wang, postdoc, Barr lab (Rutgers University, US) 'Sensory cilia act as a specialized venue for regulated extracellular vesicles biogenesis and signaling.'

4:45 - 5:05 Tim Stearns, PI (Stanford University, US) 'The frangible flagellum of frugal fungi'.

23rd BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia Network e-symposium

Date: 23 March 2021 Time: 15:00 - 17:30 GMT

3:00 -3:05 Pleasantine Mill Opening Remarks

3:05 -3:25 Helen May-Simera, PI (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, DE) 'Cilia in the RPE- And how they help us to see'.

3:25 -3:45 Maneesha Pandey, recently defended PhD student, He lab (National University of Singapore, SG) 'Functional Lipidated protein Intraflagellar Transport (LIFT) pathway in Trypanosoma brucei'.

3:45 - 4:05 Melissa LaBonty, postdoc, Yoder lab (University of Alabama at Birmingham, US) 'Conservation of the genetic interaction between bbs-5 and nphp-4 across species.'

4:05 - 4:25 Vikas Daggubati, MD/PhD student, Raleigh lab (UCSF, US) 'Smoothened-activating lipids drive resistance to Hedgehog-associated medulloblastoma'.

4:25 - 4:45 Jennifer Lennon, PhD student, Jarman lab (University of Edinburgh, UK) 'Investigating R2TP-like complexes in Drosophila motile ciliated cells'

4:45 - 5:05 Manu Prakash, PI (Stanford University, US) 'Walk, Run and Swim: Wonderland of ciliary biophysics '.