Session 1

10:00 Pat Caswell/Shane Herbert/Martin Lowe (University of Manchester):

Welcome & BSCB discussion

10:15 Keynote Speaker: Clare Buckley (currently University of Cambridge; joining FBMH in 2024):

Building and breaking epithelial tubes

11:00 Becky Yarwood (Lowe lab):

Zebrafish models of complex hereditary spastic paraplegia caused by variants in the Kennedy pathway gene, PCYT2.

11:20 Dionn Hargreaves (Woolner lab):

Mitotic spindle dynamics in stretched epithelial tissue, in vivo and in silico

11:40 Anzy Miller (Papalopulu lab):

NGN3 oscillatory expression controls the timing of human pancreatic endocrine differentiation

12:00 Lunch in Smith Lounge

Session 2

13:00 New PI Speaker: Alex Davies (University of Manchester):

Dynamic Organellar Maps to investigate neurological diseases caused by protein trafficking defects

13:30 Anna Gavrilova (Allan lab):

Intracellular transport of organelles

13:50 Chloe Flett (Caswell lab):

Rab11b regulates lysosome positioning in ovarian cancer cell invasion

14:10 Coffee in Smith Lounge

Session 3

14:50 New PI Speaker: Ximena Soto Rodriguez (University of Manchester):

Application of developmental molecular mechanism in spinal cord regeneration; the role of dynamic gene expression

15:20 Alice Mortimer (Das lab):

The Golgi apparatus drives vertebrate peripheral neuron regeneration

15:40 Nabarun Nandy (Ashe lab):

A contact mediated, short range, BMP signalling ensures Drosophila Ovarian germline Stem cell homeostasis

16:00 Drinks reception in Smith Lounge

Cell Dynamics Symposium 2023