Wednesday evening to Friday Evening; NOVEMBER 19-21, 2008
THE WILLIAM AND IDA FRIDAY CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION - Chapel Hill, NC

HOTEL: Courtyard by Marriott Chapel Hill

Talks will be 30 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.  A discussion of all talks will conclude each Session.

Wednesday, 11-19-08

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Registration

6:00 - 6:30 PM

Cocktail Reception

6:30 - 8:30 PM

Dinner for Speakers and Organizing Committee

Thursday, 11-20-08

7:30 - 8:30 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 AM

Opening Remarks

Welcome: Barry R. Lentz, Organizer and Director, Program in Molecular & Cellular Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

8:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1: Ciliary Mechanisms
Richard Superfine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Session Chair, Organizing Committee and Session Chair

"Ciliary interactions with mucus: Clinical implications"
Bruce Rubin, Wake Forest University

"Self-organization of ciliary motion: beat shapes and metachronicity"
Sorin Mitran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:55 - 10:10 AM

Break

"The Response of Human Airway Epithelial Cilia to External Force"
David Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Cryo-Electron Tomography of the Dynein-Microtubule Complex"
Dany Nicastro, Brandeis University

"Collective Mechanochemistry in and of Cilia and Flagella". Mahadevan, Harvard

11:55 AM - 12:10 PM

Discussion

12:15 - 2:15 PM

Lunch and Poster Session I

2:15 - 5:45 PM

Session 2: Cytokinesis and Cell Division
Dan Kiehart, Duke University, Session Chair, Organizing Committee and Session Chair

"Kinetochore Protein Architecture Measured by K-SHREC"
Ted Salmon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Bacterial Cytokinesis - Reconstitution of Contractile FtsZ Rings in Tubular Liposomes"
Harold Erickson, Duke University

3:25 - 3:40 PM

Break

"Dynamics of Actin Cytoskeleton During Fission Yeast Cytokinesis"
Dimitrios Vavylonis, Lehigh University

"C. elegans, the Biophysics of Division"
Nathan Goehring, Dresden

"The Dynamics and Mechanics of Cytokinesis"
Yu-Li Wang, University of Massachusetts

5:25 - 5:45 PM

Discussion

5:45 - 7:00 PM:

Mixer hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill Molecular & Cellular Biophysics Trainees

Friday, 11-21-08

7:30 - 8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 11:30 PM

Session 3: Neuronal Signaling
Paul Tiesinga, UNC-Chapel Hill, Session Chair, Organizing Committee and Session Chair

"SNARE Proteins and Neurotransmitter Release"
Keith Weninger, North Carolina State University

"A Theoretical Physicists's Guide to Birdsong"
Henry Greenside, Duke University

9:10 - 9:25 AM

Break

"Optical Brain Control: Analyzing and Engineering Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Dynamics"
Ed Boyden, MIT

"Binocular visual processing in complete cortical microcircuits revealed with two photon calcium imaging"
Prakash Kara, MUSC

"The Assembly of Neural Circuits During Development"
Marla Feller, University of California at Berkeley

11:10 - 11:30 AM

Discussion

11:35 AM - 1:30 PM

Lunch and Poster Session II

1:30 - 6:00 PM

Session 4: Wound Healing and Tissue Morphogensis
Jason Haugh, North Carolina State University, Organizing Committee and Session Chair

"NanoMaterials in tissue engineering for wound healing applications"
David Carroll, Wake Forest University

"Geometric Regulation of Tissue Dynamics during Drosophila Morphogenesis"
Glenn Edwards, Duke University

"The stress strain behavior of crosslinked and noncrosslinked fibrin fibers"
Christine Carlisle, Wake Forest University

3:15 - 3:40 PM

Break

"Single Molecule Studies of Blood Clotting and Cell-Cell Interactions"
John Weisel, University of Pennsylvania

"Wound Healing – Restoring a Damaged Structure"
Maureane Hoffman, Duke University

"Cellular dynamics in tissue patterning and Development"
Celeste Nelson, Princeton University

5:25 - 6:00 PM

Discussion of Session 4 and Round-up Discussion

6:00 PM

Closing Remarks