2024 Northeast Nuclear Envelope Program

9:30 – 10:00

Coffee & light breakfast

10:00

Opening remarks

Session 1

Moderator Will Chadwick

10:05 – 10:30

Talk 1 (25 min) Irena Ivanovska - University of Pennsylvania “Lipid droplets can rupture the nucleus”

10:30 – 10:55

Talk 2 (25 min) Bing Dai - Tufts University “A host ER protein is required for nuclear egress in HSV-1 and the host”

10:55 – 11:02

Lighting Talk 1 (7 min)  Karan Srikrishna - UMass Amherst “DNA density is a better indicator of a nuclear bleb than lamin B loss”

11:02 – 11:27

Talk 3 (25 min) Sarah Barger - Yale University “Shaping the nuclear envelope after mitosis”

11:27 – 11:52

Talk 4 (25 min) Ross Pedersen - Carnegie Institute “Reconstitution and mechanistic analysis of post-mitotic lamin assembly”

11:52 – 11:59

Lighting Talk 2 (7 min) Qingzhou Feng - Yale University "Channel width modulates the permeability of DNA origami based nuclear pore mimics"

12:00 – 12:05

Group Photo

12:05 – 2:15

Lunch & Poster Session

12:30 – 1:20

Even Posters

1:25 – 2:15

Odd Posters

Session 2

Moderator Brigitte Naughton

2:20 – 2:45

Talk 5 (25 min) Sandeep Dubey - Baylor College of Medicine “The VCP-Ufd1-Npl4 complex is required for quality control of the nuclear pore complex and is altered by VCP disease mutations”

2:45 – 3:10

Talk 6 (25 min) Sanjana Sundararajan - NICHD/NIH “Mitotic checkpoint proteins and the interphase nuclear pores”

3:10 – 3:17

Lighting Talk 3 (7 min) Monica Lee - University of Illinois at Chicago "Nup93 prevents endothelial stiffening through Sun1-RhoA signal regulation"

3:17 – 3:42

Talk 7 (25 min) Pieter Van Velde - UMass Chan Medical School RNA Therapeutics Institute “Novel strategies for live imaging of mRNA export: automated analysis and enhanced detection/localization reveal spatiotemporal NPC dynamics in budding yeast”

3:42 – 4:07

Talk 8 (25 min) Jingjing Li - Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer “Nuclear reassembly defects after mitosis trigger apoptotic and p53-dependent safeguard mechanisms in Drosophila”

4:07 – 4:14

Lighting Talk 4 (7 min) Kimberly Morgan - Yale School of Medicine “Quantifying nuclear pore complex flexibility and diversity using Pan-Expansion Microscopy”

4:15 – 4:30

Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:30

Keynote | Dr. Abby Buchwalter

5:35

Closing Remarks and Prizes