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Witman Symposium
January 20, 2021 - 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
In honor of George Witman’s retirement, we have planned an afternoon of science. Tickets are free but registration is required.
Witman Symposium January 20, 2021.
1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks: Steve King and Greg Pazour
1:15-1:45 Daniela Nicastro, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “Cryo-Electron Tomography Provides a New Window into the Structure and Function of Cilia”
1:45- 2:15 Greg Pazour, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School. “Ubiquitination Regulates Ciliary Smoothened Levels”
2:15-2:45 Robert Bloodgood, PhD, University of Virginia. “Roles for Surface Motility on Microtubule-Filled Cellular Extensions”
2:45- 3:15 Karl Lechtreck, PhD, University of Georgia. “Chlamydomonas PKD2 Anchors Extracellular Mastigonemes to the Ciliary Surface”
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Steve King, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center. “Peptide Amidation, Ciliogenesis, and Cilia-based Peptidergic Signaling”
4:00-4:30 Ritsu Kamiya, PhD, Chuo University. “Puzzling Diversity in the Motile Behaviors of Axonemal Dyneins”
4:30-5:00 Joel Rosenbaum, PhD, Yale University. “My Fifty + Years of Association with George Witman as PhD Mentor, Colleague and Friend”
5:00- After Symposium Open Discussion
