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Monday – FUSION: Max Hockenberry & Christina So

G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

Max Hockenberry (Bear and Legant labs) We have developed an imaging based approach to directly visualize the motion of single molecules of actin and the arp2/3 complex in living cells. We have used this approach and preliminary data to assess how molecules of these proteins get to the front of the cell for incorporation in … Read more

Monday – FUSION:Keith Breau & Pierre N’Guetta

G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

Keith Breau (Magness and Elston labs) Using a reaction-diffusion model to simulate planar cell polarity in an epithelial cell layer Demonstrating a role for planar cell polarity in regulating intestinal epithelial migration     Pierre N’Guetta (O'Brien lab) Total renal denervation in mice leads to a decrease in number of nephron developed Denervated kidneys exhibit … Read more

Monday: FUSION – Anna Beeson & Vickie Williams

G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

Anna Beeson (Caron lab) Adrenomedullin robustly increases both mouse fertility and pinopode formation Alternative model systems are allowing us to interrogate pinopode formation in novel ways     Vickie Williams (Cohen lab) Dimerization fluorescent proteins are a useful tool that can show increased ER-LD contacts under conditions of lipid droplet biogenesis Dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins can … Read more