Reconstitution of Organelle Interactions: Toward Synthetic Cell Biology
March 3-4, 2022
Thursday, March 3, 2022
9-9:15 am PST Introduction – Mary Mirvis
Talks : 20 min + 10 min Q&A
Bottom-up synthetic cells
9:15-9:45 am Kerstin Gopfrich – “Towards Synthetic Cell Biology with DNA Nanotechnology”
9:45-10:15 am Dora Tang – “Bottom up approaches to synthetic cellularity”
10:15-10:45 am Kristina Ganzinger – “A New Spin on Efficient Reconstitution of Biological Systems in GUVs”
10:45-11:00 am Break
Organelle interactions
11:00-11:30 am Maya Schuldiner – “Systematic approaches for uncovering contact site tethers and regulators”
11:30 am-12:00 pm Will Prinz – “How and why are lipid exchanged between organelles at contact sites?”
12:00-1:15 pm Lunch Break
Organelle communication, size control, and biophysics
1:15-1:45 pm Mike Henne – “Dissecting the biophysical properties of liquid-crystalline lipid droplets”
1:45-2:15pm Matt Good – “Engineered coacervating proteins to construct synthetic organelles”
2:15-2:45 pm Shankar Mukherji – “Flexible versus rigid modes in systems-level organelle biogenesis”
2:45-3:30 pm Discussion and Wrap-up
Looking to the future: open questions, technical considerations, and next steps for reconstitution of organelle interactions
Friday, March 4, 2022
9:00-9:30a – Lightning talks (1 minute from each poster presenter)
9:30-11:00a – Poster session (via Gathertown link)
11-12a – Discussion, feedback, & wrap up
1p – meet for lunch at Spark Social SF (local participants)