Wednesday, 21st May 2025
Registration
Arrival Check-in
Thursday, 22nd May 2025
Registration desk opens
OPENING REMARKS & INTRODUCTION
Chairs: Péter Vilmos
Stefan Raunser | Keynote lecture
The structural basis of muscle contraction
Coffee break
ACTIN DYNAMICS - Session 1.
Chairs:
József Mihály
Actin regulatory proteins play a crucial role in radial growth of the sarcomeres in the Drosophila IFM
Laurent Blanchoin
Reconstituting the dynamic steady states of actin networks in vitro
Margot Quinlan
Using actin to put your head and heart in the right place
Beáta Bugyi
To see what everyone else has seen, and to think what nobody has thought." The discovery of actin
Lunch
ACTIN AND MECHANOTRANSDUCTION - Session 2.
Chairs:
Lining Arnold Ju
Mechanosensing through F-actin reorganization
Nils C. Gauthier
Ghostbusters: Catching spectrin skeleton in action
Talk 1
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 2
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 3
Speaker selected from abstracts
Coffee break
ACTIN IN DISEASES - Session 3.
Chairs:
Delphine Muriaux
Arp2/3 mediated branched actin is involved in HIV-1 assembly in T4 lymphocytes
Mark P. Dodding
Stress condition facilitates the incorporation of actin into microtubules
Miklós Kellermayer
Molecular pathobiophysics of titin, a giant actin-binding muscle protein
Poster session I.
Odd number posters
Welcome dinner
Friday, 23rd May 2025
Registration desk opens
ACTIN AND INTRACELLULAR TRAFFICKING - Session 4.
Chairs:
David G. Drubin
Actin networks drive vesicle release
Binyam Mogessie
Actin limits egg aneuploidies
Coffee break
Pekka Lappalainen
Assembly of functionally distinct actin filaments for cell adhesion and migration
Melina Schuh
New functions of actin in oocyte meiosis
Talk 4
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 5
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 6
Speaker selected from abstracts
Lunch
ACTIN AND PHASE SEPARATION - Session 5.
Chairs:
Yansong Miao
The scaffold protein Spa2 remodels ADP-actin upon energy starvation through phase separation
Jeanne C. Stachowiak
Liquid-like condensates that bind actin drive filament polymerization and bundling
Stephan W. Grill
Cortical condensate dynamics
Coffee break
Talk 7
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 8
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 9
Speaker selected from abstracts
Poster session 2.
Even number posters
Evening Lecture - Women in Science
Katalin Karikó
2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine
DINNER
Saturday, 24th May 2025
Registration desk opens
ACTIN ACROSS EVOLUTION - Session 6.
Chairs:
Jan Löwe
Diverse cytomotive actins and tubulins share a polymerization switch mechanism conferring robust dynamics
Christa Schleper
A complex actin-based cytoskeleton predated the emergence of the first eukaryotes
Coffee break
Andrew J. Parnell
From cytoskeleton to colour how actin sculpts nanostructures responsible for structural colour in butterfly wings
Noriko Inada
Arabidopsis thaliana actin depolymerizing factors regulate nuclear organization and gene expression
Talk 10
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 11
Speaker selected from abstracts
Talk 12
Speaker selected from abstracts
Lunch
Poster session 3.
All posters
ACTIN AND THE GENOME - Session 7.
Chairs:
Karl-Peter Hopfner
Roles of nuclear actin and actin related proteins in chromatin remodeling
Tina Tootle
Prostaglandins and Fascin regulate nuclear actin to control nucleolar function
Robert Grosse
Nuclear actin and nuclear mechanics
Noa Lamm-Shalem
Nuclear F-actin in replication stress response
Péter Vilmos
Multiple importins are responsible for the dynamic nuclear localization of actin
Closing Remarks, Poster Awards & Feedback
Bridge fair and wine festival in Szeged
Visiting the former laboratory and memorial room of Albert Szent-Györgyi, who discovered actin and was awarded the Nobel Prize.