28th UK Adhesion Society Meeting 2016
“The Force is Awake: Integrins and beyond”
September 22, 2016
University College London
Darwin Building, London WC1E 6BT
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10.00 Registration & Coffee and Poster setup
10.20 Welcome
10.30 Martin Humphries, University of Manchester
How adhesion complexes are remodelled prior to mitosis
Leukocytes
11.00 Robert Beal, Queen Mary University of London
JAM-C deficiency primes endothelial cells for a pro-inflammatory state
11.15 Silvia Dragoni, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Endothelial cell MAP kinases induce an inflammatory state and mediate VE-cadherin internalisation during lymphocyte transmigration
11.30 Andy Newman, Cardiff School of Medicine
The regulation of L-selectin activity by proteolysis
11.45 Myriam Chimen, University of Birmingham
Differtinal capacity of monocytes subsets to form foam cells in the healthy and patients with arterial disease
Integrin signalling
12.00 Dr Susanna Fagerholm, University of Helsinki
Beta2-integrins in immunity: new roles for old players
12.30 Lunch & Poster Viewing
14.15 Samuel Atkinson, University of East Anglia
The role of integrin beta 3 in the endothelial cell adhesome
14.30 Ioannis Xanthis, University of Sheffield
Calcium signalling in endothelial cells exposed to flow involves mechanical activation of β1-integrins
14.45 Ben Goult, University of Kent
Emerging role for talin as a mechanosensitive signalling platform
15.00 Koval Smith, Imperial College London
The Jedi and the Force collide: vWF regulates synthesis of angiopoietin-2 via a 3 integrin pathway
Cancer
15.15 Jim Norman, University of Glasgow
A role for Ephrin receptor trafficking in cell:cell repulsion and pancreatic cancer metastasis
15.45 Tea Break
16.05 Esther Castellano, Bart Cancer Institute, QMUL
RAS-PI3K signalling regulates cell adhesion in lung tumours
16.20 Dylan Edwards, University of East Anglia
ADAMTS metalloproteinases regulate mammary cancer cell adhesion and migration via Syndecan-4
16.35 Victoria Juskaite, Imperial College London
Collagen induces activation of DDRS through lateral association of receptors
16.50 Pernille Søgaard, University of Oxford
Signalling through the collagen receptor, DDR1, is required for epithelial polarisation and morphological remodelling in 3D matrices
17.05 Erik Sahai, The Francis Crick Institute
Stromal fibroblasts, the ECM, and cancer progression
17.35 Concluding Remark and Poster Prize
Drinks and tapas.
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