UK Cilia and Centrosome Network Autumn Meeting 2024

Two weeks until we welcome you all to Liverpool for the 2024 Cilia and Centrosome UK Fall Meeting on the 22nd of November 2024! As usual there will be no registration fee and to allow for on the day travel, we will start at 11am and finish by 5.30pm with drinks at the pub. We are also delighted to announce that EMBO YIP Elif Karalar will present a keynote talk and we will also open with a memorial plenary for our friend and colleague David Stephens by Anthony Roberts.

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Date: 22nd November 2024

Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Ln, Liverpool L1 3BT

11.00 - 11.30 Registration, poster hanging, tea and coffee

11:30 – 12.15 Celebrating David's Legacy

11:30 – 12.15 Legacy talk: Anthony Roberts (Oxford University) David Stephens' Role as an Inspiring Cilia Researcher, Mentor, and Collaborator

12.15 – 13.00 Session 1

12.15 – 12.35 OC 01: Louise Brennan (Lancaster University) Investigating the role of primary cilia and the ciliome in melanoma phenotype switching

12.35 – 12.55 OC 02: Travis Bannell (University of Leeds) Investigating Protein Instability as a Pathogenic Mechanism in ARPKD

13:00 – 14.30 Lunch with the poster session

14.30 – 15.15 Keynote speaker, EMBO YIP talk: Elif Nur Firat Karalar (Koc University) Multifaceted functions and localizations of ciliary microtubule-associated proteins

15.15 – 17.30 Session 2

15.15 – 15.35 OC 03: Barrack Owino (Oxford Brookes University) Putting down roots: How Leishmania mexicana changes a motile flagellum to an adhesive flagellum

15.35 – 15.55 OC 04: Dagan Jenkins (UCL) Stochastic mRNA processing and tissue-specific genetic threshold effects explain incomplete penetrance for complex morphological traits

15.55 – 16.20 OC 05: Karim Housseini B Issa (University of Oxford) Molecular basis for the activation of outer dynein arms in cilia

16.20 – 16.30 Sponsored talk: Emma Hall (Edinburgh University/ eLife) How e-Life reimagines the peer review process for the open science era

16.30 – 16.55 OC 06: Charlie Softley (Keele University) Using tadpoles to study an ultra-rare human ciliopathy, Alstrӧm Syndrome (AS)

16.55 – 17.20 OC 07: Takashi Ochi (University of Leeds) CCDC103: evidence for its role as a new PCD-associated dynein assembly factor

17.20 – 17.30 Concluding remarks and prizes

17.30 onwards drinks, pub to be confirmed