Christopher Edelmaier, Laura Maguire, Jeffrey Moore, and Loren Hough presented posters on their work at the Biophysical Society annual meeting in San Francisco.
Chris Edelmaier was chosed to give a talk at the Mechanobiology Symposium hosted by the Mechanobiology Subgroup of the Biophysical Society, as part of the BPS Annual Meeting. Congratulations!
Two members of the group presented posters at the American Society for Cell Biology/EMBO 2017 meeting. Chris Edelmaier's poster was titled "Minimal ingredients for coupled spindle assembly and chromosome bi-orientation in a computational model of fission yeast mitosis" and Zach Gergely's was "The effects of microtubule length, dynamics and bundling...
Our paper "Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture" was published in final form today by the Biophysical Journal and highlighted on the Biophysical Journal website.
Robert Blackwell's paper "Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast" was published by Science Advances .
Microtubules, motors, and cross-linkers are important for bipolarity, but the mechanisms necessary and sufficient for spindle assembly remain unknown. We describe a physical model that exhibits de novo bipolar spindle formation.
Recent work has found that microtubule rotational diffusion about minus-end attachment points contributes to kinetochore capture in fission yeast, but the relative contributions of dynamic instability and rotational diffusion are not well understood.
Our paper "Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture" was posted on the arXiv preprint server today.
