Conference programme
17th Interdisciplinary Graduate School Meeting, Münster/Germany
Wednesday 25.10.2023
Thursday 26.10.2023
Friday 27.10.2023
Wednesday 25.10.2023 (Online)
9:00-9:10 Welcome Talk
9:10-10:50 Development and Cell Biology Part I
| TIME | TOPICS AND SPEAKERS |
|---|---|
| 9:10-9:50 | Impact of lamin-A/C on cancer progression in vivo Katharina Wolf, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| 9:50-10:30 | A question of dynamics Barbara di Ventura, The BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany |
| 10:30-10:50 | Q&A and Coffee Break |
10:50-12:50 Vascular Biology
| 10:50-11:30 | Guiding Mechanotransduction in Blood Vessels Ellie Tzima, Radcliffe Department of Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| 11:30-12:10 | Skeletal stem/progenitor cells: interactions within the bone vascular microenvironment and beyond Christa Maes, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
| 12:10-12:50 | Leukocyte breaching of blood vessel walls: Insights into the role of pericytes Tamara Girbl, Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany |
12:50-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:50 Developmental & Cell Biology Part II
| 14:00-14:40 | Membrane repair mechanisms and membrane integrity Jesper Nylandsted, Cancer and Inflammation Research Unit, Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 14:40-15:20 | Cellular roadmaps: Control of cell architecture by dynamic microtubules Anna Akhmanova, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 15:20-15:50 | Q&A and Coffee Break |
15:50-17:50 Immunology & Virology
| 15:50-16:30 | Unraveling the Molecular Architecture of the Intestinal Barrier: Insights from Spatial Transcriptomics Eduardo Villablanca, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 16:30-17:10 | Circadian control of enteric virus infection Julie Pfeiffer, Microbiology department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA |
| 17:10-17:50 | Culturing Hepatitis E Virus– recent advances for basic science and drug discovery Eike Steinmann, Department of Molecular & Medical Virology, University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
Thursday 26.10.2023 (In person)
8:00-8:50 Registration
8:50-9:00 Welcome Talk
| TIME | TOPICS AND SPEAKERS |
|---|---|
| 9:00-9:20 | Young investigator talk: Double-modified AdoMet analogues for selective targeting of methyltransferases Mehmet Erguven, Institute of Biochemistry, WWU Münster, Germany |
| 9:20-9:40 | Young investigator talk:Two-way Dispatched function in Sonic Hedgehog shedding and transfer to high-density lipoproteins Janna Puschmann, University Hospital Münster, Germany |
| 9:40-10:00 | Young investigator talk: Unexpected function of the antioxidative xCT system/Slc7a11 in systemic sclerosis Jessica Tiemann, University Hospital Münster/ Department of Dermatology, Germany |
| 10:00-10:30 | Poster Flash Talks |
| 10:30-10:50 | Q&A and Coffee Break |
10:50-12:00 Non-academic Session
| 10:50-12:00 | Career Seminar Aishwarya Sundaram, Nature Communications editor, Berlin, Germany |
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break and Poster Session
13:30-16:30 Systems Biology
| 13:30-14:10 | Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales Gautam Dey, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 14:10-14:50 | Cellular regulation in context – Integration of mathematical modeling in time and space with dedicated experiments on different scales Edda Klipp, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 14:50-15:30 | The EGFR/RPTPg sensory morphogenic system: a loop onto itself Philippe Bastiaens, Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany |
| 15:30-16:10 | From molecules to life: building living systems from scratch Dora Tang, Department of Life Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 16:10-16:30 | Q&A and Coffee Break |
16:30-17:50 Biophysics Part I
| 16:30-17:10 | Liquid–liquid phase separation? Ask the water! Martina Havenith-Newen, Center of Molecular Spectroscopy and Simulation of Solvent Controlled Processes, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
| 17:10-17:50 | Modulation of the Slo potassium channel by small molecules and auxiliary proteins Dr. Tobias Raisch, Structural Biochemistry of Membrane Proteins, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany |
18:00 onwards Social Event: Get together & Pub Quiz
Friday 27.10.2023 (In person)
9:45-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:10 Welcome Talk
10:10-14:40 Neuroscience
| TIME | TOPICS AND SPEAKERS |
|---|---|
| 10:10-10:50 | Interactions of Tau protein condensates Susanne Wegmann, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Berlin, Germany |
| 10:50-11:30 | Programming cell fate and age for neuronal disease modeling and repair Oliver Brüstle, Institut für Rekonstruktive Neurobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| 11:30-12:30 |
KEYNOTE: Synaptic vesicles – key organelles in synaptic transmission |
12:30-14:00 Poster Sessions and Lunch Break
| 14:00-14:40 | Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity in the mouse brain Christian Mayer, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, LMU Munich, Martinsried, Munich, Germany |
14:40-16:00 Biophysics Part II
| 14:40-15:20 | Cytoskeletal fibres as building blocks for life Franziska Lautenschläger, Center for Biophysics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 15:20-16:00 | Cellular cartography: mapping cytoskeletal organization and intracellular transport in neurons Lukas Kapitein, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |