Cell News 3/2013
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING
10:45 – 11:15 Anne-Catherine Schmit (Strasbourg, France):
The Arabidopsis GIP proteins at the interface between
the nucleoplasm and the cytoplasm
11:15 – 11:30 Oliver Gruss (Heidelberg, Germany):
The nucleoporin MEL-28 promotes RanGTP-dependent
gamma-tubulin recruitment and microtubule nucleation
in mitotic spindle formation (short talk)
11:30 – 11:45 Irene Meyer (Potsdam, Germany):
Characterization of four novel core components of the
Dictyostelium centrosome (short talk)
11:45 – 12:00 Aglaja Kopf (Klosterneu, Austria):
The Microtubule Cytoskeleton and its associated factor
GEF-H1 during dendritic cell migration (short talk)
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S9:
Germ lines and stem cells in plants
Chair: Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg, Germany):
Peptide signaling during germline formation and double
fertilization
09:30 – 10:00 David Twell (Leicester, UK):
Patterning and control in plant male germline
development
10:00 – 10:15 Said Hafidh (Prague, Czech Republic):
In search of Ligands and receptors of the pollen tube;
the missing link in pollen tube perception (short talk)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Thomas Laux (Freiburg, Germany):
Stem cell regulation in plants
11:15 – 11:45 Renze Heidstra (Wageningen, The Netherlands):
Patterning and maintenance of the Arabidopsis root
stem cell niche
11:45 – 12:00 Philipp Denninger (Heidelberg, Germany):
Specific calcium signatures triggered by cell-cell
interaction during double fertilization of Arabidopsis
(short talk)
12:00
Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Poster Session 2
15:00 – 18:00 Plenary Session PS2:
Cell adhesion and signalling
Chairs: Susanne Grässel (Regensburg, Germany) and
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried, Germany)
15:00 – 15:30 Sara Wickström (Cologne, Germany):
Cytoskeletal regulation of cell fate decisions
15:30 – 16:00 Charles Streuli (Manchester, UK):
Deconstructing adhesion complexes: how integrins
control different phenotypes
16:00 – 16:30 Nick Brown (Cambridge, UK):
Dialogue between cell adhesion and the cytoskeleton
in morphogenesis
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Gregory Giannone (Bordeaux, France):
Deciphering the regulation of integrin activation at
the nanoscale
17:30 – 18:00 Daniel Müller (Zurich, Switzerland):
Deciphering molecular mechanisms guiding cell shape
in mitotisis
18:00 – 18:15 Break
18:15 – 19:15 Frontiers in Science Lecture
Gene Myers (Dresden, Germany): Light-Based Systems
Biology
19:15
Dancing party with DJ Bene Delmann
Drinks are to be paid individually!
Friday, March 21, 2014
09:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session PS3:
RNA Biology
Chair: Gunter Meister (Regensburg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 René Ketting (Mainz, Germany):
Transgenerational effects of small RNAs
09:30 – 10:00 Olivier Voinnet (Zurich, Switzerland):
RNA silencing in plants and animals
10:00 – 10:30 Gunter Meister (Regensburg, Germany):
Regulation of microRNA biogenesis and function
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Andrea Ventura (New York, USA):
Dissecting the many roles of Oncomir-1 in development
and disease
11:30 – 12:00 Maite Huarte (Pamplona, Spain):
Epigenetic control of cancer pathways by lncRNAs
12:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:15 DGZ Award Ceremony
Walther Flemming Medal
Thomas Wollert (Martinsried, Germany):
Molecular mechanism of autophagic scaffold assembly
and disassembly
13:15 – 13:30 Poster Award Ceremony
13:30 – 16:30 Plenary Session PS4:
Cell biology of metastasis
Chair: Christoph Klein (Regensburg, Germany)
13:30 – 14:00 Christoph Klein (Regensburg, Germany):
Molecular profiling of metastatic precursor cells
14:00 – 14:30 Peter Friedl (Nijmegen, The Netherlands):
Tissue niches for cancer cell invasion in vivo
14:30 – 15:00 Ben Z. Stanger (Philadelphia, USA):
Functionally dissecting the microenvironment in
pancreatic cancer
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00 Cyrus Ghajar (Seattle, USA):
Regulation of breast tumor dormancy by the
perivascular niche
16:00 – 16:30 David Lyden (New York, USA):
Tumor exosomes initiate pre-metastatic niche formation
and organotropism
16:30 – 16:45 Concluding Remarks
