Cell News 1/2015
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Scientific Program
International Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ)
March 24–27, 2015, Cologne, Germany
Tuesday March 24, 2015
08:30 – 11:45 X-ray cryo-microscopy and other high resolution
approaches for investigating cell ultrastructure
09:00 – 11:00 Young Investigator Satellite Meetings
09:00 – 11:00 Aneuploidy in health and disease
Organizer: Zuzana Storchova (Martinsried, Germany)
09:00 – 09:40 Keynote speaker: René H. Medema (Amsterdam,
The Netherlands): The multiple faces of aneuploidy
09:40 – 10:05 Floris Foijer (Groningen, The Netherlands):
In vivo consequences of aneuploidy
10:05 – 10:30 Jan Korbel (Heidelberg, Germany): From genomic copy
number variations to molecular mechanisms
10:30 – 10:55 Zuzana Storchova (Martinsried, Germany):
Aneuploidy causes proteotoxic stress
09:00 – 11:00 Cell biology of peroxisomes
Organizer: Petra Wendler (Munich, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Keynote speaker: Nancy Braverman (Montreal, Canada):
Peroxisome biogenesis disorders, from the bedside-to-
bench and back
09:30 – 10:00 Tony Rodrigues (Porto, Portugal): Dissecting the peroxi-
somal protein import pathway using an in vitro import/
export system
10:00 – 10:30 Marc Fransen (Leuven, Belgium): PEX5, the shuttling
import receptor for peroxisomal matrix proteins, functions
as a stress sensor
10:30 – 11:00 Petra Wendler (Munich, Germany):
Three cornered circles: molecular snapshots of the Pex1/6
AAA+ complex in action
09:00 – 11:00 Cell biology of lipid metabolism
Organizer: Mathias Beller (Duesseldorf, Germany)
09:00 – 09:45 Keynote speaker: Albert Pol (Barcelona, Spain):
The many faces of caveolin in the endoplasmic
reticulum: From fatty liver to neurodegeneration
09:45 – 10:10 Abdou Rachid Thiam (Paris, France):
Protein crowding as a determinant mechanism of
lipid droplet composition
10:10 – 10:35 Christoph Thiele (Bonn, Germany):
Click-chemistry-based lipid tracing to study lipid
metabolism and localisation
10:35 – 11:00 Mathias Beller (Duesseldorf, Germany): Towards a model
to understand cellular lipid droplet diversification
09:00 – 11:00 Molecular mechanisms in metastasis
Organizer: Stefan Veltel (Hamburg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:45 Keynote speaker: Jim Norman (Glasgow, UK):
The role of Ephrin receptor trafficking in mediating cell:
cell repulsion
09:45 – 10:10 Stefan Veltel (Hamburg, Germany):
Regulation of integrin trafficking on a molecular level
10:10 – 10:35 Markus Moser (Martinsried, Germany):
Genetic analysis of integrin signaling in mice
10:35 – 11:00 Klaus Pantel (Hamburg, Germany):
Tumor cell dissemination: emerging biological
insights from the analysis of circulating tumor cells
in cancer patients
11:15 – 12:15 Careers in Science- Panel discussion
–Magdalena Götz (Munich, Germany)
– Kai Kretzschmar (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
– René H. Medema (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
– Ellen Nollen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
– Björn Schumacher (Cologne, Germany)
– Zuzana Storchova (Martinsried, Germany)
13:00
Opening words
– Prof. Carien Niessen, representing the DGZ Board
and local Organizing Committee
– Prof. Ansgar Büschges, Dean of the Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of
Cologne
– Prof. Thomas Krieg, Dean of Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Cologne
13:00 – 15:00 Plenary Session PS1: Cell biology of ageing
Chair: Thorsten Hoppe (Cologne, Germany)
13:00 – 13:30 Ellen Nollen (Groningen, The Netherlands):
Modifying toxicity of aggregation-prone proteins in aging
and age-related diseases
13:30 – 14:00 Martin Hetzer (La Jolla, USA):
The role of nucleoporins in developmental gene regulation
14:00 – 14:30 Thomas Nyström (Göteborg, Sweden):
Recognition, partitioning, and asymmetrical segregation of
protein aggregates
14:30 – 15:00 Thorsten Hoppe (Cologne, Germany):
Ubiquitin-dependent coordination of proteostasis and
longevity
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 DGZ Awards
–Walther Flemming Medal
Katrin Paeschke (Wuerzburg, Germany):
Consequences of G-quadruplex structures for
eukaryotic cells
–Binder Innovation Prize
Holger Bastians (Goettingen, Germany):
Increased microtubule dynamics triggers chromosomal
instabilty and aneuploidy in human cancer cells
–Nikon Young Scientist Award of the DGZ
Kai Kretzschmar (Utrecht, The Netherlands):
Remodelling adult skin by epidermal
β
-catenin activation
–Werner Risau Prize
Ayal Ben-Zvi (Jerusalem, Israel):
Mfsd2a is critical for the formation and function
of the blood-brain barrier
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
International Meeting
