Cell News 1/2015
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16:00 – 16:30 Cristina Lo Celso (London, UK):
Plastic interactions between normal and malignant
haematopoietic cells and their bone marrow niches
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30 Eileen Furlong (Heidelberg, Germany):
Three-dimensional properties of enhancer interactions
during embryonic development
17:30 – 18:00 Jacco van Rheenen (Utrecht, The Netherlands):
Intravital microscopy of epithelial stem cells and cancer
Thursday, March 26, 2015
09:00 – 12:00 Symposia 5-8
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S5: Degenerative diseases
Chair: Eva-Maria Mandelkow (Bonn, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Joachim Herz (Dallas, USA): ApoE, ApoE receptors and
Alzheimer's Disease
09:30 – 09:45 Gültekin Tamgüney:
Brain homogenates from patients with multiple system
atrophy and aged control subjects without neurologi-
cal disorder cause neuropathology in transgenic mice
expressing human wild-type (short talk, A-239)
09:45 – 10:15 Eva-Maria Mandelkow (Bonn, Germany):
Tau toxicity and rescue in animal models of Tau
pathology
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Peter St. George-Hyslop (Toronto, Canada):
Amyloid, presenilin, and inflammation in Alzheimer
disease
11:15 – 11:30 Simon Alberti:
The ALS-associated protein FUS forms liquid
compartments, whose biophysical properties correlate
with disease (short talk, A-264)
11:30 – 12:00 Sandrine Humbert (Grenoble, France):
Huntington’s disease: from corticogenesis to
neurodegeneration
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S6: Genome regulation
Chair: Ana Pombo (Berlin, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Josée Dostie (Montreal, Canada):
Linking chromatin architecture to RNA
09:30 – 10:00 Musa Mhlanga (Pretoria, South Africa):
A new enhancer-like noncoding RNA influencing
genome organization and the transcription cycle in the
immune response
10:00 – 10:15 Kurt Engeland:
Genome-wide analysis of transcription suggests a
pathway for p53-dependent cell cycle regulation
(short talk, A-281)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:00 Marina Lusic:
Nuclear architecture dictates HIV-1 integration site
selection (short talk, A-180)
11:00 – 11:30 Francois Spitz (Heidelberg, Germany):
Function and regulation of long-distance chromosomal
interactions
11:30 – 12:00 Ana Pombo (Berlin, Germany):
Novel, ligation-free method for identifying chromatin
interactions genome-wide
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S7: Cell Polarity – from yeast
to mammals
Chair: Sandra Iden (Cologne, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Roland Wedlich-Söldner (Muenster, Germany):
Yeast polarity – a paradigm for mesoscale systems
biology
09:30 – 10:00 Marta Shahbazi (Cambridge, UK):
The making of an epithelium from embryonic stem cells:
architectural and transcriptional patterns
10:00 – 10:15 Mike Boxem:
Unraveling the C. elegans interactome underlying cell
polarity (short talk, A-285)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Patrick Humbert (East Melbourne, Australia):
Cell polarity, tissue organisation and the regulation of
cancer progression
11:15 – 11:45 Sandra Iden (Cologne, Germany):
The different faces of the Par3 polarity complex in
skin cancer
11:45 – 12:00 Mirka Uhlirova:
Atf3 bridges the gap between cell polarity and the
nucleus (short talk, A-276)
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S8: Innate immunity in plants
and animals
Chair: Jane Parker (Cologne, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Jane Parker (Cologne, Germany):
Evolutionary and molecular dynamics of plant innate
immunity
09:30 – 10:00 Marie-Cécile Caillaud (Lyon, France):
Probing plant cellular immunity with pathogen virulence
factors
10:00 – 10:15 Kamlesh Pawar:
Mycobacteria escape autophagy by counter regulating
long non-coding RNA MEG3 (short talk, A-118)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Manolis Pasparakis (Cologne, Germany):
Cell death in immunity and inflammation
11:15 – 11:30 Deblina Chakraborty:
Expression and role of S100A8/A9 in acute lung injury
(short talk, A-263)
11:30 – 12:00 Thomas Bosch (Kiel, Germany):
The molecular logic of Hydra´s immune system
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 DGZ Member Meeting
13:00 – 15:00 Poster Session 2
International Meeting
