Cell News 4/2015
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
09:00 - 12:00 Funding and Publishing
Chair: Oliver Gruss (Bonn, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 Andreas Krell, KoWi Kooperationsstelle EU der
Wissenschaftsorganisationen (Brussels, Belgium):
Horizon 2020 - Funding opportunities for Life Sciences
09:30 – 10:00 Britta Mädge, DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(Bonn, Germany): Funding Opportunities at the German
Research Foundation (DFG)
10:00 – 10:30 Bärbel Schröfelbauer, Molecular Cell (Cambridge, USA):
Demystifying the publishing process
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Bernd Pulverer, EMBO Journal, Chief Editor (Heidelberg,
Germany): Transparent publishing, reproducibility &
citation-based research assessment
11:30 – 12:00 Alison Abbott, Nature (Munich, Germany):
Science in the public eye
13:00 – 13:10 Opening Words
13:10 – 16:20 Plenary Session P1:
Nuclear architecture/Gene regulation
Chair: Heinrich Leonhardt (Martinsried, Germany)
13:10 – 13:40 M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt, Germany):
Elementary units of DNA replication and repair:
a mirror of chromosome higher order structure?
13:40 – 14:10 Sandra Hake (Martinsried, Germany):
Histone H2A.Z: a small variant with a large impact
on cell biology
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
09:00 – 12:00 Symposia S1 – S4
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S1: RNA biology/Non-coding RNAs
Chairs: Michael Kiebler (Martinsried, Germany) and
Alexander Hüttenhofer (Innsbruck, Austria)
09:00 – 09:30 Alexander Hüttenhofer (Innsbruck, Austria):
Nucleic acids as diagnostic tools and targets in
human diseases
09:30 – 10:00 Edouard Bertrand (Montpellier, France):
Gene expression viewed through the microscope:
from transcription to cytoplasmic RNA localization
10:00 – 10:15 Tejaswini S. Sharangdhar (Martinsried, Germany):
Staufen2-dependent expression and dendritic localization
of Calmodulin 3 mRNA is mediated by a retained intron in
its 3’-UTR (short talk)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Alfredo Castello Palomares (Oxford, UK):
Proteome-wide identification of RNA-binding
domains by RBDmap
11:15 – 11:30 Utz Fischer (Wuerzburg, Germany):
Mechanistic dissection of UsnRNP biogenesis and its role
in disease (short talk)
14:10 – 14:40 Poster Flash Presentations
14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 – 15:25 Michael Hannus (Martinsried/Planegg, Germany):
siPOOLs and CRISPR: the beginning of beautiful friendship
15:25 – 15:55 Ana Pombo (Berlin, Germany):
Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by Genome
Architecture Mapping
15:55 – 16:20 Poster Flash Presentations
16:20 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 17:50 DGZ Awards
Walther Flemming Award:
Brian Luke (Mainz, Germany)
Nikon Young Scientist Award:
Sophie Steculorum (Cologne, Germany)
Binder Innovation Prize:
Melina Schuh (Goettingen, Germany)
18:00 – 19:00 Carl Zeiss Lecture
Thomas D. Pollard (New Haven, USA):
Analysis of endocytosis and cytokinesis by quantitative
fluorescence microscopy
19:00
Opening Reception
11:30 – 11:45 Markus T. Bohnsack (Goettingen, Germany):
On the life of the RNA methyltransferase EMG1
and the molecular basis of the Bowen-Conradi
syndrome (short talk)
11:45 – 12:00 Matthias Erlacher (Innsbruck, Austria):
Nucleotide modifications within bacterial messenger
RNAs regulate their translation and are able to rewire
the genetic code (short talk)
09:00 – 12:00 Symposium S2: Autophagy
Chairs: Thomas Wollert (Martinsried, Germany) and
Claudine Kraft (Vienna, Austria)
09:00 – 09:30 Christian Behrends (Frankfurt/M., Germany):
Human ATG8 proteins in autophagy and beyond
09:30 – 10:00 Katharina Simon (Oxford, UK):
Autophagy in the healthy and diseased immune system
10:00 – 10:15 Oliver Schmidt (Innsbruck, Austria):
The coordinated action of the MVB pathway and
autophagy ensures cell survival during starvation
(short talk)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Thomas Wollert (Martinsried, Germany):
How to make an autophagosome –
