Cell News 01/2017
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
12:00 – 12:15 New Challenges for the DGZ
Carien Niessen, President, German Society for Cell Biology
12:15 – 13:00 DGZ Awards
12:15 – 12:30 Binder Innovation Prize: Sara Wickström (Cologne, Germany)
Mechanisms and mechanics of epidermal stem cell fate regulation
12:30 – 12:45 Nikon Young Scientist Award of the DGZ: Evgenij Fiskin (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Regulation of host-pathogen interactions by the ubiquitin system
12:45 – 13:00 Werner Risau Prize: Kerstin Wilhelm (Bad Nauheim, Germany)
FOXO1 couples metabolic activity and growth state in the vascular endothelium
13:00 – 14:15 Carl Zeiss Lecture
Peter Walter (San Francisco, USA): The unfolded protein response and beyond
14:15 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15 Session 1: Cell biology by numbers
Chair: Simone Reber (Berlin, Germany)
14:45 – 15:15 Keynote Speaker: Stephan Grill (Dresden, Germany): Polarity establishment by the numbers
15:15 – 15:45 Julia Mahamid (Munich, Germany): In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals the molecular sociology
at the HeLa cell nuclear periphery
15:45 – 16:00 Simone Reber (Berlin, Germany): Spindle length and shape:
How geometry arises from molecular interactions (short talk)
16:00 – 16:15 Jörg Mansfeld (Dresden, Germany): Quantitative cell cycle analysis based on an
endogenous all-in-one reporter for cell tracking and classification (short talk)
16:15 – 17:15 Poster Walk 1: Short Presentations on Digi
Posters
17:15 – 18:30 DGZ Member Meeting
18:30 – 20:00 Session 2: Mechanisms of nucleocytoplasmic exchange
Chair: Martin Beck (Heidelberg, Germany)
18:30 – 19:00 Keynote Speaker: Wolfram Antonin (Aachen, Germany): Nuclear pore complex formation:
step-wise assembly of a transport gate
19:00 – 19:15 Marie-Therese Mackmull (Heidelberg, Germany): Landscape of nuclear transport receptor cargo
specificity (short talk)
19:15 – 19:30 Germán Camargo Ortega (Munich): The novel centrosomal protein Akna, a regulator of microtubule
organizing activity, controls neurogenesis (short talk)
19:30 – 20:00 Martin Beck (Heidelberg, Germany): Structure and function of the nuclear pore complex
20:30
Get Together with drinks and buffet
(Grassimuseum Leipzig)
