Cell News 02/2018
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LEIPZIG 2018: SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
17:30 – 17:45 Clemens Plaschka (Vienna, Austria): Structural studies of gene transcription
Binder Innovation Prize:
17:45 – 18:00
Carsten Grashoff (Muenster, Germany): Piconewton-sensitive biosensors to investigate molecular
forces in cells
Werner Risau Prize:
18:00 – 18:15 Alban Longchamp (Lausanne, Switzerland): Dietary basis for the regulation of angiogenesis
18:15 – 19:00 Carl Zeiss Lecture
Cristina Lo Celso (London, UK): Healthy and malignant haematopiesis in the bone marrow: active cells
in an evolving environment
19:00
Free evening
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
09:00 – 12:00 Sessions 2-4
09:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Mechanotransduction
Chair: Sara Wickström (Helsinki, Finland)
09:00 – 09:30
Sara Wickström (Helsinki, Finland): Mechanotransduction and mechanoadaptation at the
nucleoskeleton-chromatin interface
09:30 – 10:00
Jan Lammerding (Ithaca, USA): Lamin mutations cause mechanically-induced nuclear envelope
rupture and DNA damage in muscle fibers
10:00 – 10:15
Matthias Rübsam (Cologne, Germany): E-cadherin binds to desmoglein to facilitate desmosome
assembly
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:00
Ingo Thievessen (Erlangen, Germany) ß-parvin orchestrates the induction of physiological cardiac
hypertrophy
11:00 – 11:30
Benoît Ladoux (Paris, France): Dynamics of epithelial cells during collective migration and
cell extrusion
11:30 – 11:45
Sandra Iden (Cologne, Germany): Polarity signaling governs epidermal homeostasis by
coupling cortical contractility, mitotic fidelity & genome integrity
11:45 – 12:00 Jörg Höhfeld (Bonn, Germany): Mechanical stress protection
09:00 – 12:00 Session 3: Translating cell biology into medical applications
Chair: Leena Bruckner-Tuderman (Freiburg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30
Laura De Rosa (Modena, Italy): Life-saving regeneration of the entire human epidermis by
transgenic stem cells
09:30 – 10:00
Leena Bruckner-Tuderman (Freiburg, Germany): Repurposing biomolecules for the treatment of
