Cell News 02/2018
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15:35 – 16:05
Caren Norden (Dresden, Germany): Cell biology in vivo: The making of the vertebrate retina from
growth to lamination
16:05 – 16:20 Marcus Michel (Dresden, Germany): Coordinating cell behaviour during tissue replacement
16:20 – 16:35 Sybille Köhler (Cologne, Germany): Par3A and Par3B orchestrate podocyte polarity
16:35 – 16:50
Pavel Nedvetsky (Muenster, Germany): Deletion of the polarity protein PATJ perturbs cilia
maintenance and morphogenesis in kidney epithelial cells
14:00 – 16:50 Session 6: Organelle dynamics
Chair: Anne Spang (Basel, Switzerland)
14:00 – 14:30 Francis Barr (Oxford, UK): Rab GTPase regulation at the ER-Golgi interface
14:30 – 15:00 Agnieszka Chaci´nska (Warsaw, Poland): Reporting on the status of mitochondria
15:00 – 15:15 Karolina Szczepanowska (Cologne, Germany): CLPP is a regulator of Complex I turnover
15:15 – 15:35 Coffee break
15:35 – 16:05 Anne Spang (Basel, Switzerland): Compartmentation - modes of intracellular organisation
16:05 – 16:20
Katharina B. Beer (Wuerzburg, Germany): Retrograde trafficking proteins control lipid flippase activity
to inhibit extracellular vesicle budding
16:20 – 16:35
Julia Christina Gross (Goettingen, Germany): Ykt6 membrane-to-cytosol cycling regulates exosomal
Wnt secretion
16:35 – 16:50 Jay Gopalakrishnan (Düsseldorf, Germany): Cilia regulation of neural stem cells in 3D brain organoids
14:00 – 16:50 Session 7: Nuclear dynamics/communication
Chair: Birthe Fahrenkrog (Brussels, Belgium)
14:00 – 14:30
Dorothee Dormann (Munich, Germany): Neurodegenerative diseases reveal novel functions of nuclear
import receptors
14:30 – 15:00
Birthe Fahrenkrog (Brussels, Belgium): Mutations in nucleoporin NUP88 cause lethal fetal akinesia
deformation sequence
15:00 – 15:15
Maria Asif (Cologne, Germany): Mutations of NUP37 and NUP107 encoding components of the
nuclear pore complex cause microcephaly associated nephrotic syndrome
15:15 – 15:35 Coffee break
15:35 – 16:05
Denis Lafontaine (Brussels, Belgium): Using the iNo score to discriminate normal from altered nucleo-
lar morphology, with applications in basic cell biology and potential in human disease diagnostics
16:05 – 16:20
Markus T. Bohnsack (Goettingen, Germany): The diverse roles of RNA helicases in driving structural
transitions and compositional changes in RNA-protein complexes
16:20 – 16:35
Ralph Gräf (Potsdam, Germany): Permeabilization of the Dictyostelium nuclear envelope in
semi-closed mitosis
16:35 – 16:50
Petros Batsios (Potsdam, Germany): Analysis of supramolecular assemblies of NE81,
the first lamin-like protein in a unicellular organism
16:50 – 17:00 Break
LEIPZIG 2018: SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
