Cell News 03/2019
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11:10 - 11:35 Lecture:
Fulvio Reggiori (Groningen, The Netherlands): Unconventional functions of ATG proteins in viral infections
11:35 – 11:45 Highlight Compartmentalisation:
Roland Knorr (Potsdam, Germany / Tokyo, Japan): Phase-separated compartments function as scaffolds for
autophagosome formation and as selective cargoes
11:45 - 11:55 Highlight Lipid Biology:
Taki Nishimura (London, UK): Osh Proteins Control Nanoscale Lipid Organization Necessary for PI(4,5)P2 Synthesis
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
12:30 – 14:00 DGZ membership info
14:00 - 15:00 Otto Warburg Medal sponsored by Elsevier/BBA
Marina Rodnina (Goettingen, Germany): Translational Recoding
15:00 - 15:10 Flash Talk Industry
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Hubert Bauch (Oberkochen, Germany): How to improve sensitivity, speed and resolution
in a confocal Laser-Scanning Microscope
15:10 - 15:20 Flash Talk Publishing
Cells, MDPI
Christian Behl (Mainz, Germany): Cells: a peer-reviewed open access journal with a focus on autophagy
15:20 - 17:25 Session IV: Neurodegeneration
Chair: Konstanze Winklhofer (Bochum, Germany)
15:20 - 15:45 Lecture:
David Rubinsztein (Cambridge, UK): Autophagy and neurodegeneration
15:45 - 15:55 Short talk:
Robin Ketteler (London, UK): Development of a human neuronal cell model of Beta-Propeller Protein-Associated
Neurodegeneration (BPAN) as a drug screening platform
15:55 - 16:25 Coffee Break
16:25 - 16:35 Short talk:
Matthis Synofzik (Tuebingen, Germany): A novel deep-intronic WDR45 mutation causes impaired selective
autophagy in BPAN
16:35 - 17:00 Lecture:
Heinz Jungbluth (London, UK): Congenital disorders of autophagy –
a novel class of neurometabolic disorders linking neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
17:00 - 17:25 Lecture:
Richard Youle (Bethesda, USA): How the kinase PINK1 activates the ubiquitin ligase Parkin to mediate
autophagy of mitochondria and impact Parkinson’s disease
17:25 - 17:35 Nikon Young Scientist Award
Germán Camargo Ortega (Zurich, Switzerland / Munich, Germany): Centrosome and microtubule dynamics
regulate the balance of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation
17:35 - 17:45 Karl Lohmann Prize
Lucas Farnung (Goettingen, Germany): Structural biology of nucleosome passage
GBM/DGZ FALL CONFERENCE
