Cell News 3/2013
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING
09:30 – 10:00 David Twell (Leicester, UK):
Patterning and control in plant male germline
development
10:00 – 10:15 Short talk speaker selected from the abstracts
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Thomas Laux (Freiburg, Germany):
Stem cell regulation in plants
11:15 – 11:45 Renze Heidstra (Wageningen, The Netherlands):
Patterning and maintenance of the Arabidopsis
root stem cell niche
11:45 – 12:00 Short talk speaker selected from the abstracts
12:00
Lunch
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Symposium 2
13:00 – 15:00
Poster Session 2
15:00 – 18:00
Plenary Session PS2: Cell adhesion and signalling
Chairs: Susanne Grässel (Regensburg, Germany) and
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried, Germany)
15:00 – 15:30 Sara Wickström (Cologne, Germany):
Cytoskeletal regulation of cell fate decisions
15:30 – 16:00 Charles Streuli (Manchester, UK):
Deconstructing adhesion complexes:
how integrins control different phenotypes
16:00 – 16:30 Nick Brown (Cambridge, UK):
Dialogue between cell adhesion and the
cytoskeleton in morphogenesis
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Gregory Giannone (Bordeaux, France):
Deciphering the regulation of integrin activation
at the nanoscale
17:30 – 18:00 Daniel Müller (Zurich, Switzerland):
Deciphering molecular mechanisms guiding cell
shape in mitotisis
18:00 – 18:15
Break
18:15 – 19:15
Frontiers in Science Lecture
Eugene Myers (Dresden, Germany)
19:15
Party
Friday, March 21, 2014
09:00 – 12:00
Plenary Session PS3: RNA Biology
Chair: Gunter Meister (Regensburg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30 René Ketting (Mainz, Germany):
Transgenerational effects of small RNAs
09:30 – 10:00 Olivier Voinnet (Zurich, Switzerland):
RNA silencing in planst and animals
10:00 – 10:30 Gunter Meister (Regensburg, Germany):
Regulation of microRNA biogenesis and function
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Andrea Ventura (New York, USA):
Functional deconstruction of an oncogenic
miRNA cluster
11:30 – 12:00 Maite Huarte (Pamplona, Spain):
Epigenetic control of cancer pathways by lncRNAs
12:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:15 Poster Award Ceremony
13:15 – 16:15 P
lenary Session PS4: Cell biology of metastasis
Chair: Christoph Klein (Regensburg, Germany)
13:15 – 13:45 Christoph Klein (Regensburg, Germany):
Molecular profiling of metastatic precursor cells
13:45 – 14:15 Peter Friedl (Nijmegen, The Netherlands):
Plasticity of cancer cell invasion
14:15 – 14:45 Ben Z. Stanger (Philadelphia, USA):
Functionally dissecting the microenvironment
in pancreatic cancer
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:45 Cyrus Ghajar (Seattle, USA):
Regulation of breast tumor dormancy by
the perivascular niche
15:45 – 16:15 David Lyden (New York, USA):
Tumor-derived exosomes promote organ-specific
metastasis
16:15 -16:30
Concluding Remarks
