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Eugen Kerkhoff, Tina Han (ASCB Inaugural Kaluza Prize, sponsored by Beckman Coulter).
Meeting Report
International Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology
(Regensburg, March 18 - 21, 2014)
Eugen Kerkhoff
1
and Thomas Dresselhaus
2
1
Department of Neurology, Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, University Hospital Regensburg,
Regensburg, Germany;
2
Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemie-Zentrum Regensburg,
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Altogether >300 participants
from all over the World met in
Regensburg to present and dis-
cuss the most recent progress
in cell biology. About 70% of
the participants currently work
at academic institutions within
Germany, while each about
10% scientists attended from
universities and research insti-
tutions in North America, Aus-
tria/Switzerland and other Eu-
ropean countries, respectively.
In accordance with the distinct
expertise of the local organizers
Dr. Stefanie Sprunck and Prof. Dr.
Thomas Dresselhaus (plant cell
and developmental biology) on
the one side and Prof. Dr. Eugen
Kerkhoff (human cell biology)
on the other side, the meeting
brought together cell biologists
from different areas with a ma-
jor goal to combine plant and
animal/human cell biologists at
one major conference. Having
researchers of both big cell bio-
logy branches in one meeting
became the exception in the last
decade. The Regensburg meeting
clearly showed that there is a lot
of common interest and overlap
in the two fields and that it is of
huge benefit for all cell biolo-
gists to meet regularly, discuss and learn from each other. We hope
that this idea will be followed up during future conferences.
The International Meeting on Cell Biology in Regensburg was sub-
divided into 13 sessions including sessions on
germ lines and stem
cells, cell adhesion, Rho GTPase and neuronal signalling, membrane
transport, microtubule nucleation and actin polymerization, chro-
matin organization, genome stability and repair, RNA biology and
metastasis
. In addition to 90 oral presentations two poster ses-
sions (see below) completed an exciting scientific program. As a
