October 10-12, 2012, Kandersteg
5th Conference of the International PhD Program in Basic and Applied Molecular Life Sciences
Program
Day 1 – Wednesday, October 10, 2012
| 07:30 | Distribution of tickets (Platform 4, Gare Cornavin, Geneva) |
| 07:45 | Train to Kandersteg (via Bern) |
| 10:41 | Arrival in Kandersteg |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Welcome coffee at the Conference Center |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Opening session |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Sophie A. Montandon, (GEN-EVO) Mammalian spines: independent novelties or convergence? |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Silke Reiter, (GEN-EVO) Role of oxidative stress in injury-induced signaling during Hydra regeneration |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (and check-in) |
| 14:15 - 14:40 | Aline Santos, (BIOCHEM) Yeast lipid homeostasis: new insights from a lipidomic screening of kinases and phosphatases |
| 14:40 - 15:05 | Alejandro Melero Carrillo, (BIOCHEM) Lipids role in COPII vesicle formation |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Cansel Ustunel, (BIOCHEM) Formation of intralumenal vesicles in early endosomes |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Xuezhi Zhang, (BIOCHEM) Exploring the Roles of NADPH Oxidases (NOXs) in an Amoeba Model |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | Advertisement – Sponsors |
| 16:05 - 16:35 | Coffee break |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Maite Colinas, (BIVEG) Arabidopsis PDX3: not a usual PNP/PMP oxidase |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | Melanie Binkert, (BIVEG) UV-B specific signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 17:25 - 17:50 | Mélanie Dapp, (BIVEG) Merging Arabidopsis epigenomes: phenotypic and molecular outcomes |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | Coffee break |
| 18:20 - 19:20 | Invited speaker - Botond Roska, (FMI Basel, Switzerland) Cell types, circuits and repair |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Dinner |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Poster session + free drink (Odd numbers) |
Day 2 – Thursday, October 11, 2012
| 07:30 - 08:45 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Maciej K. Kocyłowski, (BIMOL) RNF168-mediated polyubiquitination suffices for methylation-dependent recruitment of 53BP1 to chromatin |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Britta Knight, (BIMOL) Control of ribosomal protein gene transcription through regulated recruitment of the Ifh1 activator |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Sandrine Coquille, (BIMOL) The last piece in the thiamin (vitamin B1) biosynthesis puzzle: Structural and functional insight into yeast HMP synthase |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Seda Yerlikaya, (BIMOL) Unraveling the Mystery of Ribosomal Protein S6 Phosphorylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 12:10 | Invited Speaker – Harry Noller, (University of California, USA) |
| 12:20 - 13:50 | Lunch / 12:20 - 13:20 PIs meeting |
| 13:50 - 17:00 | Social afternoon |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | Tania Rodrigues, (BIOCHEM) A genetic network activated by Atoh7 before the penultimate mitosis defines a novel stage in retina ontogenesis |
| 17:25 - 17:50 | Marine Lacroix, (Merck Serono) The role of P2X7 in neurodegeneration and inflammation in multiple sclerosis |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster session + free drink (Odd numbers) |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Day 3 – Friday, October 12, 2012
| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast and checkout |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Lorane Texari, (BICEL) The nuclear pore complex regulates GAL1 gene derepression by controlling the localization of the Ulp1 SUMO protease at the nuclear periphery |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Alexis Jourdain, (BICEL) Mitochondrial RNA processing bodies |
| 09:50 - 10:50 | Invited speaker – Matthias Peter, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ubiquitin-dependent processes that regulate of cell cycle progression |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Ratheeshkumar Thankappan, (BICEL) Efficient Secretion of Small Proteins In Mammalian Cells Relies on Sec62-Dependent Posttranslational Translocation |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Tai Wang, (BICEL) Combinatorial screening for specific Hsp90 inhibitors against Plasmodium falciparum |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Awards |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Discussion – PhD Program / PhD Association |
| 16:12 | Train to Geneva |
| 19:15 | Arrival in Geneva |