7th Conference
of the International PhD Program in
Basic and Applied Molecular Life Sciences

September 29 - October 01, 2014, Les Diablerets

Program

Day 1 – Monday 29th September, 2014

08:45 Meeting at the University of Geneva
9:00 - 11:00 Bus to Les Diablerets
11:00 - 11:25 Welcome coffee
11:25 - 11:35 Opening session
11:35 - 12:05 Marcela Bennesch (BICEL)
Identification of a protein complex associated with transcription repression involved in the activation of estrogen receptor _ signaling by cAMP.
12:05 - 12:35 Melanie Binkert (BIVEG)
UV-B-Responsive Association of the bZIP Transcription Factor ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 (HY5) with Target Genes, Including its Own Promoter.
12:35 - 14:05 Lunch and check-in
14:05 - 14:35 Tania Rodrigues (BIOCHEM)
The late onset of Retinal Ganglion Cells differentiation in the pigeon retina shed a new light on the relationship between neurogenesis and eye development.
14:35 - 15:05 Elodie Prince (GEN-EVO)
Rabs & Vacuoles : The role of Abd-B in male accessory glands trafficking.
15:05 - 15:35 Babatunde Ekundayo (MOLBIO)
S. pombe chromatin structure: In vitro reconstitution and structural studies on short nucleosome repeat length tetranucleosomes.
15:35 - 15:45 Sponsor talk: eLife
Current problems with scientific publishing and possible solutions
15:45 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40 Alejandro Melero Carrillo (BIOCHEM)
The Role of Lipids in COPII Vesicle Formation.
16:40 - 17:10 Valentina Infantino (BICEL)
Splicing Auto-Regulation by the UBIquitinated and SUMOylated mRNA export factor Yra1 participates in cell cycle progression.
17:10 - 18:10 Invited Speaker - María Abad (Spanish National Cancer Research Center, CNIO, Madrid, Spain)
Reprogramming in vivo: The power of manipulating cell plasticity
18:10 - 19:40 Poster Session A
19:40 Dinner

Day 2 – Tuesday 30th September, 2014

7:30 -9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 Mariya Perepelkina (MOLBIO)
Unraveling the target specificity of some AGC kinases in S.cerevisiae.
9:30 - 10:00 Sarah Machado (BIOCHEM)
Cell size adaptation during the cell cycle.
10:00 - 10:35 Coffee break
10:35 - 11:05 Maite Colinas (BIVEG)
Vitamin B6 salvage and nucleotide nicotinamide repair in Arabidopsis: two distinct processes linked together?
11:05 - 11:35 Sotirios Sotiriou (MOLBIO)
RAD52 stabilizes collapsed DNA replication forks in response to DNA replication stress.
11:35 - 12:35 Invited Speaker - Michael Doser (European Nuclear Research Center, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Particle physics: from cosmology to tumor therapy.
12:35 - 14:05 Lunch
14:05 - 17:05 Social afternoon
17:05 - 17:35 Guillaume Molinard (BIOCHEM)
Abscission in cells: the utimate step.
17:35 - 18:05 Catherine May (GEN-EVO)
The 3D Crocs Project: Cranial Scale Patterns in Crocs are Highly Diverse and result from Stochastic Physical Cracking.
18:05 - 19:05 Invited Speaker - Thomas Surrey (London Research Institute, London, UK)
In vitro reconstitutions of dynamic microtubule cytoskeleton behaviour
19:05 - 20:35 Poster Session B
20:35 - 22:00 Dinner
22:30 - 02:00 Party

Day 3 – Wednesday 1st October, 2014

7:30 -9:15 Breakfast and check-out
9:15 - 9:45 Jorge Larios (BIOCHEM)
ALIX recruits ESCRTIII to endosomes depending on its interaction with LBPA.
9:45 - 10:15 Maksym Shyian (MOLBIO)
S. cerevisiae Rif1 participates in DNA damage response through interaction with PP1 phosphatase (Glc7).
10:15 - 11:45 Poster Session C
11:45 - 12:15 Dicussion and awards
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch
14:00 Bus to Geneva