8th Conference
of the International PhD Program
in Life Sciences

January 18-20, 2016, Leysin

Program

Day 1 – Monday, January 18th, 2016

08:15 Meeting at the University of Geneva
08:30 - 10:30 Bus to Leysin
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00 - 11:15 Opening session
11:15 - 11:35 Maksym Shyian (MOLBIO)
Budding yeast Rif1 controls genome integrity by inhibiting rDNA replication
11:40 - 12:00 Jared Fudge (BIVEG)
Analysis of vitamin B metabolism in Arabidopsis and crops
12:05 - 12:25 Yohan El Bali (GENEV)
Mechanisms of regulation in the iab-8-ncRNA of the bithorax complex
12:30 - 12:50 Katarzyna Sobkowiak (MOLBIO)
Unraveling the role of Rev7 protein in a checkpoint monitoring completion of DNA replication in vertebrates
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)
15:30 - 15:45 Massimo Caine
Science meets society: TheScienceBreaker, an agora for scientists and laymen
15:50 - 16:20 Sponsors presentations
16:25 - 16:55 Coffee break (stands with Sponsors)
17:00 - 17:25 Prof. Aurélien Roux
17:30 - 20:30 Workshop with Apero – Chapin Rodriguez
I’m a scientist – Who needs me?
20:45 Dinner

Day 2 – Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

07:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 - 10:30 Invited Speaker - Dr Douglas Maya (Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, INSERM UMR 1068, CNRS UMR 7258, Marseille, France)
Histones as an unexplored source of genetic instability in cells
10:35 - 10:55 Mariya Skvortsova (BIVEG)
Nucleosome assembly protein 1, a new interacting partner of the HY5 bZIP transcription factor
11:00 - 11:20 Sandrine Coquille (MOLBIO)
Structural Studies of PPR Proteins: from design to mitochondrial RNA metabolism
11:25 - 13:00 Poster Session 2 (even numbers) with coffee break
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 Benoît Von Der Weid (GENEV)
Large-scale transcriptional profiling of chemosensory neurons identifies receptor-ligand pairs in vivo
14:25 - 14:55 Diego Guerrera (BICEL)
PDZD11: a novel PLEKHA7 interacting AJ protein
15:00 - 15:20 Alicia Daeden (BIOCHEM)
Asymmetric Mechanics during Asymmetric Cell Division of Sensory Organ Precursors
15:25 - 15:45 Rebekka Wild (BIVEG)
Role of SPX domains in inositol-polyphosphate sensing and phosphate
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break (stands with Sponsors)
16:15 - 16:55 Evangelia Vartholomaiou (BICEL)
TRAP(1)ing the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation homeostasis
17:00 - 17:20 Clélia Bourgoint (MOLBIO)
Structure-function analysis of Ypk1 and Fpk1 crossregulations
17:25 - 17:55 Ana Lopez (BIOCHEM)
Curing of M. marinum infection upon starvation of D. discoideum: cell intrinsic mechanisms of release
17:55 - 18:15 Break and votes
18:15 - 19:15 Invited Speaker - Dr Yves Barral (Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Lateral diffusion barriers and their roles in asymmetric cell division and cellular rejuvenation
20:00 Gala Dinner, Awards and Party

Day 3 – Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

07:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 - 10:45 PhD Student Assembly
11:00 Meeting in front of the hotel
11:30 - 13:30Fondue at the panoramic restaurant "Kuklos"
14:00 - 16:00 Social activity
16:45Meeting in front of the hotel and bus trip to Geneva