9th Conference
of the International PhD Program
in Life Sciences

January 18-20, 2017, Montreux

Program

Day 1 – Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

08:15 Departure (bus) from Science III entrance (Boulevard D’Yvoy)
10:30 - 11:00 Opening coffee & sponsors' stands (in Lobby)
Session I Yogesh Vegunta (chairperson)
11:00 - 11:10 Opening remarks
11:10 - 11:35 Alexis Assens (Genetics & Evolution)
Alteration of Nrp1 signaling at different stages of olfactory neuron maturation promotes glomerular shifts along distinct axes in the olfactory bulb
11:35 - 12:00 Margot Riggi (Molecular Biology)
Palmitoylcarnitine as a novel tool to manipulate membrane tension and derive insights into TORC2 regulation
12:00 - 12:10 Sysmex Suisse (Sponsor)
12:10 - 12:20 Chemometec (Sponsor)
12:20 - 12:25 Group photo
12:25 - 14:00 Lunch (in Bel Horizon Restaurant) and check-in
Session II Jared Fudge (chairperson)
14:00 - 15:00 Anne Spang (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Intracellular Compartmentalization
15:00 - 15:25 Ulrich Hohmann (Botany & Plant Biology)
Genetic evidence for receptor activation of plant membrane receptor kinases by shape-complementary co-receptors
15:25 - 15:50 Emmanuelle Steib (Cell Biology)
Deciphering the function and the structure of the first centriolar central core protein POC16
15:50 - 16:00 Massimo Caine (BiOutils/The Science Breaker)
TheScienceBreaker: turning your scientific passion into public engagement
16:00 - 16:20 Flash talks (Poster Session 1)
  1. Jared Fudge
    Characterisation of a candidate long-distance vitamin B1 transporter mutant in Oryza sativa
  2. Ana T Lopez Jimenez
    Role of ESCRT in membrane repair during Mycobacterial infection
  3. Ilaria Di Meglio
    Epithelium division under stress in 3D confinement
  4. Stravroula Pallada
    Beta-detected NMR: Ultrasensitive alternative NMR spectroscopic technique towards biology
  5. Mariya Y. Skvortsova
    NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY PROTEIN 1, a new interacting partner of the HY5 bZIP transcription factor
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break, sponsors' stands (in Lobby)
16:50 - 18:20 Poster Session 1 (in Club Salon)
with apéro sponsored by Ville de Montreux
Session III Nataliia Serbyn (chairperson)
18:20 - 18:45 Alexis Riché (Botany & Plant Biology)
Light-dependent phosphorylation of photosystem II core subunits in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
18:45 - 19:10 Jovelyn Unay (Botany & Plant Biology)
A master nodulation key sufficient for much symbiotic promiscuity
19:10 - 19:20 Aurelien Roux (NCCR chemical biology)
19:20 - 20:00 Florian Wurm (ExcellGene)
From gene to product using CHO cells - 30 years of recombinant biologics for therapy
20:30 - 22:00 Dinner (in Bel Horizon Restaurant)
22:00 - 00:00 Discussion club

Day 2 – Thursday, January 19th, 2017

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (in Bel Horizon Restaurant)
Session IV Jimit Shah (chairperson)
09:00 - 09:25 Melissa Berto (Cell Biology)
cAMP signaling reprograms estrogen receptor α in breast cancer cells
09:25 - 09:50 Javier Castro Alvarez (Genetics & Evolution)
Use of genetically engineered reporter systems to study abdominal-A repression by the iab-8 noncoding RNA
09:50 - 10:00 Witec AG - Systems Biology at the Single-Cell Level (Sponsor)
10:00 - 10:10 Perkin Elmer - Discover and Analytical Solutions (Sponsor)
10:10 - 10:20 Merck (Sponsor)
10:20 - 10:40 Flash talks (poster session 2)
  1. Yohan El Bali
    Mechanisms of regulation in the iab-8-ncRNA of the Bithorax Complex
  2. Aurelie Hinterman
    A common genomic region regulates HOXD dynamic expression in the forming somites and in the vibrissae follicles
  3. Sagar Khavnekar
    Understanding the structural basis of CTCF mediated changes in the chromatin structure
  4. Anatoly Kozlov
    Molecular and cellular aspects of Drosophila melanogaster circadian behavior
  5. Laura Lorenzo Orts
    A polycistronic transcript encodes for a novel cell cycle regulator in plants
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break & sponsors' stands (in Lobby)
11:10 - 12:40 Poster Session 2 (in Club Salon)
12:40 - 12:45 Group photo
12:45 - 14:10 Lunch (in Bel Horizon Restaurant)
14:10 - 17:00 Social time - Läderach chocolate workshop
17:00 - 17:30 Gathering coffee, sponsors' stands (in Lobby)
Session V Manuel Hofmann (chairperson)
17:30 - 18:30 Magdalena Kowalska (ISOLDE, CERN)
Beta-detected NMR: ultrasensitive approach using radioactive nuclei
18:30 - 18:55 Maria Jessica Bruzzone (Molecular Biology)
Role of transcriptional co-activators in the expression of growth-related genes in S. cerevisiae
18:55 - 19:20 Eleni Tavridou (Botany & Plant Biology)
How UV-B signalling antagonizes shade responses
19:20 - 19:45 Nataliia Serbyn (Cell Biology)
Links between sumoylation at nuclear pores and resolution of covalently cross-linked DNA-protein complexes
20:30 - 22:00 Gala dinner (in Bel Horizon Restaurant)
22:00 - 03:00 Party (in salle Piccard)

Day 3 – Friday, January 20th, 2017

07:30 - 10:00 Breakfast (in Bel Horizon Restaurant) and checkout
Session VI Nenad Suknovic (chairperson)
10:00 - 10:25 Christina Bosmani (Biochemistry)
Understanding the role of vacuolins/flotillins in the biogenesis of the Mycobacterium marinum niche
10:25 - 10:50 Hetty Manenschijn (Biochemistry)
The contribution of myosin motors to membrane bending in endocytosis
10:50 - 11:15 Jimit Shah (Cell Biology)
A PLEKHA7-PDZD11 complex controls epithelial cell susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin by junctional clustering of toxin receptor ADAM10 and by regulating toxin pore removal from the cell surface
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break and voting for talks & posters (in Lobby)
Session VII Jared Fudge (chairperson)
11:45 - 12:45 Gordon Simpson (University of Dundee & The James Hutton Institute)
Processing the epitranscriptome from Arabidopsis
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (in Bel Horizon Restaurant)
14:30 - 15:30 Awards & closing remarks
16:00 Bus to Geneva