Online PhD Symposium - February 11-12, 2021

Program - February 11

The time indicated in the schedule is intended as Central European Time

 

    9:00        Welcome by Manuela Baccarini

SESSION 1 : AUTOPHAGY AND PROTEOSTASIS

    9:15        Ivan Dikic "ER-phagy and neuropathologies"

  10:00        Thorsten Hoppe "Stressed Out: Posttranscriptional Proteostasis Regulation"

  10:45        Break

  11:00        Brenda Schulman "How Cullin-RING ligases ubiquitylate their substrates"

  11:45        Peter Tompa "Tripartite degron model: the role of structural disorder in coordinated protein degradation in the cell" 

  12:30        Break

 

SESSION 2: SIGNALLING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

  13:30        Dario Alessi "Interplay between LRRK2 kinase and Rab GTPases in Parkinson's disease"

  14:15        Chiara Ambrogio "Insights into KRAS biology to identify novel therapeutic strategies for cancer"

  15:00        Michael Eck "Pharmacologic insights from cryo-EM structures of autoinhibited and active-state structures
                                            of BRAF/MEK/14-3-3 complexes"

  15:45        Break

  16:00        Luke O'Neill "Adventures in inflammation research"

  16:45        Gioacchino Natoli "Keeping transcription focused: a novel checkpoint that selectively limits extragenic transcription"

  17:30        Break

  17:40        Poster Session

Program - February 12

The time indicated in the schedule is intended as Central European Time

 

SESSION 1 : STEM CELLS

    9:00        Austin Smith "Pluripotency: one cell for all"

    9:45        Jonathan Chubb "Single cell decision making during development and dedifferentiation"

  10:30        Paulina Latos "Repressive mechanisms governing trophoblast identity"

  11:15        Break

  11:30        Maria Carolina Florian "Aging of hematopoietic stem cells: epigenetic drift and remodeling of the niche"

  12:15        Sara Wickström "Nuclear mechanotransduction: regulation of cell fate and integrity"

  13:00        Break

 

SESSION 2: NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION

  14:00        Susana Gonzalo "Danger of self-DNA accumulation in the cytoplasm during aging" 

  14:45        Ulrike Kutay "Inside Out – Taking Apart the Nuclear Envelope for Open Mitosis"

  15:30        Colin Stewart "LINC complex disruption as a way to treat laminopathies"

  16:15        Break

  16:30        Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna "DNA damage response: threat and opportunities"

  17:15        Wendy Bickmore "Enhancer function and the 3D genome"

  18:00        Tom Misteli "Genome organization in space and time"

  18:45        Concluding Remarks