Wednesday,  9 October 2024

Registration

IMMUNOLOGY
12:50-13:00 Welcome
13:00-13:40 Role of microRNAs in fine-tuning the inflammatory response
Mostafa Chamekh, Inflammation Unit, Laboratory of Pediatric Research and ULB Center for Research in Immunology (U-CRI), Faculty of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
13:40-14:20 Olfactory receptor 2 as novel mediator of cardio-vascular inflammation
Holger Winkels, Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
14:20-15:20 Tissue Macrophage Heterogeneity
Florent Ginhoux, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Coffee break

VASCULAR BIOLOGY
16:00-16:40 Angiogenesis revisited: exploring novel endothelial cell regulators and their therapeutic potential
Anna Rita Cantelmo, INSERM, U1003-PHYCEL-Physiologie Cellulaire, University of Lille, Lille, France
16:40-17:20 The neurovascular interface in health and disease
Isabelle Brunet, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), Collège de France, Paris, France
17:20-18:00 Vascular dysfunction in cardiometabolic diseases
Joanna Kalucka, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Thursday, 10 October 2024

Registration

DEVELOPMENT
10:00-10:40 Towards a single-molecule perspective of nuclear dynamics in the mammalian embryo
Srinjan Basu, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
10:40-11:20 RNA folding limits intermolecular base pairing in germ granules and maintains normal mRNA function and fly development
Tatjana Trcek, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
12:00-13:00 Reconstructing development
Alexander Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Lunch Break

NEUROSCIENCE
14:30-15:10 Mechanisms of axon growth and regeneration
Frank Bradke, Laboratory for Axonal Growth and Regeneration, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
15:10-15:50 Voltage imaging: Development and Applications
Daan Brinks, Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
15:50-16:30 How cell-cell interactions shape brain development
Carla Sofia Gomes da Silva, Department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Friday, 11 October 2024

Registration

BIOPHYSICS
10:50-11:30 More than the sum: how a composite interface governs function
Alba Diz-Muñoz, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
11:30-12:10 Mechanobiology of the ECM and its regulation of tissue function
Kevin Chalut, Altos Labs, Cambridge Institute of Science, Cambridge, UK

Lunch Break

ALUMNI I
13:00-13:30 Apelin signaling in the cardiovascular system
Christian Helker, Faculty of Biology, Cell Signaling and Dynamics, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
13:30-14:00 Mesoscale epithelial mechanobiology and cellular interfaces
Jacopo di Russo, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
14:00-14:30 TBA
Rocio Enriquez-Gasca, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Coffee Break

ALUMNI II
15:00-15:30 TBA
Mitchell Duffy, Cambrium, Berlin, Germany
15:30-16:00 TBA
Niraimathi Govindasamy, BLUU Seafood, Hamburg, Germany
16:00-16:30 TBA
Jyoti Rao, Roche, Basel, Switzerland