Wednesday,  9 October 2024

12:00 - 12:50 Registration

IMMUNOLOGY
12:50-13:00 Welcome talk
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

15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break

VASCULAR BIOLOGY
16:00-16:40 Angiogenesis revisited: exploring novel endothelial cell regulators and their therapeutic potential
Anna Rita Cantelmo, Institut Pasteur de Lille, INSERM U1011-EGID, 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
18:00-18:15 Poster talks

18:15 - 19:30 Dinner & Poster session

19:30 - 21:00 Social activity - Pub Quiz

Thursday, 10 October 2024

9:00 - 9:50 Registration

DEVELOPMENT I
9:50-10:00 Welcome talk
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
11:20-11:40 Sponsor talks

11:40 - 12:00 Coffee break

DEVELOPMENT II
12:00-13:00 Reconstructing development
Alexander Schier, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch & Poster session

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

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 19:00 CiM-IMPRS 15 Years Celebration

Friday, 11 October 2024

8:40 - 9:20 Registration

Young investigators
9:20-9:30 Welcome talk
9:30-9:50 Young investigator talk: Sensing endogenous nesprin-2 force transduction and its involvement in cytoskeletal mechanics
Tanmay Sadhanasatish, University of Münster, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Germany
9:50-10:10 Young investigator talk: MTSS1 regulates endothelial cell alignment in response to shear forces
Christina Teubert, University of Münster, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Germany
10:10-10:30 Young investigator talk: The actin cytoskeleton at different stages of plasma membrane repair
Rafaella Jekabson, University of Münster, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, Germany

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break

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

12:10 - 13:00 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 A journey to the dark side of the genome
Rocio Enriquez-Gasca, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

ALUMNI II
15:00-15:30 Co-founder and CEO at Cambrium
Mitchell Duffy, Berlin, Germany
15:30-16:00 Scientist at BLUU Seafood
Niraimathi Govindasamy, Hamburg, Germany
16:00-16:30 Scientist at Roche
Jyoti Rao, Basel, Switzerland
16:30-17:00 Awards and closing ceremony