When:
March 16, 2023 (9.00 am - 3.00 pm)
Where:
Lecture Hall, ACP Research Building, Albert-Einstein-Str. 6, 07745 Jena
Speakers
Ari Barzilai, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Axel Behrens, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Keith Caldecott, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Cornelis Calkhoven, European Research Institute on the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), Groningen, Netherlands
Christian Geis, University Hospital Jena ( UKJ), Jena, Germany
Zdenko Herzeg, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
Amal Saidi, Orano Med SAD, France
Erwin Wagner, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Xingzhi Xu, Shenzhen University, School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
Zhongwei Zhou, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China
Programme
9:00 Welcome - Christoph Englert & Alfred Nordheim
9:15 Erwin Wagner:: A memorable journey 1988-2022: breakthroughs in mouse genetics, cancer biology and beyond
9:40 Axel Behrens: Molecular mechanisms controlling cellular heterogeneity of pancreatic cancer
10:05 Zdenko Herzeg: Epigenetic drivers on the road to cancer
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Zhongwei Zhou: Post-transcriptional regulation of neural stem cell fate in corticogenesis and neurodevelopmental disorders
11:15 Christian Geis: Immune-mediated synaptopathies of the central nervous system
11:40 Xingzhi Xu: Primary microcephaly with an unstable genome
12:05 Lunch break
13:00 Keith Caldecott: The DNA strand break sensor protein PARP1 in DNA repair and disease
13:25 Cornelis Calkhoven: mTORC1-C/EBP regulation in health and disease
13:50 Ari Barzilai: Eye transplantation: dreams or reality?
14:15 Amal Saidi: From ZQ’s lab to the biotech industry, what are the lessons learned?
14:40 Closing remarks
Organizers
Christoph Englert • Paulius Grigaravicius • Eileen Stöckl
