20-22 October 2021
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Programme

20th OCT, 2021 Cell & Molecular Biology 
Session 1 - afternoon
13:00 - 13:30 Welcome
13:30 - 14:30 Prof. Dr. Hellmut Augustin:
The systemic vasculature as guardian of health and longevity
14:30 - 15:00 Dr. Cedric Bardy:
Modeling human brain disorders in vitro with patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells  
15:00 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 - 16:00 Prof. Dr. Marco Prinz:
Heterogeneity of myeloid cells in the brain 
16:00 - 16:30 Dr. Michael Potente:
Metabolic guidance of vascular growth and differentiation 
16:30 - 17:00 Young Investigator Talk
17:00 - 17:30 Q&A

21st OCT, 2021 Cell Metabolism
Session 2 - morning
10:00 - 10:30 Prof. Dr. Marino Zerial:
Mechanisms of hepatocyte polarization and liver tissue morphogenesis 
10:30 - 11:00 Prof. Dr. Christof Osman:
Keeping the good ones: intracellular selection of mitochondrial DNA 
11:00 - 11:30 Young Investogator Talk
11:30 - 11:45 Q&A
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:00 Poster Session
13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Dr. Gökhan S. Hotamisligil:
Molecular architecture as a critical determinant of metabolism 
14:00 - 14:30 Prof. Dr. Kelly Grace Magalhaes:
The impact of adipose tissues in cancer cells and macrophage immunometabolism 
14:30 - 15:00 Q&A

21st OCT, 2021  Cell Architecture Visualization
Session 3 - afternoon
15:00 - 16:00 Prof. Dr. Taekjip Ha:
Light, CRISPR and DNA repair 
16:00 - 16:30 Young Investigator Talk
16:30 - 17:00 Q&A
17:00 - 17:30 Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser:
Cryo-ET reveals sarcomere structures at molecular resolution 
17:30 - 18:00 Prof. Dr. Carlos Bustamante:
Power at the nanoscale: speed, strength and efficiency in biological motors 
18:00 - 18:30 Prof. Dr. GV Shivashankar:
Mechano-genomics of cell-state transitions  
18:30 - 19:00 Q&A

22nd October, 2021 Tissue Engineering
Session 4 - morning
09:00 - 10:00 Prof. Dr. Hans Clevers:
Organoids to model human disease 
10:00 - 10:30 Prof. Dr. Matthias Lutolf:
Engineering organoids-on-a-chip
10:30 - 11:00 Q&A
11:00 - 11:30 Prof. Dr. Anne Grapin-Botton:
Engineering pancreas organogenesis: from self-organization to understanding diabetes 
11:30 - 12:00 Young Investigator Talk
12:00 - 12:30 Dr. Kristina Haase:
Tissue-specific vascular models – modelling human disease at the microscale 
12:30 - 12:45 Q&A
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Poster Session

22nd October, 2021 Systems Biology
Session 5 - afternoon
14:00 - 15:00 Prof. Dr. James Collins:
Synthetic biology: life redesigned 
15:00 - 15:30 Prof. Dr. Carolina Wählby:
Image analysis and AI in microscopy-based life science research 
15:30 - 16:00 Q&A
16:00 - 16:30 Dr. Stephan Preibisch:
Towards reconstructing petabyte-scale lightsheet microscopy acquisitions
16:30 - 17:00 Dr. Laleh Haghverdi:
Computational approaches for analysis of single-cell multi-modal data 
17:00 - 17:15 Q&A
17:15 - 17:30 Closing remarks