Mark your calendars for October 27th, 2023, and be prepared to embark on a journey of knowledge, inspiration, and celebration. We invite you to a special symposium dedicated to celebrating the 60th birthday of IMBA director Juergen Knoblich. The symposium features presentations by alumni from the Knoblich lab throughout the years. These alumni have forged their own paths and achieved significant milestones in both academia and industry.
This event promises to be a day of intellectual stimulation and fond memories as we bring together alumni, former and new colleagues.
Program
Friday, October 27
09:00 Welcome reception
09:30 Opening remarks
09:45 Silvia Bulgheresi - From fly neurons to oral bacteria: 25 years of asking the same question.
10:10 Matthias Schäfer - tRNA-Derived Small RNAs: Numbers, Molecular Interactions and Potential Use of a ‘Waste Product’
10:35 Mihaela Zigman - Broadband molecular fingerprinting: Prospects for probing health and disease
11:00 coffee break
11:30 Eva Hörmanseder - What memories are made of: The barriers to cell fate reprogramming
11:55 Ralph Neumüller - Many shots on a target and room for more: HER2 in cancer.
12:20 Ryan Conder - Recent Developments and Applications Using Intestinal Organoids
12:45 lunch break & group picture
13:45 Yunli Xie - Cortical positioning of neural cells in brain development
14:10 Elif Eroglu - Mechanisms of heart regeneration in salamanders
14:35 coffee break
15:05 Catarina Homem - Asynchronous transcription and translation as timers of neuronal maturation in Drosophila.
15:30 Christopher Esk - Tissue-mediated growth control in cerebral organoids
15:55 Lisa Landskron - Trimming the cytoskeleton – a genetic dissection of microtubule regulation
16:20 coffee break
16:50 Deniz Abdusselamoglu - From flies to mice: Stories of stem cells
17:15 Dominik Lindenhofer - A multiomic scDNA-scRNA-seqtechnology to systematically characterize non-coding variants at scale
17:40 Veronica Krenn - Immune signals & brain development: insights from human organoids
18:05 Closing remarks
18:20 Networking with drinks & snacks