Wednesday 8th October (Remote)
12:45 - 13:00 Registration (Zoom Webinar)
13:00 - 13:10 Symposium Opening
Session 1 - Computational Biology
13:10 - 13:50 Fabian Theis
Decoding cellular systems: From observational atlases to generative interventions
13:50 - 14:20 Assaf Zaritsky
Bridging spatiotemporal scales in multicellular organization and information processing
14:20 - 14:50 Robert Insall
How Cells Steer Themselves: Finding Infections, Building Embryos, Solving Mazes
14:50 - 16:05 Break
Session 2 - Alumni
16:05-16:35 Nina Andreas
Role of Medical Liaison Management in the Pharmaceutical Industrie - Taking on Opportunities and Challenges
16:35 - 17:05 Binyamin Düthorn
Working as an R&D scientist, feeling like a QM manager, seen as the Grinch
17:05-17:35 Gloria Mancinelli
Turning scientific expertise into corporate strategic impact
17:55 - 18:00 Sponsors
18:00 - 18:15 Poster Mini Pitchs
Thursday 9th October
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Symposium
Session 1 - Development I
9:10 - 9:40 Jérôme Gros
Mechanics of avian gastrulation
9:40 - 10:10 Jan Huisken
High-resolution imaging across scales with modular and portable light sheet microscopy
10:10 - 10:50 Roberto Mayor
Neural Crest: The Great Invaders of the Embryo
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Development II
11:10 - 11:40 Jeroen Bakkers
The Fish that Heals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiac Regeneration
11:40 - 12:10 Nadine Vastenhouw
The spark of life. Initiating transcription in embryos.
12:10 - 12:50 Anna Akhmanova
Cellular Roadmaps: Control of microtubule organization and dynamics
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 3 - Neurobiology
14:00 - 14:30 Lukas Kunz
Single-neuron Mechanisms for Spatial Memory in Humans
14:30 - 15:00 Büşra Çoban
Unleashing hidden visual potential through olfactory deprivation in Drosophila
15:00 - 15:50 Eva-Maria Krämer-Albers
Extracellular vesicles in neuron-glia communication and CNS homeostasis
15:50 - 17:00 Poster Session I & Coffee Break
Session 4 - Cell Biology (Migration)
17:00 - 17:30 Pablo Vargas
Leukocyte migration under confinement: From cell biology to therapeutics
17:30 - 18:00 Michael Sixt
Leukocyte navigation in complex environments
18:00+ Social Event
Friday 10th October
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Session 1 - Young Investigators
9:00 - 9:20 Theresa Groß-Thebing
Does dosage matter? Quantitative control of cell fate determination during human gastrulation
9:20 - 9:40 Micaela Boiero Sanders
Structural insights into actin filament regulation
9:40 - 10:00 Agata Witkowska
Biophysical mechanisms of neuronal membrane shape regulation
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Cell Biology (Vascularity)
10:20 - 11:00 Holger Gerhardt
TBA
11:00 - 11:30 Anna Dimberg
The vasculature as a target for therapy in glioblastoma
11:30 - 12:00 Rui Benedito
Unraveling Vascular Biology with Ratiometric Single-Cell Functional Genetics
12:00 - 13:30 Poster Session II & Lunch Break
Session 3 - Advanced Methods
13:30 - 14:00 Oleksiy Kovtun
Cryo‑EM snapshots of vesicular transport from test‑tube to cell
14:00 - 14:40 Lars Kuepfer
Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling in health and disease
14:40 - 14:55 Awards & Feedback
14:55 - 15:10 Wrap up & Thank You