Program
19-22 September 2019
Thursday, September 19 - Day 1
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome mixer
Meeting in the garden (or foyer in case of bad weather) at the venue at 18:00.
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstraße 242, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Picnic at the river Neckar.
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Restaurant Cottage
Alte Eppelheimer Str. 33, Heidelberg
Friday, September 20 - Day 2
Breakfast from 08:00 (IWH accommodation)
08:50 - 9:00 Opening Welcome
Organizing committee
09:00 - 10:00 Session 1 - Cryobiology & Oncology
Chair: Rafael de Freitas e Silva
Svitlana Rozanova (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Medical Proteome Centre, Ruhr University Bochum
“The science of cryobiology: past, present, future”
Desirée Gül (Wünsch) (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University Medical Center Mainz, Germany
“Circulating tumor cells and exosomes as diagnostic tools”
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Insight 1 - Broader topic discussion
Equality in Science: If and how ethnicity, gender or social status influence your career
Discussion leader: Bailey Milne-Davies
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
Lunch at Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
13:00 - 14:30 Special guest: Nobel Laureate
Prof. Harald zur Hausen (45 min + 45 min discussion)
German Cancer Research Center, Germany
“Nutritional infections as risk factors for some common human cancers”
Chair: Tanja Bhuiyan
14:30 - 16:00 Insight 2 - Broader topic discussion
Mental Health: How stress and pressure at work influence the mind, mental health issues as a taboo topic in academia, workaholism as virtue
Discussion leaders: Mozhgan Dehghan-Harati, Michael Margineanu, Ilana Lendvai
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2 - Immunology & Infection
Chair: Svitlana Rozanova
Hayley McNamara (20 min + 10 min discussion)
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia
“Memory B cell responses to malaria vaccines are potently inhibited by sub-protective antibody titres”
Milena Bertolotti (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University of Freiburg, Germany
“Inhibitory and redox regulators of the B cell receptor signaling"
Rafael de Freitas e Silva (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University of Pernambuco, Brazil
“Role of immune checkpoint during parasitic infections”
18:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Alte Gundtei (Turkish Restaurant)
Zwingerstraße 15a, Heidelberg
Saturday, September 21 - Day 3
Breakfast from 07:30 (IWH accommodation)
08:30 - 09:30 Session 3 - Gene Regulation & Protein Chemistry
Chair: Mozhgan Dehghan-Harati
Tanja Bhuiyan (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
“Liquid-liquid phase separation in transcription regulation”
Anna Theresa Kunert (20 min + 10 min discussion)
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
“Nitration and Oligomerization of Allergens upon Exposure to Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide as well as Peroxynitrite Treatment”
09:30 - 10:30 Session 4 - Neuroscience
Chair: Milena Bertolotti
Ilana Lendvai (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University of Bonn, Germany
“Peripheral circulating inflammatory mediators in migraine patients treated with adjunctive cervical non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation”
Michael Margineanu (20 min + 10 min discussion)
OncoGen Centre , Pius Branzeu Hospital, Romania
“Genome-wide Insights Into the Targets and Mechanisms of Lactate Signaling in Cortical Neurons”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Session 5 - Microbiology
Chair: Anna Kunert
Bailey Milne-Davies (20 min + 10 min discussion)
University of Marburg, Germany
“Life after secretion – Yersinia enterocolitica rapidly toggles effector secretion and can resume cell division in response to changing external conditions“
11:30 - 13:00 Insight 3 - Broader topic discussion
Open Science and Access: Can we create a better research enterprise?
Discussion leader: Silvana Bazua-Valenti
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
Die Kuh die Lacht (Burger Restaurant)
Hauptstraße 133, Heidelberg
14:30 - 17:30 Leisure activity
Walk through Heidelberg’s old town: small sightseeing tour (bad weather: visit of Heidelberg’s castle)
17:30 - 18:00 Closing
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner
Palmbräu Gasse (German Restaurant)
Hauptstraße 185, Heidelberg
Sunday, September 22 - Day 4
Breakfast from 08:30 (IWH accommodation)