Horizons 2022 Schedule
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Monday, 12 September 2022
10:00 - Opening Ceremony
10:15 - Chiara Pastore - Streaming online - Senior editor, Nature Nanotechnology
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Bishoy Hanna - Streaming online - Medical consultant, Merck
11:30 - Coffee Break
11:45 - Satya Prakash Dash - Streaming online - CEO BITS BioCyTiH Foundation
12:15 - Speed Dating Session 1
12:45 - Khalil Abou Elardat - Singleron Biotechnologies GmbH
13:00 - LUNCH
14:00 - Oliver Rinner - Founder & CEO, Biognosys AG
14:30 - Coffee Break
14:45 - Claudia Walther - Advisor, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
15:15 - Coffee Break
15:30 - Marc Gerauer - Patent attorney, KRAUS & WEISERT
16:00 - Speed Dating Session 2
20:00 - Join us for a beer! at BarCelona (Weender Landstraße 3)
The organizers invite everyone, both participants and speakers, to join us for a beer - or any other beverage of your choice. Food and drinks are self paid.
Career Fair Workshops
10:00 - 13:00
Academic Writing: How To Create Good Texts
Dr.-Ing. Bartlett Warren-Kretzschmar
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
| 09:00 - Opening Ceremony |
| 09:15 - KEYNOTE: James Rothman - Molecular choreography of synaptic vesicle fusion revealed by cryo-electron microcopy and cell-free reconstitution |
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10:30 - Coffee Break |
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10:45 - Konstanze Winklhofer - Streaming online - Mitochondria as a platform for ubiquitin signaling |
| 11:30 - Alexey Amunts - How genes become machines in mitochondria |
| 12:15 - POSTER AND LUNCH |
| 14:15 - Coffee Break |
| 14:30 - Shiv Pillai - Streaming online - Lessons learned from human immune responses in COVID-19 and other severe infections |
| 15:15 - Azim Surani - Streaming online - Genomic imprinting, human development and the 'immortal' germline |
| 16:00 - Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - Prerana Shrestha- Cell type-specific nascent protein synthesis during memory consolidation |
| 17:00 - Alice Ting - Streaming online - Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular networks |
| 17:45 - Coffee Break |
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18:00 - Panel Discussion |
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20:00 - Conference Dinner & Party at Deutsches Theater (Theaterplatz 11) For one of the traditional highlight of Horizons, the organizers invite all conference package holders and speakers for a dinner and party in the cellar of the Deutsches Theater. Food and water are provided, other drinks are self paid. |
Wednesday 14 September 2022
| 09:00 - Nina Papavasiliou - RNA editing in immunotherapy |
| 09:45 - Chris Proud - CAPturing the control of mRNA translation |
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10:30 - Coffee Break |
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10:45 - Luca Scorrano - Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of cell life and death |
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11:30 - Tom Rapoport - Mechanisms of protein import into peroxisomes |
| 12:15 - LUNCH |
| 13:00 - Kerstin Göpfrich - Streaming online - Synthetic cells: De novo engineering with DNA nanotechnology |
| 13:45 - Student Talk 1-3 |
| 14:45 - Group Picture |
| 15:00 - Tyler Jacks - Streaming online - |
| 15:45 - Olivier Duss - Real-time tracking of transcription-translation coupling |
| 16:30 - Coffee Break |
| 16:45 - Meytal Landau - Virulent and Antimicrobial Amyloids in Infections and Neurodegeneration |
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17:30 - Poster Session with wine and cheese at MPI-NAT Dive into the diverse research presented by young scientists through their posters in an informal setting framed by wine and cheese. Wine and cheese are provided. |
Thursday 15 September 2022
| 09:00 - Dimple Notani - Understanding the enhancer code in regulation of transcription |
| 09:45 - Tamal Das- Streaming online - Emergent features of collective cell migration at different length-scales |
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10:30 - Coffee Break |
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10:45 - Tal Dagan - The Darwinian fitness of extrachromosomal genetic elements |
| 11:30 - Kushagra Bansal - Regulators of genome superstructure in the immune system |
| 12:15 - POSTER AND LUNCH |
| 14:15 - Coffee Break |
| 14:30 - Cassandra Extavour - Combining quantitative imaging and mathematical modelling to understand nuclear movements in early embryos |
| 15:15 - Marieke Oudelaar - Regulation of gene expression in the three-dimensional genome |
| 16:00 - Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - Orly Laufman - Streaming online - When hosts become hostages - Deciphering the replication mechanisms of enteroviruses in human cells |
| 17:00 - Sonja Lorenz - Structural principles regulating the ubiquitination machinery |
| 17:45 - Coffee Break |
| 18:00 - Barbara Treutlein - Streaming online - Human organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies |
| 18:45 - Closing Ceremony |
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19:00 - Closing HappyHour at MPI-NAT |
Celebrate the end of another Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium by joining us for a traditional MPI-Nat HappyHour including pizza, beer, and great company! Pizza is provided, beer is self paid.