CIG symposium 2023
Title: Emergence of Order Across Biological Scales
Dates: June 8-9 2023
Organizers: Maria Cristina Gambetta, David Gatfield
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PROGRAM
Thursday June 8, 2023
09:30 Welcome
Session 1 – Molecules
Chair: TBA
09:40-10:30 Maria Hondele, Univerisity of Basel (CH)
"DEAD-box ATPases are global regulators of phase-separated organelles and RNA flux"
10:30-11:20 David Ng, Max Planck Institute for Polymer research (DE)
"Controlling peptide assembly and function using cellular concepts"
11:20-12:10 Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern (USA)
"How do protein domains of low sequence complexity work?"
12:10-13:30 Lunch and Poster session
Session 2 – Cells
Chair: TBA
13:30-14:20 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Research Campus (USA)
"Looking under the hood of cells: from whole cell organelle reconstructions to
single molecule dynamics to atomic reconstructions of macromolecules"
14:20-15:10 Dora Tang, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics (DE)
"From molecules to life: building living systems from scratch"
15:10-16:00 Sophie Martin, UNIGE (CH)
"Emergence of cellular order: a tale of flows and condensates"
16:00-16:15 Break
Session 3 – Short talks: the future of research on biological interactions
Chair: "TBA"
16:15-16:35 Laia Simó Riudalbas, UNIL (CH)
"The pro-metastatic factor POU5F1B is a human-restricted oncogene that reshuffles
membrane-associated proteins
16:35-16:55 Navin Gopaldass, UNIL (CH)
"Retromer oligomerization drives SNX-BAR coat assembly and membrane constriction"
16:55-17:15 Uyen Linh Ho, UNIL (CH)
"Assessing missense mutation effects at scale using CRISPR-Cas9 base editors"
17:15-17:35 Nathaniel Himmel, UNIL (CH)
"The enigmatic origins of insect Gustatory and Odorant receptors: a homologous
protein superfamily spanning eukaryotes, archaea and bacteria"
Friday June 9, 2023
Session 4 – Tissues
Chair: TBA
09:30-10:20 Nicoletta Petridou, EMBL Heidelberg (DE)
"Spontaneous rigidification underlying the emergence of correct tissue patterning
and architecture"
10:20-11:10 Yanlan Mao, University College London (UK)
" Re-Emergence of Order During Tissue Repair"
11:10-12:00 Zev Gartner, University of San Francisco (USA)
"Balancing order and disorder during tissue self-organization"
12:00-13:10 Lunch & poster session
Session 4 – Populations & Ecosystems
Chair: TBA
13:10-14:00 Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich (CH)
"A quantitative single-cell approach to microbiome research"
14:00-14:50 Steffen Rulands, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (DE)
"Self-organisation across scales: from molecules to insect societies"
14:50-15:40 Philipp Engel, DMF - UNIL (CH)
"Emergence and maintenance of diversity in host-associated microbiomes"
15:40-16:00 Concluding remarks
