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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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Wednesday June 7, 2023
18:00-19:00 John Grace Lecture (open to the public)
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Research Campus (USA)
"Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function
dependencies"
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
13:30-14:15 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Research Campus (USA)
"Membrane dynamics and organelle biogenesis-lipid pipelines and vesicular carriers"
14:20-15:10 Dora Tang, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics (DE)
"TBA"
15:10-16:00 Ben Lehner, Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK)
"Understanding biology and solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis"
16:00-16:15 Break
Session 3 – Short talks: the future of research on biological interactions
Chair: "TBA"
16:15-16:35 (20 min) Talk #1 from selected abstract:
16:35-16:55 (20 min) Talk #2 from selected abstract
16:55-17:15 (20 min) Talk #3 from selected abstract
17:15-17:35 (20 min) Talk #4 from selected abstract
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)
"TBA"
11:10-12:00 Zev Gartner, University of San Francisco (USA)
"Building and breaking the mammary gland to study development and disease"
12:00-13:10 Lunch & poster session
Session 4 – Populations & Ecosystems
Chair: TBA
13:10-14:00 Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich (CH)
"Self-organization of multicellular microbial systems"
13:45-14:30 Steffen Rulands, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (DE)
"Self-organisation across scales: from molecules to insect societies"
14:30-15:15 Bernard Degnan, University of Queensland (AU)
"Origin of animal complexity"
15:40-16:00 Concluding remarks
