Conference
IBL Symposium 2018
- Date
- Thursday 26 April 2018
- Time
- Location
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LUMC Main Building
Albinusdreef 2
2333 ZA Leiden - Room
- CZ5
On Thursday the 26th of April, the annual symposium of the Institute of Biology Leiden will be organised.
Programme
- 09.30 - 09.55 Welcome, registration and coffee
- 09.55 - 10.00 Opening by Ewa Snaar-Jagalska
Session I - Chair: Peter Klinkhamer
- 10.00 - 10.35 Koen Verhoeven (Keynote) Epigenetics in the wild: causes and consequences of natural epigenetic variation in plants.
- 10.35 - 10.50 Yao Xiao: Phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) as key regulator of plant development
- 10.50 - 11.05 Mirka Macel: Using natural variation in Pepper (Capsicum sp.) to identify novel sources of insect resistance
- 11.05 - 11.35 Coffee/Tea
Session II- Chair: Marcel Schaaf
- 11.35 - 12.10 Rui F. Oliveira (Keynote) Mechanisms underlying social behaviour in Zebrafish
- 12.10 - 12.25 Christian Tudorache: Coping with style: individual variation in stress recovery
- 12.25 - 12.40 Monica Varela Alvarez: Mycobacterium and the host cell inflammasome: friend or foe?
- 12.40 - 13.40 Lunch
Session III - Chair: Ewa Snaar - Jagalska
- 13.40 - 14.15 Yi Feng (Keynote) Visualizing the earliest events during tumour initiation
- 14.15 - 14.30 Lanpeng Chen: Integrin-ILK dependent mechanical transduction regulates cancer stem-like plasticity leading metastatic onset of prostate cancer
- 14.30 - 14.45 Natalia Nowik: Leptin as a key control factor of insulin signaling during embryogenesis
- 14.45 - 15.15 Coffee/Tea
Session IV – Chair: Ariane Briegel
- 15.15 - 15.50 Martin Pilhofer (Keynote) – Structure, Function, and evolution of bacterial contractile injection systems
- 15.50 - 16.05 Lizah van der Aart - Build a wall! Dynamic cell wall remodeling supports bacterial cell shape, growth and division
- 16.05 - 16.20 Tom Wood - Synthesis of the Calcium Dependent Antibiotic Laspartomycin C and Analogues Thereof
- 16.20 - 16.25 Closing remarks - Herman Spaink
- 16.25 - 17.45 Reception