IBL Symposium 2021
- Date
- Thursday 10 June 2021 - Friday 11 June 2021
- Location
- Microsoft Teams
On Thursday June 10th and Friday June 11th, the annual symposium of the Institute of Biology Leiden will be organised. Due to COVID-19, the event will be held online.
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Programme
June 10 12:45-17:00
Welcome
- 12:45 Welcome and introduction by Gilles van Wezel, Scientific Director Institute of Biology, Leiden University
- 13:00 -13:30 Opening by Jos Raaijmakers (NIOO-KNAW, IBL)
Session I: Bioactive molecules
- 13:30 – 14:00 Keynote Mario van der Stelt (CML) Discovery of molecules that regulate the body's own marijuana
- 14:00 – 14:15 Mike Richardson Bioactive molecules in snake venom
- 14:15 – 14:30 Somayah Elsayed Biosynthesis of the novel angucycline antibiotic lugdunomycin: hierarchical role of the tailoring oxygenases
- 14:30 – 14:45 Sandra Irmish A Novel Plant-Derived Anti-Diabetic Compound: From metabolite biosynthesis to engineering production systems
- 14:45 – 15:15 Break
- 15:15 - 15:30 Staff Association BioSpirit announcements
Session II: Host-Microbe Interactions
- 15:30 – 16:00 Keynote Nicole de Voogd (CML, Naturalis) The sponge holobiont in tropical marine ecosystems
- 16:00 – 16:15 Pingtao Ding Plant Innate Immunity Zig-zags into A Full Circle: Challenges and Opportunities
16:15 – 16:30 Lennart Schada Microbial biochemistry: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
16:30 – 16:45 Monica Varela Gasdermin D: from protein function to therapeutics
June 11 09:00-13:00
Session III: Development and Disease
- 09:00 – 09:30 Keynote Niels Geijsen (LUMC) In vitro models of early embryogenesis
09:30 – 09:45 Thalia Luden The role of the AHL15 gene in regulating plant longevity and polycarpy
09:45 – 10:00 Ariane Briegel Using cryoEM methods to uncover structure and function of a novel bacteriophage
10:00 – 10:15 David Versluis Multiscale Modelling of the Colonic Microbiota in Infants
10:15 – 10:45 Break
Session IV: Evolution and Biodiversity
- 11:00 – 11:30 Keynote Dan Stowell (Tilburg University, Naturalis) Sound evidence: Computational bioacoustics for biodiversity monitoring
- 11:30 – 11:45 Inge van der Knaap A changing North Sea: anthropogenic noise affects cod movements
- 11:45 – 12:00 Alise Muok Inter-microbial transport: Streptomyces spores get by with a little help from their friends
- 12:00 – 12:15 Ana Martin Camargo Preference and performance of the biocontrol agent Aphalara itadori on invasive knotweed species in the Netherlands.
Closing Lecture
- 12:30 – 13:00 Ida Haisma (Director Leiden Bio Science Park)
Microsoft Teams meeting
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