Thursday, June 11

8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome Note by Manuela Baccarini
Session 1: Membrane Signaling Networks
9:15 Keynote: Kai Simons – “Cell Membranes : Subcompartmentalization driven by phase separation”
10:15 Student: Gabriele Zaffagnini – “Oligomerization of cargo receptor p62 allows for selection of cargo and autophagosomal membrane during selective autophagy”
10:35 Coffee Break
11:00 Student: George Hedger – “Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) Lipid Interactions: Insights from Molecular Simulation and Free Energy Calculations”
11:20 Keynote: Didier Marguet – “Deciphering the cell membrane organization by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy at different length scales”
12:20 Student: Sandra Vidak – “Proliferation of progeria cells is enhanced by Lamina-associated polypeptide (LAP) 2a through expression of extracellular matrix proteins”
12:45 Lunch Break
Session 2: Molecular & Cellular Networks
14:00 Student: Marek Kochanczyk – “Excitation oscillations and hierarchy of feedbacks in MAPK signaling”
14:20 Keynote: Anne-Claude Gavin – “Lipid-protein interactions”
15:20 Student: Florian Heigwer – “Precise mapping of signalling networks using multifactorial high-content RNAi screens”
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote: Mark Fricker – “Self-organized adaptive biophysical networks”
17:00 Panel Discussion with Eva Amsen from F1000
17:45 Poster Session – with beer happy hour
19:00 End Day 1

Friday, June 12

Session 3: Gene regulation
9:00 Keynote: Austin Smith – “Design Principles of Pluripotency”
10:00 Student: Christian Baumgartner  – “Governing the integrity of hematopoietic stem cells by MEK1”
10:20 Coffee Break
10:40 Poster Session
11:20 Keynote: Dylan Taatjes – “Mediator kinases and transcription regulation”
12:20 Student: Daria Shlyueva – “Genome-wide maps of enhancers downstream of WNT and hormone signaling”
12:40 Group photo
12:50 Lunch Break
Session 4: Central Signaling Complexes
14:00 Student: Florian Ebner – “Tristetraprolin-mediated mRNA decay in T cells deteriorates colitis-associated cancer”
14:20 Keynote: Sankar Ghosh – “Regulation of NF-kB in inflammation and immunity”
15:20 Student: Jan Pencik – “STAT3 regulated ARF expression suppresses prostate cancer metastasis”
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote: Brendan Manning – “The mTOR signaling network integrates growth signals with the metabolic processes underlying cell growth”
17:00 Panel Discussion
17:45 Awards ceremony & closing remarks
18:15 End Day 2