Programme
| SATELLITE MEETING PROGRAMME | |
| Chairman: Prof. Evan Miller, Dr Javier Montenegro | |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Registration |
| 09:25 – 09:30 | Welcome |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Talks by
Johannes Morstein, Dept of Chemistry, New York University |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Talks by
Dr Yusuke Azuma, Dept of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Q&A session about Career paths in academia with two chairmen and early arriving plenary speakers |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee break, poster hanging and transition to the beginning of the main meeting in the same building. |
| SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Registration |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Introductory remarks by NCCR directors |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Contact sites between organelles in the control of lipid transport and membrane identity Prof. Pietro De Camilli, Prof. of Neuroscience and Professor of Cell Biology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Chair, Department of Neuroscience – Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR), Yale University, USA |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Keynote lecture Therapeutic function through synthesis-informed design: HIV eradication, cancer immunotherapy and new drug /mRNA/DNA delivery systems Prof. Paul Wender, Prof. of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA |
| 18:30 – | Poster session (group A) Wine & Cheese |
| SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME | |
| 8:30 – 9:3o | Molecular systems engineering with DNA Prof. Hendrik Dietz, Professor for Biophysics, Physics Department, Technische Universität München, Germany |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Giant vesicles: the ultimate toy system for assessing membrane mechanics, wetting and reshaping Prof. Rumiana Dimova, Professor in Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Electrophysiology, unplugged: Fluorescent Indicators to probe membrane voltage Prof. Evan Miller, Ass. Prof. of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley University, USA |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Protein Glycosylation – Pathways and Processes Prof. Barbara Imperiali, Professor in Chemistry and Professor in Biology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch + Poster session (group A) |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Catching in the Act: Active, Dynamic, and Adaptive Behaviors of Membrane Interfaces Far From Equilibrium Prof. Atul N. Parikh, Prof. in Biomedical engineering, UC Davies, USA |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Cytosolic delivery of biomacromolecules Prof. Shiroh Futaki, Prof. of Chemistry, Division of Biochemistry, Biofunctional Design-Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 18:15 | Keynote lecture Chemical Biology on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor Prof. Dennis Dougherty, Prof. of Chemistry, Caltech, USA |
| 18:15 – | Poster session (group B) Beer & cheese |
| SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Active Matters: Probing forces, fluctuations and self-organization in biological active matter Prof. Nikta Fakhri, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT, USA |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Synthetic Cellular Microenvironments with optoregulated functions Prof. Arànzazu del Campo, Head of the Program Division “Dynamic Biomaterials”, INM – Leibniz-Institut for new materials & Saarland University, Germany |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Polarized trafficking during asymmetric cell division Dr Emmanuel Derivery, Group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
| 11:40 – 12:20 | Supramolecular Peptides for cell delivery and cytoskeleton mimics Dr Javier Montenegro, Group leader at Santiago de Compostela University, Spain |
| 12:20 – 14:30 | Lunch + Poster session (group B) |
| 14:30 – 15:30
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Reprogramming the Genetic Code Prof. Jason Chin, Prof. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge – Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) – Head of the Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology (CCSB), Cambridge, UK |
| 15:30 | Concluding remarks by NCCR directors |
