Programme
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Registration |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Prof. Robbie Loewith, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UNIGE, Switzerland & NCCR Chemical Biology Director Welcome and introduction |
| Chair | Prof. Howard Riezman, Dept. of Biochemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Prof. Sarah O’Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Biology, Germany Keynote lecture: Harnessing the chemistry of plants |
| Chair | Prof. Andrea Ablasser, GHI-SV, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Prof. Stefan Kubicek, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Targeting metabolic enzymes in the cell’s nucleus |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Poster session (group A) | Apéro |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration & Welcome coffee |
| Chair | Prof. Robbie Loewith, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Prof. Paola Picotti, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Proteomes in 3D: Structural barcodes to probe protein functional alterations |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Dr. Ulrich Schopfer, Novartis, Switzerland Biology at atomic resolution – Chemical Biology meets drug discovery |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Prof. Charlotte Aumeier, Dept. of Biochemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Prof. Gijsje Koenderink, TU Delft, Netherlands (re)Constructing the active molecular behaviour of cells |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Prof. Tomas Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School, USA Revealing biology with deep learning and frontier microscopy |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch + Poster session (group A) |
| Chair | Prof. Pablo Rivera Fuentes, Dept. of Chemistry, UZH, Switzerland |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Prof. Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK The remarkable science of nanopores: from gene sequencing to organ repair |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Prof. Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland Design principles of tissue organization |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Emerging scientists’ session Prof. Robbie Loewith, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Dr. Rita Mateus, MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Form leading to function at the subcellular scale |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Dr. Adai Colom, Biofisika Institute, Spain Membrane remodeling and mechanical properties over the immunological synapse and viral infection |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Junior researchers’ presentation session TBA |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Stand-up comedy time with Shannon Granger, La Manufacture, Lausanne TBA |
| 17:45 | Poster session (group B) | Reception |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration & Welcome coffee |
| Chair | Prof. Aurélien Roux – Dept. of Biochemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Prof. Sara Sigismund, University of Milan & Instituto Europeo di Oncologia, Italy Contact sites between PM, ER and mitochondria: connecting EGFR signaling to cell metabolism |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Prof. Suzanne Pfeffer, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Rab GTPase phosphorylation and the molecular basis of inherited Parkinson’s disease |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair | Prof. Christian Heinis, ISIC, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Prof. Christina Woo, Harvard University, USA Chemical biology studies of the thalidomide binding domain of cereblon |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Prof. Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco, USA TBA |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch + Poster session (group B) |
| Chair | Prof. Howard Riezman, Dpt of Biochemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Kai Johnsson, MPI for Medicinal Research, Germany Keynote EMBO lecture: Fluorescent and bioluminescent probes for imaging and diagnostics |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Best poster awards announcement |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Dr Yves Auberson, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research | Swiss Chemical Society Announcement |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Prof. Robbie Loewith, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UNIGE, NCCR Director Prof. Christian Heinis, ISIC, EPFL, NCCR Chemical Biology co-Director Concluding remarks |
