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ELSO 2003 Final Programme

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(last updated 2008-09-30 16:49).

  SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 2003  
 
1500 - 1600 Press Conference Kulturpalast / Room Two
 
  Sub-Group Meetings
 
1300 - 1625 Sub-Group Meeting One:  Advances in image analysis for cell biology Kulturpalast /Salons Zwinger-Semper
  Chairpersons:  Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Paris) and Kurt Anderson (Dresden)  
  SPONSORED BY CARL ZEISS JENA GMBH
1300 - 1325 Kurt Anderson (Dresden) 
  High-resolution, high-throughput recognition of cells and structure  
1325 - 1350 Rainer Heintzmann (Göttingen)  
  Fluorescence microscopy with patterned excitation and widefield detection  
1350 - 1415 Jan Malinsky (Prague)
  Beyond the limit: image restoration of small objects  
1415 - 1435 Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Paris)
  Movie crunching: from visual observation to biological information  
1535 - 1600 Wolfgang Tvarusko (Heidelberg)
  Screening of cell development patterns
1600 - 1625 Richard Ankerhold (Advanced Imaging, Microscopy Division Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH)  
  Confocal laser scanning microscopy for photoactivation, photoconversion and more ... News from the forefront of fluorescent proteins and advances in instrumentation technologies  
1625 - 1650 Christien Merrifield (Portland)
  Imaging clathrin mediated endocytosis in action
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Two:  Translocation of proteins across membranes  (in co-operation with the GBM study group plant biochemistry) Kulturpalast / Studiotheater
  SPONSORED BY S | E | B  AG, Filiale Zehlendorf (Berlin) and                                                                   Amersham Biosciences Europe GmbH  
  Chairpersons:  Jürgen Soll and Enrico Schleiff (München)  
1300 - 1330 Richard Zimmermann (Homberg)
  Novel insights into the mechanism and regulation of protein transport into the mammalian ER  
1330 - 1400 Matthias Müller (Freiburg)
  Specific features of the biogenesis of inner membrane proteins in E. coli  
1400 - 1430 Enrico Schleiff (München)
  Regulation of the dynamics of protein translocation across chloroplast membranes  
1430 - 1500 Danja Schünemann (Bochum)
  Targeting of nuclear-encoded proteins to the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts  
1500 - 1530 Toshiya Endo (Nagoya)
  co-operation of translocators in mitochondrial protein import  
1530 - 1600 Roland Beckmann (Berlin)
  Cryo-EM structure of an elongation arrested Ribosome-SRP targeting complex  
1600 - 1630 Ralf Erdmann (Bochum)
  Early events in peroxisomal protein import
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Three:  What's new in cellular cholesterol metabolism Kulturpalast / Room One
  SPONSORED BY Roche Diagnostics Switzerland and GlaxoSmithKline  
  Chairpersons:  Elina Ikonen (Helsinki) and Arnold von Eckardstein (Zürich)  
1300 - 1330 Elina Ikonen (Helsinki)
  Intracellular cholesterol transport
1330 -1400 Arnold von Eckardstein (Zürich)
  Cholesterol efflux from peripheral cells
1400 - 1430 Folkert Kuipers (Groningen)
  Hepatobiliary cholesterol excretion
1430 - 1500 Frank Pfrieger (Strasbourg)
  Role of cholesterol in synapse formation and function  
1500 - 1530 Tobias Hartmann (Heidelberg)
  Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Four:  Genomics and proteomics of protein flow in eucaryotic cells  (in co-operation with the GBM study group cell biology) Kulturpalast / Room Four and Five
  Chairperson:  Dieter H. Wolf (Stuttgart)
1300 - 1330 Ralf Erdmann (Bochum)
  Peroxisomal proteomics
1330 - 1400 Chris Kaiser (Cambridge, USA)
  Physiological regulation of membrane protein sorting in yeast  
1400 - 1415 Bala Medicherla (Stuttgart)
  A genomic screen identifies multiple new gene products involved in ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)  
1415 - 1430 Ernst Jarosch (Berlin)
  Components involved in ER-associated degradation  
1430 - 1445 Anna Godi (Santa Maria Imbaro)
  FAPPs: a new family of proteins involved in Golgi-to-plasma membrane transport  
1445 - 1500 Vytaute Starkuviene (Heidelberg)
  Functional screening assays to identify new proteins involved in secretory membrane traffic  
1500 - 1515 Jeremy Simpson (Heidelberg)
  An integrated strategy to identify new regulators of membrane transport  
1515 - 1530 Franck Perez (Paris)
  The recombinant antibody approach in cell biology: 'immunization' with subcellular compartments and use of scFvs as protein conformation sensors in living cells  
1530 - 1545 Guennadi A. Khoudoli (Dundee)
  Proteomic analysis of cell cycle-dependent protein interaction with chromatin during DNA replication  
1545 - 1600 Ute Schepers (Bonn)
  RNA interference: everything, what one ever wanted to know about silence!  
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Five:  Phagosome biogenesis and maturation MPI-CBG
  Chairperson:  Vojo Deretic (Albuquerque)
1300 - 1330 Sergio Grinstein (Toronto)
  Role of phosphoinositides in phagosome formation and maturation  
1330 - 1400 Vojo Deretic (Albuquerque)
  Dynamic view of mycobacterial phagosome maturation - multiple waves of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate  
1400 - 1430 Gareth Griffiths (Heidelberg)
  From phagosomal lipid-mediated signalling to the killing of pathogenic mycobacteria  
1430 - 1500 Craig Roy (New Haven)
  Cellular and immunological studies on Legionella phagosome transport  
1500 - 1530 Thierry Soldati (London)
  Genetics and proteomics of phagosome maturation in Dictyostelium  
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Six:  Membrane dynamics at the ER-Golgi interface Kulturpalast /  Salon Neumarkt
  Chairperson:  Rainer Duden (Cambridge, UK)
1300 - 1330 Sean Munro (Cambridge)
  Tethering factors and membrane traffic in the Golgi apparatus  
1330 - 1400 Tommy Nilsson (Heidelberg)
  Live cell approaches to investigate the secretory pathway:  mind the GAP!  
1400 - 1430 Blanche Schwappach (Heidelberg)
  Masking of ER localization signals by 14-3-3 proteins  
1430 - 1500 Francis Barr (München) EMBO Young Investigator Lecture  
  Rab-GTPase effector complexes at the Golgi apparatus  
1500 - 1530 David Stephens (Bristol)
  Cargo sorting on exit from the ER
1530 - 1600 Irina Majoul (Göttingen)
  Retrograde and anterograde cargo:  ER entry and exit sites  
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Seven:  Membrane continuity and SNARE-dependent membrane fusion along the secretory and  endocytic pathways MPI-CBG
  Chairpersons:  Alexander Mironov (Santa Maria Imbaro) and Koert N.J. Burger (Utrecht)  
1300 - 1310 Alexander Mironov (Santa Maria Imbaro)
  Introduction
1310 - 1340 Koert N. J. Burger (Utrecht)
  The use of EM-tomography to reveal membrane continuities along the secretory pathway  
1340 - 1410 Dirk Fasshauer (Göttingen)
  Structural insights into the SNARE assembly mechanism  
1410 - 1440 Alexander Mironov (Santa Maria Imbaro)
  The role for membrane continuity for intra-Golgi transport  
1440 - 1510 Andreas Mayer (Tübingen)
  Mechanism of membrane fusion studied with yeast vacuoles as a model  
1510 - 1540 Chris Hawes (Oxford)
  The higher plant ER-Golgi interface
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Eight:  Computational science in cell biology MPI for Pyhsics and Complex Systems
  Chairpersons:  Petros Koumoutsakos (Zürich) and Ivo Sbalzarini (Zürich)  
1300 - 1320 Ivo Sbalzarini (Zürich)
  Problems and solutions on the computational analysis of biological data  
1325 - 1345 Roland Eils (Heidelberg)
  From models to experiments and back:  finding your way in the nucleus  
1350 - 1410 François Nedelec (Heidelberg)
  Studying the mitotic spindle bit by bit
1415 - 1435 Vassily Hatzimanikatis (Evanston)
  A computational framework for the discovery of novel biobased chemicals  
1440 - 1500 Ursula Kummer (Heidelberg)
  Integrating experimental and computational results for elucidating the mechanism of neutrophil activation  
1505 - 1525 Jens Timmer (Freiburg)
  Remote sensing in cellular signalling by nucleocytoplasmic cycling  
1530 - 1550 Petros Koumoutsakos (Zürich)
  Direct numerical simulation of diffusion on the endoplasmic reticulum  
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Nine:  Novel aspects of detergents in biomembrane studies Kulturpalast / Salon Altmarkt
  Chairperson:  Felix Goni (Bilbao)
1300 - 1330 Dov Lichtenberg (Tel Aviv)
  Temperature-dependence and kinetic aspects of the solubilization of membranes by detergents  
1330 - 1400 Heiko Heerklotz (Basel)
  Triton hates sphingomyelin
1400 - 1430 Felix M. Goni (Bilbao)
  Detergent solubilization of bilayers containing sphingolipids and cholesterol  
1430 - 1500 Rhoderick E. Brown (Austin)
  Sphingolipid-sterol in-plane packing elasticity and resistance to solubilization by Triton X-100  
1500 - 1530 Dick Hoekstra (Groningen)
  Some functional aspects of detergent-resistant  microdomains in the regulation of membrane traffic in polar cells  
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Ten:  Cell biology of antigen cross-presentation MTZ One
  Chairperson:  Matthew Albert (New York)
1300 - 1330 Sebastian Amigorena (Paris)
  Phagoplasmic reticulosomes and cross-presentation in dendritic cells  
1330 - 1400 Monique Kleijmeer (Utrecht)
  Morphomics of intracellular organelles involved in MHC class I cross-presentation  
1400 - 1430 Philippe Pierre (Marseille) EMBO Young Investigator Lecture  
  DCs, Drips, DALIS, antigen processing in 3D
1430 - 1500 Nathalie Blachère (Paris)
  Apoptotic cells deliver 'pre-processed' peptide epitopes to dendritic cells for antigen cross-presentation  
1500 - 1530 Dror Mevorach (Jerusalem)
  Opsonization of apoptotic cells: the duel role for complement  
1530 - 1600 Christopher Norbury (Hershey)
  Mechanism of cross priming of viral antigen in vivo
 
  Sub-Group Meeting Eleven:  How cells handle non-viral vectors and exogenous genes MTZ Two
  Chairperson:  Maria Manunta (London)
1300 - 1330 Andrew George  (London)
  Challenges and issues in non-viral gene therapy
1330 - 1400 Arto Urtti (Kuopio)
  The role of glycosaminoglycans in cellular handling of non-viral gene vectors  
1400 - 1430 Inge Zuhorn (Groningen)
  Lipoplexes-mediated transfection of cultured cells occurs through clathrin-mediated endocytosis  
1430 - 1500 Maria Manunta (London)
  Gene delivery by dendrimers operates via a cholesterol-dependent pathway  
1500 - 1530 Alexandra Binnie (Boston/Oxford)
  Colocalisation and segregation of plasmid transcription in the mammalian nucleus  
1530 - 1600 Andrew Miller (London)
  Synthetic non-viral vectors for gene therapy: where are we?  
 
1630 - 1800 Get-Together with wine and beer Kulturpalast Foyers
 

1815

Opening of the meeting and opening lecture Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate 2002, La Jolla
 
  SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 2003  
 
0830 - 0930 Otto Warburg Lecture Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ulrich Hartl (Martinsried)
  Alfred Wittinghofer (Dortmund)
  Signal transduction via GTP-binding proteins and its regulation  
 
  Plenary Session One:  RNA Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ulrich Hahn (Hamburg)
0930 - 1000 David Baulcombe (Norwich)
  Genomic imprinting and the role of non-coding RNA  
1000 - 1030 Bastiaan Tops  (Utrecht)
  RNAi and transposon silencing in C. elegans
1030 - 1100 Ada Yonath (Rehovot)
  Ribosomes; cellular machines with brains
 
  Plenary Session Two:  Cytoskeleton Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Kai Simons (Dresden)
1100- 1130 Marc Kirschner (Boston)
  Signalling and actin assembly
 
  Career Development Committee Meeting Kulturpalast / Salon Zwinger - Semper
  Policy, Career Structures, Expectations: making a difference to European Science
  Chairpersons: Daniela Corda and Carol Featherstone  
1300 - 1330 Marc Kirschner (Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School)  
  on how the ASCB began to tackle policy issues during his Presidency in the early 1990s. Inspiration for ELSO!  
1330 - 1340 Shuo-Wang Quio (Institute of Immunology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, N-0027 Oslo, Norway,  representing Eurodoc)   
  On the problems faced by graduate students
1340 - 1350 Stephan Huelsmann (Institute of Hydrobiology, Dresden Technical University, representing the Marie Curie Fellowships Association)   
  On the problems faced by postdocs
1350 - 1400 Helga Eberling (Directorate General for Research, EC, Brussels) to be confirmed  
  On the problems faced by women scientists
1400 - 1430 Debate
  Chairperson:  Kai Simons (Dresden)
  How ELSO might tackle these issues given our limited resources? Bring along your ideas for simple and small actions ELSO might pursue that would have an important impact  
 
  Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH Workshop Kulturpalast / Salon Altmarkt
1500 - 1530 Atsushi Miyawaki (RIKEN-Institute, WAKO, Tokyo, Japan)
  Cruising inside cells - dynamic imaging of cellular function  
1530 - 1545 Carmen Tepel (Advanced Imaging Microscopy, Carl Zeiss)  
  LSM technology for tomorrow's application
1545 - 1600 Eva Simbuerger (Advanced Imaging Microscopy, Carl Zeiss)  
  Multiphotonmicroscopy: Excitation spectra and beyond  
1600 - 1615 Bernhard Zimmermann (Advanced Imaging Microscopy, Carl Zeiss)
  Quantitative colocalization analysis using interactive tools  
1615 - 1630 Hubert Bauch (Carl Zeiss)
  ApoTome: 3D fluorescence imaging using a structured illumination approach  
 
1300 - 1600 POSTER SESSIONS
( Guidelines for Poster Presentations)
  Genome analysis and evolution
  Signal transduction I
  Cytoskeleton and cell motility I
  Membranes, lipids and microdomains I
  Intracellular transport from the ER to the cell surface I  
  Endocytosis I
  Early development
  Organelles
  Molecular physiology
  Programmed cell death
  Viruses
  Cancer biology
 
  Minisymposia One to Six
 
  Minisymposium One:  Cell adhesion and ECM                  Kulturpalast / Salon Neumarkt
  Chairpersons:  Karl Tryggvason (Stockholm) and Gerhard Christofori (Basel)
1600 - 1630 Karl Tryggvason (Stockholm)
  Laminin-5: role in cell adhesion, migration and tumour metastasis  
1630 - 1700 Gerhard Christofori (Basel)
  Cell adhesion, tumour invasion, and metastasis
1700 - 1730 Walter Birchmeier (Berlin)
  Molecules in epithelial-mesenchymal transitions
1730 - 1800 Gerd Bungartz (Martinsried)
  Analysis of the role of beta1, beta7 and alpha4 integrins in the murine heimatopoietic system  
1800 - 1830 Anna Cattelino (Milano)
  The conditional inactivation of ß-catenin gene in endothelial cells causes a defective vascular pattern and increased vascular fragility  
 
  Minisymposium Two:  Exocytosis                                                                  Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairpersons:  Gillian Griffiths (Oxford) and Reinhard Jahn (Göttingen)
1600 - 1630 Gillian Griffiths (Oxford)
  Exocytosis of endocytic organelles
1630 - 1700 Reinhard Jahn (Göttingen)
  Mechanisms of SNARE-mediated exocytosis
1700 - 1730 Rafael Fernández-Chacón (Seville) EMBO Young Investigator Lecture  
  Mouse functional genetics of synaptic vesicle proteins  
1730 - 1800 Emanuele Cocucci (Milano)
  A new exocytotic organelle; the enlargosome
1800 - 1830 Franck Perez (Paris)
  The recombinant antibody approach in cell biology : "immunization" with sub-cellular compartments and use of scFvs as protein conformation sensors in living cells  
 
  Minisymposium Three:  Neuronal fate and connectivity              Kulturpalast / Salons Zwinger - Semper
  Chairpersons:  Rüdiger Klein (Martinsried) and Christo Goridis (Paris)
1600 - 1630 Rüdiger Klein (Martinsried)
  Wiring neuronal networks during development and plasticity - focus on ephrins and Eph receptors  
1630 - 1700 Christo Goridis (Paris)
  From neurogenesis to the specification of axonal trajectories: the roles of the Phox2 transcription factors  
1700 - 1730 Johan Ericson (Stockholm)
  Coordinated temporal and spatial control of motor neuron and serotonergic neuron generation in the hindbrain  
1730 - 1800 Odile Delapeyriere (Marseille)
  Limb-derived factors co-ordinate motor pool specification  
1800 - 1830 Jorge Santos Da Silva (Orbassano)
  RhoA/ROCK regulation of neuritogenesis viaprofilin IIa-mediated control of actin stability  
 
  Minisymposium Four:  Viruses and host interactions                    Kulturpalast / Studiotheater
  Chairpersons:  Urs Greber (Zürich) and Ulrich Koszinowski (München)
1600 - 1630 Urs Greber (Zürich)
  How adenovirus tricks the cell during entry
1630 - 1700 Ulrich Koszinowski (München)
  Biological mapping of functional domains of an essential herpesviral gene interacting with the cellular protein kinase C  
1700 - 1730 Roger Everett (Glasgow)
  From the entry of HSV-1 parental genomes into the nucleus to the development of replication and compartments:  recruitment of viral and cellular proteins, localisation and dynamics  
1730 - 1800 Robin Weiss (London)
  Host cell control of early steps in infection by HIV
1800 - 1830 Mark Marsh (London)
  Assembly of HIV and HCMV on late endosomes
 
  Minisymposium Five:  Kidney function and development  Kulturpalast / Rooms Four and Five
  Chairpersons:  Iain Drummond (Boston) and Gerd Walz (Freiburg)
1600 - 1630 Iain Drummond (Boston)
  Disruption of human cystic disease genes and novel ciliogenic genes in zebrafish results in cystic kidney tubules  
1630 - 1700 Gerd Walz (Freiburg)
  Mechanisms of cystogenesis in the kidney
1700 - 1730 Seppo Vainio (Oulu)
  Induction and patterning mechanisms associated with early kidney development  
1730 - 1800 Christoph Englert (Würzburg)
  The Six2 transcription factor activates the GDNFgene as well as its own promoter  
 
  Minisymposium Six:  Organelle diseases                                  Kulturpalast / Room One
  Chairpersons:  Gerd Schmitz (Regensburg) and Elina Ikonen (Helsinki)
1600 - 1630 Elina Ikonen (Helsinki) 
  Defective membrane trafficking in Niemann-Pick type C disease  
1630 - 1700 Gerd Schmitz (Regensburg)
  The Golgi-to-plasma membrane cholesterol/phospholipid transport abnormality in ABCA1 mutations  
1700 - 1730 Gideon Bach (Jerusalem)
  Mucolipidosis type IV:  a novel protein involved in late stages of the endocytosis process  
1730 - 1800 Jürgen Kopitz (Heidelberg)
  Inhibition of the ATP-driven proton pump in RPE lysosomes by the major lipofuscin fluorophore A2-E may contribute to the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration   
1800 - 1830 Rosanna Piccirillo (Milano)
  Dissecting the sorting pathway of OA1, a G-protein-coupled receptor localized exclusively to intracellular organelles   
 
1915 Public Lecture in German Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ulrich Hartl (Martinsried)
  Günter Blobel (New York)
  Zellen und Leben
  Mit Vergabe des Kommunikationspreis 2003 an Christina Schröder (Frankfurt)  
 
 
  MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2003  
 
0830 - 0930 Fritz Lipmann Lecture Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ulrich Hartl (Martinsried)
  Wolfram Saenger (Berlin)
  Structural aspects of photosynthesis: architectures of  photosystems I and II  
 
  Plenary Session Three:  Reprogramming the genome Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Francis Stewart (Dresden)
0930 - 1000 Titia de Lange (New York)
  Protection of human chromosome ends
1000 - 1030 Adrian Bird (Edinburgh)
  The biology of methyl-CpG binding proteins
1030 - 1100 Ian Wilmut (Edinburgh)
  Cloning in biology and medicine
 
1100 - 1130 Coffee Break
 
  Plenary Session Four:  From basic research to novel pharmaceuticals Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ulrich Brandt (Frankfurt)
1130 - 1200 Hartmut Michel (Frankfurt)
  Membrane proteins as targets for drugs in medicine and agriculture  
1200 - 1230 Michael Gilman (Cambridge, USA)
  Paralysis by novelty: biology-driven drug discovery in a postgenomics world  
1230 - 1300 Herbert Waldmann (Dortmund)
  From protein domains to drug candidates
 
1300 - 1600 POSTER SESSION  - Abstracts received after deadline
( Guidelines for Poster Presentations)
 
 
  ELMI Workshop:  Cool tools for imaging Kulturpalasat / Salon Altmarkt
1215 - 1245 Marius Messerli, Bitplane
  Modeling biological objects in 3D and 4D microscopic images
1245 - 1315 Kees van Bavel, Bio-Rad
  Multi-photon imaging and beyond... new opportunities in multi-photon microscopy  
 
1315 - 15.00 Leica Microsystems Workshop on Live Cell Imaging and Analytical Biology Kulturpalast / Room 2
  Timo Zimmermann (EMBL, Heidelberg)
  GFP-Applications on the Leica AS MDW
  Oliver Eickelberg (University School of Medicine, Gießen)
  Visualizing Mad Smads
  Martin Hoppe (Leica Microsystems)
  Leica Confocal News
 
1400 - 1530 Podium session with Dr Raffaele Liberali, Director of the European Commission's Human Factor, Mobility and Marie Curie Activities Kulturpalast / Salon Neumarkt
  Put your questions to him about career support in FP6  
 
1500 - 1630 Till Photonics Workshop  Kulturpalast / Salon Altmarkt
  Live cell real-time TIRF'
 
  Minisymposia Seven to Twelve
 
  Minisymposium Seven: Stem cells                                           Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairpersons:  Anna M. Wobus (Gatersleben) and Hans Schöler (Kennett Square)
1600 - 1630 Anna M. Wobus (Gatersleben)
  Comparison of embryonic stem cell and somatic progenitor cell differentiation  
1630 - 1700 Hans Schöler (Kennett Square)
  Derivation of oocytes from mouse embryonic stem cells  
1700 - 1730 Albrecht Müller (Würzburg)
  Heimatopoietic activity is induced in neural stem cells by chromatin-modifying agents   
1730 - 1800 Vania Broccoli (Milano)
  Stable neural progenitor cell lines derived from mouse ES cells: in vitrocharacterization and in vivoapplications  
1800 - 1830 Alessio Attardo (Dresden)
  Neuron-generating divisions of neuroepithelial cells during early mammalian neurogenesis  
 
  Minisymposium Eight:  Actin                                                            Kulturpalast / Salon Neumarkt
  Chairpersons:  Tony Bretscher (Ithaca) and Paul Mangeat (Montpellier)
1600 - 1630 Tony Bretscher (Ithaca)
  Regulation and assembly of actin cables in yeast: tracks for myosin-V-dependent transport of membrane-bound compartments in the secretory pathway
1630 - 1700 Paul Mangeat (Montpellier)
  Dynamics of Ezrin targeting to the plasma membrane
1700 - 1730 François Payre (Toulouse)
  D-moesin controls actin dynamics during Drosophiladevelopment
1730 - 1800 Annette Müller-Taubenberger (Martinsried)
  Actin dynamics in highly motile cells
1800 - 1830 Frank van Leeuwen (Nijmegen)
  Regulation of cell adhesion and spreading by a novel Trp channel-related kinase
 
  Minisymposium Nine:  Signalling and development                Kulturpalast / Salons Zwinger - Semper
  Chairpersons:  Christof Niehrs (Heidelberg) and Irma Thesleff (Helsinki)
1600 - 1630 Christof Niehrs (Heidelberg)
  Kremens are novel dickkopf receptors that regulate WNT/beta-catenin signalling
1630 - 1700 Irma Thesleff (Helsinki)
  Molecular signalling regulating the development of ectodermal organs
1700 - 1730 Konrad  Basler (Zürich)
  Patterning and growth in Drosophila limb development
1730 - 1800 Elke Ober (San Francisco)
  The Liverplus Screen - A forward genetic approach to understanding endodermal organ formation in zebrafish
1800 - 1830 Maya Elbert (New York)
  The WNT signalling protein dishevelled functions with PAR-1 in the organization of polarized domains in epithelial cells
 
  Minisymposium Ten:  Membrane proteins and lipids               Kulturpalast / Studiotheater
  Chairpersons:  Werner Kühlbrandt (Frankfurt) and Debbie Brown (Stony Brook)
1600 - 1630 Werner Kühlbrandt (Frankfurt)
  Structure and function of membrane transport proteins by electron cryo-microscopy
1630 - 1700 Debbie Brown (Stony Brook)
  Targeting of proteins to lipid rafts
1700 - 1730 Wieland Huttner (Dresden) 
  Prominin: from cholesterol-based microdomains and plasma membrane protrusions to development and disease
1730 - 1800 Declan Doyle (Oxford)
  The crystal structure of KirBac1.1 in the closed state
1800 - 1830 Christian Ungermann (Heidelberg) EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
  Isolation and characterization of the vacuolar palmitoyl acyltransferase required for fusion-dependent palmitoylation
 
  Minisymposium Eleven:  Nuclear organization and trafficking  Kulturpalast / Rooms Four and Five
  Chairpersons: Ivan Raska (Prague) and Susan Gasser (Geneva)
1600 - 1630 Ivan Raska (Prague)
  Analysis of replication sites in HeLa cells during S-phase
1630 - 1700 Susan Gasser (Geneva)
  Multicolour live imaging of yeast chromosomes: telomere attachments and nuclear function
1700 - 1730 Jan Ellenberg (Heidelberg)
  Chromosome dynamics and positioning in live mammalian cells
1730 - 1800 David Stanek (Dresden)
  The U4/U6 snRNP in complex with U4/U6 snRNP annealing factor SART3/p110 in Cajal bodies
1800 - 1830 Christian Betz (Homburg)
  Cir1p, a novel yeast Ring/PHD finger protein, links the alcohol stress response to regulation of  RNA polymerase II
 
  Minisymposium Twelve:  Metabolic and DNA profiling             Kulturpalast / Room One
  Chairpersons:  Lothar Willmitzer (Golm) and Anne Marie Poustka (Heidelberg)
1600 - 1630 Lothar Willmitzer (Golm)
  Integration of metabolic and transcript profiling data – approaches towards system biology
1630 - 1700 Anne Marie Poustka (Heidelberg)
  Gene expression profiling in cancer
1700 - 1730 Olli Kallioniemi (Turku)
  Biochip technologies for systems biology and translational research on cancer
1730 - 1800 Ulrike Korf (Heidelberg)
  Protein microarrays as tools to identify novel protein-protein interactions
1800 - 1830 Christian Kaltschmidt (Witten)
  Microarray analysis of tumour necrosis factor alpha-induced gene expression in U373 human glioblastoma cells
 
1900 - 2030 Special Session - Cinema of the Cell Kulturpalast / Festsaal
 
  TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2003  
 
0800 - 0900 GBM Award Lectures Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Ernst Schering Research Foundation Habilitation Prize
  Karl Lohmann Prize
  Altana PhD Prize
 
0900 - 0930 ELSO2003 Early Career Award Lecture Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Award sponsored by Urban and Fischer Verlag and Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
  Jürgen Knoblich (Vienna)
  Dare to be different: asymmetric cell division in the Drosophila nervous system
 
  Plenary Session Five: Molecular medicine Kulturpalast / Festsaal
  Chairperson:  Ralf Pettersson (Stockholm)
0930 - 1000 Adriano Aguzzi (Zürich)
  Peripheral prion pathogenesis: a journey through gut, spleen and nerves
1000 - 1030 Qais Al-Awqati (New York)