Horizons 2022 Schedule


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Monday, 12 September 2022


10:00 - Opening Ceremony

10:15 - Chiara Pastore - Streaming online - Senior editor, Nature Nanotechnology

10:45 - Coffee Break

11:00 - Bishoy Hanna - Streaming online - Medical consultant, Merck

11:30 - Coffee Break

11:45 - Satya Prakash Dash - Streaming online - CEO BITS BioCyTiH Foundation

12:15 - Speed Dating Session 1

12:45 Khalil Abou ElardatSingleron Biotechnologies GmbH

13:00 - LUNCH

14:00 - Oliver Rinner - Founder & CEO, Biognosys AG

14:30 - Coffee Break

14:45 - Claudia Walther - Advisor, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds

15:15 - Coffee Break

15:30 - Marc Gerauer - Patent attorney, KRAUS & WEISERT

16:00 - Speed Dating Session 2

20:00 - Join us for a beer! at BarCelona (Weender     Landstraße 3)

The organizers invite everyone, both participants and speakers, to join us for a beer - or any other beverage of your choice. Food and drinks are self paid.

Career Fair Workshops


10:00 - 13:00
Academic Writing: How To Create Good Texts

Dr.-Ing. Bartlett Warren-Kretzschmar


14:00 - 17:30 

Academia As A Springboard To Other Sectors

Dr. Gaby Schilling




Tuesday, 13 September 2022



09:00 - Opening Ceremony
09:15 - KEYNOTE: James Rothman - Molecular choreography of synaptic vesicle fusion revealed by cryo-electron microcopy and                   cell-free reconstitution 

10:30 - Coffee Break

10:45 - Konstanze Winklhofer - Streaming online - Mitochondria as a platform for ubiquitin signaling 

11:30 -  Alexey Amunts - How genes become machines in mitochondria
12:15 - POSTER AND LUNCH
14:15 - Coffee Break
14:30 - Shiv Pillai - Streaming online - Lessons learned from human immune responses in COVID-19 and other severe infections 
15:15 - Azim Surani - Streaming online - Genomic imprinting, human development and the 'immortal' germline
16:00 - Coffee Break
16:15 - Prerana Shrestha- Cell type-specific nascent protein synthesis during memory consolidation 
17:00 - Alice Ting - Streaming online - Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular networks 
17:45 - Coffee Break

18:00 - Panel Discussion

20:00 - Conference Dinner & Party at Deutsches Theater (Theaterplatz 11)

For one of the traditional highlight of Horizons, the organizers invite all conference package holders and speakers for a dinner and party in the cellar of the Deutsches Theater. Food and water are provided, other drinks are self paid.


Wednesday 14 September 2022


09:00 - Nina Papavasiliou - RNA editing in immunotherapy 
09:45 - Chris Proud - CAPturing the control of mRNA translation

10:30 - Coffee Break

10:45 - Luca Scorrano - Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of cell life and death

11:30 - Tom Rapoport - Mechanisms of protein import into peroxisomes

12:15 - LUNCH
13:00 - Kerstin Göpfrich - Streaming online - Synthetic cells: De novo engineering with DNA nanotechnology
13:45 - Student Talk 1-3  
14:45 - Group Picture 
15:00 - Tyler Jacks Streaming online - 
15:45 - Olivier Duss - Real-time tracking of transcription-translation coupling
16:30 - Coffee Break
16:45 - Meytal Landau - Virulent and Antimicrobial Amyloids in Infections and Neurodegeneration

17:30 - Poster Session with wine and cheese at MPI-NAT

Dive into the diverse research presented by young scientists through their posters in an informal setting framed by wine

and cheese. Wine and cheese are provided.


Thursday 15 September 2022


 

09:00 - Dimple Notani - Understanding the enhancer code in regulation of transcription
09:45 - Tamal Das- Streaming online - Emergent features of collective cell migration at different length-scales 

10:30 - Coffee Break

10:45 - Tal Dagan - The Darwinian fitness of extrachromosomal genetic elements

11:30 - Kushagra Bansal - Regulators of genome superstructure in the immune system
12:15 - POSTER AND LUNCH 
14:15 - Coffee Break
14:30 - Cassandra Extavour - Combining quantitative imaging and mathematical modelling to understand nuclear movements in                 early embryos
15:15 - Marieke Oudelaar - Regulation of gene expression in the three-dimensional genome
16:00 - Coffee Break
16:15 - Orly Laufman - Streaming online - When hosts become hostages - Deciphering the replication mechanisms of enteroviruses in human cells
17:00 - Sonja Lorenz - Structural principles regulating the ubiquitination machinery
17:45 - Coffee Break
18:00 - Barbara Treutlein - Streaming online - Human organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies
18:45 - Closing Ceremony

19:00 - Closing HappyHour at MPI-NAT

Celebrate the end of another Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium by joining us for a traditional MPI-Nat HappyHour including pizza, beer, and great company! Pizza is provided, beer is self paid.