LS² Annual Meeting 2021

This symposium is organized by Gabriela Kania (UZH) and Marie-Noëlle Giraud (UNIFR) from the LS² Cardiovascular Biology Intersection.
Scheduled on February 18; 15:35 - 17:20

Invited speakers: 

• Christine Mummery from Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center (NL) with her talk "Mechanisms underlying contractile responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes"
  
• Christian Zuppinger from Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Bern (CH) with his talk "3D cardiac cells culture"
  
• Przemyslaw Blyszczuk from Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich (CH) with his talk "Human cardiac microtissues as a model to study myocardial fibrosis"
  

This symposium is organized by Mark Ibberson (SIB) and Alan Bridge (SIB) from the LS² Bioinformatics Intersection and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Scheduled on February 18; 15:35 - 17:20

Invited speakers: 

• Ewan Pearson from University of Dundee (UK) with his talk "Precision medicine in Diabetes"
• Maria Gomez from Lund University, Sweden with her talk "BEAt-DKD (Biomarker Enterprise to Attack DKD) and the power of public private partnerships in diabetes research"
  

Industry scientific talks:

• Gema Fuerte Hortigón from Bucher Biotec AG / Mission Bio Inc with her talk "High-throughput single-cell DNA-sequencing and protein analysis reveals CRISPR-editing efficiency as well as clonal evolution in cancer". More here.
  
• David Benz from Bucher Biotec AG with his talk "Exosomes as Novel Multicomponent Biomarkers: Challenges and Opportunities". More here.

This symposium is organized by Alexander Eggel (UNIBE) and Jörn Dengjel (UNIFR) from the LS² Autophagy Section. 
Scheduled on February 18; 15:35 - 17:20

Invited speakers: 

• Katja Simon from Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (UK) with her talk "Autophagy in Immune Senescence"
• Linda Partridge from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing (DE) with her talk "Ageing: a gut feeling"

This Symposium is supported by the Swiss Society for Aging Research (SSFAR)

Swiss Society for Aging Research

This symposium is organized by Urs Ziegler (UZH) and Joana Delgado Martins (UZH) from the LS² Microscopy Intersection.
Scheduled on February 18; 15:35 - 17:20

Invited speakers: 

• Lucas Pelkmans from the Department of Molecular Life Sciences of Univesity of Zurich with his talk "Cellular state determines the multimodal signaling response of single cells"

Industry sponsored talk:

• Christian Holz from Molecular Devices with his talk "New 3D applications on Molecular Devices intelligent automated imaging solutions"

This symposium is organized by Torsten Ochsenreiter (UNIBE) from the LS² MCB section.
Scheduled on February 18; 15:35 - 17:20

Invited speakers: 

• Ana Wredenberg from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden with her talk "The role of mitochondrial SAM in health and disease"
• Pierre Maechler from University of Geneva Medical School (CH) with his talk "Short or long mitochondria, a dilemma for glucose homeostasis"

Industry scientific talk:

• Stephen Helliwell from Rejuveron Life Sciences AG, Zürich (CH) with his talk "Ageing and mitochondria"

This symposium was planned by Philip Skaanderup (Novartis) and is organized by Christian Heinis (EPFL) from our partner society DMCCB (a division of the Swiss Chemical Society).
Scheduled on Friday 19, 16:00 - 17:45

Invited speakers: 

• Nina Hartrampf from the Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich (CH) with her talk "Flow-based Synthesis of Chemically Modified Peptides and Proteins"
• Stefan Knapp from  Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (DE) with his talk "Targeting protein scaffolding function in kinases"

Industry scientific talk:

• Vanessa Pierroz from Promega , with her talk "Promega’s 3-in-one assay to study autophagy: Autophagy LC3 HiBiT Reporter Assay System"

This symposium is organized by Robbie Joséph Loewith (UNIGE) and Claudio De Virgilio (UNIFR) from the LS² MCB Section.
Scheduled on February 19; 16:00 - 17:45

Invited speakers: 

• Estela de Jacinto from Rutgers University (USA) with her talk "mTORC2 and the hexosamine pathway in T cell development and lymphoma"
• Joseph Baur from University of Pensylvannia (USA) with his talk "Adipocyte mTORC1 maintains systemic lipid homeostasis"

Industry scientific talk:

• Matthias Wymann from University of Basel and founder of  PIQUR Therapeutics AG.  with his talk "Targeting the phosphoinositide 3-kinase / target of rapamycin pathway in cancer, immunity, metabolism and neurodegenerative disease"
  

This symposium is organized by Thomas Lutz (UZH) from the LS² Physiology Section.
Scheduled on February 19; 16:00 - 17:45

Invited speakers: 

• Hans-Rudolf Berthoud from Pennington Center in Baton Rouge (USA) with his talk "Gut-Brain Communication and Bariatric Surgery"
• Christina Boyle from Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich (CH)  with her talk "Influence of obesity during pregnancy on the mother’s mental and metabolic health"

This symposium is organized by Attila Becskei (UNIBAS) and Yolanda Schaerli (UNIL) from the LS² Systems Biology section.
Scheduled on Friday 19: 16:00 - 17:45

Invited speakers: 

• Michael Knop from University of Heidelberg (DE) with his talk "Applications of Multiplexed AnchorSeq insertion site sequencing: from functional genomics to Covid-19 diagnostics"
• Mihaela Zavolan from Biozentrum University of Basel (CH) with her talk "Modulation of protein synthesis during cellular and organismal life"

This symposium is organized by Gabriele Weitz-Schmidt (UNIBAS) from our partner society Swiss Society for Experimental Pharmacology - SSEP
Scheduled on February 19; 16:00 - 17:45

Invited speakers: 

• Sonja Kleinlogel from University of Bern (CH) with her talk "Precision pharmacology in ocular diseases (gene therapy)"
• Carole Bourquin from the University of Geneva (CH) with her talk "Precision pharmacology in cancer immunotherapy"
• Christoph Handschin from Biozentrum - University of Basel (CH) with his talk "Engaging skeletal muscle for healthy aging: lifestyle and pharmacological interventions"