Programme
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Opening Remarks: Prof. Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt Speaker of the GGL |
Section 2: Infection and Immunity / Chairperson: Anton Müller
| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Maria Yazdanbakhsh Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Helminth infections and the modulation of the immune system - advantages and disadvantages |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Jakhongir Alidjanov Values of symptoms and their severity in the diagnosis of acute uncomplicated cystitis |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Nora Goldmann Identification of a novel hepatits B virus (HBV) species from a new world capuchin monkey with zoonotic potential |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Serena Stadler Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (alk-)specific CD4 T cell responses in patients with alk-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Section 9: Ecology and Global Change / Chairperson: Julia Wollny
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Keynote: Dr. Frank Hagedorn Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Switzerland Forest’s carbon cycle in a drier world |
| 11:45- 12:00 |
Florian Ulrich Jehn Incremental model breakdown to assess the multi-hypotheses problem |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Yves Klinger Increased distribution of the invasive perennial Lupinus Polyphyllus in the Rhön biosphere reserve between 1998 and 2016 |
Section 1: Nutrition and Metabolism / Chairperson: Carsten Esselun
| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Joseph Neu University of Florida, Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, Division of Neonatology, USA The microbiome during pregnancy and early postnatal life |
| 13:00 - 13:15 |
Vannuruswamy Garikapati Integrated maldi MS imaging and LC-MS/MS workflow for lipidomic analysis of heart tissues |
| 13:15 - 14:15 |
Lunch (13:45-14:15 Short teaser for Postdocs: “Networking for conferences, collaboration and career”. Rob Thompson) |
Section 4: Protein and Nucleic Acid Interactions / Chairperson: Daniel Edelmann
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Keynote: PD Dr. Jan Medenbach Biochemistry I, University of Regensburg, Germany Flipping the switch on sexual development: Competition between two RNA-binding proteins controls alternative splicing and sex determination in Drosophila |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Carina Reuscher The involvement of the antisense RNA aspufl in regulated formation of photosynthesis complexes in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
Section 5: Neurosciences / Chairperson: Bruno Pedraz Petrozzi
| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Keynote: Dr. Regien Schoemaker Neurobiology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences,The Netherlands Heart in mind: a link between cardiovascular disease, neuroinflammation and depression |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Stephan Leisengang Primary cultures of the rat dorsal root ganglia: Influence of lipopolysaccharide and cisplatin on properties of neuronal and glial elements |
| 16:30 - 16:45 |
Ann-Kathrin Onkels Role of microglial activation for the pathogenesis of epileptic seizures after neurotropic virus infections: Focus on the TNF-System |
| 16:45 - 19:00 | Poster Session and Finger Food |
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Section 7: Bioresources, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology/ Chairperson: Syeda Azka Jaffri
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Kostas Mathiopoulos University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Greece Smell and Sex in the Olive fly: new targets for fly control |
| 09:45 - 10:00 |
Wendell Albuquerque Peptidases from insects for biotechnological applications |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
Section 8: Chemical Designs and Analysis of Molecular Systems / Chairperson: Kevin Turke
| 10:15 - 11:00 |
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Peter Behrens Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Biomaterial Chemistry in the Ear |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Patrick Kadesch Visualizing lipids and metabolites in Schistosoma Mansoni parasites using mass spectometry imaging |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
General Assembly |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Section 3: Heart, Lung and Blood Vessels / Chairperson: Negah Ahmadvand
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Holger Gerhardt Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany Making or breaking symmetry in vascular networks |
| 13:45 - 14:00 |
Claudia Fernanda García Castro The role of mitochondrial Cyclophilin D in biological aging of the lung and development of smoke-induced emphysema |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Annemarie Wolf Proprotein convertase subtilisin/Kexin 9 (PCSK9) role in cardiomyocyte function |
| 14:15 - 16:45 | Poster Session and Finger Food |
Section 6: Reproduction in Man and Animals /Chairperson: Julia Bender
| 16:45 - 17:30 |
Keynote: Dr. Diane Rebourcet School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Newcastle University, Australia Effect of Sertoli cell ablation on testicular development and function |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Nils Nesheim Prostate cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) promote macrophage CCL18 upregulation |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Christiane Pleuger Molecular investigations of CBE1 (Ciliated broncial epithelium 1) in Spermatogenesis |
| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony |