the program

L I F E S C I E N C E S SYMPOSIUM 2015
PROGRAM
Rolex Learning Center
Hall, Foyer & Auditorium SG1
© EPFL - Alain Herzog
School of Life Sciences
16:00-20:00
Registration Rolex Learning Center
17:00-18:45
Opening session
Rolex Learning Center
‘From neural circuits to social organization’
Chair: Gisou van der Goot
Tom Südhof: Neurexins: towards a molecular logic of neural circuits
Geraldine Seydoux: Order in the cytoplasm: regulation of RNA granule dynamics
18:45
Laurent Keller: A social chromosome with properties of a sex chromosome regulates
social organization in ants
Welcome reception
Outside of Rolex Learning Center
09:00-10:30 Session 2 - ‘From asymmetry to microbiology’
Chair: Stewart Cole
Auditorium SG1
Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan: The basis of the asymmetric targeting of endosomes during
asymmetric division
Melanie Blokesch: Live and let die – a molecular killing device fosters gene transfer in Vibrio cholerae
Tam Mignot: Moving parts and fixed anchor points, surface motility seen from a bacterial perspective
10:30-11:00 Coffee break, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
11:00-12:30 Session 3 - ‘From optogenetics to modeling’
Chair: Matthias Lütolf
Auditorium SG1
Karl Deisseroth: Optical tools for probing intact biological systems
Martin Fussenegger: Prosthetic gene networks for biomedical applications
Naama Barkai: Robust patterning of the Drosophila eye
12:30-14:00 Lunch, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
14:00-16:00 Session 4 - ‘From synapses to consciousness’
Chair: Carl Petersen
Auditorium SG1
Elly Nedivi: Structural plasticity of inhibitory circuits in the adult brain
Clay Reid: Functional connectomic research at the Allen Institute
Itzhak Fried: Cognitive neuromodulation: from single neurons to clinical intervention
Stanislas Dehaene: Signatures of consciousness in the human brain
16:00-16:30 Coffee break, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
16:30-18:00 Session 5 - ‘From systems biophysics to personalized medicine’
Chair: Bart Deplancke
Auditorium SG1
Marileen Dogterom: A minimal molecular mechanism for microtubule-based cell polarity
in fission yeast
Brenda Andrews: Genetic networks: general properties and complex phenotypes
Mike Snyder: Personalized medicine: analysis of complex disease using integrative omics profiling
09:00-10:30 Session 6 - ‘From microtubules to oscillators’
Chair: Pierre Gönczy
Auditorium SG1
Anna Akhmanova: Control of microtubule organization and dynamics from the two ends
Suliana Manley: Splitting bacterial and mitochondrial membranes in division and fission
Petra Schwille: Defined features of protein oscillators
10:30-11:00 Coffee break, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
11:00-12:30 Session 7 - ‘From cancer genomics to decision making’
Chair: Doug Hanahan
Auditorium SG1
Mike Stratton: Signatures of mutational processes
Stéphanie Lacour: Design concepts for truly biointegrated neural implants
Karel Svoboda: Illuminating the neural circuits underlying decision making
12:30-14:00 Lunch, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
14:00-16:00 Session 8 - ‘From cell signaling to stem cells’
Chair: David Suter
Auditorium SG1
Mike Hall: mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism
Scott Emr - The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Proteostasis: Ubiquitin- and ESCRT-dependent
membrane protein quality control systems
Ivan Dikic: Ubiquitin and autophagy networks in health and disease
Hans Clevers: Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer
16:00-16:30 Coffee break, next to sponsors’ booths
SG Hall
16:30-18:00 Session 9 - ‘From population genetics to pattern formation’
Chair: Denis Duboule
Auditorium SG1
Gil McVean: Population genetics of rare variants in huge samples
Denis Duboule: The organization of regulation at Hox gene loci
Shigeru Kondo: Mechanism of autonomous pattern formation in animal skin
19:00
Barbecue dinner
SV Building
PHYMEP
LSS2015
Exhibitors Hall SG
6
5
4
3
2
12
7
8
9
10
11
Nikon
LI-COR GmbH
Multi-Channel
Systems
Gilson
Gilson
Phymep
Hamamatsu
12 Bio-Techne
12
12
Jackson Immuno 12
Research Ltd
Olympus
12 Life Systems
Design
12
Witec
Catering
Area
12
12
Enzo
Life Sciences
18
19
Socorex
12 LuBioSciences/
Thermo Fisher
Osato Research Institute
Frontiers
12
12
12
13
14
15
16
Discussion Lounge
Exhibitors
Welcome Desk
1
17
12
12
NCCR
SG 0213
Entrance Ground Floor
Stairs to Foyer
& Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Biotek
Elevators
to
Foyer
&
Auditorium
Locked
Storage Room
SG 0211
(2nd Floor)
Entrance Foyer 2nd Floor
Loading Dock
Goods
Lift
Temporary Parking Space to unload Equipment
EPFL Swiss Tech Cente
2
BioAlps
IM4TB
3
LS2 - UNIGE
AUDITORIUM
Fondation ISREC
4
InVivo - CHUV
5
A3P Suisse
6
nd
ReMedys
7
Entrance Foyer 2 Floor
Stairs to Foyer
& Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Entrance Ground (0) Floor
Ground (0) Floor - SG HALL
EXHIBITION & COFFEE BREAK AREA
2ND FLOOR FOYER EXHIBITION AREA FOR NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS
1
Exhibitors Hall SG
(2nd Floor)
Elevators
to
Foyer
&
Auditorium
8
LSS2015
Nanolive
© EPFL - Bruno Liardon - LSS2013
LIFE SCIENCES
SYMPOSIUM 2015
http://lss2015.epfl.ch
Scientific committee:
Prof. Bart Deplancke
Prof. Pierre Gönczy - chair
Prof. Gisou van der Goot
Prof. Carl Petersen
Organizing committee:
Prof. Pierre Gönczy - chair
Dr Harald Hirling
Dr Sacha Sidjanski
Mrs Laurence Mauro
Mrs Manuelle Mary
Mrs Caroline O’Neill

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