WELCOME TO THE First UNIGE

PostDoc Day 2018 • Program

Grand Auditorium, Ecole de Physique

9h00-9h10

Opening Remarks

 Part I - Who are your colleagues?

9h10-10h00 

Postdoc scientific talks (10min each):

Viola Puddinu: From the trench to the open-field battle: Insight from an immune-excluded model of gastric cancer

Andrea Picco: An integrative fluorescence microscopy approach to reconstruct 3D architecture of protein complexes in vivo

Dumitru Dumcenco: 2D materials beyond graphene

Caroline Arous: Analysis of the adhesion-mediated control of insulin secretion in response to glucose and autocrine insulin/IGF2-signaling in pancreatic b-cells

10h00-10h45

Keynote speaker (Biology): 

– Prof. Alain Chedotal (Institut de la Vision, Paris): 

“3D analysis of embryonic development: of mice and men”.

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10h45-11h00

Short break

11h00-12h00

Postdoc scientific talks (10min each):

Davide Gambarotto: Imaging beyond super-resolution limits using ultrastructure expansion microscopy (UltraExM)

Giulia Cheloni: United we stand, divided we fall: Chlamydomonas strategy to endure micropolluants toxicity

Eddie Rodriguez-Carballo: The HoxD cluster is a dynamic and resilient TAD boundary controlling the regulation of antagonistic regulatory landscape

Elena Cardenal-Muñoz: CnrD and CueA, two novel autophagy receptors

Marie Pireyre: Light perception by plants: UV-B induces specific transcriptional networks in Arabidopsis thaliana

12h00-12h05

The PIs of Tomorrow, LS2 Competition  – Carolin von Schoultz, PhD

12h05-13h50

Poster presentation  and Lunch

Part II - Focus on your career:

13h50-14h35

Keynote speaker (Physics): 

– Prof. Chiara Mariotti (CERN)

"The story of a discovery : How we found the long-sought-after Higgs boson"

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14h35-14h50

Postdoc Mentoring Program presentation - Prof. Aurélien Roux

14h50-15h35

Seeking opportunities outside academia:

Industry  – Piergiorgio Pettazzoni, PhD  (Lab Head at Roche Basel).

"Targeted degradation of oncogenic proteins, a new paradigm in drug discovery"

15h35-15h50 

Coffee break

15h50-16h35 

Keynote speaker (Chemistry): 

– Prof. Michael Graetzel (EPFL, Lausanne):

(one of the 3 most highly cited chemists in the world) 

“Energy beyond oil”.

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Open discussion:

16h35-17h30   

Becoming a Professor – how to succeed in the selection process.

– Prof. Howard Riezman, – Prof. Marie Barberon,

– Prof. Nicolas Winssinger , – Prof. Paul Guichard. 

17h30-20h00

Apéro