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Program 2019

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PostDoc Day 2019 • Program

When: JUNE 6th 2019

Where: Grand Auditorium, Ecole de Physique

 

8h30-9h00

 

Registration and Poster setup

 

9h00-9h10

    

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

 Part I - Who are your colleagues?

 

9h10-09h50 

 

Postdoc scientific talks (10min each):

Valeria Cagno (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine): "Broad spectrum virucidal strategies"

Jinsheng Zhu (Department of Plant Biology): "How plant sense phosphate limitation? Inositol pyrophosphates are signaling molecules"

Joachim Moser von Filseck (Department of Biochemistry): "Helical ESCRT-III heteropolymers with different binding interfaces and bending stiffnesses stabilise spiralling-tubular membrane deformation"

Chris Rands (Department of Genetic Medicine and Development): "Functional and junk DNA in human and microbial genome sequences"

 

 

 

09h50-10h30

 

Keynote speaker (Biology): 

 Giovanni D'Angelo (EPFL, Lausanne):

"Making the plasma membrane: Lipid landscape transitions
and metabolic biases in the biosynthetic pathway"

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10h30-10h45

 

Short break

 

10h45-11h35

 

Postdoc scientific talks (10min each):

Clément Immarigeon (Department of Genetics and Evolution): "Size is not what matters - lesson from a tiny peptide involved in sperm competition"

Michael Plank (Department of Molecular Biology): "Chemical genetics of AGC-kinases reveals shared functions of Ypk1 and Protein Kinase A"

Liam Scarratt (Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry): "What Makes SLIPS Slippery? Measuring effective slip on lubricated surfaces with colloidal probe AFM"

Noemi Veraldi (Department of Pathology and immunology): "Heparan sulfate implication in genetic human disorders: the case of Multiple Osteochondromas"

Julien Soudet (Department of Cell biology): "Fine chromatin-driven mechanism of transcription interference by antisense noncoding transcription"

 

 

 

11h35-12h20

 

Keynote speaker (Physics):

 Magdalena Kowalska (CERN & UNIGE, Geneva):

"Polarized radioactive nuclei: from fundamental and nuclear physics, via material science, to biology and medicine"

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12h30-14h00

 

Poster presentations and Lunch

@ Hall of Sciences III
 

 

 

14h00-14h45

 

Keynote speaker (Chemistry):

 Olga Garcia Mancheño (University of Munster):

"Polarizing Catalytic Effects -  in bonds, reactions and lifestyles"

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14h45-15h15

 

 Postdoc scientific talks (10min each):

Marine Laporte (Department of Cell biology): "Unravelling the molecular assembly of the centriole using expansion microscopy"

Pietro Cacialli (Department of Pathology and immunology): "The endothelial niche detoxifies HSCs from ROS in the caudal hematopoietic tissue"

Claudio Quilodran (Department of Genetics and Evolution): "Hybridization during density-dependent range expansion: European wildcats as a case study"

 

15h15-15h30

 

Short break

 

 

 

 

Part II - Focus on your career:

 

15h30-15h35

 

Elena Cardenal, LS2 Scientific Officer 

- PIs of Tomorrow, a first step to your professorship

 

 

15h35-15h45

 

 

Noemi Jimenez-Rojo and Rita Mateus, APDU founders

 

15h45-17h00

 

Open discussion:

Academic vs non Academic career – possibilities and opportunities?

 Monica Gotta (CMU, Geneva): Eccellenza Evaluation Committee member

 Eliane Abou-Mansour and Alexander WaehryService recherche UNIGE

 Mylène Docquier (CMU, Geneva): iGE3 Genomics Platform Manager

 Helen Kimbell (Frontiers, Lausanne): Journal Development Specialist

 

 

17h00-20h00

 

Best talk and Best poster prizes followed by Apéro

@ Hall of Ecole de Physique
 
 

 

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