Forum Graduate Schools Infection and Immunity

12 mai 2017, 9h00

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre, CMU, UniGe

Prof. Dominique Garcin, CMU, UniGe

Prof. Caroline Tapparel, CMU, UniGe

Prof. Stefan Kunz, CHUV/UniL

Benedikt B. Kaufer Institut für Virologie Freie Universität Berlin.

Olivia Keiser Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM).

Adrian Hehl Institut für Parasitologie University of Zurich.

Tobias Spielmann Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Hamburg.

Petr Broz Focal Area Infection Biology | Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Laura Faure Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, AI-Marseille University.

Stephan Gruber Département de microbiologie fondamentale. Lausanne.

Stéphanie Hughes CMU Genève

Ed Palmer Department of Biomedicine. Basel.

The program will include 9 oral presentations given by invited speakers. We would like to point out the quality and diversity of the program. It is an important day! The program will also include 7 oral presentations given by PhD students. These presentations are scheduled for 12 min + 3 min discussion. It's an unique opportunity for the PhD students to present their work to a wide audience (so don't hesitate to contact Dylan Walser to give a talk yourself if you'd like). All presentations given by the students will receive a prize, and the best talk will receive an award of 1000 CHF to attend a future meeting.

Program:

Session 1. Chair person. Oliver Hartley

9.00-9.30 Benedikt B. Kaufer Institut für Virologie Freie Universität Berlin.

Herpesvirus integration into host telomeres - a way to persist in the host for life 

9.30-9.45 Eirini Tseligka Dpt. MIMOL. CMU. Genève

Enterovirus-A71 dissemination determinants: from bed to bench-side

9.45-10.00 Ilaria Scursi Dpt. PATIM. CMU. Genève

CCR5 conformational subpopulations: a new explanation for the potent anti-HIV activity of chemokine analogs?

10.00-10.30 Olivia Keiser. Institute of Global Health, Geneva.

From mathematical simulation models to qualitative studies : prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission in Malawi

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK

Session 2. Chair person. Mathieu Brochet

11.00-11.30 Adrian Hehl Institut für Parasitologie University of Zurich.

How to become a practically perfect intestinal parasite: specializations, new inventions, and losses in the evolution of Giardia lamblia

11.30-11.45 Hanwei Fang  Dpt. MIMOL. CMU. Genève

CDPK4 is a pleiotropic regulator of Plasmodium Transmission with short-lived activity

11.45-12.00 Fabien Sindikubwabo Institute for Advanced Bioscieneces. IAB-Grenoble.

A versatile acetylation-methylation switch at K31 on the lateral surface of histone H4 dictates chromosomal organization and expression in Apicomplexan parasites.

12.00-12.30 Tobias Spielmann. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Hamburg.

A SLI system to study protein function in the human malaria parasite

Plasmodium falciparum.

12.30-13.55 LUNCH

Session 3. Chair person. Adriana Renzoni

14.00-14.30 Petr Broz Focal Area Infection Biology Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Inflammasomes at the crossroads of innate and cell-autonomous immunity

14.30-14.45 Marie Delaby Dpt MIMOL. CMU. Genève

Regulatory interplay between cell cycle control and phosphate starvation in Caulobacter crescentus.

14.45-15.00 Inès Mottas Section Sci. Pharmaceutiques. Genève

Mixed-ligand coated gold nanoparticles to improve adjuvancy of immuno-stimulating drugs.

15.00-15.30 Laura Faure Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Aix-Marseille University.

«An eukaryotic-like focal adhesion system power bacterial gliding motility. »

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

Session 4. Chair person. Walter Reith

16.00-16.30 Stephan Gruber Département de microbiologie fondamentale. Lausanne.

SMC protein complexes: From genome organization to antiviral defence.

16.30-17.00 Stéphanie Hughes Dpt. de Pathologie et Immunologie. CMU. Genève. 

Lymph node stromal cells and T cell tolerance

17.00-17.15 Adria-Arnau Marti Lindez Dpt. PATIM. CMU. Genève. Arg2 as a brake for the anti-tumor immune response.

17.15-18.00 Ed Palmer Department of Biomedicine. Basel. T cell tolerance and autoimmunity: how crazy was I to spend 40 years working on the same thing?

Auditoire de la Fondation Louis Jeantet, Chemin Rieu 17, 1208 Genève

Reimbursements

CUSO Microbiology students: Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from your institution to the place of the activity; meal expenses (1meal/day) up to 25CHF/meal.

Reimbursement form attached with original tickets has to be sent to: CUSO Microbiologie, Aline Kopf, Institut de Biologie, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000 Neuchâtel

For any question concerning reimbursement please contact Aline kopf at microbiologie[@]cuso.ch

Deadline for registration: April 28st

Deadline for PhD' students oral presentation: April 21st For more information please contact Dylan Walser: [email protected]

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