Day 1: Thursday 18/07/24
8:45 – 9:30 | Arrival, registration and morning coffee | Atrium | ||
9:30 – 9:40 | Welcome | MPLT | Ana/Niels/Olivia | |
9:40 – 10:15 | Juliette Fedry (MRC-LMB) Molecular visualisation of cellular processes in mammalian cells – New insights into mRNA translation | MPLT | Niels Krämer | |
10:15 – 10:35 | Fabian Schleich (Karolinska Institutet) Vaccine-elicited broadly neutralizing antibodies against a quaternary epitope on the HIV Env trimer defined by lineage and structural analysis | MPLT | Niels Krämer | |
10:35 – 10:55 | Break | Atrium | ||
10:55 – 11:30 | Judy Hirst (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit) High-resolution cryoEM structures of respiratory complex I in energy-transducing membranes | MPLT | Olivia Smith | |
11:30 – 12:05 | Kirsty Spalding (Karolinska Institutet) Adipocyte and lipid turnover in humans | MPLT | Olivia Smith | |
12:05 – 13:45 | Lunch, poster session | Atrium | ||
12:30 – 13:30 | Workshop: Opportunities and pitfalls of AI in research | Klug Seminar Room | George Mo | |
13:45 – 14:05 | Niels Krämer (Karolinska Institutet) White fat cell volume associates with reduced UCP1+ adipocytes in human brown fat depots | MPLT | Ana Correia | |
14:05 – 14:40 | Lorenz Fenk (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) On the brain of sleeping dragons | MPLT | Ana Correia | |
14:40 – 15:00 | George Kafetzis (University of Sussex) Shark vision—a window to the origin of vertebrate life | MPLT | Ana Correia | |
15:00 – 15:20 | Break | Atrium | ||
15:20 – 15:55 | Michael Häusser (University College London) Illuminating causal relationships between neural circuit function and behaviour | MPLT | Ana Correia | |
15:55 – 16:15 | Lidia Ripoll-Sanchez (MRC LMB) The neuropeptidergic connectome of Caenorhabditis elegans | MPLT | Pegah Abyaneh | |
16:15 – 16:35 | Axel Winroth (Karolinska Institutet) Platelet differentiation pathways initiated by distinct stem cells | MPLT | Pegah Abyaneh | |
16:35 – 17:10 | Thomas Lecuit (Collège de France – IBDM) Encoding tissue morphogenesis with genetics, mechanics and geometry | MPLT | Pegah Abyaneh | |
18:00 onwards | Formal Hall 19:15-19:40 Drinks reception 19:40 Dinner | Robinson College |
Day 2: Friday 19/07/24
8:45 – 9:30 | Arrival and morning coffee | Atrium | ||
9:30 – 9:35 | Welcome | MPLT | Ana/Niels/Olivia | |
9:35 – 10:10 | Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit) Understanding complex regulatory landscapes in the vertebrate genome | MPLT | Jan Grosser | |
10:10 – 10:30 | Krysia Sadzikowska (Cancer Research UK CI / University of Cambridge) PIG-S as a modulator of FOXA1/ERα/RXRα complex in breast cancer | MPLT | Jan Grosser | |
10:30 – 10:50 | Break | Atrium | ||
10:50 – 12:00 | Panel discussion: Improving the structures of science | MPLT | Laura Lungu | |
12:00 – 13:45 | Lunch, poster session | Atrium | ||
Workshop: Spinning out your research | Klug Seminar Room | Sam Harris | ||
13:45 – 15:00 | 3MT competition | MPLT | Niels Krämer | |
15:00 – 15:35 | Scott Waddell (Oxford University) Drosophila can reveal operating principles of dopaminergic systems | MPLT | Ioanna Tsea | |
15:35 – 15:55 | Sara Abu Ajamieh (Karolinska Institutet) Targeting Teneurin 4 suppresses tumour growth and induces differentiation in neuroblastoma | MPLT | Ioanna Tsea | |
15:55 – 16:15 | Break | Atrium | ||
16:15 – 16:50 | Tiago Costa (Imperial College London) The architecture and function of an antimicrobial resistance propagator | MPLT | Jim Warren | |
16:50 – 17:10 | Omar El Tokhy (MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences) Investigating infertility in patients with loss of gonadal function using C. elegans as a model organism | MPLT | Jim Warren | |
17:10 – 17:45 | Alexander Stark (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology – IMP) Decoding transcriptional regulation | MPLT | Jim Warren | |
17:45 – 18:15 | Prizes and closing remarks | MPLT | Ana/Niels/Olivia | |
18:30 onwards | Pub trip to The Eagle |