Day 1 – Thursday, 2nd of July 2026
8:45 – 9:30
Arrival, registration, and morning coffee
Atrium
9:30 – 9:40
Welcoming Remarks
MPLT
Speaker Session 1
9:40 – 10:15
Steve Jackson – Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and medical implications
MPLT
10:20 – 10:40
Verena Gautsch – From Mild to Wild: Investigating ATM Kinase Hyperactivation in the DNA Damage Response
MPLT
10:40 – 10:55
Break
Atrium
10:55 – 11:30
Diana Arseni – The ABC of TDP-43
MPLT
11:30 – 11:50
Pitt Meyer – Intrinsic and engineered DNA-features govern cGAS-recognition
MPLT
11:55 – 12:30
Alex Johnson – From land and sea: Clathrin-mediated cellular sensitivity in photosynthetic organisms
MPLT
12:30 – 13:15
Lunch + Poster Session
Atrium
13:15 – 14:15
Workshop – Storytelling for Science Communication
MPLT
14:15 – 14:50
3-Minute Thesis Competition
MPLT
14:50 – 15:10
Break
Atrium
Speaker Session 2
15:10 – 15:45
Stephan Gruber – From Folding to Fending: How a chromosome-organizing machine combats foreign DNA
MPLT
15:45 – 16:05
Jim Warren – How Bacillus becomes Bacilli: Investigating bacterial cell division with electron cryotomography
MPLT
16:05 – 16:40
Morgan Beeby – Electron cryo-microscopy of bacterial flagellar motors in situ reveals clues to their evolution
MPLT
16:40 – 16:50
Break
Atrium
16:50 – 17:10
Omar Shabana – title tbd
MPLT
17:10 – 17:45
Giovanni D’Angelo – The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain
MPLT
From 19:00
Pub Trip to the Blue Moon
TBD
Day 2 – Friday, 3rd of July 2026
8:45 – 9:15
Arrival and morning coffee
Atrium
9:15 – 9:20
Welcoming Remarks
MPLT
Speaker Session 3
9:20 – 9:40
Dominic Dall’Osto – Object manipulation and affordance learning in Drosophila
MPLT
9:40 – 10:15
Joergen Kornfeld – How Connectomics Is Slowly Revolutionising Neuroscience
MPLT
10:20 – 10:40
Friso Douma – How cells count organelles: the role of dynamics and stochasticity in forming exactly one centriole
MPLT
10:40 – 10:55
Break
Atrium
10:55 – 11:30
Fides Zenk – Reconstructing Human Neurodevelopment with Single-Cell Epigenomics
MPLT
11:30 – 11:50
Joe Gehler-Rahman – Dynamic RNA editing tunes synaptic transmission in Octopus
MPLT
11:55 – 12:30
Nicholas Dale – CO2–sensing via connexins: structural biology, physiology and evolution
MPLT
12:30 – 13:15
Lunch + Poster Session (extended until 15:35)
Atrium
14:00 – 15:30
Workshop – How to write your thesis 101 (limited attendance!)
MPLT
Speaker Session 4
15:35 – 16:10
Peijun Zhang – title tbd
MPLT
16:10 – 16:30
Nicolas Kjær-Jensen – High-throughput cryo-lamella preparation from tissue biopsies
MPLT
16:30 – 17:05
Shannan Foylan – title tbd
MPLT
17:05 – 17:30
Prizes and Closing Remarks
MPLT
From 19:00
Formal Hall Dinner at Clare College
