
Research Group Leader Recruitment Symposium 2024
Welcome to the webpage about the upcoming Research Group Leader Recruitment Symposium 2024!
This page includes all the important information about the symposium.
Speakers
- Christopher Carnie (University of Cambridge)
- Mauro Corrado (University of Cologne)
- Soni Deshwal (Max-Planck Institute for biology of Ageing)
- Christina Ising (University Hospital of Cologne)
- Abdelghani Mazouzi (The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Thijn Brummelkamp lab)
- Hirotsugu Oda (University of Köln Medical Faculty, CRC1403)
- Georgia Rapti (EMBL Heidelberg)
- Kishor Kumar Sivaraj (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster)
- Reymond Sutandy (Institute of Biochemistry II, Uniklinik Goethe University)
- Gabriele Zaffagnini (Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)
- Maya Spichal (Univ. of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School, Worcester, USA)
- Alessandra Stangherlin (University Hospital Cologne)
- Peter Zeller (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Registration
The symposium is open and requires no registration.
Program
The program might slightly change.
Thursday, February 15th
| 8:00 | Coffee | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Carien Niessen | Welcome & Introduction of CECAD |
| SESSION I | CHAIR: Thorsten Hoppe | |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Christopher Carnie | Metabolic determinants and molecular mechanisms of DNA damage and repair (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| 09:25 – 09:50 | Soni Deshwal | Mitochondrial strategies in ferroptosis (Max-Planck-Institute of Aging, Cologne, Germany) |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Christina Ising | Live and let die – microglia senescence and cell death in Alzheimer’s disease (University Hospital Cologne, Germany) |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | Abdelghani Mazouzi | Mapping Genotype-to-Phenotype Landscapes in Human Cells (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| 10:40 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Session II | CHAIR: David Vilchez | |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Hirotsugo Oda | Elucidate the Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation and Fibrosis through the Lens of Human Genetics (University Hospital Cologne, Germany) |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Georgia Rapti | Glial cells weaving the brain circuit architecture from birth throughout life (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) |
| 12:05 – 12:30 | Kishor Kumar Sivaraj | Fate specification of mesenchymal cells in bone marrow homeostasis and regeneration (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany) |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:45 – 16:30 | Candidate Interviews (In parallel to interviews, informal meetings with PIs) | |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Guided Tours to CECAD facilities | |
| From 17:30 | Get-Together at CECAD Lecture hall |
Friday, February 16th
| 8:30 | Coffee | |
| SESSION I | CHAIR: Andreas Beyer | |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Mauro Corrado | Trick or treat: twisting immunity with metabolism (University of Cologne, Germany) |
| 09:25 – 09:50 | Maya Spichal | Small RNAs in genome protection (Univ. of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School, Worcester, USA) |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Alessandra Stangherlin | Circadian regulation of cell physiology and ageing (University Hospital Cologne, Germany) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| SESSION II | CHAIR: Mirka Uhlirova | |
| 10:45 – 11:10 | Gabriele Zaffagnini | How endolysosomal super-organelles manage protein aggregates in mammalian oocytes (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain) |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Peter Zeller | Understanding chromatin regulation during organism development using single-cell multi-omics (Hubrecht institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Reymond Sutandy | Mitochondrial-mediated regulation of cell resilience (University Hospital Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) |
| 12:00 – 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 – 14:50 | Candidate Interviews (In parallel to interviews, informal meetings with PIs) | |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Good-bye (CECAD Lecture Hall) |
Venue
CECAD Research Center
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Cologne
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(20) MPI for Metabolism Research
(32) MPI for the Biology of Ageing
(69) CECAD Research Center
Useful Resources
For any further information, please contact Sibylle.

Dr. Sibylle Grandel
Administrative Coordinator
Telefon+49 221 478 84046
E-Mailsgrandel[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
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