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 CECAD

Dr. Sibylle Grandel

Administrative Coordinator

+49 221 478 84046

sgrandel[at]uni-koeln.de

CECAD Cologne / Central Office

CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26

50931 Köln


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