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Agenda  
   
Exciting Biologies 2009:  Biology in Balance  
Sofitel La Reserva Cardales  
Campana, Buenos Aires  
October 8th - 10th, 2009  
Event Program  
     
Thursday, October 8, 2009  
     
4:00 PM Introduction / Welcome  
  Connie M. Lee, Cell Press  
  Yves Christen, Fondation IPSEN  
     
Keynote:    
     
4:15 PM Richard Morimoto  
  Northwestern University, USA  
 

The Proteostasis Challenge: Stress, Aging, and Diseases of Protein Conformation

     
     

Session I: Establishing Balance and Robustness

 
     
5:15 PM Gürol Süel  
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Noisy Out of Necessity: Reliable Cellular Differentiation Through Probabilistic Strategies
     
5:55 PM Break  
     
6:20 PM Pamela Silver  
  Harvard Medical School, USA  
  Designing Biological Systems  
     
Short Talk    
7:00 PM Robert Johnston  
  New York University, USA  
 

Control of Stochastic Rhodopsin Gene Expression Ensures Robustness in the Fly Eye

     
7:20 PM Discussion  
     
7:40 PM Dinner  
     
     
Friday, October 9, 2009  
     
7:30 AM Breakfast  
     
     

Session II: Mechanisms to Maintain Balance

 
     
9:00 AM Oliver Hobert  
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Columbia University, USA
  Maintaining Nervous System Architecture
     
9:40 AM Hans Clevers  
  Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands  
  Wnt, Lgr5 Stem Cells and Colon Cancer
     
Short Talk    
10:20 AM María Colombo  
  Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
 

Molecular Components Involved in Autophagy Trafficking Events

     
10:40 AM Break  
     
11:00 AM Juergen Knoblich  
  Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
  Controlling the Balance Between Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells
     
11:40 AM Jodi Nunnari  
  University of California-Davis, USA  
  How Mitochondria Divide and Fuse  
     
12:20 PM Discussion  
     
12:50 PM Lunch  
     
     
2:00 PM Poster Session  
     

Session III: Adjusting the Balance

 
     
4:00 PM Ivan Dikic  
  Goethe University, Germany  
  Dynamics in Ubiquitin Networks  
     
4:40 PM Alejandro Schinder  
  Leloir Institute, Argentina  
  Adult Neurogenesis: Integration of New Neurons in the Preexisting Hippocampal Network
     
Short Talk:    
5:20 PM Ahna Skop  
  The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  Anterior Polarity is Maintained by Dynamin in the C. Elegans Embryo
     
5:40 PM Break  
     
6:10 PM Juleen Zierath  
  Karolinska Institutet, Sweden  
  Environmental Factors Contributing to the Regulation of Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
     
6:50 PM Paolo Sassone-Corsi  
  University of California-Irvine, USA  
 

Epigenetics and Metabolism: The Circadian Clock Connection

     
7:30 PM Discussion  
     
7:50 PM Dinner  
     
     

Saturday, October 10, 2009

 
     
7:30 AM Breakfast  
     
     

Session IV: Tipping the Balance

 
     
9:00 AM Alberto Kornblihtt  
  University of Buenos Aires, Argentina  
  Chromatin, Pol II Elongation and Alternative Splicing
     
Short Talk    
9:40 AM Vihandha Wickramasinghe  
  Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, United Kingdom
 

MRNA Export from the Mammalian Cell Nucleus is Mediated by GANP

     
Short Talk    
10:00 AM Thorsten Hoppe  
  University of Cologne  
  Ubiquitin Chain Editing Modulates Protein Homeostasis and Aging
     
10:20 AM Break  
     
11:00 AM Beth Levine  
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute & UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
  Shaping, Extending, and Defending Life by Autophagy
     
11:40 AM Dominique Bergmann  
  Stanford University, USA  
  In Balance with Nature: The Interplay of Environment and Development in the Production and Maintenance of Plant Epidermal Cells
     
12:20 PM Discussion  
     
12:50 PM Lunch  
     
2:00 PM Poster Session  
     
     
Session V: When Balance Goes Wrong  
     
4:00 PM Sebastian Amigorena  
  Institut Curie, France  
  Phagocytosis in Dendritic Cells  
     
4:40 PM Diane Mathis  
  Harvard Medical School, USA  
  Balancing the Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Ugly in the Immune System
     
Short Talk    
5:20 PM Herbert Virgin  
  Washington University School of Medicine
  Viral Triggering of Disease Susceptibility Gene Phenotype: A Mechanism for Induction of Complex Inflammatory Disease
     
5:40 PM Break  
     
6:10 PM James Lupski  
  Baylor College of Medicine, USA  
 

Two is Fine, Three is a Crowd, and One Often does not Satisfy: Getting the Gene Dosage Correct in the Nervous System

     
6:50 PM Roberto Kolter  
  Harvard Medical School, US  
  Losing the Balance:  Antibiotic Use as Scorched Earth Policy
     
7:30 PM Discussion  
     
7:50 PM Closing Remarks  
     
8:00 PM Dinner  
     
     

Sunday, October 11, 2009

 
     
7:30 AM Breakfast  
     
  Departure  
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