Confirmed speakers 2019
For Crossroads in Biology 2019, we have received confrimation from 13 internationally renowned scientists. The topics of CiB 2019 will cover mitochondrial biology, cell death and disease, drug development, and regulation of gene expression. Our keynote lecture will be held by Werner Kühlbrandt.
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Keynote Speaker
Werner Kühlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
Title: Mechanistic insights from high-resolution cryoEM structures of ATP synthases
Mitochondrial Biology
Jodi Nunnari, University of California Davis, USA
Title: Mitochondrial Behavior
Alexey Amunts, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Title: Crossroads in mitochondrial Biology
Walter Neupert, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Title: Molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial homeostasis
Cell Death and Disease
Wendy Wei-Lynn Wong, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Title: Inhibitors of Apoptosis proteins in disease and inflammation
Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Title: Cell Stress and Inflammation
Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Title: Ubiquitination and Autophagy Networks in Health and Disease
Drug Development
Zubida Al-Majdoub, University of Manchester, UK
Title: Global and Targeted Proteomics for Quantification of Human Blood-Brain Barrier Transporters in Health and in Dementia
Jana Haase, University of Dublin, Ireland
Title: Molecular mechanisms of inflammation-induced depression – is anything “SERTain"?
Mark Brönstrup, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany
Title: Metabolome-based studies on bacterial pathogens, antibiotics and their interplay
Regulation of Gene Expression
Stefan Ameres, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Title: Mechanism and Biology of RNA Silencing (EMBO Young Investigator Lecture)
Steve Horvath, University of California LA, USA
Title: New Epigenetic Clocks
Karsten Rippe, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Division of Chromatin Networks, Germany
Title: Linking aberrant chromatin features in leukemia to deregulated gene expression