Monday, February 6, 2012
| 08 :00 – 09 :30 |
Registration |
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Coffee, Tea, Croissant, mounting poster |
| 9:30 - 10:20 |
Opening and Plenary session I (Amphimax) |
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Welcome by : Michael O. Hengartner (UNIZH), President USGEB
L. Scapozza (UNIGE) Chair USGEB 2012 |
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Plenary lecture I (40 min)
Prof. Sheng Ding, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco USA
Title: A chemical approach to controlling cell fate |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee / Industry Exhibition |
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| 11:00 – 13:00 |
Satellite Symposia session 1 |
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Symposium 1:
Swiss Society for Cell Biology (ZMG) (Amphimax)
Title: The many faces of gene expression. from signaling to translation
Chair person: Prof. Francois Karch, University of Geneva |
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Symposium 2:
Swiss Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology (PHA) (Amphipôle B) Title: Therapeutic strategies for vaccination: novel insights
Chair person : MD PhD. Stephan von Gunten, University of Bern |
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Symposium 3:
Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology (ssAHE) (Amphipôle C)
Title :Targeting of tetraspan membrane proteins for modulation of junctional and paracrine cell-to-cell communication
Chair person : Prof. Paolo Meda, University of Geneva |
| 13:00 – 15:00 |
Lunch with Posters and Industry Exhibition viewing / Coffee |
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| 15:00 – 17:00 |
Satellite Symposia session 2 |
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Symposium 4:
Swiss Society for Microbiology (Amphipôle B)
Title: Viruses meet cell biology
Chair persons: Prof. Stefan Kunz CHUV, Lausanne & Prof. Urs Greber, University of Zurich |
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Symposium 5:
Swiss Physiological Society (PHY) (Amphipôle C)
Title: Pathophysiology of endothelial/stromal interface
Chairman: Dr. Lubor Borsig, University of Zurich
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| 17:00 – 17:40 |
Plenary session II (Amphimax) |
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Plenary lecture II (40 min)
Prof. Sir Tom Blundell, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Title: The structural interactome and drug discovery: targeting protein-protein interactions |
| 18:00 – 19:30 |
Apéro |
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All participants are invited to attend the apéro |
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
| 9:00 - 10:20 |
Plenary session III (Amphimax) |
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Plenary lecture III (40 min)
Prof. Gerhard Klebe , Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Title: Molecular Recognition in Protein-Ligand Complexes: What drives the Binding? |
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Plenary lecture IV (40 min)
Prof. Dario Neri, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Title: Drug Discovery in Academia: Challenges and Success Stories, with a Focus on Biotech Drugs. |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee / Industry Exhibition |
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| 11:00 – 13:00 |
Satellite Symposia session 3 |
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Symposium 6:
Swiss Society for Biochemistry (SSB) (Amphimax)
Title: Shaping ligands by proteases
Chair persons: Prof. Margot Thome-Miazza, University of Lausanne & Prof. Marcus Thelen, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona |
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Symposium 7:
Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association (SGV)
(Amphipôle B)
Title: The chemistry of behaviour
Chairman: PD Dr. Prof Beat Riederer, University of Lausanne
The symposium will be credited as training (half day). |
| 13:00 – 15:00 |
Lunch with Posters and Industry Exhibition viewing / Coffee |
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| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Plenary session IV (Amphimax) |
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Plenary lecture V (30-40 min)
Prof. Kai Johnsson, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Bioengineering, NCCR Chemical Biology; EPFL; Lausanne; Switzerland
Title: Searching for the protein targets of bioactive molecules.
Selected 15’ lectures from poster abstracts
Lecture I: Dr. Florent Beaufils, Basel University
Title: Chemical Control of Intracellular Signaling Cascades
Lecture II: Dr. William Bisson, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva
Title: Future of Drug Repurposing: Old Drugs, New Opportunities
Lecture III: Dr. Alok Behera, University of Zurich
Title: Improved L-tryptophan FRET biosensor for measurement of real time transport and visualization of subcellular tryptophan levels in live cells |
| 16:30 – 17:30 |
Plenary session V (Amphimax) |
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AWARDS:
The 2012 Friedrich Miescher Award (30 min)
Presentation of poster awards |
| 17:30 – 17:40 |
Closing remarks/End of the Meeting |
