Thursday, May 15th

09:30 Welcome coffee
10:00 Opening address by Peter Meister & Boris Egger
Career Session (Chair: tba & tba)
10:15 Noemi Sgammeglia
Laboratory Manager, University of Fribourg
10:30 Rahul Sharma
Team Leader Millya Biotechnology, Vienna
10:45 Stephanie Kueng
Senior Principal Scientist Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) Hoffmann-La Roche Basel
11:00 Benjamin Towbin
Professor, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern
11:15 Panel discussion and question time
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Social programme
Group challenges (Alessandro Puoti, Nikita Komarov & friends)
17:00 Keynote lecture
Elisa Oricchio, ISREC EPFL
Integrate multiple dimensions to understand tumor evolution and design new therapies
18:30 Welcome drink and dinner
20:30 Poster Session A

Friday, May 16th

08:30 Breakfast
09:30 Poster Session B
10:40 Plenary lecture
Benjamin Towbin
Growth control from cells to organisms
11:10 Cyril Jäggi (De Virgilio Group)
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial retrograde signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Magali Nanchen (Wicky Group)
Germline gene transcriptional regulation and germ cell fate maintenance in C. elegans
12:20 William Smith (Meister Group)
Proximity labelling at H3K9me3 reveals VRK-1 as a candidate negative regulator of heterochromatin
12:40 Dan-Adrian Epuran (Albrecht Group)
Towards a better understanding of the therapeutic effects of light mediated by Per1
13:00 Future directions and closing remarks by Peter Meister & Boris Egger
13:15 END
Sandwich Takeaway & Optional Hikingtrip

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