EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
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Programme
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| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Arrival and registration |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Opening remarks |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Keynote Lecture Gunnar C. Hansson - University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 14:30 - 18:00 | Session 1 - Sensing pathogens |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Bruno Lemaitre - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Cyril Zipfel - University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Short Talk |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Short Talk |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Feng Shao - National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Jijie Chai - Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Short Talk |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Short Talk |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Speed networking |
| 19:00 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 |
Welcome reception |
| Time | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 - The cell biology of infection |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Edward Miao - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA |
|
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Short Talk |
|
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Felix Randow - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Trude Helen Flo - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
|
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Short Talk |
|
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch and Meet the Speakers |
|
| 14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 3 - Fungus-host interactions |
|
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Robin May - University of Birmingham, UK |
|
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Rebecca Drummond - University of Birmingham, UK |
|
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Short Talk |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
|
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Gordon Brown - University of Aberdeen, UK |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Regine Kahmann - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany |
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| 17:00 - 17:15 | Short Talk | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Short Talk | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Flash talks | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Poster Session 1 (odd numbers) |
|
| 20:00 |
Free evening |
|
| Time | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Session 4 - Cell-autonomous immunity |
|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Thierry Soldati - University of Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Melanie Brinkmann - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany |
|
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Short Talk |
|
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Terence Dermody - UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | John Brumell - The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Short Talk |
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| 12:15 - 12:30 | Short Talk | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and Meet the Speakers | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Session 5 - Pathological consequences of infection and inflammation |
|
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt - ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
|
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Julie Pfeiffer - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
|
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Short Talk |
|
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
|
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Alan Sher - National Institutes of Health, USA |
|
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Carla Saleh - Institut Pasteur, France |
|
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Short Talk |
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| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Short Talk |
|
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Flash talks |
|
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Poster Session 2 (even numbers) |
|
| 20:00 - 21:30 |
Conference Dinner |
|
| 21:30 - 00:00 | Conference Party | |
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Session 6 - Microbiota and pathogen control |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Ruth Ley - Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Kathy McCoy - University of Calgary, Canada |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Short Talk |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Short Talk |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Iliyan Iliev - Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Julia Vorholt - ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote Lecture Akiko Iwasaki - Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| 13:00 - 13:15 |
Closing Remarks and Poster Prizes |
| 13:15 - 13:30 |
Packed Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Bus departures to downtown and Frankfurt Airport |