Friday 22 September 2017
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11:00 - 19:00
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Conference registration desk opens
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11:00 – 13:15
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WS1:
Immunity and Hematopoeisis
Bruno Lemaitre
(EPF Lausanne)
Rebecca Clark
(Durham University)
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WS2:
Cell competition
Eugenia Piddini
(Gurdon Institute)
Laura Johnston
(Columbia Unviersity)
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11:00 – 11:15
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WS1 – 1. Takayuki Kuraishi (Kanazawa University)
Sterile induction of humoral innate immune response in Drosophila larvae
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WS2 -1. Nicholas Baker (Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Genetic analysis of Minute cell competition
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11:15 – 11:30
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WS1 – 2. Samuel Liegeois (University of Strasbourg)
Revisiting the social life of bacteria in vivo: deciphering mechanisms of P.aeruginosa evasion of Drosophila Tep4-mediated opsonisation
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WS2 – 2. Michael Dinan (University of Bristol)
Investigating the cell biology of the loser cell status
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11:30 – 11:45
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WS1 – 3. Laura Vesala (University of Tampere)
Foxo modulates the hemocyte response to parasitoid wasps in drosophila larvae
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WS2 – 3. Romain Levayer (Institut Pasteur)
Tissue crowding drives caspase-dependent competition for space
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11:45 – 12:00
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WS1 – 4. Hannah Roddie (University of Sheffield)
Regulation of hemocyte behavious through contact with apoptotic cells during embryonic development
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WS2 – 4. Jeff Axelrod (Stanford University)
The atypical cadherin Flamingo mediates cell competition
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12:00 – 12:15
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WS1 – 5. Toshio Shibata (Kyushu University)
Protection against exotoxins secreted by gut-invading bacteria through transglutaminase-catalyzed cross-linking of peritrophic matrix proteins
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WS2 – 5. Marc Amoyel (University of Bristol)
Stem cell differentiation is an active selection process determined by PI3K/TOR levels
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12:15 – 12:30
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WS1-6. Petros Ligoxygakis (Oxford)
NF-kB immunity in the brain determines fly lifespan in healthy ageing and agerelated neurodegeneration
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WS2 – 6. Todd Nystul (UCSF)
Neutral competition for the ovarian follicle stem cell niche is impaired by mutations in vesicle trafficking and cell signaling
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12:30 – 12:45
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WS1-7. Tomas Dolezal (Universtiy of South Bohemia)
Molecular mechanisms connecting activation of immune cells with metabolic changes at systemic level
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WS2 – 7. Erika Bach (NYU School of Medicine)
The role of Dilp8/Lgr3 in cell competition
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12:45 – 13:00
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WS1-8. Estee Kurant (University of Haifa)
Molecular mechanisms regulating development of phagocytic ability in embryonic macrophages
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WS2 – 8. Agnes Regina Banreti (The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre)
Synaptic density complex proteins maintains epithelial tissue fitness
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13:00 – 13:15
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WS1-9. Michele Crozatier (Toulouse University)
A ubiquitin-proteasome pathway controls Drosophila hematopoiesis
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WS2 – 9. Laura Johnston (Columbia University)
A Toll receptor and NF-κB-based cell fitness surveillance system that promotes optimal animal development
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13:20 - 14:30
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Lunch
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14:15 – 17:00
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WS3:
Gut & microbiota:
Julia Cordero
(University of Glasgow)
Irene Miguel-Aliaga
(Imperial College London)
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WS4:
Mitochondria
Joe Bateman
(King’s College London)
Alex Whitworth
(MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge)
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14:15 – 14:30
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WS3–1. Bruno Hudry (Imperial College London)
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WS4 -1. Bart Deplancke (EPFL, Switzerland)
Mitochondrial variation within the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel
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14:30 – 14:45
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WS3-2. Francois Leulier (IGF Lyon)
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WS4 – 2. Hansong Ma (University of Cambridge) Homologous recombination in animal mitochondrial DNA
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14:45 – 15:00
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WS3–3. Paula Watnick (Boston Children’s Hospital)
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WS4 – 3. Hong Xu (NIH, USA) How mother gives healthy and enough mitochondria.
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15:00 – 15:15
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WS3–4. Henri Jasper (Fritz Lipmann Institute)
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WS4 – 4. Thomas Rival (IBDM Marseille, France) Mitofusin alleles commonly associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease differently affect mitochondrial dynamics in neurons.
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15:15 – 15:30
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WS3–5. Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School)
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WS4 – 5. Maximo Ibo Galindo (CIPF, Valencia, Spain) Mitochondrial dynamics and neurodegeneration. A metabolic connection?
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15:30 – 15:45
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WS3–6. Lucy O’Brien (Stanford University School of Medicine)
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WS4 – 6. Miguel Martins (MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester, UK) Lost in translation.
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15:45 – 16:00
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WS3-7. Golnar Kolahgar (University of Cambridge)
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WS4 – 7. Alberto Sanz (University of Newcastle, UK) Do you want to understand ROS? Ask about the where and the how!
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16:00 – 16:15
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WS3–8. Bruce Edgar (Huntsman Cancer Institute)
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WS4 – 8. Helena Cocheme ( Imperial College London, UK)
Age-dependent oxidative stress resistance in adult flies conferred by residual larval tissue.
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16:15 – 16:30
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WS3–9. Louis Gervais (Institut Curie)
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WS4 – 9. Alex Whitworth ( MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, UK) Modulating mitochondrial calcium against neurodegeneration.
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16:30 – 16:45
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WS3–10. Julia Cordero (University of Glasgow)
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WS4 – 10. Joseph Bateman (King’s College London, UK) Tools for interrogating mitochondrial function in the Drosophila nervous system.
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17:00 - 17:15
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Opening Remarks
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17:15-18:05
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Plenary 1: The EMBO Keynote Lecture
Ruth Lehmann (NYU School of Medicine, United States)
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18:05 - 18:55
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Plenary 2: Neuron-glia signalling mechanisms
Marc Freeman (University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States)
Dr Freeman’s lecture is sponsored by the Biochemical Society
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19:00 - 21:00
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Welcome Reception
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