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CSM2023 Programme

Tuesday, March 7

09:30 - 12:00: "PhD Career Perspectives goes Spring Meeting" Early Career Researchers Satellite

12:00 Registration

13:50 Opening remarks

Session 1 - Chair: Elena Rugarli

14:00 - 14:40 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Mapping the structural and diffusional landscape of ER-mitochondria contact sites from the microscale to the nanoscale

14:40 - 15:20 Andreas Strasser
Exploring the select and overlapping functions of pro-survival BCL-2 family members by using novel gene-swap mice

15:20 - 16:00 Michal Minczuk
Mitochondrial genome engineering

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Session 2 - Chair: Nieves Peltzer

16:30 - 17:10 Vishva Dixit
Why so many ways to die?

17:10 - 17:50 Marcus Conrad
Ferroptosis: From basic mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

17:50 - 18:30 María Mittelbrunn
Immunometabolism at the crossroad between Inflammation and Aging

Wednesday, March 8

8:00 Doors opening

Session 3 - Chair: Silvia von Karstedt

09:00 - 09:40 Andrea Ablasser
Sensing DNA as a danger signal through the cGAS-STING pathway

09:40 - 10:20 Kivanç Birsoy
Understanding the role of mitochondrial redox metabolism in physiology and disease

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 Núria Sánchez Coll
Harnessing plant autoimmunity to understand cell death pathways

11:30 - 12:10 Nika Danial
Metabolic crosstalks and cellular stress responses

12:10 - 14:00 Free time for lunch

Session 4 - Chair: Lena Pernas

14:00 - 14:40 Jaakko Kangasjärvi 
Mitochondria and chloroplasts in the regulation of cell death or acclimation in plants

14:40 - 15:20 Benoît Kornmann
Interorganelle comunication: new approaches for new questions

15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:40 Ana Garcia-Saéz
Molecular architecture of apoptotic foci

16:40 - 17:20 Elizabeth Hartland
Legionella infection and host cell metabolism

17:20 - 18:00 Jan Riemer
Redox regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis

18:00 - 20:00 
Poster session (with light
snacks and drinks)

Thursday, March 9

08:00 Doors opening

Session 5 - Chair: Thomas Langer

09:00 - 09:40 Aleksandra Trifunovic
Regulation of Mitochondrial Stress Responses

09:40 - 10:20 Laura Lackner
The expanding and unexpected functions of mitochondria contact sites

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 Mo Lamkanfi
Inflammasomes and the cell death machinery – Intricate connections and disease implications  

11:30 - 12:10 Martin Ott
Organization and regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis

12:10 - 14:00 Free time for lunch

Session 6 - Chair: Alga Zuccaro

14:00 - 14:30 Maria Leptin
ERC funding for frontier research

14:30 - 15:10 Stephen Tait
Targeting cell-death associated inflammation in cancer

15:10 - 15:50 Elena Rugarli
Shaping the mitochondrial proteome at the post-transcriptional level

15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break

Session 7 - Chair: Mafalda Escobar

16:20 - 17:00 Ed Mocarski
Necroptosis signaling in herpesvirus and poxvirus pathogenesis

17:00 - 17:40 Bettina Warscheid
The Mitochondrial Proteome: From Biogenesis to Signaling

17:40 - 18:20 Lucas Jae
Genetic dissection of mitochondrial stress in human cells

18:20 - 19:00 Paul Schulze-Lefert
Plant innate immunity and cell death mediated by intracellular NLR immune receptors

Speakers Dinner 19:30 -

Friday, March 10

08:00 Doors opening

Session 8 - Chair: Christina Ising

09:00 - 09:40 Maria Falkenberg
Molecular insights into human mtDNA maintenance

09:40 - 10:20 Petr Broz
Pyroptosis, a Lytic Cell Death Coordinating Host Defense and Inflammation

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 Moritz Nowack
Meet the Deadline - Developmental Programmed Cell Death in Plants

11:30 - 12:10 Julien Prudent
Mitochondrial membrane remodelling and mtDNA dynamics

12:10 - 12:50 Marion MacFarlane
Molecular Architecture of FADD:Caspase-8 Signalling Platforms that direct life/death decisions

12:50 - 13:00 Closing remarks