Final Programme

Welcome Address: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Martin Kramer, Vice President JLU

Opening Remarks:  Prof. Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt, Speaker of the GGL

Keynote: Dr. Martin Hartmann, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Organic and conventional agriculture promote distinct soil microbiomes with contrasting metabolic potentials

Kai Jansen: Occurrence and dissipation of quaternary alkylammonium compounds in soils of Hesse, Germany

Annalena Barth: Black soldier fly as sustainable aquafeed for whiteleg shrimp

Coffee Break

Keynote: Dr. Andreas Diepold, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

Dynamic protein interactions control toxin injection through the bacterial type III secretion system 

Laura Rehneke: Analyses of symbiont effector candidates in redirecting phytohormone signalling and activating beneficial effects in Arabidopsis

11:45 - 12:30

General Assembly

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Jorma Toppari, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland

Research on male reproductive health and toxicology

Dingding Ai: The role of resident macrophages in the immune response to bacterial infection of the murine epididymis

Katrin Wiltschka: Hydrodechlorination of Mine Water-specific Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Using Palladium Catalysts

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Frischknecht, Parasitology Unit, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

Malaria research: from basic insights into parasite migration to new intervention methods

Yukino Kobayashi: Contribution of the actin-like-proteins Alp1 and Alp2b in Plasmodium transmission

Franziska Maria Dort: The role of autophagy and the related ER-phagy in coronavirus infected cells

Svenja Gramberg: Cutting-edge technologies in parasite research – How to create a molecular map of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica

16:30 - 19:00

Poster Session and Finger Food

Keynote: Dr. Patricia Altea Manzano, Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer Progression

Frederike Hagedorn: Molecular Subtyping of Diffuse Large B-Cell-Lymphoma Using Panel-Sequencing 

Salisa Kruijning: A novel regulatory link between EZH2 and HIF2α in breast cancer 

Yao Wang: Orthodontic Compression Promotes Macrophage M2 Polarization via Histone H3 Hyperacetylation

Coffee Break

Keynote: Prof. Regina Verena Taudte, Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps University Marburg

Metabolomics in Biomedical Research – The influence of ꞷ-3 fatty acids on the brain metabolome during systemic inflammation

Leona Bähr: Psychological and inflammatory stress in mice: investigating how neutropenia effects heart rate variability as a readout parameter 

Meng Meng Zhou: Glutaredoxin 5 as a novel target for β-cell survival and regeneration

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch at the IFZ

Keynote: Dr. Angela Meccariello, Imperial College, London, UK

Making males: from medfly biology to medfly control

Gözde Yildiz: Linking genomic variation to gene expression using pangenome graphs

14:15 - 16:45

Poster Session

Keynote: Prof. Jaya Krishnan, Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Goethe University Frankfurt

Modeling cardiopathologic TET2 CHIP in engineered cardiac ventricular tissue reveals therapeutics for disease resolution

Esmeralda Vasquez Pacheco: A unifying model to characterize lipofibroblast and myofibroblast differentiation

Joshua Ayoson: CD8+ T cells subpopulation “Tc17” induce a metabolic enriched microenvironment enabling lung cancer progression

Vinita Sharma: Exploring the early-stage pathomechanism of pulmonary hypertension in COPD: Insights into initial pulmonary vascular remodeling

18:15 - 18:45

Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony