Programme

Keynote: Prof. Annette Schürmann

German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke
Pathogenesis of obesity and type 2 diabetes - What can we learn from mouse models?

Marius Schild

Comparison of protein expression in skeletal muscle of trained and untrained individuals

Catrin Wuertz
Preliminary results from an interventional study of 1000 IU vitamin D3/day during pregnancy

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Juan Sánchez

Laboratorio de Biología Molecular Marina (BIOMMAR), Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Factors involved in species coexistence in coral reefs

Luisa Duenas

Evaluating patterns of gene flow of the deep-sea octocoral Tokoprymno Maia across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Keynote: Prof. Virgis Siksnys

Laboratory of Protein-DNA Interactions, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University

CRISPR-Cas craze: from microbial antiviral defense system to genome editing

Kathrin Baumgardt

RNase E and the small RNA SinZ affect the 5' UTR of the acyl-homoserine lactone synthase gene in Sinorhizobium Meliloti

Hanna Helizon

Untangling early steps in phytochrome A signalling

Keynote: Prof. David de Kretser

Institute of Medical Research, Monash University
The activin-follistatin system and its roles in reproduction, inflammation, fibrosis and cachexia

Qingkui Jiang

Inflammation is involved in metabolic syndrome-induced male infertility

Lilit Kamalyan
Role of peroxisomes in steroid synthesis in leydig cells and their influence on male fertility

Keynote: Prof. Cecilia Arraiano

ITQB-UNL, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Dis3L2: A DIStinctively Novel Exoribonuclease that really Likes U

Zhigang Lu

Organ-specific sub-transcriptome analyses reveal pairing-dependent processed in the gonads of Schistosoma Mansoni

Balachandar Selvakumar

Immune-intervention with M2-polarized macrophages attenuate influenza virus-induced acute lung injury

Keynote: Dr. Frantisek Marec

Institute of Entomology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Sterile insect technique (SIT) against pest Lepidoptera: Development of genetic sexing strains in the codling moth using transgenesis         

Sibel Özdemir

Keynote: Associate Professor Dr. Lukas Pezawas

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at University Hospital Vienna, Austria
Challenges in depression research       

Basim Al-Ibadi/Daniel Nobach

Avian borna virus in psittacine birds, viral distribution, tropism and immune response

Jenny Schneiders
Dual role of the transcription factor nuclear factor interleukin-6 for sickness behavior and brain inflammation

Keynote: Prof. Eckhard Lammert

Institute for Metabolic Physiology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf
Fluid drainage in vascularized tissues 

Miroslava Didiasova
CA²⁺ regulates LPS-triggered transport of enolase-1 to the cell surface and to the extracellular space

Nikolaus Dittrich
TMEM16A activity is not affected by luminal acetylcholine in porcine tracheal epithelium

Keynote: Prof. Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry
Manganese SOD mimetics meet H2S: Interplay with NO species as a new signaling mechanism

Dhaka Bhandari
Metabolite localization in plants and insects sections using a high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging

Julia Kokesch-Himmelreich
Strontium detection and quantification in bone cells on strontium enriched bone cements via TOF-SIMS