Programme

Wednesday, September 10^th, 2025

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome Address: Prof. Dr. Wencke Gwozdz, JLU Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
09:15 - 09:30	Opening Remarks: Prof. Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt, Speaker of the GGL

Section 7: Bioresources, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology | Chair: Adomako Asenso

09:30 - 10:15

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Röbbe Wünschiers, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida

Monitoring Solitary and Honey Bee Health DNA Analyses

10:15 - 10:30

Daniel Kreft: Microbial Profiling Along the Value Chain of Insect Farming: Frass from Industrial Organic Side Streams as Organic Fertiliser

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Section 2: Infection and Immunity | Chair: Jobst Fischer

11:00 - 11:45	Keynote: Prof. Dr. Klaus Brehm, University of Würzburg How to Turn an Embryo into an Alien Monster
11:45 - 12:00	Caroline Busse: Actin-Like Proteins 3 and 5a are Essential for Plasmodium Oocyst Formation and Development
12:00 - 12:15	Martha Piche-Ovares: A One Health Perspective on Arboviral and Zoonotic Fever Cases in Peru, 2020-2021
12:15 - 12:30	Sean Seegert: MicroRNA miR-181 Controls Development of Conventional αβT Cells
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch

Section 3 : Heart, Lung and Blood Vessels | Chair: Edma Loku

13:30 - 14:15	Keynote: Prof. Dr. Marc Moritz Berger, Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy at Ludwigsburg Adaptation and maladaptation to high altitude hypoxia – from noble prize to noble gas
14:15 - 14:30	Leila Sotoodeh Atefi: Identification of the Origin of Acta2 Positive Vascular Cells in Pulmonary Hypertension
14:30 - 14:45	Eric Bienert: Restraining Inflammation to Enable Regeneration: Junb as a Key Il11-Stat3 Effector in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Tissue Regeneration Model
14:45 - 15:00	Mahsa Zabihi: Persistence of Alveolar Fibroblast-Derived Adamts4+ Cells During Delayed Fibrosis Resolution in the Aged Lung
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee Break

Section 9: Ecology and Global Change | Chair: Brian L. Ongia

15:15 - 16:00	Keynote: Dr. Andrea Ferrarini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy Measuring Climate Impact in European Agriculture to Contribute to NetZero Targets
16:00 - 16:15	Kujtim Gashi: Influence of Early-Stage Miscanthus × giganteus Strip Integration on Soil Water Retention and Temperature Dynamics in Annual Cropping
16:15 - 16:30	Fabian Mitze: Combining Participatory Monitoring and Remote Sensing with Machine Learning for High-Resolution Air Temperature Estimation
16:45 - 19:00	Poster Session and Finger Food

Section 1 / 5: Nutrition and Metabolism / Neurosciences |
Chairs: Sophie Göbel and Henry Werk

09:00 - 09:45	Keynote: PD Dr. Walburga Dieterich, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg From Grain to Gut: the Autoimmune Puzzle of Celiac Disease
09:45 - 10:00	Andrea Diers: Influence of Anthocyanins on the Expression And Activity of Transglutaminase 2
10:00 - 10:15	Jan Stoll: Induction of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) in vitro Using LPS, Group B Streptococcus (GBS) or Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles (bEV) and its Role in Invasive Neonatal GBS Disease
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee Break

Section 6: Reproduction in Man and Animals | Moumita Basak

10:30 - 11:15	Keynote: Dr. Sandra Laurentino, University of Münster DNA Methylation Landscape of Male Fertility: Influences of Ageing and Infertility
11:15 - 11:30	Tiziana Grimaldini: Cellular Dialogues in the Epididymis: The Role of Macrophage–Epithelial Cell Interactions
11:30 - 12:00	General Assembly
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break

Section 4: Protein and Nucleic Acid Interactions | Chair: Kiriaki Kouti

13:00 - 13:45	Keynote: Prof.Dr. Sonja-Verena Albers, University of Freiburg The Cell Biology of Archaea
13:45 - 14:00	Fabienne Becker: The Conserved C-terminal Domain of Tho1 Stimulates the DEAD-box helicase Sub2
14:00 - 14:15	Le Han Rössner: The Reference Genome and Expression Atlas of California Poppy Reveal Different Evolutionary Modes of Metabolic Pathways and Floral Development
14:30 - 16:45	Poster Session (incl. Coffee Break) and Finger Food

Section 10: Clinical Sciences | Chair: Zahra Saboori

17:00 - 17:45	Keynote: PD Dr. Poornima Mahavadi, Department of Internal Medicine; German Center for Lung Research, Universities of Giessen & Marburg Lung Center, JLU Giessen RNA-Binding Proteins in Action: From Molecular Switches to Therapeutic Targets in Lung Fibrosis
17:45 - 18:00	Declan Law: Genome-wide Screening and Functional Analysis of NovelProtein Regulators of the HIF-signalling Pathway
18:00 - 18:15	Julian Musa: Histology-Driven Tailoring of Surgical Approaches in Retroperitoneal Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Retrospective Cohort Study
18:15 - 18:30	Adriano Sanna: Fasciola hepatica Eludes Biliary Tuft Cells in Rat
18:30 - 19:00	Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony