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Dr. Andrea Degen - EUrelations AG
"Funding for Science: A permanent challenge"
Learn all about EUrelations, funding opportunities and career advice services!
Dr Andrea Degen is a medical doctor by professional training and gained experience as a Clinical Researcher, National Programme Manager, Project Manager and Business Developer for basic science projects all the way down towards application. She founded companies of which the Research Management Agency www.EUrelations.com is implementing up to the best her vision of a world wide support network for science. She is a dedicated team motivator and trainer especially for young scientists in Fundraising and Project Management to enable more effective and output oriented collaboration in research.
Prof. Dario Neri - Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETHZ
"Targeting tumors with armed antibodies and small molecule drug conjugates: from the bench to the clinic"
Hear about his personal experience and about what can be learned from the literature. He will provide information (and hopefully inspiration) for PostDocs who wish to be active in the pharmaceutical field.
Dario Neri is a co-founder of Philogen (Swiss-Italian Biotech company), and Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (ETHZ, Switzerland). Dario Neri studied Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa graduating in 1987. In 1992, he earned his doctorate in chemistry under Prof. Kurt Wüthrich at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics (ETHZ). His dissertation was awarded the ETH Zurich silver medal. With an EU Bridge Bursary, he spent four years at the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering, Medical Research Council, where he worked under the supervision of Sir Gregory Winter.
Prof. Alex Hajnal - Institute for Molecular Life Science, UZH
"Systems genetics of the RAS/MAPK pathway in C. elegans: an unexpected function of monoamine oxidases"
Professor Hajnal uses the C. elegans model organism as a gene discovery platform for cancer regulatory networks and applies this knowledge in human cell lines.
Alex Hajnal studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich and completed his PhD studies at the division of Cancer Research (UZH). Afterwards, he spent four years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and at the Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, USA. In 1997 he joined the Division of Cancer Research (UZH) as a Junior group leader and since 2007 he is Professor at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (UZH).
Dr. Jonas Ries - Cell Biology and Biophysics, EMBL Heidelberg
"Superresolution microscopy of protein structures in situ"
Jonas is a young inspiring group leader. Hear about his research, the challenges he had and the advice he can give to you.
Jonas Ries studied physics in Bremen and Konstanz and completed his PhD in Biophysics at the TU Dresden in the group of Petra Schwille, where he developed methods to measure dynamics in artificial and cellular membranes. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH Zurich in the group of Vahid Sandoghdar he established single-molecule localization based superresolution microscopy and developed an efficient and simple labeling scheme for this method. In 2012 he joined the EMBL in Heidelberg as a group leader. His group is developing new methods for superresolution microscopy and applying them to biological questions.
Dr. Philipp R. Spycher - Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, PSI Villigen
"Controlled functional modifications of proteins using microbial transglutaminase"
From 2003-2008 Philipp Spycher attended his undergraduate studies at the University of Basel (BSc., Nanosciences) and ETH Zurich (MSc., Biomedical Engineering). In 2014, he finished his PhD thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Viola Vogel (ETH Zurich) on engineering lipid membranes for cell biological applications; this included surface-micropatterning and enzymatic surface functionalization with cell-adhesive proteins. During his PhD he worked for several months in the lab of Prof. Erik Reimhult (BOKU, Vienna/Austria) learning about surface analysis tools and recombinant protein expression. Since mid-2014 Philipp is a Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Roger Schibli (PSI Villigen) working on enzymatic functionalization of proteins.
Dr. Christoph Klenk - Department of Biochemistry, UZH
"Directed Evolution of GPCRs for Improved Expression and Stability"
Christoph Klenk studied medicine and biology at Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Emory University and University of Manitoba, and holds a Ph.D. degree in molecular pharmacology obtained in the group of Prof. Martin Lohse at University of Würzburg. Recently, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Andreas Plückthun as a Marie-Curie fellow. He intensively studied the function of G protein-coupled receptors with a focus on activation and signaling mechanisms of the parathyroid hormone receptor, one of the key targets of osteoporosis therapy. Current research focuses on the investigation of structure-function relationships of G protein-coupled receptors using directed evolution.
Dr. Michael C. Wilson - Institute for Microbiology, ETHZ
"Natural Product Biosynthesis from Microbial Dark Matter"
Micheal completed B.S. at the University of California at Los Angeles with majors in Biochemistry and Marine Biology. He earned his Ph.D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2011. Micheal then joined the laboratory of Prof. Joern Piel at the University of Bonn as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow. In 2013, he moved to the ETH Zurich with the Piel lab where he currently studies the biosynthesis of natural products from sponge symbionts.
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Dr. Alicia Dominguez-Martin - Department of Chemistry, UZH
"Dynamics and stability of the biologically relevant BCL2 RNA G-quadruplex structure"
Alicia Dominguez-Martin studied pharmacy at University of Granada, Spain. In 2012, Alicia finished her PhD thesis on Pharmaceutical Science focused on Molecular recognition between metal chelates and purine-like nucleobases. In 2013 she joined Prof. Roland K.O. Sigel's research group at the Department of Chemistry at UZH as a Ramon Areces and later as a Forschungskredit fellow. Current research focuses on understanding the folding and dynamics of RNA G-quadruplexes, as well as the investigation of their molecular structure.
Dr. Danny Kowerko - Department of Chemistry, UZH
"A new view on structure formation in nucleic acids revealed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy (SMS) in combination with NMR"
Danny Kowerko studied physics at Chemnitz University of Technology from 2000-2005 and did his PhD at the Physics Department in the "Optical spectroscopy and molecular physics" group of Prof. Christian von Borczyskowski. He defended his thesis with the title "Dynamic Processes in Functionalised Perylene Bisimide Molecules, Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Assemblies" in December 2010. In early 2011 he joined Prof. Roland Sigel's lab at the Department of Chemistry at UZH for his postdoc and worked there for 2 years as subgroup leader. Danny was awarded the Forschungskredit UZH in 05/2013 with the topic "Single molecule experiments in zero mode waveguides".
Wittlin, Winterberger, Fuhrmann, VAUZ UZH
"VAUZ - Academic Self-Administration - What for?"
"Chris Wittlin, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, and Georg Winterberger stand at top of the
association of the non-professorial academic staff of the University of Zurich
(VAUZ). VAUZ - that means almost fifty years of academic self-administration and
lobbying for the so-called Mittelbau. Their brief presentation is aimed at introducing
mission and vision of VAUZ, and why it is important to be active at the university.
Finally, they want to give an idea how to get involved as a Post-Doc at the UZH.
If you want to know more about VAUZ: http://www.vauz.uzh.ch/index.html."
Dr. Lena Harder - Department of Pediatric Oncology, KISPI-UZH
"Functional exploration of the leukemia niche under chemotherapy in the bone marrow"
Lena Harder started her scientific education at the Free University of Berlin with her studies of biochemistry. After finishing her diploma thesis in Lund, Sweden, she decided to doctorate at the Children's Cancer Center in Hamburg on the topic of pediatric leukemia. In 2013 Lena started a postdoctoral project in the group of Jean-Pierre Bourquin at the University Children's Hospital with the focus on the niche of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In this great international lab she is developing the techniques to visualize residual leukemic cells in the murine bone marrow niche and to study their microenvironment in vivo.
Dr. Lorenzo Borghi - Institute of Plant BIology, UZH
"Ins and outs of directional hormone transport: the strigo-lactone case"
Lorenzo Borghi is a postdoctoral researcher at the UZH Institute of Plant Biology in the group of Prof. Dr. Enrico Martinoia. He obtained his PhD title at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany) where he worked on signals regulating plant stem-cell identity and hormonal transport. He then joined the group of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Gruissem at ETH Zurich, where he investigated the effects of cell cycle de-regulation on stem cells. His present research focuses on hormonal transport and its effects on plant architecture and plant-fungal symbioses.
Dr. Victoria Green - Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, UZH
"Genome-wide screen on rotavirus replication reveals viroplasm recruitment of low complexity host factors"
Victoria Green was born in Swindon, England. She studied Biochemistry at the University of Bath before a PhD in Molecular Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where she developed gene therapies against HIV. Victoria commenced a project to identify host factors involved in Rotavirus infection within the Pelkmans lab in 2013.
Dr. Julien Boudet - Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETHZ
"NMR structural investigations on the functional primase domain of the pRN1 replication machinery"
Julien Boudet received his PhD degree in structural biology and biophysics from the University of Grenoble (Joseph Fourier University) in France under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Simorre. During his thesis, he learned nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and used this powerful method to investigate protein/DNA complexes structure, molecular mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance and viral proteins interactions. After graduating, Julien joined the group of Prof. Frederic Allain at ETH Zurich as a post-doctoral researcher. His current research interest is focused on the DNA replication machinery and, in particular on the primase-mediated catalysis.
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Dr. Hidayet Günhan Akarcay - Institute of Applied Physics, UniBe
"Combination of optoacoustic imaging and diffuse optical tomography for high-resolution 3-D cerebral oxygenation map in preterm neonates"
Hidayet Günhan Akarcay completed his PhD at the Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Bern in November 2011. He then worked as a Post-Doc, first in Canada and then in Germany. He is now back at the University of Bern and his area of expertise is the modelling of light propagation in tissue. He is responsible for the ONIRIUS project in Bern, which he will present in his talk.
Dr. Jean-Nicolas Longchamp - Institute of Physics, UZH
"Structural biology at the single particle level: Imaging tobacco mosaic virus by low-energy electron holography"
Jean-Nicolas Longchamp carried out his undergraduate studies at the ETH Zurich from 1999 to 2004 and accomplished his Master thesis work at the Scandinavian NMR center located at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. After completion of his PhD thesis at the ETH Zurich in surface physics, he moved to the University of Zurich for a PostDoc in the group of Prof. Fink, where he developed a totally novel electron microscopy technique for structural biology at the truly single molecule level. Since 2013, Jean-Nicolas is AMBIZIONE fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
FLASH POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Julia Svozil - Department of Biology, ETHZ
"Uncover the mode of action of cis-NATs as translation en-hancers"
Dr. Alexa Burger - Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, UZH
"Molecular mechanisms of chordoma formation and treatment"
Dr. Arina Rybina - Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, UZH
"Characterization of cytoplasmic architecture in S. pombe and Drosophila embryo"
Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers - Institute of Systematic Botany, UZH
"Selection on floral volatiles in two species of Alpine orchids (Gymnadenia)"
Dr. Yaroslav Sych - Brain Research Institute, UZH
"Fiber-optical implants to measure calcium activity in the deep brain structures"
Dr. Carsten Magnus - Institute of Medical Virology, UZH
"Assessing the propensity of HIV-1 to evolve antibody escape variants during free virus and cell-cell transmission"
Dr. Evelyn Lattmann - Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, UZH
"Melanoma metastasis vs. cell invasion in Caenorhabditis elegans"
Dr. Cornelia Eisenach - Institute of Plant Biology, UZH
"ALMT4 - Vacuolar Channel Involved in Stomatal Closure"
Dr. Asya Makhro - Institute of Veterinary Physiology, UZH
"Development of a new method for fast optical diagnosis of rare anemias"
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