Dr. Dorothee Dormann: Multiple roles of nuclear import receptors in protein aggregation diseases
Prof. Dr. Zofia Chrzanowska-Lightowlers and Prof. Dr. Robert Lightowlers: Mitochondrial gene expression: from the organelle to the patient
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner: Mitochondrial machineries for import and assembly of proteins
Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Chacinska: Mitochondria and cellular protein homeostasis
Prof. Dr. Stephen High: Membrane protein biogenesis: the unusual suspects
Dr. Sebastian Schuck: Biogenesis and Autophagy of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Prof. Dr. Rui Moreira: Targeting Serine Hydrolases With Novel Activity-Based Probes
Prof. Dr. Mark Gorrell: The DPP4 related enzyme FAP-alpha: Substrates and roles in fatty liver and liver fibrosis
Dr. Robin Klemm: Functional organelle coupling promotes de novo lipogenesis in adipocytes
Dr. Fan Liu: Structural interactomics of the mitochondria and neuronal synapses by cross-linking mass spectrometry
Professor Dr. Nica Borgese: VAPB depletion alters neuritogenesis and phosphoinositide balance in motoneuron-like cells: Relevance to VAPB-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Professor Dr. Bernd Schröder: SPPL intramembrane proteases - at the crossroads of signal transduction and membrane protein homeostasis
Prof. Dr. David Stephens: Trafficking of procollagen to and through the Golgi: implications for proteolytic processing
Dr. Harald Wodrich: Antiviral autophagy upon adenovirus cell entry is mediated by galectin-8 and TBK-1
Francesca Bottanelli, PhD: Zooming into Golgi biology with super-resolution imaging
Cristina Arrigoni, PhD: Searching for a thermosensor: unfolding transition controls temperature dependent activation in a voltage-gated channel
Tamas Balla, M.D., Ph.D.: Using PI4P gradients for lipid transport at membrane contact sites
June 17th – 19th, 2018
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine,
Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, D-Göttingen
Dr. Maria Bohnert: Same-same, but different - Molecular determinants of lipid droplet diversity
Prof. Dr. Volker Dötsch: Mechanisms of p63-based genetic quality control in oocytes
Prof. Dr. Maya Schuldiner: Systematic cell biology of organelles - new whole genome libraries uncover multiple aspects of cellular organization
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Westermann: A mother's sacrifice: asymmetric inheritance of mitochondria in yeast