EMBO Gold Medallist Symposium 2015
11-13 May 2015, Monday to Wednesday
Matrix @ Biopolis, Breakthrough and Discovery Theatrette, Level 4
30 Biopolis Street, Singapore S138671
Day 1 – 11 May 2015, Monday
Time (hrs)
1400-1430
1430-1435
1435-1450
1450-1500
1500-1510
Programme
Registration and Light Refreshments
Introduction by Prof Philip INGHAM
Vice Dean (Research), LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
Opening Address by Mr LIM Chuan Poh
Chairman, A*STAR & LKCMedicine Governing Board, Singapore
Welcome Speech by Prof Bertil ANDERSSON
President, NTU, Singapore
Welcome Speech by Prof Maria LEPTIN
Director, EMBO
Session I
Chairperson: Prof Philip INGHAM, LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
1510-1555
Prof Antonio LANZAVECCHIA (1988 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Founding Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
1555-1640
From broadly neutralising antibodies to vaccine design.
Prof Erwin WAGNER (1990 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Director, BBVA Foundation – CNIO Cancer Cell Biology Programme, Spanish National
Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
1640-1710
1710-1755
AP-1(Fos/Jun) at the cross-road between inflammation, metabolism and cancer.
Refreshments & Poster Exhibition
Prof Carl-Henrik HELDIN (1992 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Branch Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala, Sweden
1755-1840
TGFβ signalling via Smad and Non-Smad pathways.
Asst Prof Florent GINHOUX (EMBO Young Investigator)
Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, Singapore
Dendritic cell and macrophage ontogeny.
Day 2 – 12 May 2015, Tuesday
Time (hrs)
1000-1030
1030-1035
Session II
1035-1120
1120-1205
1205-1250
1250-1350
Session III
1350-1435
Programme
Registration and Light Refreshments
Opening of Day 2 by Prof Philip INGHAM
Vice Dean (Research), LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
Chairperson: Prof Maria LEPTIN, EMBO
Assoc Prof Bruno REVERSADE (EMBO Young Investigator)
Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
A tale of two inherited self-healing skin cancers.
Prof Paolo SASSONE-CORSI (1994 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Director, Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of
California, Irvine, US
Common threads: epigenetics, metabolism and the clock.
Prof Richard TREISMAN (1995 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Research Director, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
G-actin as a signalling molecule.
Lunch and Poster Exhibition
Chairperson: Prof Robert ROBINSON, IMCB, A*STAR, Singapore
Prof Dirk GÖRLICH (1997 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Director, Department of Cellular Logistics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Göttingen, Germany
1435-1520
Phase separation and transport selectivity of nuclear pores.
Prof Adriano AGUZZI (1998 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Director, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
1520-1605
The molecular basis of prion toxicity.
Prof Christof NIEHRS (2000 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Founding Director, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
1605-1635
1635-1720
Mitotic Wnt signalling.
Refreshments & Poster Exhibition
Prof Matthew FREEMAN (2001 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Head, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
1720-1805
Control of signalling by rhomboid-like proteins.
Prof Robert ROBINSON (EMBO Young Investigator)
Research Director, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
Mechanisms of crippling human actin-dependent phagocytosis by Yersinia YopO.
Day 3 – 13 May 2015, Wednesday
Time (hrs)
0900-0930
0930-0935
Programme
Registration and Light Refreshments
Opening of Day 3 by Prof Philip INGHAM
Vice Dean (Research), LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
Session IV
Chairperson: Prof Daniela RHODES, SBS & LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
0935-1020
Prof James BRISCOE (2008 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Group Leader, Division of Developmental Biology, Medical Research Council-National
Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
1020-1105
1105-1150
1150-1200
1200 onwards
The cellular and molecular logic of spinal cord development.
Prof Jiří FRIML (2012 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Plant-specific mechanism of polarity and patterning.
Assoc Prof Sophie MARTIN (2014 EMBO Gold Medallist)
Associate Professor, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
When 1 + 1 makes 1: cellular rearrangements for fusion.
Closing Address by Prof James Donovan BEST
Dean, LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore
Lunch & Networking