Program 2024

  • The length of the talks will be : 12 minutes presentation + 6 minutes discussion
  • The recommended format for posters is A1, portrait orientation.

Thursday 31.10.2024

09:00 – 10:00 Registration of participants (poster setup – throughout the day)

10:00 – 10:20 Opening and welcome

SESSION 1

10:20 – 10:40 Šárka Jarošová

Consequences of radiation therapy in medulloblastomas

10:40 – 11:00 Eva Kamenná

Failing (so far) to reprogram porcine astrocytes into neurons

11:00 – 11:20 Michaela Vaškovičová 

Spatio-temporal requirements of Aurora kinase A for spindle building in mouse oocytes

11:20 – 11:40 Subhadib Chakraborty

Understanding the mechanochemical transitions that underlie early embryo development

11:40 – 12:00 Roman Podhájecký

A synergy between diffusive crosslinking and actin severing drives actin contractility 

LUNCH 12:00 – 13:20

KEYNOTE LECTURE I.

13:20 – 14:20 Frank Bradke – Keynote lecture I

COFFEE BREAK 14:20 – 14:50

SESSION 2

14:50 – 15:10 Daria Khuntsariya

Microtubule doublet assembly in vitro and its regulation by FAP20 and PACRG

15:10 – 15:30 Tereza Humhalová

Loss of endosomal actin leads to osmotic swelling of endosomes

15:30 – 15:50 Lenka Hůlková

Lamin plays with SUN

15:50 – 16:10 Ivana Dobiášovská

SWITCHER, a novel CRISPR-inducible Cre system for regulating CRISPR activity

16:10 – 16:30 Anna Maria Frontino

Pronounced vasculature phenotypes in new mouse models with ALGS and BA-associated mutations in Jagged1

POSTER SESSION 1st year students 17:00– 19:30

Friday 01.11.2024

SESSION 3

09:00 – 09:20 Kianoush Kakavand

Reprogramming of translation during oogenesis

09:20 – 09:40 Valentina Michaela Serianni

The molecular insight into the incorporation of NpnNs in RNA by Thermus thermophilus RNA polymerase.

09:40 – 10:00 Prasoon Kumar Thakur

Splice site diversity and abundance of non-canonical introns in diplonemids

COFFEE BREAK 10:20 – 10:50

KEYNOTE LECTURE I.

10:50 – 11:50 Petra Hájková- Keynote lecture II

LUNCH 11:50 – 12:50

SESSION 4

12:50 – 13:10 Csergeová Lucia

Unlocking quiescence: The role of CK2 in cancer

13:10 – 13:30 Mehak Shaikh

ALDH1A as a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia

13:30 – 13:50 Jovana Ćurčić

Hematopoietic lineage-specific zebrafish reporter line

13:50 – 14:10 Zuzana Vondráková

Mechanism of hematopoietic cells reprogramming 

COFFEE BREAK 14:10 – 14:40

SESSION 5

14:40 – 15:00 Jakub Onhajzer

Reactivation of the embryonic genes Trop2 and Sca1 correlates with the cellular zonation of the intestinal tumors

15:00 – 15:20 Lisa-Maria Weinhold

Structural insights into the epigenetic regulation of transcription factor Nkx6.1 by chromatin remodeling subunit BAF155

15:20 – 15:40 Flaminia Mancini

Reverse Transcriptase Fingerprint Method for 5′ RNA Caps Detection

General discussion Ph.D. program and closing remarks 15:40 – 16:40

SOCIAL EVENT on CAFE HYBERNSKA 17:00 – 22:00