Program 2025

  • The length of the talks will be : 12 minutes presentation + 6 minutes discussion
  • The recommended format for posters is A0, portrait orientation.

Wednesday 22.10.2025

09:00 – 09:30 Registration of participants

09:30 – 10:00 Opening and welcome

KEYNOTE LECTURE I.

10:00 – 11:00 Rui Benedito- Keynote lecture I

COFFEE BREAK 11:00 – 11:20

SESSION 1

11:20 – 11:40 Martišková Štepánka

Anillin’s role in human neural precursor cells and (not) in neurons

11:40 – 12:00 Miles Joseph Raishbrook

Lratd2 as a Novel Factor in Retinal Homeostasis

12:00 – 12:20 Fabio Turetti

CK1α-Dependent Phosphorylation of NOTCH1 Is Required for Transcriptional Activity of  N1ICD

12:20 – 12:40 Subhadip Chakraborty

Understanding the coupling of cortical rearrangement and endocytosis in the developing C. elegans oocyte

12:40 – 13:00 Fatima J. Berro

Unveiling the silence: how translation quiescence shapes mRNA stability in oocytes 

LUNCH 13:00 – 13:45
poster set up – throughout the afternoon

SESSION 2

13:45 – 14:05 Shreyasi Mazumder

Phosphorylation of shelterin complex and its role in telomere maintenance

14:05 – 14:20 Jiri Frantisek Potuznik

Ap4A-RNA detection using CapZyme-seq

14:20 – 14:40 Allan Akandwanaho  

Converting molecular-scale torques to cellular-scale chiral counterrotating flows

14:40 – 15:00 Nataliia Dudko

Genome stability in mammalian oocytes and somatic cells

15:00 – 15:20 Karel Fusek

How Hot Are the Hotspots? The Architecture of Meiotic Recombination.

POSTER SESSION 1st year students 16:00– 19:00

Thursday 23.10.2025

SESSION 3

09:00 – 09:20 Anna Macečková Brymová

Human iPSC-derived RPE cell transplantation as a potential advanced medicinal therapy product for the treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration

09:20 – 09:40 Maria Jose Saucedo-Rodriguez

Impact of SDHA Mutations on SDH Assembly and Function

09:40 – 10:00 Yaroslav Nemesh

Dry AMD-related transcriptomic changes in the RPE cell model

10:00 – 10:20 Matouš Palek

RAD18 directs DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination to post-replicative chromatin

COFFEE BREAK 10:20 – 10:50

KEYNOTE LECTURE II.

10:50 – 11:50 Giulia Quattrocolo Keynote lecture II

LUNCH 11:50 – 12:50

SESSION 4

12:50 – 13:10 Tereza Neuwirthova

Unveiling the Dark Protein Space: High-Throughput Structural Screening

13:10 – 13:30 Eva Mašínová

Molecular control of fitness and cytotoxicity of NK cells used in immunotherapies

13:30 – 13:50 Adéla Marcalíková

Sensitive quantification of proteases from Porphyromonas gingivalis, bacterium involved in periodontitis

13:50 – 14:10 Karolina Kowalska

Molecular mechanism of MICAL activation by Rab proteins

COFFEE BREAK 14:10 – 14:40

SESSION 5

14:40 – 15:00 Anastasiia Kolesnikova

Key molecular features of a novel Huntington’s disease knock-in minipig

15:00 – 15:20 Michal Knězů

Regulation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by tissue-specific isoforms of cytochrome c oxidase

15:20 – 15:40 Salim Abuhajiar

Tumor-infiltrating immune cells in spontaneous regression and thymus involution in the progression of melanoma

15:40 – 16:00 Habiba Hayat

Von Willebrand Domain-containing Protein 8 (Vwa8) in lipid metabolism and brown fat thermogenesis

16:00 – 16:20 Ruslan Nyshchuk

Gene replacement therapy for Usher syndrome type 1C

General discussion Ph.D. program and closing remarks 16:30 – 17:15

SOCIAL EVENT on CAFE HYBERNSKA 17:30 – 22:00

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