- 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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