- The length of the talks will be : 13 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion
- The recommended format for posters is A0, portrait orientation.
Wednesday 04.11.2026
09:00 – 10:00 Registration of participants
10:00 – 10:10 Opening and welcome
KEYNOTE LECTURE I.
10:10 – 11:00 Dr. Thomas Surrey – Keynote lecture I (45+15min)
COFFEE BREAK 11:00 – 11:20
SESSION 1: presentations by PhD students (13+5min)
11:00 – 11:20 Subhadip Chakraborty
Emergence of actomyosin cortex terminates a burst of clathrin-mediated endocytosis during oocyte maturation
11:20 – 11:40 Allan Akandwanaho
Actomyosin-driven embryonic cytokinesis
11:40 – 12:00 Adéla Karhanová
High pH expands microtubule lattice
LUNCH 12:00 – 13:20
poster set up – throughout the afternoon
POSTER SESSION 1st year students 13:20– 15:20
COFFEE BREAK 15:20 – 15:50
SESSION 2: presentations by PhD students (13+5min)
15:50 – 16:10 Alica Dodoková
ATP-Mg2+ selectively regulates MAPs binding to microtubules
16:10 – 16:30 Kriti Attri
Deciphering contractile fibroblasts in the developing mammary gland
16:30 – 16:50 Kristína Jančovičová
The role of AIRE in female fertility
16:50 – 17:10 Irina Ribeiro Bas
CEBPD restrains an inflammatory-driven program that confers a functional advantage to Hematopoietic Stem cells
17:10 – 17:30 Gaurav Samuel
Expression of Toll like receptors in human colonic organoids as sentinels in orchestrating the immune regulation and coordinating the development cascade
Thursday 05.11.2026
SESSION 3: presentations by PhD students (13+5min)
09:00 – 09:20 Adéla Marcalíková
Sensitive quantification of proteases from Porphyromonas gingivalis, bacterium involved in periodontitis
09:20 – 09:40 Kateřina Paldusová
Unravelling the Ultrastructure of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs)
09:40 – 10:00 Salim Abuhajiar
Premature thymic atrophy during melanoma progression in minipig model
10:00 – 10:20 Sarah Suergiu
Morphological and functional characterization of single pancreatic islets for deep learning-based graft assessment
COFFEE BREAK 10:20 – 10:50
KEYNOTE LECTURE II.
10:50 – 11:40 Dr. Helen May-Simera – Keynote lecture II
LUNCH 11:40 – 12:50
SESSION 4: presentations by PhD students (13+5min)
12:50 – 13:10 Lucie Mrazkova
Structural and Functional Insights into IGF2R-Ligand Interactions: Engineering and Analysis of Extracellular Domain Constructs
13:10 – 13:30 Jayashri Bhosale
Structural basis of ASK1 regulation: from 14-3-3 mediated inhibition to MKK7 substrate recognition
13:30 – 13:50 Fabio Turetti
Casein Kinase 1 selectively phosphorylates and activates NOTCH1
13:50 – 14:10 NGS Geeks talk
COFFEE BREAK 14:10 – 14:40
SESSION 5: presentations by PhD students (13+5min)
14:40 – 15:00 Terézia Paulovčáková
The study of chromatin-associated proteins using dynamic structural biology approaches
15:00 – 15:20 Tereza Neuwirthova
Prediction of Amino Acid Dispensability in Model Organisms
15:20 – 15:40 Barbora Bergelová
CRISPR knockouts of steroidogenic enzymes in pipid frogs of the genus Xenopus
15:40 – 16:00 Anton Zuev
Role of the PHF14-HMG20A complex in the resolution of R-loop-mediated transcription-replication conflicts
16:00 – 16:10 Best talk voting and announcement of the winners
General discussion Ph.D. program and closing remarks 16:10 – 17:00
SOCIAL EVENT on CAFE HYBERNSKA 17:00 – 22:00
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