Preliminary program
DAY 1, 27th July 2022
| 15:00 - 19.00 | Registration open |
| Plenary Session 1 Development | Chair: Jeroen van Zon |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Verena Jantsch, University of Vienna: Opening remarks and general information |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Keynote lecture 1: Susan Mango, Biozentrum Basel: Dynamic chromatin during embryogenesis |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Ser van der Burght, Gurdon Institute Cambridge: Uncovering genomic drivers of ZGA and early embryonic development in C. elegans using single-cell multiomics |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Carla Lloret-Fernández, UCL: Sexually dimorphic regulation of quiescent neural progenitor asymmetric divisions |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Signe Kenis, KU Leuven: An ancient thyrostimulin-like neuroendocrine system regulates growth in C. elegans |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Drinks reception |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Maike Graf, FMI Basel: Spatial and functional organization of the C. elegans developmental oscillator |
| 19:15 - 19:30 | Francisco J Romero-Expósito, University of Sevilla: Non-canonical DAF-2/IR signalling regulates transient larval arrests in C. elegans |
| 19:30 - 19:45 | François-Xavier Stubbe, University of Namur: Transcriptional Control of a developmental transition in C. elegans |
DAY 2, 28th July 2022
| Plenary Session 2 Cell Biology | Chair: Marie Gendrel |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Keynote lecture 2: Stephan Grill, MPI-CBG Dresden: Physics of Morphogenesis |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London: Developmental robustness of seam cell fate patterning in C. elegans |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Andrew Chisholm, UC San Diego: Cuticle struts and nanoscale patterning of the apical extracellular matrix |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Eva Kaulich, MRC-LMB Cambridge: Distinct roles for two C. elegans acid-sensing ion channels in an ultradian clock |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Renaud Legouis, I2BC Paris: LGG-1/GABARAP lipidation is dispensable for autophagy and development |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Margarita Elena Papandreou, IMBB Crete: Nesprin-2/ANC-1 regulates nuclear autophagy and delays ageing while maintaining germline immortality |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Michał Turek, IBB Warsaw: Pheromone sensing modulates exopher release from C. elegans muscles |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Karen Juanez, University of Texas at Arlington: ER network stability promotes organized microtubule disassembly during Compartmentalized Cell Elimination |
| 12:00 - 12.15 | Flash Talks I |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (on site) |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Poster Session I |
| Plenary Session 3 Germline and Cell fate | Chair: Tatiana Garcia-Muse |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Judith Yanowitz, Magee-Womens Research Institute Pittsburgh: Doubling down on the double-strand break machinery in C. elegans |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Christian Eckmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg: GLD-2 turnover in primordial germ cells promotes germline immortality |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Christopher Wong, McGill University Montreal: Poking more holes in the Weismann barrier: AMPK-mediated regulation of germline quiescence and integrity through neuron-to-germ line communication |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Ana Laranjeira, University of Zurich: Vitamin B12-dependent metabolism controls MAPK-induced germ cell death and vulval precursor cell differentiation |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Coffee break |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Federico Pelisch, University of Dundee: Insights into the intricate kinase-phosphatase network during C. elegans oocyte meiosis |
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Chantal Wicky, University of Fribourg: The transcription factor LSL-1 is a major regulator of the germline transcriptional program in C. elegans |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Ana Rita Rodrigues Neves, EMBL Heidelberg: The synaptonemal complex protein SYP-4 has another function hidden in its C-terminus |
| 19:15 - 19:30 | Marie Delattre, University of Lyon: The germline-restricted genome of Mesorhabditis nematodes |
DAY 3, 29th July 2022
| Plenary Session 4 Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress | Chair: Nicholas Stroustrup |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Della David, University of Tübingen: Identification of novel anti-aggregation mechanisms in C. elegans |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Thorsten Hoppe, University of Cologne: Ubiquitin Tips the Balance: Coordination of Protein Homeostasis & Aging |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Julie Vérièpe, University of Lausanne: MALT1 inhibits autophagy in C. elegans |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Anna Mattout, University of Toulouse: Post-transcriptional heterochromatin silencing through RNA decay and its physiological implications |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Nathalie Pujol, CIML Marseille: How does the skin sense and react to damage? |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Collin Ewald, ETH Zurich: Mechanotransduction coordinates inter-tissue extracellular matrix protein homeostasis promoting longevity in C. elegans |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Patrick Laurent, University of Brussels: A lipid transfer protein ensures nematode cuticular impermeability |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Kathrin Schmeisser, MPI-CBG Dresden: Activation of mTOR by release of cholesterol stores controls the transition from quiescence to growth in C. elegans |
| 12:00 - 12.15 | Flash Talks II |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (on site) |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Poster Session II |
| Plenary Session 5 Epigenetic inheritance, Transcription and Evolution | Chair: Mirko Francesconi |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Philipp Schiffer, University of Cologne: Phylum EcoEvoDevo: the conservation of the nematode Bauplan in contrast to their genomic diversity and eco-evolutionary success |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Polina Tikanova, IMBA Vienna: From essential to selfish: the evolution of tRNA synthetase-based toxin |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Lewis Stevens, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge: Programmed DNA elimination in Caenorhabditis |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Peter Meister, University of Bern: Condensin I folds the C. elegans genome |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Coffee break |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Germano Cecere, Institut Pasteur Paris: Epigenetic maintenance of animal fertility by piRNAs in C. elegans |
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Nadezda Podvalnaya, IMB Mainz: The novel nuclease complex PUCH processes piRNA 5’ ends in C. elegans |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | İsa Özdemir, University of Geneva: Regulation of transgenerational epigenetic H3K27me3 inheritance |
| 19:15 - 19:30 | Siyao Wang, CECAD Cologne: Transgenerational inheritance of paternal DNA damage by linker histone H1-mediated DNA repair restriction |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Dinner |
DAY 4, 30th July 2022
| Plenary Session 6 Cell biology II | Chairs: Tamara Mikeladze-Dvali, Esther Zanin |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Shambaditya Saha, IMBA Vienna: Composition can buffer protein dynamics within liquid-like condensates |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Mikhail Lebedev, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: Anillin forms linear structures and facilitates furrow ingression after septin and formin depletion |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Ana Xavier Carvalho, i3S Porto: Spectrins stabilize the contractile ring during cytokinesis |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | KangBo Ng, Francis Crick Institute London: Cell cycle control of polarity during iterative asymmetric divisions in the C. elegans germ lineage |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Sofia Barbieri, University of Geneva: MEX-6 vs MEX-5: two different mechanisms of intracellular gradient formation? |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Wim Thiels, KU Leuven: Quantitative cell shape analysis in the C. elegans embryo |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Alexander Woglar, EPFL Lausanne: Molecular architecture of the C. elegans centriole |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Murat Artan, IST Austria: Interactome analysis of C. elegans synapses by an improved proximity labeling approach |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Jorian Sepers, Utrecht University: The mIAA7 degron improves auxin-mediated degradation in C. elegans |
| 12:00 - 12.15 | Alex Dammermann, University of Vienna: Closing remarks |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (on site) |