Swiss C. elegans Meeting

12 September 2023

Prof. Benjamin Towbin, UNIBE

Dr. Iskra Katic, FMI, Basel

Dr. Chantal Wicky, UniFR

Prof. Nicholas Stroustrup (CRG, Barcelona)

Prof. Miriam Goodman (Stanford University)

PhD students will be able to submit abstracts, which may be selected for oral presentation. If not selected, they will be able to present their work as a poster.

Swiss C.elegans meeting 2023

September 12th, 2023
UniS, Bern, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, S 003

10:00 Coffee, get together (Foyer) and poster set up (A019)

10:40-11:00 Alexander Woglar (EPFL Lausanne)
"Deciphering centriole behavior during sexual reproduction"
11:00-11:20 Yi Li (University of Geneva)
"SDS-22 contributes to polarity establishment of C. elegans"
11:20-11:40 Stefanie Engleitner (University of Zürich)
"The hox gene lin-39 induces cell proliferation in somatic cells of C. elegans"

11:40-13:10 Lunch break (Foyer) and poster session (A019)

13:10-14:10 Nicholas Stroustrup (CRG, Barcelona, Spain)
"How do heritable and non-heritable factors interact to determine C. elegans lifespan?"

14:10-14:30 Adrian Molière (ETH Zürich)
"Improved resilience and proteostasis implicated in longevity upon DAF-2 degradation in old age"
14:30-14:50 Smita Nahar (FMI, Basel)
"Developmental dynamics and post-transcriptional regulation of miRNAs in C. elegans"
14:50-15:10 Elena Katsyuba (Nagi Bioscience, Saint-Sulpice) "Microfluidic-based robotic platform for the automation of C.
elegans experimentation."

15:10-16:00 Coffee break (Foyer) and poster session (A019)

16:00-17:00 Miriam B. Goodman (Stanford University, USA)
"How C. elegans neuroscience benefits from mind control by plants"

17:00-17:20 Saurabh Thapliyal (University of Fribourg)
"'Scanning' and 'glocal search': new behavioral states in worms"
17:20-17:40 Sigma Pradhan (University of Bern)
"Parental dietary restriction delays offspring growth due to insufficient ribosome provisioning"
17:40-18:00 Isa Özdemir (University of Geneva)
"Regulation of transgenerational epigenetic H3K27me3 inheritance"

18:00 Drinks (Foyer)

The organizers: Benjamin Towbin, Chantal Wicky, Iskra Katic, Anne Spang

UNIBE,

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Welcome to the Swiss C. elegans meeting

We would like to cordially invite you to our annual meeting on Tuesday, September 12^th, 2023 (approximate times: 10:30-18:00). This year the meeting will be held in Bern. » View the 2023 program.

Keynote speakers: » Nicholas Stroustrup, CRG, Barcelona, Spain
» Miriam B. Goodman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 

The aim of this meeting is to bring together graduate students, post-docs and principal investigators interested in diverse aspects of C. elegans biology. 

Abstracts: Please submit abstracts on your work by August 24^th, 2023.From these, speakers will be selected in addition to the keynote speakers. Although we encourage group leaders to give young researchers a chance to present their results, group leaders are also welcome to speak.

Registration: The meeting is free, but for logistic reasons we ask you to register until August 31^st, 2023.
» Registration 
(PhD students of a CUSO program can reimburse their travel expenses from the CUSO graduate program.)

Please distribute this information to your collaborators and other people who might not be on the mailing list.

For a continuing success of this meeting, we look forward to receiving many registrations and abstract submissions!

Organizers: » Iskra Katic, FMI
» Anne Spang, University of Basel
» Benjamin Towbin, University of Bern
» Chantal Wicky, University of Fribourg, 

Venue: 
UniS 
Schanzeneckstrasse 1 
3001 Bern 
Room S003 

Reimbursements: 

Reimbursements for CUSO StarOmics students: - Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from your institution to the place of the activity.

NEW from 2021: Reimbursement of your travel tickets can be asked online through your MyCUSO.

See HERE for the procedure.

For any question concerning reimbursement please contact the CUSO StarOmics coordinator Corinne Dentan

Other CUSO Students: Please contact the coordinator of your Program.

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