Educational and Library Complex, Campus of the 600th Anniversary of the Jagiellonian University Revival, Gronostajowa 7 street, Kraków
10.00–15.00 REGISTRATION
14.00–15.00 WELCOME COCKTAIL
15.00 CONFERENCE OPENING, chairperson: Józef Dulak
Speech by the Dean of FBBB, Jolanta Jura
Speech by the Rector of Jagiellonian University
15.30–16.30 HISTORIC OVERVIEW, chairperson: Jolanta Jura
Wojciech Froncisz (FBBB), Rys historyczny
Kazimierz Strzałka (FBBB), Od Instytutu do Wydziału
Zbigniew Madeja (FBBB), WBBiB dzisiaj
16.30–17.00 COFFEE BREAK
17.00–17.40 PLENARY LECTURE, chairperson: Józef Dulak
Virginijus Šikšnys (Vilnius, Lithuania), Bacterial immunity: from restriction enzymes to CRISPR
18.15 TRANSFER FOR DINNER
19.00–24.00 DINNER, Stara Zajezdnia restaurant, św. Wawrzyńca 12
09.00–10.30 SESSION I, chairpersons: Claudine Kieda and Patrick Midoux
09.00–09.20 Danuta Kozbor (Buffalo, USA), Reprograming the tumor microenvironment to overcome multiple primary and acquired immune resistance mechanisms in cancer
09.20–09.40 Giulia Fontemaggi (Rome, Italy), Non-coding RNA networks control VEGFA expression in breast cancer
09.40–10.00 Paul J. Smith (Cardiff, UK), Targeting the cancer microenvironment: Insights and translation
10.00–10.20 Marta Miączyńska (Warsaw, Poland), Membrane trafficking and actin dynamics in cancer cell biology
10.30–11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00–12.00 SESSION II, chairpersons: Chantal Pichon and Martyna Elas
11.00–11.20 Tomasz Kordula (Richmond, USA), New insights into cerebellar astrocyte diversity
11.20–11.40 Luigi Zecca (Milan, Italy), Neuromelanins in brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases
11.40–12.00 Jakub Tomasik (Cambridge, UK), Schizophrenia: From blood biomarkers to repurposed drug candidates
12.00–13.20 LUNCH
13.20–14.20 SESSION III, chairpersons: Jolanta Jura and Józef Dulak
13.20–13.40 Mauro Giacca (London, UK), From COVID-19 pathology to therapy: drugs that inhibit SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-induced cell syncytia
13.40–14.00 Szymon Mańka (London, UK), Identification of disease-relevant prion architectures by cryo-EM: can structural biology tell us how prions replicate and kill?
14.00–14.20 Andrzej Joachimiak (Chicago, USA), Structural studies of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and their complexes
14.20–14.50 COFFEE BREAK
14.50–15.50 SESSION IV, chairpersons: Artur Sabat and Jan Potempa
14.50–15.10 Xavier Gomis-Ruth (Barcelona, Spain), Structural insight into pathogenic potential of periodontal pathogens
15.10–15.30 Rich Lamont (Louisville, USA), The oral microbiome in homeostasis and dysbiosis
15.30–15.50 Alistair McCormick (Edinburgh, UK), Developing tools to progress synthetic biology in cyanobacteria
15.50–16.20 COFFEE BREAK
16.20–17.50 SESSION V, chairpersons: Tomasz Róg and Artur Osyczka
16.20–16.40 Vivek Sharma (Helsinki, Finland), Computational modeling of redox-coupled proton pumping by respiratory complex I
16.40–17.00 Jukka Kallijarvi (Helsinki, Finland), Translational studies of mitochondrial complex III deficiency: from sick babies to bacteria
17.00–17.20 Reimund Goss (Leipzig, Germany), Xanthophyll cycles of higher plants and algae
17.20–17.40 Guillem Ylla (Cambridge, USA/Kraków, Polska), The new FBBB’s Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genome Biology: computational approaches to study genes, genomes, gene regulatory networks
17.50 CONFERENCE CLOSING, Kazimierz Strzałka and Jolanta Jura
18.00–20.00 FAREWELL COCKTAIL, BUFFET