Program

08.45

Welcome and opening remarks

Ulrich Förstermann, Chief Scientific Officer/Dean of the Unviersity Medical Center Mainz

Esther von Stebut-Borschitz, TransMed Program Director

Krishnaraj Rajalingam, Co-Organizer TransMed Science Day

09.00

Genomics in drug development and clinical practice

Somasekar Seshagiri
Molecular Biology Department, Genentech inc., South San Francisco

09.35

Short talks by three doctoral candidates
Lisa Schmidtke, Dept. of Pharmacology
Jin Cheng, Inst. for Microanatomy and Neurobiology
Federico Marini, Inst. of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics

10.05

GSDMD membrane pore formation constitutes the mechanism of pyroptotic cell death

Petr Broz
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel

10.40

Coffee break

11.10

Working as a scientific editor - behind the scenes at Nature

Sadaf Shadan
Springer Nature, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London

11.45

Short talks by three doctoral candidates
Sebastian Boegel, Translational Oncology - TRON
Carine Thalman, Inst. for Microanatomy and Neurobiology
Anke Werner, Inst. of Pharmacology

12.15

Targeting cancer metabolism

12.50

Lunch & meet-the-speaker coffee tables

13.50

Science slam talk: DIE ANOTHER DAY - From discovery to targeted therapies

Monilola Olayioye
Institute for Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Stuttgart

14.20

Short talks by two doctoral candidates
Anna Gerlicher, Neuroimaging Center
Alexander Ziebart, Dept. of Anaesthesiology

14.40

15.10

15.30

15.50

Guided poster walks
Poster presentations of doctoral students of the first and second year

17.00

Awards for best poster presentations & closing remarks
Esther von Stebut-Borschitz