Welcome to Microtubules in Neurons 2023

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The Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, TUM, Munich, Germany and the Institut Curie, Paris, France cordially invite interested Master's students, PhD candidates and post-docs to our French-German Fall School:

Microtubules in Neurons 2023

Regulation of microtubules in neuronal homeostasis

from 8th to 12th of October 2023

at the historic Frauenwörth Abbey on Fraueninsel in Lake Chiemsee (Bavaria)

Scientific Organizers

Dr. Monika Leischner-Brill (TU München)

I am a group leader at the Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, TUM, Munich, Germany. I work on the role of the cytoskeleton during axonal remodelling, both during development and disease. In particular, I study the microtubule severing enzyme spastin and how it microtubular stabilization impacts on neuronal homoeostasis. As a model I study lower motor neurons in nerve-muscle explants, using live imaging techniques and immunohistochemical approaches. Recently I also focus on human skin biopsies from patients suffering from motor neuron diseases.

Dr. Magda Magiera (Institut Curie)

I am a CNRS researcherin the lab of Carsten Janke at the Institut Curie in Orsay, France. I work of the role of tubulin polyglutamylation in neurodegeneration and in the regulation of axonal transport. I mostly work in mice and primary neurons, but I also contributed to investigating the role of posttranslational modifications of tubulin in in vitro

 

The conference aims to bring together researchers and clinicians working on post-translational modifications of microtubules to understand how changes in microtubules control cell homeostasis. It also offers students and early career researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their work in front of an international audience of experts.

Application

Submit your application

In order to attent to the event, please create an account by clicking on the blue button (on the top-left of this page). This account will allow you to submit your application, check the status of your application, enroll after your sucessfull application and give you access to your documents (invoice, abstract).

If you already have an account, please use the login box on the left side, else proceed with “Register now”.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 1st. Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers and the selected ones will be notified asap.

Speakers

  • Francesca Bartolini, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • Christian Behrends, DZNE, Munich, Germany
  • Roland Brandt, University Osnabrück, Germany   
  • Fiona Francis, IFM, Paris, France
  • Aurnab Ghose, IISER, Pune, India
  • Martin Harterink, Utrecht University, Netherlands
  • Torben Hausrat, ZMNH, Hamburg, Germany      
  • Christian Hübner, University Hospital Jena, Germany
  • David Keays, LMU, Munich, Germany
  • Zdenek Lansky, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic 
  • Christophe Leterrier, INP, Marseille, France
  • Laura Anne Lowery, Boston University, USA
  • Zeynep Ökten, TUM, Munich, Germany
  • Dominik Paquet, DZNE, Munich, Germany
  • Michael Sendtner, University of Würzburg, Germany
  • Yuyu Song, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • ...et al.

Fee

The registration fee (accommodation, meals) will amount to a maximum of 415,78€ per participant. Transport costs are not covered by the organisers.

Venue

Abbey Frauenwörth

Isle of Frauenchiemsee Frauenchiemsee
D-83256 Chiemsee

how to get to Frauenwörth

Poster

To download our poster please click here. You are welcome to use the poster for advertising purposes to your colleagues and PhDs.

Preliminary Program

  Microtubules in neurons
     
SUNDAY 08. Okt  
  16:00 check in
  18:00 dinner
  20:00 Keynote lecture: Cell biology of axons
    Michael Sendtner
  20:45 get together
     
MONDAY 09. Okt  
  08:00 breakfast
  09:15 greetings
    SESSION 1: Microtubules in vitro 
  09:30 Roland Brandt
  10:00 Zeynep Ökten
  11:00 selected talk from abstracts
  11:15 selected talk from abstracts
  10:30 Christophe Leterrier: seeing is believing
  12:00 lunch
  14:00 poster session 1
    SESSION 2: Future leaders
  16:00 selected talk from abstracts
  16:15 selected talk from abstracts
  16:30 selected talk from abstracts
  16:45 selected talk from abstracts
  18:00 dinner
  20:00 Tatjana Hirschmugl: drawing science
  21:00 get together
     
TUESDAY 10. Okt  
  08:00 breakfast
    SESSION 3: Cytoskeleton in disease
  09:00 David Keays
  09:30 Christian Hübner
  10:00 Dominik Paquet
  10:30 break
  10:45 Fiona Francis
  11:15 Christian Behrends
  11:45 selected talk from abstracts
  12:00 lunch
  13:00 visit Herrenchiemsee castle
  18:00 dinner
  20:00 poster session 2
  21:00 get together
     
WEDNESDAY 11. Okt  
  08:00 breakfast
    SESSION 4: Cytoskeleton in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
  09:00 Laura Lowery
  09:30 Martin Harterink
  10:00 selected talk from abstracts
  10:15 break
  10:45 Yuyu Song
  11:15 Aunab Ghose
  11:45 selected talk from abstracts
  12:00 lunch
  14:00 walk around the island
  16:00 Torben Hausrat
  16:30 Francesca Bartolini
  17:00 selected talk from abstracts
  17:15 break
  18:00 dinner
  20:00 keynote lecture: Microtubules in vitro
    Zdenek Lansky
  20:45 get together
     
THURSDAY 12. Okt  
  08:00 breakfast
  09:00 departure

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