19th HFSP Awardees Meeting Program - Wednesday

8:30-9:00

Warwick Anderson, Secretary-General of HFSPO

Keiko Nagaoka, State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology

Tatsuo Igarashi, Mayor of Tsukuba City

Adapting metazoan opsins for optogenetic applications
Gebhard Schertler, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland 
Program Grant 2014

Cellular recovery from DNA damage is mediated via asymmetric chromosome segregation and cell division
Anjana Badrinarayanan, National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore, India
Career Development Award 2017

Epigenetic identify driven by DNA damage induces aging
Motoshi Hayano, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
2014 Long-Term Fellow

Computational design of self-assembling protein nanomachines
Alexis Courbet, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016

Regulation of photosynthesis by ion fluxes: making the link
Ildiko Szabo, University of Padova, Italy
Program Grant 2015

The emergence of gene-expression order in noisy environments
Cheemeng Tan, University of California Davis, USA
Young Investigator Grant 2015

Interactions among marine microbes as they grow and die: linking experiments and genome-scale models 
Daniel Sher, University of Haifa, Israel
Program Grant 2016

Quantifying of protein kinetic dynamics in the plastid division machinery at single molecule resolution
Yamato Yoshida, Ibaraki University, Japan
Career Development Award 2018

Bacterial influence on feeding and temperature control
Ilana Gabanyi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Long-Term Fellow 2017

Chemistry and biology of polyphosphate
Rashna Bhandari, CDFD, Hyderabad, India
Program Grant 2016

Intraluminal nutrients modulate intracellular calcium activity in the enteric nervous system of adult mice
Jean-Baptiste Cavin, University of Calgary, Canada
Long-Term Fellow 2017

Nuclear mis-shaping affects gene expression in plants
Marie-Edith Chabouté, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Program Grant 2018

The hematopoietic landscape of naked mole rats
Stephan Emmrich, University of Rochester, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016

Completing the cycle: lighting up the central dogma for a predictive understanding of genetic clocks
Hernan Garcia, University of California Berkeley, USA
Program Grant 2016

Nanoscale analysis of membrane neurotransmitter cross-talk in the physiopathological brain
Laurent Groc, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, France
Program Grant 2016

Sexually dimorphic control of anxiety and socio-sexual behaviors by oxytocin receptor expressing interneurons in the MPFC
Kun Li, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2014

Phase separation of synapsin 1 drives clustering of lipid vesicles
Dragomir Milovanovic, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016

Chromatin is an active rheological element of the nucleus buffering the genome from force-induced damage 
Yekaterina Miroshnikova, University of Helsinki, Finland and Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Long-Term Fellow 2018

Impact of horizontal gene transfer on natural microbial ecosystems
Ryo Miyazaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Young Investigator Grant 2016

Achieving substrate specificity in nuclear RNA quality control
Eva-Maria Weick, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA
Long-Term Fellow 2016 
 

Poster Session 1

Introduction
Warwick Anderson, Secretary-General of HFSPO

mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism
Michael Hall, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland