21 th of December
Astrid Haase, MD,PhD
Cold Spring Harbor,
NY 11724, USA
Talk:
“Micro-RNA and cancer”
7 th of December
Isabelle Dusanter-Fourt, PhD
Institut Cochin-Departement d`Hématologie-U567
Maternité Port-Royal-5ieme étage
123 Bd Port- Royal
75014 Paris, France
Talk:
“Identification of a new nuclear receptor / STAT5 regulatory pathway in hematopoietic stem cells”
3 rd of December
Dr. Marieke von Lindern
Erasmus MC - Faculty building
Department of Hematology
Dr. Molewaterplein 50 / P.O. Box 1738
3015 GE Rotterdam / 3000 DR Rotterdam, NL
Talk:
“SCF- dependent control of mRNA translation in erythropoiesis”
28 th of November
Prof. Adriano Aguzzi
Dept. of Pathology
University Hospital Zurich
Institute for Neuropathology
Schmelzbergstrasse 12
8091 Zurich, CH
Talk: “Recent Progress in Prion Biology”
5 th of November
Prof. Dr. Nancy Hynes
FMI - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Maulbeerstrasse 66
4058 Basel, CH
Talk:
“ Studies on receptor tyrosine kinases and their effector proteins in cancer & aging”
22 th of October
PD Dr. Karlheinz Friedrich
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Institute of Biochemistry
Nonnenplan 2
07743 Jena, Germany
Talk:
“ Aberrant activity of STAT3 and dysregulation of protease expression in colorectal and lung cancer”

8 th of October
Gerardo Ferbeyre, MD, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Faculty of Medicine
University of Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville
Montréal, Qc H3C 3J7, CDN
Talk:
“Regulation of cellular senescence by constitutively active STAT5”
21 th of September
Prof. Peter Heinrich
Universitätsklinikum Aachen
Institut für Biochemie
Pauwelsstrasse 30
52074 Aachen, Germany
Talk:
“Interleukin-6 signal transduction and its regulation”
11 th of September
Dr. Colin McGuckin
Newcastle Centre for Cord Blood
Institute of Human Genetics
North East England Stem Cell Institute
International Centre for Life
Newcastle University
NE1 3 BZ, UK
Talk:
“The cord blood revolution”
7 th of September
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Müller-Newen
Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen
Institut für Biochemie
Pauwelstrasse 30
52074 Aachen, Germany
Talk:
“Jak-STAT signal transduction analyzed in single cells: interactions, dynamics and intervention”
17 th of August
Stefan N. Constantinescu, MD, PhD
Group Leader, Signal Transduction Unit
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Member,
Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology,
UCL Avenue Hippocrate 74,
UCL 75-4 Brussels, B
Talk:
“Signaling by JAK2 V617 and thrombopoietin receptor mutants“
23 th of August
Prof. Heinz Redl, PhD
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology Austrian Cluster of
Tissue Regeneration
Donaueschingenstrasse 13
1200 Vienna, Austria
Talk: "Forschungsschwerpunkte im LBI Trauma"

13 th of July
Dr. Jan Tuckermann
Molecular Biology of Tissue Specific Hormone Action
Leibniz Institute for Age Research
Fritz-Lipmann-Institute e.V.
Jena, Germany
Talk:
“Dimerization of the glucocorticoid receptor revisited: Dispensible for antiinflammation?”
29 th of June
Prof. Dr. Christopher Baum
Hannover Medical School
Dept. Experimental Hematology
Building K11, room 1120
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, OE 6960
30625 Hannover, Germany
Talk:
“Inducing and avoiding clonal imbalance in genetically modified hematopoietic cells”