Invited Talks 2013 Distinguished Scientist John H. Blaffer lecture, MD Anderson, Houston, USA 2013 Stem cells and Aging, Santa Cruz, CA, USA 2013 Plenary talk, Cellular Polarity: From Mechanisms to Disease, Royal Society, London 2013 Graduate program in the Area of Basic and Applied Biology (GABBA) on Cell Division and Differentiation, Porto, Portugal 2012 Distinguished Lecture in Cancer Research, ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland 2012 Institut Curie, Paris 2012 University of Münster, Germany. 2012 EMBO workshop ’30 years of Wnt’, Netherlands 2012 International Society for Stem Cell research (ISSCR) 10th annual meeting, Japan (cosession chair) 2012 University of Oxford, Computational Science 2012 ESF-EMBO conference on Polarity and Membrane Traffic, Pultusk, Poland 2011 Huntsman Cancer Centre, Utah, USA 2011 Cell Polarity and Cancer Symposium, Oxford, UK. 2011 Cambridge University, UK 2011 EMBO annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria. 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Cell Contact and Adhesion, Vermont, USA. 2011 Mathematical Biology of the Cell: Cytoskeleton and Motility, Banff, Canada 2011 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, Orlando,USA, Major Symposium 2011 University of Aarhus, Denmark. 2010 University of Göttingen 2009 Cell and Tissue Polarity, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 2009 Keynote lecture, Cancer Research Centre, Marseille, France. 2009 Cancer Research Institute, Cambridge, UK. 2008 Keystone Symposium on Wnt/beta-Catenin Signaling in Development and Disease, Keystone, USA. 2007 Mouse models of epithelial cancer, session chair, Beatson Institute, UK. 2007 European Society of Human Genetics annual Meeting, Nice. 2007 Falk Symposium on Intestinal Inflammation and Colorectal Cancer, Sevilla, Spain. 2006 Molecular Biology of Colon Cancer, Copenhagen 2006 21st European Cytoskeleton Forum, Singapore. 2006 Gordon Research Conference on "Signaling by Adhesion Receptors", USA. 2006 Predictive Models of Complex Systems, Center for Cell Dynamics, Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA, USA. 2005 Genetic Instability and Cancer, Newcastle, UK. 2005 Biochemical Society Focused Meeting, The Molecular Biology of colorectal cancer, Bristol, UK. 2005 Keystone meeting, Cell Polarity and Asymmetric Cell Divisions, USA. 2004 American Society for Cell Biology annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 2004 Breakthrough Cancer Research Centre and Cancer Research Institute, London. 2004 AACR/JAX/NCI Colon Cancer 2004, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. 2004 SCRIPS Research Institute, La Jolla, USA 2004 Third Annual Timberline Symposium on “Epithelial Polarity: Basic Biology and Clinical Implications”, Timberline Lodge, Oregon, USA 2003 Peter McCallum Cancer Meeting, Melbourne, Australia 2003 British Society for Cell Biology and British Society for Cancer Research joint meeting (session chair and speaker), Oxford, UK 2003 P&S Biomedical Sciences Symposium on “Cytoskeletal Integration: Dynamics and Crosstalk”, New York, USA 2003 Gordon conference on “Motile and Contractile Systems”, Colby Sawyer, USA 2003 Deutsche Gemeinschaft für Zellbiologie, Annual Symposium, Bonn 2003 Adolf Butenandt Institut fürZellbiologie, Universität München 2002 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Symposium, San Francisco, USA (session chair and speaker) 2002 American Association for Cancer Research special conference on Colon Cancer, Philadelphia 2002 Northwestern University, Chicago 2002 University of Wisconsin, Madison 2002 ETH Zürich 2001 Gordon conference, “Molecular Cell Biology”, Tilton, New Hampshire 2001 LMB, Cambridge 2000 EMBO workshop on centrosomes, kinetochores and spindle interactions, Heidelberg, Germany 2000 British Society for Cell Biology, Warrick, UK. 1996 FASEB Conference on “Molecular Genetic Basis of Cell and Tissue Structure and Function”, 1996 1995 Gordon conference on “Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization”, 1995 1995 American Gastroenterology Association and Digestive Disease Week, 1995