Invited Guest Speakers 2010
29th of November
Prof. Dr. Winfried S. Wels
Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus
Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 42-44
60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Talk: "Cancer immunotherapy targeting ErbB receptor tyrosine kinases"
21st of June
Prof. Dr. Stephan Nussberger
Universitaet Stuttgart
Biologisches Institut, Abt. Biophysik
Pfaffenwaldring 57,
70550 Stuttgart, Germany
Talk: "Single protein molecules threading through a nanometer-scale pore: Resolving
the mechanism of protein transport across the outer membrane of mitochondria"
14th of June
Prof. Dr. med. Armin Ensser
Virologie und Infektionsepidemiologie Arbeitsgruppe
"Oncogenic Rhadinoviruses and Vectors for Gene Therapy"
Klinische und Molekulare Virologie
Virologisches Institut
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Schlossgarten 4
91054 Erlangen, Germany
Talk: "STAT factor activation by the herpesviral effector protein Tip"
9th of June
Prof. Gang Bao, PhD.
Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0535, USA
Talk: "Engineering molecular imaging probes for nanomedicine"
27th of May
Aykut Üren, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Georgetown University Medical Center
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Department of Oncology
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Washington, D.C. 20057-1469, USA
Talk: "Discovery and application of Hedgehog signaling as a targeted therapy in Ewing's
Sarcoma"
21st of May
Dr. Jan Tuckermann
Molecular Biology of Tissue
specific Hormone Action Leibniz Institute for Age Research Fritz-Lipmann-Institute e.V.
Beutenbergstr. 11
07745 Jena, Germany
Talk: "Glucocorticoid receptor action in osteoimmunology"
4th of May
Christian Wichmann, M.D.
AG Grez
Georg-Speyer-Haus
Institute for Biomedical Research
Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 42-44
60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Talk: "Hot spots of AML1/ETO tetramer formation as potential targeting sites in acute
myeloid leukemia"
9th of April
Prof. Dr. Christopher Baum
Experimentelle Hämatologie
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1
30625 Hannover, Germany
Talk: "Transient and permanent modification of stem cells by retrovirus-based vectors"
7th of April
Olga Ermakova, PhD.
EMBL
Mouse Biology Unit,
via Ramarini,32
Monterotondo, Roma, Italy
Talk: "Genetic screen for disease associated genomic copy number variations in mice.
Copy number variation of Stat5 locus in normal physiology and disease"
2nd of April
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.univ. Helmut Popper
Institut für Pathologie
Auenbruggerplatz 25
8036 Graz, Austria
Talk: “Classification of pulmonary carcinomas and first steps into a genotypic
phenotypic correlation”
1st of March
Prof. Erwin F. Wagner
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas
(Spanish National Cancer Research Centre)
C/ Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3,
28029 Madrid, Spain
Talk: “Signaling up- and downstream of AP-1 (Fos/Jun) in Inflammation and Cancer”
15th of February
Gertraud Robinson, PhD.
Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology
NIDDK, NIH
8 Center Drive, Room 101
Bethesda, MD 20892-0822, USA
Talk: “Requirements for STAT5 in mammary gland development"