DBMR Research Conference

Reseach Conference
Overview of the Program  
04.12.2023

Speaker: The Johanna Dürmüller - Bol DBMR Research Award 2022's Winner - Emma Britt Hodcroft, Ph.D., Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern

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06.11.2023 Speaker: Prof. Jacco van Rheenen, PhD, Group Leader Intravital Cancer Imaging, Intravital Microscopy, Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute
Title: Filming the fate of cells that carry mutations in oncogenic driver genes
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02.10.2023 Speaker: Prof. Maria Luz Martinez Chantar, PhD, Professor University of Deusto, School of Medicine, CIC bioGUNE, CIBERehd – Spanish Carlos III Health Institute (ES)

Title: Searching for New Mechanisms of Liver Disease with Therapeutic Potential. Is Magnesium a New Hepatic Player?

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31.08.2023 Speaker: Prof. Anna Cereseto, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology - CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Title: Expanding the CRISPR Technologies for efficient and precise Genome editing

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05.06.2023 Speaker: Jerome Guicheux, PhD, Director, the Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton Research Centre, INSERM UMR 1229-RMeS, Nantes (FR)

Title: 4R medicine for diseased joints: Replace, Repair, Regenerate & Reprogram

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01.05.2023 Speaker: The Johanna Dürmüller - Bol DBMR Research Award 2021's Winner 

Dr. med. Dr. sc. nat. Joel Zindel, Systems Biomedicine of Cellular Development and Signaling in Health and Disease, Deparment for BioMedical Research, University of Bern

Title: Immune-Mediated Mesothelial Cell Recruitment in Serosal Repair

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03.04.2023 Speaker: Prof. Chantal Pauli, MD, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University of Zurich (CH)

Title:Patient – derived Ex Vivo Models for Functional Tumor Profiling

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06.03.2023 Speaker: Prof. Mauricio Rojas, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University (USA)

Title: Making sense of senescence in aging

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06.02.2023 Speaker: Prof. François R. Jornayvaz, MD, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Therapeutic Patient Education, Geneva University Hospital (CH)

Title: NAFLD and insulin resistance: from bench to bedside

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31.10.2022 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ron M.A. Heeren, The Maastricht MultiModal, Molecular Imaging Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Title: Translational molecular imaging: Using a mass spectrometer as a microscope.

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13.10.2022 Speaker: Ass. Prof. Rahul N Kanadia, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut (USA)

Title: Evolution of minor introns and their role in development, disease, and therapeutics

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05.09.2022 Speaker: Prof. Alexandre Reymond, PhD, Director Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH

Title: Blurring the boundaries of common and rare diseases

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30.06.2022 Speaker: Dr. Axel Visel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint Genome Institute, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced US

Title: Epigenomic Strategies for Discovery and Characterization of Enhancers in Human Disease

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07.03.2022 Speaker: Prof. Martin J. Stoddart, PhD, FRSB AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), Davos, CH

Title: Mechanical regulation of MSC chondrogenesis. Can we repurpose rehabilitation?

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07.02.2022 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hugues Abriel, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern

Title: Genes coding for ion channels and ion channels to sequence genes: Experience in two African medical genetics laboratories

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 06.12.2021 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anna Köttgen, Institut für Genetische Epidemiologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, DE

Title: Understanding Kidney Function through Population-based Genetic Studies

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 04.10.2021 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anna Greka, Center for Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental Therapeutics, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, USA

Title: The arc of discovery: from genes to mechanisms to therapies for kidney diseases and beyond

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 06.09.2021 Prof. Michal Schwartz, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISR

Title: A novel approach to defeat Alzheimer’s disease: Empowering the immune system to mobilize monocyte-derived macrophages

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 07.06.2021 Prof. Dr. Larry J. Suva, Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, Galveston, USA

Title: Large animals in biomedical research: CRISPR, bisphosphonates and beyond

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 03.05.2021 Prof. Robert Bristow, University of Manchester, UK

Title: The Effect of Hypoxia on the Genomic Architecture of Human Tumours

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 12.04.2021 Prof. Dr. Oliver Söhnlein, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) München, DE

Title: Neutrophils in chronic inflammation - from physiology to therapeutic intervention

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 01.03.2021 Prof. Dr. Wilhelm E. Jahnen-Dechent, Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, DE

Title: Mud in the blood: The role of fetuin-A protein-mineral complexes in mineral metabolism

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 01.02.2021 Speaker: Dr. Paul Krimpenfort, Division of Molecular Genetics, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NL

Title: Animal Model Generation Facility at The Netherlands Cancer Institute 

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 07.12.2020 Prof. Dr. Alexander Bartelt, Klinikum der Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, DE

Title: Neither fat, nor flesh - how brown adipocytes control metabolic health

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 05.10.2020 Dr. Marko Nikolic, Division of Medicine, Rayne Institute, University College London, London, UK

Title: Building the lung: progress and challenges in human lung development and its relevance to patients

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 07.09.2020 Prof. Dr. Catherine Verfaillie, Head of Stem Cell Institute Leuven (SCIL), KU Leuven, BE

Title: Multi-engineering to create multicellular liver mimics from PSCs to model liver disease and liver toxicity

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 10.02.2020  Prof. Yonglun Luo, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK

Title: Single-cell transcriptome profiling of endothelial cells

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