Keynotes
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Oliver Hobert
Oliver Hobert obtained his diploma in biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 1992 and his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich in 1995. Fascinated by the experimental amenability of the model system Caenorhabditis elegans, Hobert joined Gary Ruvkun’s lab at Harvard Medical School for postdoctoral research. Studies on the function of several transcription factors allowed him to define his long-term research interest in how neurons in the nervous system are genetically programmed during development.
Dr. Tam Mignot
Tâm Mignot is a CNRS CR scientist at the Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée in Marseille, France. He received his Ph.D. from the Université Paris 7-Pasteur Institute in 2002 and his M.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Nice in 1998. His Ph.D. work focused on anthrax toxin regulation. He has been working on motility in Myxococcus xanthus since 2002, when he started his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined CNRS in Marseille in 2007and founded his own lab studying bacterial motility.
Prof. Greg Velicer
Gregory J. Velicer is a Professor in ETH Zürich. He obtained his PhD in 1997 from Michigan State University. He has worked at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen and at Indiana University Bloomington. His main focus is experimental evolution, pursuing a wide range of questions about the ecology and evolution of social behavior in the Myxobacteria, which exhibit some of the most sophisticated cooperative behaviors in the bacterial kingdom. He uses genomics and molecular biology to examine sequence variation among natural isolates, genetic and biochemical causes of social incompatibility among isolates and cheating, and anti-cheating behavioral strategies in Myxobacteria.