Sessions and Topics 2022
Day 1: Homeostasis vs pathology
Day 2: From cells to organisms
Day 3: Biology's playground
Session I: Homeostasis disturbance
Cancer biology
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: cancer / tumor markers / disease / tumor / oncogene / therapy / human genetic disease / mouse model / tumor suppressor / human genetics / drug / gene therapy / cancer genetics & genomics / cancer immunology / medicine / disorder / metastasis / molecular medicine
Other Diseases of the human body
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Organ diseases (heart, kidney, skin …) / system pathologies (neurological, immune, hematological..) / muscle diseases / degenerative diseases
Immune response
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Immunity / immunology / lymphocyte / T lymphocyte / inflammation / antigen / innate immunity / major histocompatibility complex (MHC) / antibody / antigen processing & presentation / dendritic cell / lymphocyte development & differentiation / immunoglobulin / immune response / B lymphocyte / immunodeficiency / immunological memory / macrophage / mucosal immunity / immune evasion
Session II: Immune responses : fighting impostors among us
Vaccines and therapeutics
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Immunotherapy / CAR-T / reverse genetics / reverse vaccinology / surface antigen presentation / live-vector vaccines / recombinant subunit vaccines / systems vaccinology
Autoimmune Diseases
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: autoimmunity / immunodeficiency / inflammation / self-tolerance / immune signaling / neuro-endocrine immune system
Immune response
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Immunity / immunology / lymphocyte / T lymphocyte / inflammation / antigen / innate immunity / major histocompatibility complex (MHC) / antibody / antigen processing & presentation / dendritic cell / lymphocyte development & differentiation / immunoglobulin / immune response / B lymphocyte / immunodeficiency / immunological memory / macrophage / mucosal immunity / immune evasion
Session III: Me and my pathogen
Microbiology, Virology & Pathogens
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Virus / bacterial / microbiology / microorganism / bacteria / bacteriophage / HIV / invasion / bacterial pathogen / prokaryote / virus & host cell / toxin / antiviral / infection / retrovirus / antibiotics / parasite / plasmid / symbiosis / virus assembly & structure / protozoa / archaea
Infection biology/Host-pathogen interaction
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: Infection / Salmonella / Streptococcus / Phospholipids / LPS / outer membrane vesicles / bacterial envelope / Phagocytosis / Plasminogen / M-protein / enolase / SCM / antibiotics / resistance mechanisms / pathogens / horizontal gene transfer / evolution of pathogens / superbugs / virulence factors
Session IV: Early and late hindrance
Neuroscience
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: neur(on)al development / cognition / neurobiology / neurodegeneration / neural / synapse / brain / neuronal / nerve / nervous system / central nervous system / behavior / memory & learning / neuronal circuit / axon / Alzheimer’s disease / neuron / visual system / neuronal disease / axon guidance / cortex / neurotransmitter / glia / optogenetics
Development
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: development / stem cell / embryo / age / morphogenesis / pattern formation / regeneration / fate / organogenesis / embryogenesis / gametogenesis / growth control / myogenesis / embryonic stem cell / limb / pluripotency / appendage / reproduction / segmentation / adult stem cell / germline / morphogen / oocyte / sex / self-renewal
Physiology
Ageing
Session V: Cellular logistics: from the warehouse to the assembly line
RNA biology
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: RNA / pre-mRNA splicing / microRNA / RNAi & RNA silencing / non-coding RNA / RNA stability & degradation / RNA processing / editing / epigenetic regulation / RNA binding proteins / RNA polymerase / RNA modification / tRNA / alternative splicing / RNA localization & transport / RNA structure, folding, catalysis / siRNA
Cell Cycle
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: cell division / cell cycle control / mitosis / cell cycle checkpoints / chromosome cycle / meiosis / proliferation / centrosome / spindle / CDK / centromere / cyclin-dependent kinase / cytokinesis / kinetochore / cyclin
Cell & Tissue Architecture
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: cytoskeleton / cell motility / cell polarity / microtubule / migration / cell architecture / actin / epithelial / cell adhesion / axon / motility / tissue / asymmetry / spindle / angiogenesis / axon guidance / vascular system / asymmetric cell division / cell & tissue polarity / endothelial / extracellular matrix
Cellular Metabolism
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: metabolism / stress / lipid / carbohydrate / energy / homeostasis / bioenergetics / oxidative / redox / electron transfer / oxygen / cell respiration / nutrient
Membranes & Transport
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: membrane / transport / trafficking / mitochondrion / protein sorting & targeting / membrane traffic / synapse / nuclear organization / endocytosis / membrane protein / secretion / intracellular transport / cell adhesion / channels / membrane dynamics / endoplasmic reticulum (ER) / translocation / autophagy / ion channel / nuclear transport
Signal Transduction
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: signal transduction / receptor / kinase / growth factor / hormone / cytokine / GTP-binding protein / cell signaling / sensory / circadian rhythm / G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) / tyrosine kinase / chemosensation / neurotransmitter / receptor tyrosine kinase / insulin / interferon / olfactory / chemokine / chemotaxis / lipid-mediated signaling
Differentiation & Death
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: stem cell / differentiation / cell death / apoptosis / age / growth factor / cell fate / haematopoiesis / reprogramming / death / fate / senescence / growth control / embryonic stem cell / pluripotency / cell growth / lineage / adult stem cell / cell morphogenesis / iPS cells
Session VI: Creating is understanding
Synthetic Biology
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: cell-free systems / xenobiology / biobricks / biosensors / metabolic engineering / synthetic virology / synthetic morphology / synthetic pathways / chassis construction / retrosynthesis / bioengineering / directed evolution / genome engineering/ synthetic DNA / cell factories / designed proteins / designed nucleic acid systems / biological machines / synthetic life / bacteria based platforms / cell based platforms / bioreactors / in-vitro models
Systems biology
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: systems biology / network / engineering / proteomics / modeling & simulation / computational biology / expression profiling / bioinformatics / transcriptome / regulatory networks / self-organization / quantitative / epigenomics / modeling & simulation / information processing / mathematical modeling / metagenomics
Chemical Biology
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: small molecules / conjugates / peptides / activity-based probes / target labeling / target identification / click-chemistry / chemical proteomics / synthesis / phenotypic screening / drug design / medicinal chemistry
Structural Biology & Biophysics
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: structure / X-ray crystallography / microscopy / protein structure / modeling / structural biology / imaging / electron microscopy / biophysics / NMR / protein engineering / fluorescence / live imaging / single molecule techniques / cryo-electron microscopy / spectrometry / mass spectrometry / AFM
Session VII: The micro-picture
Evolution & Epidemiology of Microbes
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: genome variability & evolution / genetics & evolution / molecular evolution / population / variation / evolution of development / selection / symbiosis / environmental / diversity / ecology / microbiota / phylogeny / adaptation / biodiversity / speciation / ocean / origin of life / barcoding / directed evolution / field ecology
Genome Stability & regulation
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: transcription / chromatin / epigenetics / gene regulation / chromosome / DNA repair / DNA replication / recombination / genome (in)stability / chromosome cycle / DNA damage / telomere / genome variability & evolution / segregation / transgenic / mutagenesis / DNA recombination / chromosome structure / mutation / gene targeting / genomic imprinting / plasmid / transposable element / DNA restriction-modification / telomerase / X chromosome / aneuploidy
Omics of microbes
TYPICAL KEYWORD TERMS: genetics / evolution / genome / molecular evolution / proteomics / sequence analysis / genome variability & evolution / functional genomics / comparative genomics / expression profiling / transcriptomics