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Meeting, 2006

Dubrovnik, Croatia 15 - 17 June, 2006

 

 

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June 15, 2006
16:00  - 18:00 Registration and mounting of posters
18:00  - 18:15

Opening address:

Dragan Primorac, Minister of Science of Croatia
18:15  - 18:45 Frank Gannon: EMBO presentation
18:45  - 19:45

Keynote Lecture:

Kai Simons (Germany): Lipid rafts in membrane traffic and cell polarity
19:45 -  21:30 Reception and dinner

 

June 16, 2006
8:30 – 9:00 Sandor Damjanovich (Hungary): Molecular organization of the plasma membrane and transmembrane signaling
9:00 – 9:30 Slobodan Vukičević (Croatia): Bone morphogenetic proteins in development and regeneration of the skeleton
9:30 – 10:00 Vaclav Paces (Czech Republic): Origin of life on Earth
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10: 30 – 11:00 Andrzej Jerzmanowski (Poland): Role of chromatin in the control of plant development
11.00 – 11:30 Astrid Krmpotić (Croatia, HHMI International Scholar): Modulation of NK Cell Response by Mouse Cytomegalovirus
11:30 - 12:00 Miklos Nyitrai (Hungary, EMBO/HHMI Scientist): The Function of Formins in the Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton
12:00 - 12:30 Ivana Weygand-Đurašević (Croatia): Structural diversity of seryl-tRNA synthetases and the accuracy of protein synthesis
12:30 - 12:45 Gordan Lauc (Croatia): Glycobiology of stress
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Poster session
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 18:15 Funding Agency presentation: EMBO, HHMI, Wellcome Trust, EC
                    
Science funding in Croatia
Presentation of Croatian Science and Support System:

D. Vikić Topić:  Ministry of Sciences of Croatia

P. Lučin : The National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological development of Republic of Croatia
Representative of  the Croatian  Academy of Sciences 
Visit to Dubrovnik: free evening

 

June 17, 2006
8: 30 - 9:00 Jozef Nosek (Slovakia, HHMI International Scholar): Telomere replication mechanisms
9:00 - 9:30 Igor Weber (Croatia): Architecture and dynamics of the cell cortex
9: 30 - 9:45 Mihaly Kovacs (Hungary, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee): Load-dependent kinetics of non-muscle myosin II
9:45 - 10:00 Lumir Krejci (Czech Republic, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Marta Miaczynska (Poland, HHMI International Scholar): Compartmentalization within the endocytic pathway: the role of endosomes in signal transduction
11:00 - 11:15 Krisztina Kaldi  (Hungary, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee): Phosphorylation regulated transcriptional feedback of the Neurospora circadian clock
11:15 - 11:30 Silva Hećimović (Croatia): The role of cholesterol in Alzheimer's  disease: its effect on Abeta and AICD formation
11:30 - 11:45 Richard Stefl (Czech Republic, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee): "Lock and  key" recognition in the world of protein-RNA interactions
11:45 - 12:00 Mart Loog (Estonia, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee): How do different cyclins help Cdk1 to send different signals during the cell cycle?
12:00 – 12:15 Ervin Welker (Hungary, EMBO/HHMI Startup Grantee)
12:15 – 12:45 Zdena Palkova (Czech Republic, EMBO/HHMI Scientist): Defence strategies of multicellular yeast colonies
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch

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