ShanghaiTech BioForum 2019

 

2019   ShanghaiTech Bioforum Program

 

Conference - Updated Oct. 30, 2019

Nov. 10 (Sunday)

 

Registration

 

Time

Venue

Schedule

 

14:00-18:00

Conference Center

Registration for 2019 ShanghaiTech Bioforum

 


 

Nov. 11 (Monday)

 

 Opening Remarks & Keynote Lecture

 

Bioforum Opening Remarks - Chair: Ji-Long Liu

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

8:30-8:45

Conference Center

Yin Jie

Welcome and Opening remarks

 

  

Provost & VP of ShanghaiTech University

 

Bioforum Keynote   Lecture 1 - Chair: Ernesto Carafoli

 

8:45-9:30

Conference Center

Virginijus Siksnys

Keynote Lecture-- CRISPR-Cas: from bacterial immunity to genome editing and beyond

 

  

Vilnius University, Lithuania

 

9:30-10:00

  

Group Photo   & Coffee Break

 

Session 1:   Mitochondria in Health and Disease

 

Session Chairs: Tiffany Horng & Jia Liu

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

10:00-10:30

  

Luca Scorrano

Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and death

 

  

University of Padova, Italy

 

10:30-11:00

  

Douglas Wallace

A Mitochondrial Etiology of Common Complex Diseases

 

  

University of Pennsylvania, USA

 

11:00-11:30

Conference Center

Ying Liu

Epigenetic regulation of mitochondrial stress response

 

  

Peking University, China

 

11:30-12:00

  

Alexandra Trifunovic

Keeping Mitochondria in Shape

 

  

University of Cologne, Germany

 

12:00-13:30

  

Lunch Break

 

  

 

Session 2: Organellar Stress and Death

 

Session Chairs: Pengyu Huang & Min Zhuang

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

13:30-14:00

  

Yibin Kang

Therapeutic Disruption of a Cellular Anti-Stress Pathways to Suppress Cancer Progression   and Metastasis

 

  

Princeton University, USA

 

14:00-14:30

  

Ivan Dikic

ER-phagy: from molecular principles to pathogenesis of human diseases

 

  

Institute of   Biochemistry II - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

14:30-15:00

Conference Center

Ehud Cohen

Neuronal regulation of the proteostasis network’s response to toxic protein aggregates   in the aging brain

 

  

The Hebrew University, Israel

 

15:00-15:30

  

Coffee Break

 

15:30-16:00

  

Xuejun Jiang

Ferroptosis, mechanisms and role in disease

 

  

Sloan Kettering Institute, USA

 

16:00-16:30

  

Feroz R. Papa

Endoplasmic reticulum stress, premature cell degeneration, and therapeutic modulation of   the unfolded protein response

 

  

University of California, San Francisco, USA

 

16:30-17:00

  

Zeiss sponsored talk

 

17:00-18:00

  

Poster Session - odd number

 





 


 

Nov. 12 (Tuesday)

 

Session 3:   Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

 

Session Chairs: Fei Xu & Haitao Yang

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

8:30-9:00

  

Fengwei Yu

Mechanisms of Dendrite Pruning of Nociceptive Sensory Neurons in Drosophila.

 

  

TEMASEK Lifesciences Laboratory, Singapore

 

9:00-9:30

  

Yishi Jin

Context-dependent stress MAP Kinase signaling

 

  

University of California, San Diego, USA

 

9:30-10:00

  

Ting Xie

Stem Cell Development: Stories of Two Niches

 

  

Stowers Institute, USA

 

10:00-10:30

Conference Center

Coffee Break

 

10:30-11:00

  

Martin Friedlander

Serine and Lipid Metabolism Link Retinal/Macular Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy

 

  

The Scripps Research Institute, USA

 

11:00-11:30

  

Chun Han

The roles and mechanisms of phosphatidylserine exposure in neurodegeneration

 

  

Cornell University, USA

 

11:30-13:30

  

Lunch Break

 





 

Session 4: Immunity and Metabolism

 

Session Chairs: Haopeng Wang & Bei Yang

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

13:30-14:00

  

Kole Roybal

Engineering the Next-generation of Immune Cell Therapies for Disease

 

  

University of California, San Francisco, USA

 

14:00-14:30

  

Yongqiang Feng

Control of T cell fate determination in immune tolerance

 

Conference Center

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

 

14:30-15:00

  

Baoliang Song

Regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis in response to different stimulations

 

  

Wuhan University, China

 

15:00-15:30

  

Coffee Break

 

Sponsored Talks

 

Session Chairs: Gaofeng Fan, Yan Nie & Yao Peng

 

15:30-16:00

  

ThermoFisher sponsored talk
   Electron Microscopy solutions for Neuroscience Research - From cellular   ultrastructure imaging to large volume analysis

 

16:00-16:30

Conference Center

ThermoFisher sponsored talk-2

 

16:30-17:00

  

Bio-rad sponsored talk

 

17:00-18:00

  

Poster Session - even number

 





 

Nov. 13 (Wednesday)

 

Session 5: Dynamics and Patterning

 

Session Chairs: Hui Zhang & Guisheng Zhong

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

8:30-9:00

  

Lu Bai

Chemically Induced Chromosomal Interaction (CICI): A New Tool to Study Chromosome   Dynamics and Its Biological Roles

 

  

Penn State University, USA

 

9:00-9:30

  

Lin Mei

Maintenance of GABA activity by dynamic ErbB4 tyrosine kinase activity for cognitive   functions

 

  

Case Western Reserve University, USA

 

9:30-10:00

  

Xiajing Tong

Male Pheromone Regulates Hermaphrodite Neuromuscular Junction Excitability in C. elegans

 

  

ShanghaiTech University, China

 

10:00-10:30

Conference Center

Coffee Break

 

10:30-11:00

  

Bin Zhou

A dual-recombinase based genetic approach to deciphering cell fates in mammals

 

  

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, China

 

11:00-11:30

  

Chao Tang

Deciphering gene regulation from gene expression dynamics using deep neural network

 

  

Peking University, China

 

11:30-12:00

  

Suwen Zhao

Universal activation mechanism of Class A GPCRs

 

  

ShanghaiTech University, China

 

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

 

Bioforum Keynote Lecture 2 - Chair: Zhi-Jie Liu

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

13:30-14:15

  

Michael Levitt

Special Bioforum Lecture - A Wonderful Life in Science

 

Conference Center

ShanghaiTech University

 

  

Standford University

 

Student/Postdoc Flash Talks

 

Session Chairs: Jia Chen & Tian Hua

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

14:15-15:05

  

10 Talks
5 mins / speaker

 

Conference Center

 

15:05-15:35

  

Coffee Break

 

Sponsored Talk

 

Session Chair: Wei Qi

 

15:35-16:05

Conference Center

Amgen sponsored talk

 

19:00-21:00

Special musical   event by SCA
   Elegant Dialogue –Chamber Music Concert Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

 





 

Nov. 14 (Thursday)

 

Session 6: Cellular and Molecular Machineries

 

Session Chairs: Wei Shen & Tomoyasu Sugiyama

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

8:30-9:00

  

Li-Lin Du

The prevalence and principles of bypassable gene essentiality

 

  

NIBS, China

 

9:00-9:30

  

Ling-Ling Chen

Nascent RNA Sorting in the Nucleolus

 

Conference Center

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, China

 

9:30-10:00

  

Jian Zhao

GPCR/secretase complexes as novel targets against the Alzheimer’s disease

 

  

ShanghaiTech University, China

 

10:00-10:30

  

Coffee Break

 

Bioforum Keynote Lecture 3 - Chair: Ji-Long Liu

 

Time

Venue

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

 

10:30-11:15

  

Wenqing Xu

Structural and Mechanistic Dissection of Wnt Signaling

 

Conference Center

ShanghaiTech University, China

 

  

National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, China

 

Bioforum Keynote Poster Award - Chairs: Chao-Po Lin & Wenqing Shui

 

11:15-11:45

Poster Award Ceremony

 

Bioforum   Concluding Remarks & Farewell - Chair: Ernesto Carafoli

 

11:45-12:00

Concluding Remarks & Farewell