5th BIU Symposium May 15/16, 2017

Ulm University Life-Science-Building, N27 Meyerhofstraße Multimediaraum 2.059

13:00 – 13:30 Welcome

Prof. Dr. M. Weber, President, UUlm Prof. Dr. T. Wirth, Dean Medical Faculty, UUlm Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin, Speaker BIU, UUlm Dr. B. Sommer, CNS Diseases Research, BI (on behalf of Prof. Dr. E. Haaksma, Vice Speaker BIU, BI)

13:30 – 13:50 Key Note Prof. Dr. S. Speier, TU Dresden, BIU Advisory Board

13:30 – 15:30 Session I: CardioMetabolics Chairs: Prof. Dr. M. Wabitsch (UUlm) / Dr. H. Neubauer (BI)

14:10 – 14:30 Tailored approaches to generate beta cells from human pluripotent stem cells (C1) Prof. Dr. A. Kleger (UUlm)

14:30 – 14:50 Role of secreted factors for white and brown adipocyte differentiation (C5) Dr. D. Tews, Prof. Dr. P. Fischer-Posovszky (UUlm) / Dr. B. Hamilton (BI)

15:10 – 15:30 XenFish, a rapid screening platform to study intracellular signal transduction and cellular differentiation (C9) Dr. M. Philipp, Prof. Dr. M. Kühl (UUlm)

13:50 – 14:10 Key Note Prof. Dr. C. Wolfrum, ETH Zürich, BIU Advisory Board

14:50 – 15:10 Characterization of mechanisms involved in regeneration and re-differentiation processes of beta-cells in diabetes (C6) Dr. B. Baumann (UUlm)

May 15, 2017 13:00 – 17:15

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

16:05 – 16:25 P2X receptors in the lung epithelium: function and role in the pathogenesis of transport and secretory disorders (P1) Prof. Dr. M. Frick (UUlm) / Dr. J. Schymeinsky (BI)

16:25 – 16:45 Damage and regeneration of lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory lung diseases (P3)

Dr. O. Wittekindt (UUlm) / Dr. E. Wex (BI)

16:45 – 17:05 Virus-induced impairment of lung epithelia (P9) Dr. J. v. Einem, Dr. O. Wittekindt (UUlm) / Dr. E. Wex (BI)

18:30 Dinner Advisory Board and Steering Committee

May 16, 2017 9:00 – 13:00

9:00 – 10:40 Session III: Neuropsychiatry Chairs: Prof. Dr. A. C. Ludolph (UUlm) / Dr. B. Sommer (BI)

09:00 – 09:20 Key Note Prof. Dr. H. Lerche, Tübingen University, BIU Advisory Board

09:20 – 09:40 Diagnostic role and predictive value of cyclic nucleotides in neuropsychiatric co-morbidities

of Alzheimer’s disease (N7) Prof. Dr. C. v. Arnim, Prof. Dr. H. Kestler (UUlm) / Dr. H. Rosenbrock (BI)

09:40 – 10:00 Analysis of neuronal circuit relevant for behavioral traits in Shank KO mouse models and

iPSCs derived neuronal cultures (N9) Prof. Dr. T. Böckers (UUlm) / Prof. Dr. B. Hengerer (BI)

10:00 – 10:20 Chemogenetic and molecular dissection of prefrontal signalling mechanisms underlying

impulsivity and attention (N10) Prof. Dr. D. Kätzel, Prof. Dr. B. Liss (UUlm) / Dr. A. Pekcec (BI)

10:20 – 10:40 Neurochemical approaches for diagnosis and follow-up of patients with depression (N11)

Prof. Dr. M. Otto et al. (UUlm) / Prof. Dr. B. Hengerer, Dr. C. Dorner-Ciossek (BI)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:05 Session II: Pulmonology Chairs: Prof. Dr. P. Dietl (UUlm) / Dr. B. Jung (BI)

15:45 – 16:05 Key Note Prof. Dr. C. Kähler, Innsbruck University, BIU Advisory Board

11:00 – 12:40 Session IV: Immunmodulation Chairs: Prof. Dr. H. Jumaa (UUlm) / Dr. S. Pflanz (BI)

11:00 – 11:20 Key Note Prof. Dr. C. Falk, MH Hannover, BIU Advisory Board

11:20 – 11:40 Key Note

Prof. Dr. M. Schmidt-Supprian, TU München, BIU Advisory Board 11:40 – 12:00 Function of Histon H2A Deubiquitinase 2A-DUB/Mysm1 in T-cell differentiation and

autoimmunity (I1) PD Dr. M. Gatzka (UUlm)

12:00 – 12:20 Influence of inflammation on the differentiation and function of MDSCs and T cell-

mediated immune responses (I2) Prof. Dr. G. Strauß, Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin (UUlm)

12:20 – 12:40 Induction and manipulation of therapeutic immune responses in murine pancreatic

cancer as platform to establish novel strategies to target PDAC (ITIP) (I3) Prof. Dr. M. Wagner et al. (UUlm) / Dr. J. Park (BI)

12:40 – 13:00 Concluding Remarks

Dr. B. Sommer, CNS Diseases Research, BI (on behalf of Prof. Dr. E. Haaksma, Vice Speaker BIU, BI) Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin, Speaker BIU, UUlm

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch, Foyer in N27

13:45 – 14:45 Internal Meeting Advisory Board / Steering Committee, Seminar room 4.050/52, N27