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Small Strokes

2023 PROGRAM

ALL TIMES are as in ZURICH (Central European Time)

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MON JAN 9:

Session 1

13:00 - 13:15  WELCOME

13:15 – 13:55 Keynote Address by Stephen Shears
      IP8 – where do the years go?
13:55 – 14:10 Shubhra Ganguli

      IP7- being RADical in DNA repair

14:10 – 14:25 Henning Jessen

      Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry in inositol phosphate research

14:25 – 14:40 Masatoshi Ito

      Inositol pyrophosphate profiling reveals regulatory roles of IP6K2-dependent enhanced IP7 metabolism in

      enteric nervous system

 

ELEVATOR TALKS

14:40 – 14:45 Sining He

      Inositol pyrophosphates and MitoROS generation

14:45 – 14:50 Medha Noopur

      Inositol polyphosphates at the intersection of a key plant immune regulatory network

14:50 – 14:55 Bianca Georgiana Axinte

      Interplay of inositol pyrophosphate pathway and iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis

14:55 – 15:00 Chris Barker

      MINPP1 compartmentalization separates inositol phosphate metabolism from inositol lipid signalling

15:00 – 15:05 Rashna Bhandari

      IP6K1 regulates secretion of digestive enzymes from gastric chief cells

 

BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

15:10 – 15:25 BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

To foster interactions that typically occur during in-person meetings, each participant will be directed to a breakout room with a small number of others.  Please introduce yourself and talk about what you are researching.  Engage and don't be shy... we are all a friendly bunch of people whether we are new in the field or experts.  

15:25 – 15:35 BREAK

 

Session 2 

15:35 – 16:00 Gaiti Hasan

      Regulation of store-operated Ca2+ entry by IP3 receptors independent of their ability to release Ca2+

16:00 – 16:25 Martina Ried

      Inositol pyrophosphates are potential regulators of plant root endosymbioses

16:25 – 16:40 Saikat Bhattacharjee

      Inositol polyphosphates regulate dynamics of COP9 signalosome activities on Cullin RING ligase functions

16:40 – 16:55 Mayara Bertolini

      Generation of inositol pyrophosphates is through a phospholipase C-independent pathway in Trypanosoma cruzi

16:55 – 17:10 Brian Suarez Mantilla

      Metabolism and use of inositol pyrophosphates in the human parasite Leishmania mexicana

 

BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

17:15 – 17:20  BREAK

17:20 – 17:45  BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

This is a time set aside so you can ask questions of any of the speaker, in particular from those who gave elevator talks where no time was given for questions.  

17:45  DAILY CLOSE


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TUE JAN 10:
Session 3

13:00 - 13:10 WELCOME

13:10 – 13:35 Desmarini Desmarini

      Creating a pan-fungal IP3-4 kinase inhibitor as a novel antifungal drug

13:35 – 14:00 Seyun Kim

      Recent discoveries on the role of IPMK in cell fate control

14:00 – 14:15 Abel R. Alcazar-Roman

      Regulation of the PPIP5K/Asp1 function in S. pombe

14:15 – 14:30 Jake Haubner

      Ube4a is a multi-modal regulator of IP6K1

14:30 – 14:45 Charles Brearley

      Application of chromatographically-resolved plasma mass spectrometry to inositol phosphate biology

14:45 – 15:00 Reed Wickner (*note schedule change)

      Inositol polyphosphates and yeast prions

 

BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

15:05 – 15:20  BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

To foster interactions that typically occur during in-person meetings, each participant will be directed to a breakout room with a small number of others.  Please introduce yourself and talk about what you are researching.  Engage and don't be shy... we are all a friendly bunch of people whether we are new in the field or experts.

15:20 – 15:30  BREAK

 

Session 4

15:30 – 15:55 Dorothea Fiedler

      Protein pyrophosphorylation mediated by inositol pyrophosphates

15:55 – 16:20 Sangwon Kim

      The role of IPMK on energy metabolism

16:20 – 16:45 Huanchen Wang (*note schedule change)

      Structural analysis of a giant virus IP kinase provides insights into the evolution of inositol pyrophosphate

      synthesis

16:45 – 17:10 Luo Hongbo (*note schedule change)

      The role of InsP7 and InsP6K1 in regulating neutrophil function

BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

17:15 – 17:20 BREAK

17:20 – 17:45 BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

This is a time set aside so you can ask questions of any of the speaker, in particular from those who gave elevator talks where no time was given for questions.  

17:45  DAILY CLOSE


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WED JAN 11:
Session 5

13:00 - 13:10 WELCOME

13:10 – 13:50 Plenary Talk by Michael Hothorn

      Inositol pyrophosphate nutrient messengers in plants

13:55 – 14:10 Ajay Kumar Pandey

      Exploring the role of inositol phosphates in crop plants

14:10 – 14:25 Nikolaus Jork

      New inositol pyrophosphate prometabolites for in vivo release

14:25 – 14:40 Miryam Andrea Hortua Triana

      The inositol phosphate pathway in Toxoplasma gondii

 

ELEVATOR TALKS

14:40 – 14:45 Minh Nguyen Trung

      Deciphering complex mixtures and pathways of inositol phosphates with 13C-labeling

14:45 – 14:50 Verena Eisenbeis

      Mammalian inositol pyrophosphate signalling caused by reactive oxygen species

14:50 – 14:55 Lucia Rameh Plant

      The impact of excess glucose on mTORC1 signaling and inositol phosphate metabolism

14:55 – 15:00 Lauren Bednor

      Genetic screen for suppressors of IP8 toxicity

15:00 – 15:05 Ronda Rolfes

      Oca1 and Oca2 are pseudophosphatases that enhance activity from Siw14

15:05 – 15:10 Gabriel Schaaf

      News on plant inositol pyrophosphate phosphohydrolases

 

BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

15:15 – 15:30 BREAKOUT: Get to Know Each Other

To foster interactions that typically occur during in-person meetings, each participant will be directed to a breakout room with a small number of others.  Please introduce yourself and talk about what you are researching.  Engage and don't be shy... we are all a friendly bunch of people whether we are new in the field or experts.

15:30 – 15:40 BREAK

 

Session 6

15:40 – 16:05 Feng Rao

      Stimuli sensing by mammalian IP6Ks

16:05 – 16:30 Stewart Shuman

      Structure and substrate specificity of fission yeast IPP kinase Asp1

16:30 – 16:45 Bessie Su (*note schedule change)

      Investigating the export pathway of inositol

BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

16:45 – 16:50 BREAK

16:50 – 17:10 BREAKOUT: Meet the Speakers

This is a time set aside so you can ask questions of any of the speaker, in particular from those who gave elevator talks where no time was given for questions.  

 

DISCUSSION PANELS

17:10 – 17:30 DISCUSSION PANEL ON NOMENCLATURE

      with Dorothea Fiedler, Henning Jessen & Adolfo Saiardi

17:30 – 17:45 CONCLUDING SESSION AND MEETING REVIEW

17:45 MEETING CLOSE

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