Monday, 09 September 2019
16.45 – 18.00
EMBO Session
Welcome and Opening lecture
Offsite
18.00 – 19.30
EMBO Session
Welcome reception
Offsite
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
09.00 – 09.45
Joint Session
Keynote lecture 1: Kari Stefánsson
Montreal
10.00 – 11.45
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 1: Microbiome as a driver of health and disease
10.00
Title to be announced
Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL)
10.25
Title to be announced
Sonia Garel (PSL Research University, Paris, FR)
10.50
Title to be announced
Michael A. Fischbach (UCSF, San Francisco, US)
11.15
Title to be announced
Yasmine Belkaïd (Bethesda, US)
Montreal
11.45 – 13.15
Lunch break
13.15 – 15.00
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 2: The emergence of infectious diseases
13.15
Title to be announced
Marcel Salathé (EPFL, Geneve, CH)
13.40
Title to be announced
Marco Vignuzzi (Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR)
14.05
Title to be announced
Sharon Peacock (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK)
14.30
Title to be announced
Rino Rappuoli (GSK Vaccines, Siena, IT)
Montreal
15.30 – 16.30
Joint Session
EMBO & [BC]2 Flashtalks on the stage
Montreal
15.30 – 16.30
Joint Session
EMBO & [BC]2 Flashtalks on the stage
Singapore
15.30 – 16.30
Joint Session
EMBO & [BC]2 Flashtalks on the stage
Stage
16.30 – 17.30
Joint Session
Louis-Jeantet Prize lectures
Chair:
Paul Nurse (The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom)
16.30
Title to be announced
To be announced
17.00
Title to be announced
To be announced
Montreal
15.30 – 16.30
EMBO Session
Networking event & Poster session for EMBO and [BC]2 Presenters
Stage
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
09.00 – 09.45
Joint Session
Keynote lecture 2: Michal Schwartz
Montreal
10.00 – 11.45
EMBO Scientific Sessions
EMBO Plenary session 3: EMM lecture and awards
10.00
Title to be announced
Bart de Strooper (VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, Leuven, BE)
10.15
EMM 10th anniversary awards for posters and one speaker per topical session
Montreal
11.45 – 13.15
Lunch break
13.15 – 15.00
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 4:Chronic inflammation: The common denominator of post-modern pathologies
13.15
Title to be announced
13.40
Neuronal regulation of innate lymphoid cells
Henrique Veiga-Fernandes (Centro Champalimaud, Lisbon, PT)
14.05
Title to be announced
Erika Pearce (Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, DE)
14.30
Molecular pathways linking innate immunity, inflammation and cancer
Alberto Mantovani (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, IT)
Montreal
15.30 – 17.40
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 5: Regenerative medicine
15.30
Title to be announced
Alain Fischer (Institut Imagine, Paris, FR)
15.55
Human type I interferonopathies
Yanick J. Crow (MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, UK)
16.20
Title to be announced
Christine Petit (Pasteur, Paris, FR)
16.45
Title to be announced
Stefanie Dimmeler (Centre for Molecular Medicine, Frankfurt , DE)
17.10
Title to be announced
Gérard Karsenty (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, US)
Montreal
Thursday, 12 September 2019
09.00 – 10.15
EMBO Scientific Session
Plenary session 6 (Joint with [BC]2) Computational biology, artificial intelligence, machine learning in precision medicine
09.00
Title to be announced
Oliver Stegle (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
09.25
Title to be announced
09.50
Title to be announced
10.15
Title to be announced
Montreal
10.45 – 12.30
EMBO Scientific Session
Plenary session 7 (Joint with [BC]2) Genetic diseases: genome and epigenome
10.45
Title to be announced
Michele De Luca (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, IT)
11.10
Title to be announced
Rudolf Jaenisch (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, US)
11.35
Title to be announced
Anu Suomalainen (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI)
12.00
Title to be announced
Kristian Helin (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Montreal
13.45 – 15.30
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 8: Tissue regeneration, organoids without borders
13.45
Title to be announced
Sabine Werner (ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH)
14.10
Organoid development and intestinal regeneration
Prisca Liberali (Friedrich Miescher Institute for biomedical research, Basel, CH)
14.35
Title to be announced
Fiona M. Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, London, UK)
15.00
Title to be announced
Marc van de Wetering (Princess Máxima Center Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, NL)
Montreal
14.00 – 15.40
EMBO Scientific Session
EMBO Plenary session 8: Tissue regeneration, organoids without borders
14.00
Title to be announced
Sabine Werner (ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH)
14.25
Title to be announced
Prisca Liberali (Friedrich Miescher Institute for biomedical research, Basel, CH)
14.50
Title to be announced
Fiona M. Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, London, UK)
15.15
Title to be announced
Marc van de Wetering (Princess Máxima Center Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, NL)
Montreal