ICA-Symposium July 2013 Organized by ICA, supported by the Priority Program BioScience and Health, the Departments of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Organismic Biology of the University of Salzburg, and the EU-ITN NanoTOES 1 st - 2 nd of July 2013, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, Salzburg Opening: Monday 1 st of July, 9:00, Lecture Hall green (HS 403) 1 st of July 9:00 Welcome Josef Thalhamer (Speaker of ICA) Fatima Ferreira (Vice Rector of Research) Ulrike Berninger (Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences) 9:15-10:00 Plenary Talk Consciousness Josef Perner University of Salzburg Department of Psychology Chair: Hans Christian Bauer 10:00 10:15 Stefanie Korntner The impact of nutrition on tendon regeneration Supervision: Hans Christian Bauer (PMU) and Alois Lametschwandtner (Dept. Cell Biology) 10:15 10:30 Peter Rotheneichner Cortical neuroplasticity chasing reporter cells in the cortex Supervision: Hans Christian Bauer, Ludwig Aigner and Sebastien Couillard-Despres (PMU) 10:30 10:45 Simona Lange The role of brain pericytes in remyelination Supervision: Hans Christian Bauer and Ludwig Aigner (PMU)
10:45 11:00 Sebastian Töpfer Plasticity of porcine cerebral capillary endothelial cells in vitro Supervision: Hannelore Bauer (Dept. Organismic Biology) 11:00 11:15 Jasmin Dadrass Novel polymorphisms and biomarkers associated with prostate cancer and study of the PCA3 gene promoter region Supervision: Hannes Oberkofler (SALK) and Barbara Krammer (Dept. Molecular Biology) 11:15 11:30 Coffee Break Chair: Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller 11:30 11:45 Felix Locker Influence of galanin receptor 3 on murine wound healing Supervision: Barbara Kofler (SALK) and Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller (Dept. Cell Biology) 11:45 12:00 Manuela Weber Spezialized ribosomes - is there a role in redox metabolism? Supervision: Johann Bauer (EB-House) and Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller (Dept. Cell Biology) 12:00-12:15 Susanne Brunner The role of galanin on pulmonary inflammation Supervision: Barbara Kofler (SALK) and Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller (Dept. Cell Biology) 12:15 12:30 Veronika Lang Membrane proteins and protein-protein interactions in lily pollen Supervision: Gerhard Obermeyer and Silja Weßler (Dept. Molecular Biology) 12:30 13:15 Plenary Talk From the big bang to allergens Heimo Breiteneder Department of Pathophysiologie and Allergy Research Medical University of Vienna 13:15 14:00 Lunch break Chair: Jutta Horejs-Höck 14:00 14:15 Harald Schwarz IL-31 and its effects on human DCs Supervision: Jutta Horejs-Höck and Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology)
14:15 14:30 Han Fang Human blood coagulation factor VIII expression and purification Supervision: Hans Brandstetter and Thomas Zögg (Dept. Molecular Biology) 14:30-14:45 Leon Pradel CSF-1R mediated effects on tumor cells and tumor-associated macrophages Supervision: Cornelia Hauser-Kronberger (SALK), Josef Thalhamer (Dept. Molecular Biology) and Carola Ries (Roche, Penzberg, Germany) 14:45 15:00 Andreas Koller The expression of the galanin system in peripheral blood mononuclear cells Supervision: Barbara Kofler (SALK) 15:00 15:15 Ines Forstenlehner Fast and robust direct infusion ESI-MS method for the characterization of PEGylated proteins Supervision: Christian Huber (Dept. Molecular Biology) 15:15 15:30 Coffee Break Chair: Gabriele Gadermaier 15:30 15:45 Markus Steiner The role of basophils in innate immunity Supervision: Martin Himly and Fatima Ferreira (Dept. Molecular Biology) 15:45 16:00 Heidi Hofer Treatment of birch pollen associated food allergy using the chimeric protein MBC4 Supervision: Fatima Ferreira and Michael Wallner (Dept. Molecular Biology) 16:00 16:15 Stephanie Eichhorn Plantago lanceolata, an undervalued weed in summer pollinosis? Supervision: Fatima Ferreira and Gabriele Gadermaier (Dept. Molecular Biology) 16:15 16:30 Josef Laimer Optimized computational approach for hypoallergen design Supervision: Peter Lackner and Stefan Wegenkittl (Dept. Molecular Biology) Chair: Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller 16.30 17:15 Plenary Talk Mitochondrial redox control and cellular metabolic homeostasis Jared Rutter University of Utah School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2 nd of July 9:00 Welcome: Josef Thalhamer 9:15 10:00 Plenary Talk "Helminth parasites, evolution and man: will a worm a day keep the doctor away?" Padraic G. Fallon School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Ireland Chair: Richard Weiss 10:00 10:15 Sergey Gusenkov Characterization of the nitrated major birch pollen allergen by CZE-ESI-µTOF MS Supervision: Hanno Stutz (Department of Molecular Biology) 10:15 10:30 Theresa Neuper Effects of NOD1 on IL-6 signaling Supervision: Albert Duschl and Jutta Horejs-Höck (Dept. Molecular Biology) 10:30 10:45 Yoan Machado Carbohydrate coupling of proteins implications on immune polarization and allergenicity Supervision: Josef Thalhamer and Richard Weiss (Dept. Molecular Biology) 10:45 11:00 Almedina Isakovic The natural immune response against the grass pollen allergen Phl p 5 in non-atopic humans Supervision: Richard Weiss and Josef Thalhamer (Dept. Molecular Biology) 11:00 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 11:30 Shihui Guo Structural and enzymatic studies of posttranslational modifications in Kallikrein-like Peptidases Supervision: Hans Brandstetter and Peter Göttig (Dept. Molecular Biology) 11:30 11:45 Martin Wolf Non-allergenic pectate lyases may help to identify allergy-promoting pattern on pectate lyase allergens Supervision: Fatima Ferreira and Michael Wallner (Dept. Molecular Biology)
Chair: Albert Duschl 11:45 12:00 Anna Huk (Norwegian Institute for Air research - NILU, Kjeller, Norway) Effect of surface coating, charge and size on the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of silver nanoparticles Supervision: Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology) and Maria Dusinska (NILU) 12:00-12:15 Emilia Izak (Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Wuppertal, Germany) Interaction of differently functionalized silica nanoparticles with neural stem- and tissue- type cells Supervision: Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology) and Matthias Voetz (Bayer) 12:15 12:30 Yang Li (Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche - CNR, Pisa, Italy) Assessing interference of nanoparticles with the inflammatory response by a novel in vitro model based on human primary monocytes Supervision: Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology) and Diana Boraschi (CNR) 12:30 12:45 Paul Schlinkert (University of Salzburg) Effect of nanoparticle surface charge on lung epithelial cells Supervision: Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology) 12:45 13:00 Syed Abdul Quadir Shah (Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology, St. Ingbert, Germany) Microchip based lensless imaging system for the investigation of NP-induced effects in vitro on chip level Supervision: Albert Duschl (Dept. Molecular Biology) and Hagen von Briesen (Fraunhofer Institute) 13:00 13:45 Lunch Break Chair: Stefan Dötterl 13:45 14:30 Plenary Talk Survival with volatiles: plants against herbivores Wilhelm Boland Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena, Germany Chair: Hans-Peter Comes 14:30 14:45 Alexander Gamisch Disentangling the relative roles of ecology and geography in Madagascan Bulbophyllum speciation over (Late) Quaternary time scales Supervision: Hans-Peter Comes (Dept. Organismic Biology) 14:45 15:00 Ursula Jaros Reproductive and population genetic consequences of remote island colonization and habitat fragmentation in Bulbophyllum sister taxa from Madagascar and La Réunion Supervision: Hans-Peter Comes (Dept. Organismic Biology)
15:00 15:15 Anne-Amelie Larue Bees choose benzenoids, flies prefer terpenoids: floral scent bouquets determine flower visitor composition Supervision: Robert Junker (Dept. Organismic Biology) 15:15 15:30 Coffee Break Chair: Stefan Dötterl 15:30 15:45 Jonas Kuppler Co-variation in functional plant traits - physiological constraints or adaptation to interaction partners? Supervision: Robert Junker (Dept. Organismic Biology) 15:45 16:00 Annemarie Heiduk Ceropegia: Deceptive pollination through chemical mimicry Supervision: Stefan Dötterl (Dept. Organismic Biology) 16:00 16:15 Hanno Müller Similar, but not identical - a project to investigate the significance of intraspecific variation for decomposition processes Supervision: Martin Zimmer (Dept. Organismic Biology) Chair: Raimund Tenhaken 16:15 16:30 Stefanie Düh Purification and characterisation of the Arabinokinase Supervision: Raimund Tenhaken and Birgit Simon-Nobbe (Dept. Cell Biology) 16:30 16:45 Roman Gangl A novel glucuronokinase from zebrafish (Danio rerio) Supervision: Raimund Tenhaken (Dept. Cell Biology) 16.45 17:00 Bettina Jansko Analysis of the arabinokinase mutant ara1-1 Supervision: Raimund Tenhaken and Mark Rinnerthaler (Dept. Cell Biology) 17:00 17:15 Margit Krenn Lysosomes play a key role in ferritin mediated apoptosis Supervision: Peter Eckl and Nikolaus Bresgen (Dept. Cell Biology)
Chair: Stephen Wickham 17:15 17:30 Harald Ficker Population modelling of alpine white fish Supervision: Josef Wanzenböck 17:30 17:45 Atef Omar Morphology and Ontogenesis of Microthoracid Ciliates Supervision: Willi Foissner 17:45 18:00 Florian Kunz Technical methodes to make cryopreserved fish semen usable in fish hatcheries Supervision: Franz Lahnsteiner End of the Symposium