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LSS2022 SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM 2022
Date | September 7, 2022 - September 9, 2022 |
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Website | https://lss2022.epfl.ch/ |
Organizers | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Venue | EPFL Rolex Learning Center |
Location |
Rte Cantonale
Lausanne, 1015 Switzerland + Google Map |
We will celebrate our 20 years of existence. The Symposium will honor life sciences in the context of a technical university; reflect on the key developments in the last 20 years in life sciences; and look out to the next two decades of opportunities of multidisciplinary life sciences, bioengineering and the impact of our work on society.
Session 1 | Cell biology and mechanics
- Buzz Baum – Evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes
- Julie Theriot – Mechanics of cell migration
- Sophie Martin – Mechanisms of cell-cell fusion
- David van Valen – Everything as code
Session 2 | Stem cells and cancer genomics
- Fiona Doetsch – Stem cells in the adult brain: Regulation and diversity
- Michelle Monje – Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: From cognition to cancer
- Mike Stratton – Mutational processes in normal human tissue
Session 3 | Organisms navigating a changing environment
- Moi Expósito-Alonso – The genomics of climate adaptation (and extinction)
- Leslie Vosshall – Neurobiology of the world’s most dangerous animal
- Manu Prakash
- Ken Oye – Governing risks and benefits of biotechnology: Exemplary cases and cautionary tales
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Session 4 | From the origin of animals to brain function
- Nicole King – A history of hypotheses on the origin of animals
- Caroline Uhler – Causality, perturbations, gene regulation, and drug repurposing
- Rafael Yuste – Can you see a thought? Neuronal ensembles as emergent units of cortical function
Session 5 | Deciphering sub-cellular assemblies
- Tony Hyman – Biomolecular condensates and their implications for cell physiology (remote tbc)
- Gaia Pigino – Structural cell biology of cilia and eukaryotic flagella
- Ron Vale – Structure of the sperm axoneme
- Melina Schuh – Illuminating the beginning of life (remote)
Session 6 | Embryogenesis and animal evolution
- Barbara Treutlein – Human organoid development through the lens of single-cell technologies
- Pavel Tomancak – Evolution of morphogenesis
- Sean Carroll – Butterfly Spots and Rattlesnake Tales: The Evolution of Novelty
Session 7 | Immunity and microbiota
- Lluis Quintana-Murci – Darwin meets Pasteur: evolutionary genetics dissection of human immunity
- Joel Doré – Host-Microbes symbiosis in human nutrition and medicine
- Eran Elinav – Host microbiome interactions in health and disease
Session 8 | Engineering biological systems
- Ed Boyden – Optical tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems
- Cori Bargmann – Integrating behavior across timescales (remote)
- Michael Elowitz – Multicellular circuit design: natural and synthetic