Program

Keynote lecture 40+10 min

Invited lecture 20+5 min

Selected talk 15+5 min

 

Registration starting after 4 pm

17:40 Opening by the organizers  & Practical

              Chair: Vítězslav Bryja

18:00 – 19:00 Keynote lecture I: Hans Clevers “Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and organoids”

19:00 – 20:30 - 30 second poster presentations

from 20:45  late Welcome reception

            Chair: Bon-Kyoung Koo

9:00 – 9:50 Keynote lecture II: Elaine Fuchs "WNT signaling and Stem Cells in the Skin"

9:50 – 10:15 Feng Cong “Control of Wnt receptor turnover and identification of Wnt-dependent tumors”

10:15 – 10:35 Pantelis Hatzis “The role of the long non-coding RNA WiNTRLINC1 in intestinal homeostasis and carcinogenesis”

10:35 – 10:55 Tobias Madl “Molecular Mechanisms of β-catenin - mediated FOXO4 Transcription Factor Activation and Switching"

 

10:55 – 11:35 Coffee Break

 

              Chair: Madelon Maurice

11:35 – 12:00 Elisabeth Vincan “Fzd7 functions as a stem cell Wnt receptor in the gastrointestinal epithelium”

12:00 – 12:30 Vítězslav Bryja: “Casein kinase 1 epsilon-Dishevelled axis: Mechanisms and treatment opportunities”

12:30 – 12:50 Karl Willert “Regulation of Wnt signaling in human pluripotent stem cells”

 

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

 

             Chair: Gunnar Schulte

14:30 – 14:55 Mariann Bienz “Signalosome assembly by Dvl"

14:55 – 15:15 Zachary DeBruine “Structural Insights into Frizzled Receptor Activation by Wnt Ligands”

15:15 – 15:40 Rami Hannoush “Challenges and emerging approaches for targeting protein interfaces in Wnt signaling”

15:40 – 16:00 Sebastian Guettler “Scaffolding functions of Tankyrase in Wnt-β-catenin signaling”

 

16:00 – 16:50 Coffee Break

 

             Chair: Stephane Angers

16:50 – 17:10 Gunnar Schulte “Novel insights in dynamics of class frizzled receptors”

17:10 – 17:30 Gary Davidson “Novel fluorescence microscopy techniques for the analysis of Wnt ligand-receptor interactions”

17:30 – 17:50 Harald Junge “TSPAN12 Amplifies Frizzled4 Ligand Selectivity and Signaling”

17:50 – 18:10 Hyeyoon Lee “Selective activation of Canonical Wnt signaling over Non-canonical Wnt signaling by Cholesterol binding of Dvl”

 

18:10 – 21:30 Poster session I - no. 1-75

Beer & wine – finger foods

            Chair: Rik Korswagen

9:00 – 9:50 Keynote lecture III: Akira Kikuchi “Epithelial morphogenesis regulated by Wnt signaling and implications in tumorigenesis due to its abnormality”

9:50 – 10:10 Henry Ho “The kinesin superfamily protein Kif26b links Wnt5a-Ror signaling to the control of morphogenetic cell and tissue behaviors”

10:10 –10:30 Bon-Kyoung Koo “Rapid, one-step generation of biallelic conditional gene knockouts”

 

10:30 – 11:20 Coffee Break

 

             Chair: Vladimír Kořínek

11:20 – 11:45 Konrad Basler “Mechanisms of the Wingless pathway applied to mouse Wnt signaling”

11:45 – 12:05 Babita Madan “Regulation of Wnt signaling by reversible ubiouitylation”

12:05 – 12:25 Julia Christina Gross “Wnt3A induces cancer cell migration via autocrine Wnt5A secretion”

12:25 – 12:45 Ronen Siman-Tov “Wnt Signaling in Red Blood Cells”

 

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

 

             Chair: Konrad Basler

14:30 – 14:55 Rik Korswagen "C. elegans neuroblasts switch from non-canonical to canonical Wnt signaling to terminate their migration”

14:55 – 15:15 Anoeska van de Moosdijk “Spatio-temporal quantification of Wnt signalling at physiological levels”

15:15 – 15:40 Christof Niehrs “The Role of Wnt/STOP signaling”

15:40 – 16:00 Nicholas Tolwinski “An optogenetic approach to studying Wnt signaling in living embryos”

 

16:00 – 16:40 Coffee Break

 

             Chair: Mariann Bienz

16:40 – 17:05 Stefano Piccolo “YAP/TAZ as mediators of Wnt signaling”

17:05 – 17:25 Zachary Steinhart “A CRISPR screen reveals WNT7B-FZD5 signaling as a therapeutic opportunity in pancreatic cancer”

17:25 – 17:45 Madelon Maurice “Alternative polyadenylation of APC mediates formation of a short N-terminal isoform that prevents ß-catenin turnover”

17:45 – 18:05 Steffen Scholpp “Filopodia-based Wnt transport in vertebrates”

 

18:05 – 21:30 Poster session II - no. 76-150

Conference dinner

          Chair: Ernest Arenas

9:00 -9:50 Keynote lecture IV: Marek Mlodzik “WntFrizzled/ Planar Cell Polarity signaling: a macro and microscopic view”

9:50 – 9:15 Patricia Salinas "Deficiency in Wnt signalling triggers synapse degeneration: a role in Alzheimer's Disease"

9:15 – 9:35 Tohru Ishitani “Apoptotic elimination of cells lacking the harmony of Wnt/β-catenin signaling”

 

10:35 – 11:20 Coffee Break

 

             Chair: Akira Kikuchi

11:20 – 11:40 Alexandra Schambony “The phosphatase PGAM5 antagonizes Wnt/beta-Catenin signaling in embryonic anterior-posterior axis patterning”

11:40 – 12:05 David Virshup “Upstream regulation of Wnt signaling”

12:05 – 12:25 Hidenori Hirai “Crystal structure of human Afamin, a serum glycoprotein that solubilize lipidated Wnt proteins”

12:25 – 12:50 Jean Paul Vincent "Modulation of Wnt signalling by sub cellular trafficking"

 

13:00 – 14:40 Lunch

 

             Chair: Christof Niehrs

14:40 – 15:05 Marianne Waterman  " Wnt and Warburg Metabolism in Stem Cells and Cancer"

15:05 – 15:25 Shinji Takada “Analytical Ultracentrifugation revealed novel Wnt complexes in extracellular space”

15:25 – 15:50 Mayumi Ito  “Regulation of Melanocyte stem cells by Wnt signaling”

15:50 – 16:10 Yvonne Jones “Kremen1 Structure and Interactions with LRP6 and Dickkopf”

 

16:10 – 16:55 Coffee Break

 

              Chair: Vítězslav Bryja

16:55 – 17:20 Ernest Arenas “Improving the dopaminergic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells using single-cell RNA-sequencing and Wnts”

 17:20 – 18:00 scientific closing of the meeting

 

from 18:00 Wine cellar trip to Prušánky with dinner