Phd student day, 17 mai 2023 - exposés & posters

10:00 – 11:10 Oral presentations - Chairpersons: Raphaële Bombart

10:00 Welcome Speech – Prof. Christophe Pierreux

10:10 What is going on with blood vessels during pancreatitis? (Elias Aajja)

10:25 Novel combination therapies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (Margaux Wulleman)

10:40 Identification of co-activator(s) of TGF-ß1 at the surface of activated Tregs (Mathieu Jamez)

10:55 Miltenyi (Platinum sponsor)

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break & Chat with Sponsors

11:40 -­ 12:40 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: Christophe Vanderaa

11:40 Transcriptional overlap links DNA hypomethylation with DNA hypermethylation at adjacent promoters in cancer (Jean Fain)

11:55 Proximity labelling assay reveals the interplay between key processes during the attack of the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (Ophélie Remy) - elected best oral presentation

12:10 Structural basis of oncogenesis by mutants of calreticulin (Nicolas Papadopoulos)

12:25 ThermoFisher Scientific (Platinum sponsor)

12:40 – 13:40 Lunch Break & Chat with Sponsors

13:40 – 14:40 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: Pierre Van Meerbeeck

13:40 Genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis (Pierre Maus)

13:55 Impact of the phosphorylation of single stranded RNA viruses RNA-dependent RNA polymerases on viral replication (Camille Duflos)

14:10 The journey of lipoproteins through the LolCDE complex (Alexandre Thurman)

14:25 Bio-Techne (Platinum sponsor)

14:40 – 15:40 Poster Session & Chat with Sponsors

15:45 – 16:30 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: Francesco Caligiore

15:45 Understanding and targeting aspartate metabolism in the leukemic niche (Hernan Andres Tirado Cardenas)

16:00 Identification of pancreatic cell types in the origin of human pancreatic cancer (Memoona Rajput Bhatti)

16:15 Functional testing of candidate genes for Familial Hodgkin Lymphoma (Hiba Maalouf)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break & Vote for Best Presentation/Poster

17:00 – 17:30 Awards & Concluding remarks

17:30 – 18:30 Closing drink

Organizing Committee: Elias Aajja, Lucas Potier, Pierre-Hubert Desimpel, Joanne Péters

A Special THANK YOU to our SPONSORS