Day 1
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
12:00 Admission, registration & light meal
Opening
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Thomas Eschenhagen, Chairman of the DZHK, Hamburg | |
| 13:10 - 13:30 | Veronika von Messling, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin |
1st Session: Science admin, regulatory, industry
Chair: Shirin Doroudgar (Heidelberg) | Stefan Kääb (Munich)
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Pierluigi Nicotera, Bonn | Memory Computing and possible advances for translational research |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Terri Gaskell, London | Promoting translation in biomedicine - the UK Catapult |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gary Gintant, North Chicago | The value of human stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes in preclinical drug safety assessments |
15:00 -16:00: Coffee break & 1st parallel poster session (starts 15:10, No. 1-7 / No. 8-15)
2nd Session: New technologies
Chair: Tanja Zeller (Hamburg) | Ulf Landmesser (Berlin)
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Thorsten Stafforst, Tübingen | Gene editing – more than CRISPR |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Holger Stark, Göttingen | High-resolution structure determination of large and dynamic macromolecular complexes |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Benjamin Prosser, Philadelphia | Microtubule mechanics in beating cardiomyocytes |
17:45 | Bus departure to dinner venue
18:30 | Conference Dinner
We very much regret that Uguhr Sahin's dinner speech had to be cancelled.