Wednesday, February 20

11:00 - 13:00

Registration

Albert Long Hall
Poster Room

9.00 - 12.30

Organized tour of “Old İstanbul” for speakers

Departure from Ortakoy Princess Hotel

13.15 – 14.15 

Keynote Address

Professor Hermann Bujard
(EMBO Executive Director)

Albert Long Hall

14.15 – 15.15 

EMBO, TUBA and TUBITAK
Presentations on Grants, Fellowships and Activities

Albert Long Hall

15.15 – 15.45 

Tea-Coffee Break

Albert Long Hall
Poster Room

15.45 – 18.00 

Immunology Session

Nesrin Ozoren, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Innate immunity – First line of defense against pathogens

Antonella Viola, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy
T-cell activation

Bruno Silva Santos, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
Immunotherapy in cancer

Albert Long Hall

18.00 – 11.00 

 Gala Dinner Party on Bosphorus
(By invitation)

Keyif Yacht

Thursday, February 21

9.00 – 10.30

Signal Transduction Session

Devrim Gozuacik, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Autophagy in health and disease

Michael Boutros, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Dissecting signaling pathways by genome-wide RNAi  

Albert Long Hall

10.30-11.00

Tea-Coffee Break

Albert Long Hall
Poster Room

11.00-12.30

Genome Stability Session

Ahmet Koc, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey.
Role of antioxidant genes in preventing cellular ageing

Karim Labib, Cancer Research UK, Manchester, UK.
Preserving genome stability during the proliferation of eukaryotic cells  

Albert Long Hall

12.30-13.30 

 Discussion with students over lunch

Kennedy Lounge

13.30-15.00 

 Neurobiology / Developmental Biology Session-I

Arzu Celik, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Patterning the retina for color vision

Buzz Baum, University College of London, London, UK.
The generation of biological form

Albert Long Hall

15.00-16.30

Poster Session and Tea-Coffee Break

Albert Long Hall
Poster Room

16.30-18.00 

 Genomics / Protein Structure Session

Ozlem Keskin, Koc University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Protein-protein interactions: Unifying evolution and structure.

Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Looking through plant genomics

Albert Long Hall

18.00 

 Dinner

Galata Historic Tower Restaurant

 Friday, February 22

9.00 – 10.30

Neurobiology / Developmental Biology Session-II

Bassem Hassan, VIB – Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.
Proneural genes in development and cancer

Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease

Albert Long Hall

10.30-11.00

Tea-Coffee Break

Albert Long Hall
Poster Room

11.00-12.30

Transcription / Translation Session

Uygar Tazebay, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Transcriptional regulation of the Na+/I- symporter gene in the mammary gland

Ibrahim Yaman, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Translational control mechanisms  

Albert Long Hall

End of meeting