The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is pleased to announce its first annual symposium.
At this symposium, winners of the Louis-Jeantet prize for medicine and also speakers who are active in the same areas will invite participants to explain where things stand with their research and more generally to describe the current state of the art in these fields.
| Tuesday October 23, 2012 | |
| 13:00 | Welcome desk |
| 14:15 | Bernard Rossier, Chairman of the Symposium Organizing Committee, Secretary of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation Scientific CommitteeWelcome address |
| 14:20 | Dominique Soldati-Favre , Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of GenevaOpening |
| SESSION 1 : INFECTION BIOLOGY | |
| Chairperson: Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France),2008 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner Co-chairperson: Patrick Linder, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva |
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| 14:30 | David W. Holden Imperial College, London (UK) ■ Intracellular biology of Salmonella |
| 15:00 | Gisou van der Goot School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) ■ Dissecting the entry route of Anthrax toxin |
| 15:30 | Jörg Vogel University of Würzburg (Germany) ■ Small RNAs in bacterial pathogens |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | Raphael H. Valdivia Duke University Medical Center, Durham (USA) ■ NextGen approaches to tackle “genetically intractable” microbial systems |
| 17:00 | Jorge E. Galán Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (USA) ■ Interaction of Salmonella with host cells: type III secretion in action |
| 17:30 | Guillaume Duménil Inserm, Centre for Cardiovascular Research (PARCC), Paris (France) ■ Vascular colonization by Neisseria meningitidis |
| 18:00 | Pascale Cossart Institut Pasteur, Paris (France), 2008 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner ■ Keynote Lecture – New concepts in host-pathogen interactions: lessons from Listeria |
| 19:00 | End of session 1 |
| Wednesday October 24, 2012 | |
| 08:00 | Welcome desk |
| SESSION 2 : TOR SIGNALLING AND GROWTH/AGEING CONTROL | |
| Chairperson: Michael N. Hall, Biozentrum, University of Basel(Switzerland), 2009 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner Co-chairperson: Martine Collart, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva |
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| 08:30 | Robbie Loewith Faculty of Science, University of Geneva ■ Chemical and genetic interrogations of TOR signalling in yeast |
| 09:00 | Kun-Liang Guan University of California, San Diego (USA) ■ The TOR pathway in cell growth and autophagy |
| 09:30 | Alex P. Gould MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (UK) ■ Nutrients and the relative growth of organs in Drosophila |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 | Owen J. Sansom The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow (UK)■ mTOR signalling in murine models of colorectal cancer |
| 11:00 | Joseph A. Baur Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (USA)■ TOR signalling, insulin, and ageing |
| 11:30 | David StippFreelance science writer, Boston (USA) ■ Whither the anti-ageing quest ? |
| 12:00 | Michael N. Hall Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland), 2009 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner ■ Keynote Lecture – TOR signalling, from yeast to human |
| 12:55 | Bernard Rossier, Chairman of the Symposium Organizing Committee, Secretary of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation Scientific Committee ■ Closing address |
| 13:00 | End of the Symposium |