GHI retreat 2018

08:50-11:51

Train Lausanne-Zermatt

12:00 - 12:30

Check-in & poster installation

12:30 – 14:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00  – 14:10

Welcome address by GHI retreat organizer Alexandre Persat

Session 1

Chairs: Laurence Abrami (van der Goot Lab) & Olivier Naret (Fellay Lab)

14:10-14:20

Introduction of McKinney Lab – PI John McKinney

14:20-14:35

Short talk by postdoc Vivek Thacker

Lung-on-a-chip microtechnologies for studying host-pathogen interactions in Tuberculosis

14:35-14:50

Short talk by graduate student Thomas Simonet

High content screening using microfluidics to understand antibiotic persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC)

14:50-15:00

Break

15:00-15:10

Introduction of Trono Lab – PI Didier Trono

15:10-15:25

Short talk by graduate student Pierre-Yves Helleboid

Mass spectrometry characterization of KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins partners

15:25-15:40

Short talk by postdoc Laia Simò Riudalbas

The transpochimeric transcripts of POU5F1B as new cancer biomarkers

15:40-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-16:10

Introduction of Salathé Lab – PI Marcel Salathé

16:10-16:25

Short talk by graduate student Martin Müller

Tracking Vaccination Sentiments using Public Social Media Data and Crowdsourcing

16:25-16:40

Short talk by scientific assistant Chloé Allémann

Food & You: Personalized Nutrition and Citizen Science

16:40-17:40

Welcome address by GHI Director Bruno Lemaitre

Brief history of the GHI

Group picture and apéritif

17:40-18:40

Plenary lecture by Matthew Cobb

School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

Chair: Alexandre Persat

19:00

Dinner

21:00 onwards

Poster session and drinks

08:00

Breakfast

Session 2

Chairs: Natalia Drebes Dörr (Blokesch Lab) & Jan Dudzic (Lemaitre Lab)

09:00-09:10

Introduction of Cole Lab – Claudia Sala

09:10-09:25

Short talk by graduate student Raphael Sommer

Zebrafish embryos as models to study tuberculosis and their application in drug discovery

09:25-09:40

Short talk by postdoc Andréanne Lupien

Repurposing anti-TB drug candidates for NTM treatment-the AX compounds story

09:40-09:50

Break

09:50-10:00

Introduction of Persat Lab – PI Alexandre Persat

10:00-10:15

Short talk by graduate student Tamara Rossy

Fluid flow shapes Caulobacter crescentus biofilms

10:15-10:30

Short talk by graduate student Lorenzo Talà

Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mechanosensing through label-free imaging of type IV pili

10:30-10:50

Coffee break

10:50-11:00

Introduction of van der Goot Lab – PI Gisou van der Goot

11:00-11:15

Short talk by postdoc Oksana Sergeeva

Uncovering Mechanisms Involved in Exosome Uptake

11:15-11:30

Short talk by postdoc Olha Novokhatska

Role of extracellular matrix receptor CMG2 in metabolism

12:00-12:30

Weather permitting: excursion to Five Lakes Walk at Blauherd

12:30-18:00

Blauherd: picnic and walk to the Five Lakes or transport back to Zermatt for those who don’t want to hike (2h30)

In case of bad weather picnic at hotel and free afternoon

18:15-19:15

Plenary lecture by SAB member Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Director, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, USA
Governing rules of bacterial cell replication

Chair:

19:30

Dinner

21:00 onwards

Free evening with drinks – party by students, pd, techs etc…

08:00

Breakfast

Session 3

Chairs: Alice Cont (Persat Lab) & Priscilla Turelli (Trono Lab)

09:00-09:10

Introduction of Fellay Lab – PI Jacques Fellay

09:10-09:25

Short talk by postdoc Nimisha Chaturvedi

Pervasive adaptation of hepatitis C virus to interferon lambda polymorphism across multiple genotypes

09:25-09:40

Short talk by graduate student Petar Scepanovic

Searching for Human Genetic Determinants of the Gut Microbiome Diversity in Healthy Individuals

09:40-09:50

Break

Ablasser’s lab

09:50-10:05

Short talk by graduate student Simone Haag

Targeting STING with covalent small-molecule inhibitors

10:05-10:20

Short talk by postdoc Baptiste Guey

Nuclear envelope rupture events elicit inflammation via cGAS

10:20-10:50

Coffee break

10:50-11:00

Introduction of Blokesch Lab – PI Melanie Blokesch

11:00-11:15

Short talk by graduate student Noémie Matthey

How a molecular killing device can drive evolution in Vibrio cholerae

11:15-11:30

Short talk by postdoc David Adams

DNA-uptake pilus of Vibrio cholerae capable of kin-discriminated auto-aggregation

11:30-13:00

Lunch

Session 4

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty (Salathé Lab) & Alexiane Decout (Ablasser Lab)

13:00-13:10

Introduction of Lemaitre Lab – PI Bruno Lemaitre

13:10-13:25

Short talk by postdoc Li Xiaoxue

Stress depletion of hemolymphatic DAG by Malpighian tubules during infection requires an inducible lipid binding protein

13:25-13:40

Short talk by graduate student Claudia Melcarne

Two Nimrod receptors, NimC1 and Eater, synergistically contribute to phagocytosis of bacteria in Drosophila melanogaster

13:40-14:10

Final discussion, prize ceremony and farewell address

15:13-18:10

Train to Lausanne