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Newsletter of the German Society for Cell Biology Full Electronic Version Volume 42, 3&4 2016 Cell News Newsletter of the German Society for Cell Biology full electronic version Volume 42, 3&4 2016 DGZ Spring Member Meeting 2017 in Leipzig DGZ Awards 2017 Adding efficiency to your fluorescence imaging. ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 New Product! Your Flexible Automated Microscope // INNOVATION MADE BY ZEISS Your automated platform for live cell imaging Imagine the ease of use and automation of a boxed microscope – combined with the image quality and flexibility of a classical research microscope. Imagine this system calibrates itself, detects and focusses your samples and adaptive optics adjust themselves automatically. ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 is your reliable automated research platform. No matter if you work with 2D or 3D cell culture, tissue sections or small model organisms. With Celldiscoverer 7 you increase the efficiency of your research. You acquire better data in a shorter time. www.zeiss.com/celldiscoverer CONTENT Newsletter of the German Society for Cell Biology Preface 4 Executive Board DGZ Spring Member Meeting 2017 in Leipzig President: Tentative Scientific Program 5 Carien Niessen (Cologne) General Information 6 Vice President: Carl Zeiss Lecture: Peter Walter 7 Oliver Gruss (Bonn) Simone Reber, Session 1: 8 Cell biology by numbers Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Martin Beck, Session 2: 9 Thomas M. Magin (Leipzig) Mechanisms of nucleocytoplasmic exchange Susanne Önel, Session 3: 10 Vice CEO: New insights into cell-cell fusion: Mechanisms of membrane fusion Karin Schumacher (Heidelberg) Julia Gross, Session 4: 11 Advisory Board Extracellular vesicles - The secret side of cell-cell communication M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt) DGZ Awards 2017 Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg) Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried) Walther Flemming Award 12 Volker Gerke (Muenster) Nikon Young Scientist Award of the DGZ 12 Ralph Gräf (Potsdam) Binder Innovation Prize 13 Harald Herrmann (Heidelberg) Ingrid Hoffmann (Heidelberg) Werner Risau Prize 13 Heinrich Leonhardt (Martinsried) Zeynep Ökten (Munich) Meeting Reports Britta Qualmann (Jena) 15th Workshop “Cell Biology of Viral Infections” 14 Simone Reber (Berlin) of the Society for Virology (GfV) 7th Annual Symposium “Physics of Cancer” 16 Office: Sabine Reichel-Klingmann Members c/o Deutsches Krebsforschungs- zentrum (DKFZ) Obituary Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber 20 Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 69120 Heidelberg Obituary Prof. Dr. Stefan Jentsch 22 Tel.: 0 62 21/42-34 51 Fax: 0 62 21/42-34 52 Intern / Impressum / Missing Members 23 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: www.zellbiologie.de Cover Image: Universität Leipzig, Campus Augustusplatz, Neues Augusteum / Paulinum, Frontalansicht (Foto: Randy Kühn / Universität Leipzig) 3 Cell News 3&4/2016 PREFACE DEAR DGZ MEMBERS The year 2016 almost comes to an end and that means we can upcoming independent DGZ members. We will have talks selected look back to a very successful international meeting in Munich and from abstracts, a social evening, new oral digital poster presen- look forward to new events in 2017. Although recent international tations for all abstracts to increase interactions, the Carl Zeiss meetings were great successes in terms of attendance, science, Lecture by Peter Walter, the president of the ASCB, who can also discussion and sponsoring, the trends of the last meetings showed provide us with essential input from our “big” sister organization, that DGZ members only form a small number of attendees, in and, finally, talks by the prize winners. contrast to meetings from many other national and international societies. We would thus like to encourage all of our members to come and join us for this 2-day meeting and to participate in shaping the Together with the fact that it is increasingly difficult to find future of the DGZ! More detailed information can be found on members to take on the organization of the international meeting, page 6 of this Cell News. this made the board of the DGZ think about future organizations of the international meeting and of the DGZ itself: what we stand In addition, we would like to encourage everybody to apply or for, why we need a German Society for Cell Biology and what the suggest candidates for the Nikon Young Scientist Award of the Society should and can offer to its members. We further discussed DGZ, the Binder Innovation Prize, the Werner Risau Prize and the these important issues with members of our advisory board. As Walther Flemming Award. For details on eligibility and deadlines, one result of these discussions it was decided to organize, instead please see pages 12-13. of the international meeting, a member meeting that is organized by and for members with new formats. It will include a general On behalf of my fellow board members Karin Schumacher, Thomas discussion on what members expect from the DGZ and what we Magin, Oliver Gruss, I hope to see many of you in Leipzig and wish as the executive board feel the DGZ can really offer. you happy holidays and a good start to 2017! Our new spring member meeting will take place in Leipzig on Carien Niessen March 1-2 and will include 4 sessions organized by young and 4 Cell News 3&4/2016 DGZ SPRING MEMBER MEETING 2017 Tentative Scientific Program Spring Member Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) March 1–2, 2017 in Leipzig, Germany www.zellbiologie.de Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Conference Venue: University of Leipzig 12:00 Welcome Address Augustusplatz 10 Matthias Schwarz, Vice-Rector, University of Leipzig 04109 Leipzig Germany 12:15 New Challenges for the DGZ Carien Niessen, President, German Society for Cell Biology 12:30 Session 1: Cell biology by numbers Thursday, March 2, 2017 Chair: Simone Reber (Berlin, Germany) 08:30 Session 3: New insights into cell-cell fusion: Speakers: Mechanisms of membrane fusion Keynote Speaker: Stephan Grill (Dresden, Germany) Chair: Susanne Önel (Marburg, Germany) Julia Mahamid (Munich, Germany) Simone Reber (Berlin, Germany) (short talk) Keynote Speaker: Thomas Krey (Hannover, Germany) Susanne Önel (Marburg, Germany) and 2 short talks selected from the abstracts and 3 short talks selected from the abstracts 14:00 Poster Walk 1: Short Presentations on Digi Posters 10:00 Poster Walk 2: Short Presentations on Digi Posters 15:00 Session 2: Mechanisms of nucleocytoplasmic exchange Chair: Martin Beck (Heidelberg, Germany) 11:00 Session 4: Extracellular vesicles - The secret side of cell-cell communication Keynote Speaker: Chair: Julia Gross (Goettingen, Germany) Wolfram Antonin (Tuebingen, Germany) Martin Beck (Heidelberg, Germany) Keynote Speaker: Pascale Zimmermann (Marseille, France) and 3 short talks selected from the abstracts Julia Gross (Goettingen, Germany) 16:30 DGZ Awards and 3 short talks selected from the abstract: Walther Flemming Award 12:30 Poster Walk 3: Short Presentations on Digi Posters Nikon Young Scientist Award of the DGZ Binder Innovation Prize 13:30 Wrap Up and Lunch Werner Risau Prize 17:45 Carl Zeiss Lecture Peter Walter (San Francisco, USA) 19:00 DGZ Member Meeting 20:30 Get Together with drinks and buffet (Grassimuseum Leipzig) 5 Cell News 3&4/2016 DGZ SPRING MEMBER MEETING 2017 DGZ Spring Member Meeting in Leipzig, March 1-2, 2017 Registration Online Registration starts on December 19, 2016, please visit the DGZ websites: http://zellbiologie.de In order to avoid double charges, Short Talk Presentation: please submit your registration only once. Short talks (10 minutes + 2 minutes discussion) will be selected on the basis of the abstracts by the session chairs. Short talk Registration fee for participants covers speakers are invited to present a digi poster in addition to their • Admission to scientific sessions, poster walks and DGZ awards talk. ceremony • Congress documents, final program including abstracts • Lunch, coffee breaks and Get-Together “ Das Terminal” was created specifically for digital poster presentations and offers: Registration Fee • Ideal visibility on a 60" Full HD screen with integrated PA dis- DGZ Member: EUR 100,00 cussion system. Student DGZ Member: EUR 50,00 • Controlling posters via Apple© iPad© gestures and integrated Chairs and Invited Speakers: -- “laser pointer”. • Full implementation of audio and video. To become a DGZ Member, please visit • Powerful, full poster content search. http://zellbiologie.de/mitgliedschaft/ • Communicate with poster authors via email or contact the DGZ office: [email protected] (permission assumed). • Poster upload online, quickly, and easily. • Secure poster content. Abstract Submission Deadline abstract submission: January 31, 2017 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: February 2017 A new poster presentation technology will be used. The equip- ment is made specifically for displaying dynamic poster presen- Please note that the acceptance of your abstract does not include tations and features on a 60-inch monitor, and authors give their congress registration. At least one author (the first or the pre- oral presentations using an iPad and microphone. There will be 8 senting author) needs to register for the congress. The abstract digital poster terminals that will be scheduled with poster presen- will otherwise not be reviewed and waived from the scientific tations in 15 minute increments throughout the meeting days. committee. Abstract Topics: New features available for posters include: • the ability to embed graphics and video files to demonstrate • Session 1: Cell biology by numbers results; • Session 2: Mechanisms of nucleocytoplasmic exchange • complete site search for all posters; and • Session 3: New insights into cell-cell fusion: Mechanisms of • the ability to communicate with authors, leave comments, and membrane fusion ask for more info. • Session 4: Extracellular vesicles - The secret side of cell-cell communication • Other Topics For registration and information, please visit the DGZ Digi Poster Presentation: websites: http://zellbiologie.de There will be three Poster Walks: Contact Short Presentations on Digi Posters. For any questions please contact the DGZ Office: [email protected]. 6 Cell News 3&4/2016 DGZ SPRING MEMBER MEETING 2017 Carl Zeiss Lecture 2017: Peter Walter Peter Walter is currently a Distinguished Professor of Bio- chemistry and Biophysics at UCSF and an HHMI Investigator.
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