Thursday, Farewell February 1, 2018 Lecture Hall 1, Pharmazentrum Klingelbergstrasse 50/70 Symposium Basel Erich Nigg, Director Biozentrum. Farewell Symposium Erich Nigg.

09.00 – 09.05 Welcome address 15.05 – 15.40 Time of change – change over time Erich Nigg, Director Biozentrum, University of Basel Katharina Sonnen, European Molecular Laboratory, Heidelberg 09.05 – 09.40 Chromosomal dynamics during spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster 15.40 – 16.15 Studies on NEK family kinases: From molecular Christian Lehner, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, mechanisms to cancer therapies University of Zurich Andrew Fry, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester 09.40 – 10.15 How do cells count centrosomes? Luca Fava, Centre for Integrative Biology, University of 16.15 – 16.45 Coffee Break Trento 16.45 – 17.20 Structure and function of the 10.15 – 10.50 Checkpoint kinases: Beyond cell cycle control Andrea Musacchio, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Susan Gasser, Director of Friedrich Miescher Institute for Physiology, Dortmund Biomedical Research, Basel 17.20 – 17.55 Centrosome function and dynamics 10.50 – 11.15 Coffee Break Jordan Raff, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford 11.15 – 11.50 Regulation of cell growth and division Matthias Peter, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich 17.55 – 18.15 Short Break 11.50 – 12.25 The biology of hypoxia response pathways in cancer Wilhelm Krek, Molecular Health Sciences, ETH Zurich 18.15 – 18.25 Erich Nigg: Director of the Biozentrum Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Rector of the University of Basel 12.25 – 13.00 How cancer respond and become resistant to -targeting drugs 18.25 – 18.35 Erich Nigg: A life in science Patrick Meraldi, Department of Cell Physiology and Susan Gasser, Director of Friedrich Miescher Institute for Metabolism, University of Geneva Biomedical Research, Basel

18.35 – 19.15 Farewell Lecture 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch 40 years of exploration come to an end – time to say “thank you” 14.30 – 15.05 “Should I stay or should I go” – the fate of cytosolic Erich Nigg, Director Biozentrum, University of Basel misfolded proteins Thibault Mayor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia 19.15 Apéro

Please register online by January 22, 2018: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/symposium_nigg Biozentrum, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 50/70 4056 Basel Switzerland www.biozentrum.unibas.ch