Program

For info about travelling from venue to another (including Google maps with routes), please see the ‘Venues‘ section of this homepage.

All of the scientific program takes place at the main venue VSpa Conference center

Monday, June 16

18:00

Registration starts at the Welcome party venue (University of Tartu History museum)

18.00-21.00

Free entry to the University of Tartu History Museum

19.00-21:00

Welcome party at the University of Tartu History Museum in their White hall
Tuesday, June 17

9.00- 10.00

WBW scientific board meeting
Session 1
Session 1 – Nuclear organization and epigenetic plasticity
Chair:
10.00-11.00 Plenary – WBW medal Genevieve Almozni France TBA
coffee break
11.30-12.00 Oral 1 Jekaterina Erenpreisa Latvia Embryonal ovarian carcinoma PA1 treated by Etoposide: The journey through cellular senescence to the metastatic amoeboid phenotype
12.00-12.30 Oral 2 Michael Hausmann Germany Dynamics of the nano-scaled spatial organization of chromatin and repair foci during DNA repair and senescence after induction of double strand breaks
12.30-13.00 Oral 3 Margherita Cavallo Italy Nuclear Reorganization During Hypoxia
Lunch
Session 1 continues
Chair:
14.00-15.00 Plenary – Young Researcher Award Mari Sepp Estonia Evolution of cellular and gene regulatory programs in mammalian cerebellum development
15.00-15.30 Oral 4 Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko USA Micromanagement of microexons in brain tumors
15.30-16.00 Oral 5 Kärt Mätlik Estonia Chromatin mechanisms of neuronal maturation
coffee break
16.30-17.00 Oral 6 Arnold Kristjuhan Estonia YEATS proteins – chromatin readers with additional functions.
17.00-17.30 Oral 7 Slimane AIT-SI-ALI France Epigenetic plasticity at Lamina-Associated Domains regulates nuclear stiffness and modulates cellular biomechanics and invasiveness
17.30-17.45 Short Talk 1 TBA    

17.45-19.00

Free time, Please make your way to Lodjakoda venue for the boat trip

19.00-21.00

Boat trip with Suur Sume barge on river Emajõgi with snacks (NB! The boat leaves at 19.00 from Lodjakoda, please don’t be late!)
Wednesday, June 18
Session 2
Session 2 – Nuclear pathologies and cancer
Chair:
9.00-10.00 Plenary Toivo Maimets Estonia Tumor biology- are we asking the right questions?
10.00-10.30 Oral 8 Yegor Vassetzky France Trans-interactions in the cancer cell nucleus
10.30-11.00 Oral 9 Oleg Demidov France Nuclear Voyage of Extrinsic Cell Death Society Members
coffee break
11.30-12.00 Oral 10 Piotr Widlak Poland Melanoma-derived exosomes induce transcriptional stress response in T cells, leading to intrinsic apoptosis of target cells
12.00-12.30 Oral 11 Claudio Casali Italy Epigenetic Response to UV Irradiation in HEK293 Cells Expressing DDB2PCNA–
12.30-12.45 Short talk 2 Ludovica Antiga Czech Republik The role of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in RNA polymerase II transcription
12.45.13.00 Short talk 3 Ana Miladinovic Czech Republik Localization and molecular mechanisms of nuclear functions of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate
Lunch
14.00-14.30 Poster session

14.30-15.00

Free time, please get ready to go to the Estonian National Museum, the bus leaves at 15.00

15:00

Bus from in front of the main venue VSpa to Estonian National Museum

15:30

Visit to the Estonian National Museum with a tour guide (NB! The bus does not return to the city center after the visit!)
Thursday, June 19
Session 3
Session 3 –  Nuclear structure and function
Chair:
9.00-9.30 Oral 12 Catherine Brenner France AIF/CHCHD4 complex: a key complex for nucleus-to-mitochondria communication and metabolism reprogramming
9.30-10.00 Oral 13 Jakub Pawlikowski Poland Comparative Analysis of Redox Pathway Activation During Ferroptosis in Lung Cell Lines
10.00-10.30 Oral 14 Małgorzata Adamiec-Organiściok Poland Ferroptosis in IBD: ultrastructural and molecular correlates of cell death susceptibility
10.30-10.45 Short talk 4 Anna Schwager France OneCell CUT&Tag maps chromatin modifications together with transcriptome and phenotype starting from a single cell
10.45-11.00 Short talk 5 Margit Mutso Estonia TBA – methyltransferases
coffee break
11.30-12.00 Oral 15 Christian Schöfer Austria Nucleoli and ribosomal gene expression in the context of tissue regeneration, aging and nutrition
12.00-12.30 Oral 16 Tomas Venit UAE, Abu Dhabi Nucleocytoplasmic regulation of mRNA biogenesis by actin-associated protein Carmil 1
12.30-13.00 Oral 17 Masahiko Harata Japan Actin and actin-related proteins involved in nuclear structure and function
Lunch
14.00-14.30 Poster session
Chair:
14.30-15.00 Oral 18 Alexander M. Ishov USA Effect of induced degradation of HIRA on prostate cancer models
15.00-15.30 Oral 19 Emmanuel Drouet France The Zta (ZEBRA) Epstein-Barr Virus transcription factor: Relevance in clinical pathology
15.30-16.00 Oral 20 Alla Piirsoo Estonia Human papillomaviruses: advances and challenges in targeting the infection
coffee break

16.30-18.00

Panel discussion Future Frontiers in the Cell Nucleus Research

18.00-19.00

Free time, please make your way to the Gala dinner venue at Vilde ja Vine restaurant

19:00

Gala dinner in the restaurant Vilde ja Vine
Friday, June 20

09:30

Bus to Tallinn that leaves from the theater Vanemuine parking lot (link to Google maps location here)

12:00

Bus stops at the airport for luggage storage, then continues on to Tallinn Old Town (NB! The bus does not return to Tartu!)

13.00-15.00

Tallinn Old Town tour (start from Falgi street near Toompea)