GRK2213 Symposium 2019

Call for Papers

To all undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and PIs.

Herewith we cordially invite you to attend the international symposium organized by the PhD students of the DFG Research Training Group (RTG) 2213 'Membrane Plasticity in Tissue Development and Remodeling'. This 'free-of-charge' symposium will be held at Philipps-University of Marburg in April 02-04, 2019, and it will cover a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from cytoskeletal mechanisms to vesicle exocytosis, cell migration, stem cell biology and nerve regeneration. Participants are welcome to present their work during poster sessions. Selected abstracts can be presented in short talks. Registration and abstract submission are now open via e-mail to grk-symp@biologie.uni-marburg.de. (maximum 200 word count)

Confirmed speakers are:

Reinhard Jahn (MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)

Daria Siekhaus (IST, Austria)

Sara Wickström (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Dietmar Vestweber (MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)

James Bear (UNC-Chapel Hill, United States)

Klemens Rottner (HZI Braunschweig, Germany)

Pekka Lappalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Monica Sousa (IMBC, Portugal)

Christian Klämbt (University of Münster, Germany)

Julia Mahamid (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

GRK 2213 - our Research Training Group ‘Membrane Plasticity in Tissue Development and Remodeling’ at the Philipps-Universität Marburg is a third party-funded graduate school connecting bio medical researchers from Marburg with those at the Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim in a structured doctoral education program. We are focussing in our research on dynamic processes at the plasma membrane as an interface for cell-cell communication. The term “membrane plasticity” is thereby used to reflect morphological changes in response to cell-cell communication. Our qualification program provides a state-of-the-art education in scientific as well as transferable skills. Planning and running this graduate student-organized symposium is integral part of our interdisciplinary training combining here a large set of transferable skills with establishing our own network in a practical project and event management approach.

Looking forward to meeting you in Marburg, 

GRK 2213