EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
More information for participants of events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found here.
Programme
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All talks will be live-streamed with Q&A sessions after each talk unless otherwise indicated. Many talks will be available as videos on demand (VOD) until 22 July 2020.
The following times are used in the programme below:
- Central European Summer Time (CEST): e.g. Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris
- Eastern Daylight Time (EDT): e.g. New York, Quebec
To find out the equivalent time zone in your location, enter Berlin, the CEST programme time and your city into the Time Zone Converter.
Time | Speaker | |
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09:00 - 09:10 (CEST) |
Opening remarks |
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09:10 - 10:55 (CEST) |
Virtual Session 1 - Probing biology |
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09:10 - 09:55 (CEST) |
Keynote lecture: |
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09:55 - 10:10 (CEST) |
The versatility of modular biohybrid microgels towards high-throughput biomaterial design, tissue engineering and therapeutic applications |
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10:10 - 10:25 (CEST) |
High-throughput double-emulsion flow cytometry for single-cell screening, enrichment and recovery of phototrophic microorganisms |
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10:25-10:55 (CEST) |
Emulsions and double emulsions for screening applications |
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10:55 - 11:15 (CEST) |
Break |
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11:15 - 12:15 (CEST) |
Optional networking opportunity: Virtual pub quiz |
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12:15 - 12:25 (CEST) |
Break |
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12:25 - 14:25 (CEST) |
Virtual Poster Session with discussion channel on slack |
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14:25 - 16:10 (CEST) |
Virtual Session 1 (cont.) - Probing biology |
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14:25 - 14:55 (CEST) |
Towards 3D printing of functional cellular modules |
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14:55 - 15:10 (CEST) |
Collective behavior of immune cells on 3D model tumors in microfluidic droplets |
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15:10 - 15:25 (CEST) |
Targeted droplet-microfluidic enrichment and sequencing of uncultivated gut microbiome strains |
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15:25 - 15:55 (CEST) |
Rapid diagnostics at the point-of-need by centrifugal microfluidics |
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15:55 - 16:10 (CEST) |
Summary day 1 and introduction to networking activity: Meet the speakers |
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16:10 - 16:25 (CEST) |
Break |
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16:25 - 16:55 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Roland Zengerle |
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16:55 - 17:25 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Viola Vogel |
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17:25 - 17:55 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Petra Schwille |
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17:55 - 18:25 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Petra Dittrich |
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18:25 (CEST) |
End of Day 1 |
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Continued access to networking and discussion platforms as well as poster gallery |
Time | Speaker | |
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09:15 - 10:15 (CEST) |
Optional networking opportunity: Virtual pub quiz (rescheduled!) |
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10:15 - 11:45 (CEST) |
Virtual Session 2: Next-generation device design and emerging applications |
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10:15 - 10:45 (CEST) 04:15 - 04:45 (EDT) |
Enhancing microfluidics for single-particle manipulation through localised electric fields |
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10:45 - 11:00 (CEST) 04:45 - 05:00 (EDT) |
Development of a microfluidic device for studying bilateral chemosensory neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans |
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11:00 - 11:15 (CEST) 05:00 - 05:15 (EDT) |
Design of an automated reagent-dispensing system for reaction screening and validation with DNA-tagged substrates |
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11:15 - 11:45 (CEST) 05:15 - 05:45 (EDT) |
Droplet microfluidics for phenotypic antibody screening and personalized medicine Christoph Merten - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany and EPFL, Switzerland |
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11:45 - 12:15 (CEST) 05:45 - 06:15 (EDT) |
Break | |
12:15 - 14:15 (CEST) 06:15 - 08:15 (EDT) |
Virtual Poster Session 2 with discussion channel on slack | |
14:15 - 17:30 (CEST) 08:15 - 11:30 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 3: Disease diagnostics, analytical chemistry and chemical synthesis |
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14:15 - 15:00 (CEST) 08:15 - 09:00 (EDT) |
Keynote lecture |
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15:00 - 15:15 (CEST) 09:00 - 09:15 (EDT) |
Electric-field-driven microfluidics for rapid CRISPR-based diagnostics and its application to detection of SARS-CoV-2 |
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15:15 - 15:30 (CEST) |
ATTRACT project SMILE: SAW-MIP Integrated device for oraL cancer Early detection |
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15:30 - 15:45 (CEST) 09:30 - 09:45 (EDT) |
Break |
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15:45 - 16:15 (CEST) |
Advanced 3D printing for microfluidics |
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16:15 - 16:30 (CEST) 10:15 - 10:30 (EDT) |
Actuation principles for bioanalytical platforms to combat infectious diseases Susanna Früh - Hahn-Schickard & University of Freiburg, Germany |
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16:30 - 17:00 (CEST) 10:30 - 11:00 (EDT) |
Double emulsion picoreactors for high-throughput single-cell encapsulation and phenotyping via FACS |
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17:00 - 17:15 (CEST) |
Summary day 2 and introduction to networking activity: Meet the speakers | |
17:15 - 17:30 (CEST) 11:15 - 11:30 (EDT) |
Break |
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17:30 - 18:00 (CEST) 11:30 - 12:00 (EDT) |
Meet the speaker - Carlotta Guiducci |
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17:30 - 18:00 (CEST) 11:30 - 12:00 (EDT) |
Meet the speaker - Greg Nordin |
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18:00 - 18:30 (CEST) 12:00 - 12:20 (EDT) |
Meet the speaker - Nancy Allbritton |
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18:30 - 19:00 (CEST) 12:30 - 01:00 (EDT) |
Meet the speaker - Christoph Merten |
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18:30 - 19:00 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Polly Fordyce | |
19:00 (CEST) |
End of Day 2 | |
Continued access to networking and discussion platforms as well as poster gallery |
Time | Speaker |
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10:00 - 12:00 (CEST) 04:00 - 06:00 (EDT) |
Virtual Session 4: Single-cell and single-molecule analyses |
10:00 - 10:30 (CEST) 04:00 - 04:30 (EDT) |
Electrophoretic fractionation of subcellular components of single cells for multi-omics analyses Hirofumi Shintaku -RIKEN, Japan |
10:30 - 10:45 (CEST) |
Flow radiocytometry using droplet optofluidics |
10:45 - 11:15 (CEST) 04:45 - 05:15 (EDT) |
Transcriptomic profiling reveals molecular signatures that promote on-chip vascular growth and maturation |
11:15 - 11:30 (CEST) 05:15 - 05:30 (EDT) |
Impedance cytometry and machine learning for fast label-free characterization of blood cell phenotypes |
11:30 - 11:45 (CEST) 05:30 - 05:45 (EDT) |
Microfluidic single-cell analysis revealed that cell size sets the diameter of the budding yeast contractile ring |
11:45 - 12:15 (CEST) 05:45 - 06:15 (EDT) |
Break |
12:15 - 12:45 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Hirofumi Shintaku |
12:45 - 13:15 (CEST) |
Meet the speaker - Angela Wu |
13:15 - 13:30 (CEST) |
Break |
13:30 - 14:30 (CEST) |
Virtual Poster Session 3 with discussion channel on slack |
14:30 - 15:00 (CEST) 08:30 - 09:00 (EDT) |
Break |
15:00 - 17:00 (CEST) 09:00 - 11:00 (EDT) |
Cont. Virtual Session 4: Single-cell and single-molecule analyses |
15:00 - 15:45 (CEST) 09:00 - 09:45 (EDT) |
Keynote lecture: |
15:45 - 16:00 (CEST) 09:45 - 10:00 (EDT) |
A DNA polymerase elongation-based fluorescence readout in polyacrylamide hydrogels |
16:00 - 16:15 (CEST) 10:00 - 10:15 (EDT) |
Migration of THP-1 cells on immobilized CXCL8 gradients in microfluidic devices |
16:15 - 16:45 (CEST) 10:15 - 10:45 (EDT) |
Precision medicine is advanced by precision microsystems |
16:45 - 17:00 (CEST) 10:45 - 11:00 (EDT) |
Break |
17:00 - 18:00 (CEST) 11:00 - 12:00 (EDT) |
Editor panel discussion |
18:00 - 18:15 (CEST) 12:00 - 12:15 (EDT) |
Break |
18:15 - 18:45 (CEST) 12:15 - 12:45 (EDT) |
Meet the speaker - Amy Herr |
18:45 - 19:00 (CEST) 12:45 - 13:00 (EDT) |
Closing remarks, end of conference |
Continued access to networking and discussion platforms as well as poster gallery |