Symposium
IBL Symposium 2025
- Date
- Thursday 10 April 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- 09:00 - 09:30: Walk-In 09:30 - Official Start
- Location
- Poortgebouw
Rijnsburgerweg 10
Leiden - Room
- Congreszaal
Program
09:00 – 09:30 Walk-in
09:30 Scientific Director Hubertus Irth
09:40 Maximina Yun: Salamander insights into negligible senescence
10:20 Anjali Pandit: How plants and algae control light harvesting
10:40 Coert Margadant: New blood: The vascular system in development
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Nataliia Volodymyrivna Machushynets: Metabolic analysis of a collection of plant-associated Paenibacillus species reveals a novel family of bacitracins
Gabriel Forn-Cuni: Harnessing lipid-laden macrophages for novel therapies against glioblastoma
Konstantinos Georgopoulos: Afforesting with microbes: How soil biotic and abiotic characteristics influence Alnus glutinosa performance during afforestation
Willem Meilink: Genome-wide SNPs traced over three generations confirms supergene-like inheritance in the evolutionary enigmatic balanced lethal system in Triturus newts
12:30 Lunch and Poster Break
14:00 Charissa de Bekker: Behavioural manipulators: unravelling the molecular mysteries of zombie-making Ophiocordyceps fungi
14:40 Tinde van Andel: From story to science: how to verify a legend?
15:00 Anne Land: “An object or it didn’t happen” The role of authenticity in science museums
15:20 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:45
Maarten Lubbers: TBA
Nicola Thome: A metabolomics approach to uncover natural products from human-derived streptomycetes
Massimo Tedeschi: Activity-based profiling of β-1,4 mannanases for sustainable biomass polysaccharide turnover
Golsa Nayeb Ghanbar Hosseini: The evolution of microbial chemodiversity in Soil Streptomyces Population
16:45 Closing Remarks
17:00 Drinks