Symposium Comparative Medicine 2023

Organizing Committee:
Iwan Burgener, Monika Ehling-Schulz, Florian Grebien, Dieter Klein, Richard Moriggl, Mathias Müller, Birgit Strobl, ÖH Vetmeduni Vienna
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Rationale

• presentation of research from the Vienna Life Science Region and from early career stage researchers of Vetmeduni
• balance between basic, translational/clinical and industrial research
• topic mix including infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, cancer and one health issues
• additional focus on technological, methodological or therapeutic concepts

FIRST DAY, Tuesday 23.05.2023

9.15 Opening Ceremony – Rectorate of Vetmeduni and organizers

Opening Talks (Chair: Richard Moriggl)
9.30-10.15: Meinrad Busslinger (IMP) – Generation of a broad antibody repertoire by cohesin-mediated control of V(D)J recombination
10.15-11.00: Diana Catarina Nunes Pinheiro (IMP) – Building pattern and form during embryonic development

11.00-11.30 – Coffee Break

Session 1 ‘PostDocs & Q-Positions@Vetmeduni’ (Chair: Florian Grebien)
11.30-12.00: Silvio Kau (Department 2) – Tiny packages, big impacts - extracellular vesicles and their emerging role in medicine
12.00-12.30: Camille Marie Gautier (Department 4) – Modulation of testicular function in stallions: effects on behavior, semen characteristics and endocrine parameters
12.30-13.00: Franziska Dengler (Department 1) – Intestinal ischemia reperfusion injury in equine and human medicine: what can we learn from each other?
13.00-13.30: Carlotta De Luca – Host response to recombinant capsid proteins to prevent fowl adenovirus-induced diseases in chickens

13.30-14.45 – Lunch Break

Session 2 ‘Biophysics and Therapeutic Intervention’ (Chair: Birgit Strobl)
14.45-15.15: Dea Slade (MedUni Vienna) – Harnessing radiation and small molecule inhibitors to induce immunogenic response in pancreatic cancer
15.15-15.45: Elvin de Araujo (University Toronto Missisauga) – Biophysical and structural work of key players in autoimmunity, inflammation, infectious disease or cancer
15.45-16.15 – Coffee Break (organized by ÖH Vetmeduni Vienna)

Session 3 ‘Technology’ (Chair: Iwan Burgener)
16.15-16.45: Helmut Dolznig (MedUni Vienna) – Organoids & tumor microenvironment
16.45-17.15: Michael Bergmann (MedUni Vienna) – Interaction between therapy and tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer

SECOND DAY, Wednesday 24.05.2022

9.50: Opening and Introduction – Rectorate of Vetmeduni and organizers

Session 4 ‘Extracellular Vesicles and Cellular Communication’ (Chair: Dieter Klein)
10.00-10.30: Johannes Grillari (LBI Traumatologie & BOKU Wien) – Janus faced EVs - potential diagnostic and therapeutic uses in tissue regeneration
10.30-11.00: Viktoria Weber (Donau Uni Krems) – Extracellular vesicles as mediators of immunothrombosis

Session 5 ‘Advanced PhD Projects@Vetmeduni’ (Chair: PhD students)
11.00-11.20: Astrid Digruber (Department 2) – Characterization of a novel virulence factor of Bacillus cereus
11.20-11.40: Georg Csukovich (Department 4) – The World of Organoids: gastrointestinal disease modelling in the age of 3R and One Health
11.40-12.00: Sara Miranda (Department 1) – TYK2 and cutaneous Candia albicans infection

12.00-13.15 – Lunch Break

Session 5 continued ‘Advanced PhD Projects@Vetmeduni’ (Chair: PhD students)
13.15-13.35: Selina Tröster (Department 1) – Epigenetic and transcriptional oncogenic programs in NUP98-fusion driven leukemia
13.35-13.55: Tea Movsesijan (Department 3) – Secondary metabolites in animal feed impact key microbes in the rumen
13.55-14.15: Aila Fakhimahmadi (Department 5) – New molecular approaches toward mold allergies, an increasing one health related problem

Session 6 ‘Biomedical Industry’ (Chair: Anna Orlowa, Christine Ruckenbauer)
14.15-14.45: Mark Pearson (Boehringer Ingelheim) – Translational research to develop new medications
14.45-15.15: Patrick Gunning (Dunad Therapeutics/Dalriada) – Medicinal chemistry: Targeting key molecules in cancer through warheads

15.15-15.45 – Coffee Break

Closing Talks (Chair: Mathias Müller)

15.45-16.30: Sylvia Knapp (MedUni Vienna) – Determinants of pulmonary immune-homeostasis
16.30-17.15: Julius Brennecke (IMBA) - Evolution of endogenous retroviruses in Drosophila

The program as PDF 

Kindly sponsored by:
Organizing Committee Members, ÖH Vetmeduni Vienna (Student’s Unit); Rectorate of Vetmeduni Vienna; FWF SFB F61 JakStat Monarchies, Eppendorf