May 20th 2021: LEWIS WOLPERT MEMORIAL LECTURE 2021 - 13:30 to 15:00 BST
You are invited to the inaugural Lewis Wolpert Memorial Lecture, presented by Prof Cliff Tabin (Harvard):
“Vignettes from a dev bio/evodevo lab: What makes a limb cell a limb cell? and How did birds evolve the capacity to vocalize?”
With an introductory talk on the life of Lewis Wolpert by Prof Claudio Stern (UCL CDB).
Event hosted on-line via Zoom and YouTube livestream. Register free at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-cdb-seminars-lewis-wolpert-memorial-lecture-tickets-141828929145
March 4th 2021: Webinars to all BSCDB applicants
The second of three BSCDB Mechanobiology webinars will be on 4 March 2021.
We are very happy to cover by these webinars the period until the postponed BSCDB Mechanobiology meeting (28-29 October 2021). We will give the floor to PhD students and post-docs to present and discuss their most recent mechanobiology research. We count on all of you to make these webinars vibrant sessions with inspiring presentations and vivid discussions!
For more information and registration visit our webinars page here.
To promote these webinars, just post the program in the coffee room of your institute, your office, your lab and share the program and registration link via social media with colleagues and friends in the field. We look forward to meet you all virtually (and Oct 28-29, 2021 in person).
December 10th 2020: BSCDB PhD Excellence Award 2020 online ceremony
The board of the BSCDB would like to invite you to attend our upcoming BSCDB webinar (December 10th, 2020) as an online ceremony to nominate the winner of the 2020 BSCDB PhD Excellence Award, which unfortunately could not take place onsite during the BSCDB Autumn meeting.
The program will be as follows:
16u00: Welcome and introduction to the BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award.
16h05: Career paths of the 2006 and 2009 BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award winners.
16h25: Announcement of the 2020 BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award.
16h30: “CRISPR/Cas9-mediated cancer modeling and identification of cancer cell vulnerabilities in Xenopus tropicalis” by Dr. Thomas Naert.
17h15: End of meeting.
You can join this webinar via the following link.
September 9th 2020:
We regret to inform that the BSCDB autumn meeting on Mechanobiology is postponed by one year to 28-29 October 2021. Indeed, due to the Covid19 situation nearly 80% of all the speakers and also many attendees would not make it to be physically with us in Ghent. Under such conditions, a hybrid event will by no means create the vibrant interactive atmosphere that BSCDB always targets for. Registrations for the 20-21 meeting will be reopened in Summer 2021.
However, to cover the gap to the meeting of next year, and to give the floor to young mechanobiology scientists, we will organize 3 free Mechanobiology warming-up webinar sessions embedded in a larger BSCDB webinar series. The program and the registration links will become available October 10th on this BSCDB website.
May 20th 2021: LEWIS WOLPERT MEMORIAL LECTURE 2021 - 13:30 to 15:00 BST
You are invited to the inaugural Lewis Wolpert Memorial Lecture, presented by Prof Cliff Tabin (Harvard):
“Vignettes from a dev bio/evodevo lab: What makes a limb cell a limb cell? and How did birds evolve the capacity to vocalize?”
With an introductory talk on the life of Lewis Wolpert by Prof Claudio Stern (UCL CDB).
Event hosted on-line via Zoom and YouTube livestream. Register free at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-cdb-seminars-lewis-wolpert-memorial-lecture-tickets-141828929145
March 4th 2021: Webinars to all BSCDB applicants
The second of three BSCDB Mechanobiology webinars will be on 4 March 2021.
We are very happy to cover by these webinars the period until the postponed BSCDB Mechanobiology meeting (28-29 October 2021). We will give the floor to PhD students and post-docs to present and discuss their most recent mechanobiology research. We count on all of you to make these webinars vibrant sessions with inspiring presentations and vivid discussions!
For more information and registration visit our webinars page here.
To promote these webinars, just post the program in the coffee room of your institute, your office, your lab and share the program and registration link via social media with colleagues and friends in the field. We look forward to meet you all virtually (and Oct 28-29, 2021 in person).
December 10th 2020: BSCDB PhD Excellence Award 2020 online ceremony
The board of the BSCDB would like to invite you to attend our upcoming BSCDB webinar (December 10th, 2020) as an online ceremony to nominate the winner of the 2020 BSCDB PhD Excellence Award, which unfortunately could not take place onsite during the BSCDB Autumn meeting.
The program will be as follows:
16u00: Welcome and introduction to the BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award.
16h05: Career paths of the 2006 and 2009 BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award winners.
16h25: Announcement of the 2020 BSCDB PhD-Excellence Award.
16h30: “CRISPR/Cas9-mediated cancer modeling and identification of cancer cell vulnerabilities in Xenopus tropicalis” by Dr. Thomas Naert.
17h15: End of meeting.
You can join this webinar via the following link.
September 9th 2020:
We regret to inform that the BSCDB autumn meeting on Mechanobiology is postponed by one year to 28-29 October 2021. Indeed, due to the Covid19 situation nearly 80% of all the speakers and also many attendees would not make it to be physically with us in Ghent. Under such conditions, a hybrid event will by no means create the vibrant interactive atmosphere that BSCDB always targets for. Registrations for the 20-21 meeting will be reopened in Summer 2021.
However, to cover the gap to the meeting of next year, and to give the floor to young mechanobiology scientists, we will organize 3 free Mechanobiology warming-up webinar sessions embedded in a larger BSCDB webinar series. The program and the registration links will become available October 10th on this BSCDB website.
BSCDB Spring Webinars 2021
Neural Stem Cells and Cortex Development (Tuesday May 11, 2021)
16:00-18:00 European Time (GMT + 01:00)
Keynote lecture: “The evolution of neurons and nervous systems.”
Dr. Detlev Arendt, Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Welcome by Laurent NGUYEN, ULg GIGA
Chair: Eric BELLEFROID, ULB
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells guide the migration of cortical interneurons into the developing cerebral cortex
Fanny LEPIEMME (ULg GIGA)
Molecular dissection of the single-cell control mechanism of brain angiogenesis in the zebrafish model
Giel SCHEVENELS (ULB)
Cell type diversity in a developing octopus brain
Ruth STYFHALS (KULeuven)
Keynote lecture introduction by Eve SEUNTJENS, KULeuven
The evolution of neurons and nervous systems
Dr. Detlev Arendt, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
Non-coding RNA in Health and Disease (Friday May 21, 2021)
12:45-14:00 European Time (GMT + 01:00)
Keynote lecture: “Understanding flavivirus pathogenesis: three-hybrid screening for host factors hijacked by viral non-coding RNA.”
Dr. Kai DALLMEIER & Sander JANSEN, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute, KU Leuven
Welcome by Prof. Patsy RENARD and Prof. Charles NICAISE, UNamur (5 min)
Chair: Prof. Benoit MUYLKENS, UNamur
Understanding flavivirus pathogenesis: three-hybrid screening for host factors hijacked by viral non-coding RNA (45 min)
Dr. Kai DALLMEIER, group leader & Sander JANSEN, PhD student at KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy
Closing reamrks by Prof. Patsy RENARD and Prof. Charles NICAISE, UNamur (10 min)
Mechanobiology (Thursday June 10, 2021)
16:00-17:15 European Time (GMT + 01:00)
Welcome by Isabelle MIGEOTTE, ULB
Chair: Liesbet GERIS, ULg and KU Leuven
Actuation Enhances Patterning in Human Neural Tube Organoids
Abdel RAHMAN ABDEL FATTAH, KU Leuven
Label-free imaging of cholesterol assemblies reveals hidden nanomechanics of breast cancer cells
Andra Cristina DUMITRU, Université Catholique de Louvain
Collective migration during a gap closure in a two dimensional haptotactic model
Marie VERSAEVEL, Université de Mons
Closure
Mechanobiology in Cell Biology and Developmental Biology
Date: 28-29 October 2021
Organizers: Liesbet Geris (ULg and KU Leuven), Elizabeth A. Jones (KU Leuven), Isabelle Migeotte (ULB), Jolanda van Hengel (UGent), An Zwijsen (KU Leuven)
Contact: Jolanda.VanHengel@UGent.be
Venue: Congress room Ned Kahn, Zebrastraat center, Gustaaf Callierlaan, number 231, Gent, Belgium - How to reach the place Zebrastraat - Parking & Routes
A Covid certificate is required for admission, only persons who can prove that they have been fully vaccinated, have recovered or have been tested will be admitted to the event.
Aims of the meeting
Mechanobiology is a rapidly growing field where biologists, biomedical engineers and physicists meet to study how cells sense and respond to forces that ultimately regulate development and physiology. We have put together an exciting program of world-experts in mechanobiology for this two-day meeting, with a diverse group of speakers that cover the breadth from stem cells to organogenesis and using model systems that extend from plants to mammals and iPSCs. Speakers will showcase the impact that mechanobiology is having on our understanding of the mechanical environment affects cells, both in normal development and in disease. We want to promote community building with younger scientists and trainees and as such, this meeting specifically targets PhD students and post-docs and will focus on state-of-the-art technologies for probing mechanotransduction. In the evening of the first conference day, we will have an informal walking dinner with good food and drinks and a party. The event is a perfect opportunity for live social networking between the participants.
Confirmed speakers