Michael Sars Symposium 2025
Decoding signals and unveiling architectures, from molecules to organisms
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Schedule
04.06.2025
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Marion Lebouvier
| Presentation | Title | |
| 8:00 | Registration opens | |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks | Ståle Ellingsen, head of the Department for Biological Sciences at UiB |
| Session 1: System evolution | Chair: Jeffrey Colgren | |
| 9:15 | Christopher Lowe | Lesson in developmental biology from evolutionary experiments in body plans |
| 9:45 | Georgia Rapti | Mechanisms weaving in vivo emergence of circuit architecture, across molecular-cellular-tissue scales |
| 10:15 | Camila Esguerra | The zebrafish as a model organism to understand and treat complex genetic disorders |
| 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2: Molecular machines | Chair: Chiara Castelletti | |
| 11:15 | Jingwei Xu | Multi-scale imaging of an Asgard archaeon illuminates the origin of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton |
| 11:45 | Ross Waller | How do algae become parasites? An evolutionary cell biology approach |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| Session 3: Enzyme evolution | Chair: Øystein Monsen | |
| 13:45 | Paola Laurino | How do proteins expand functionality? |
| 14:15 | Ida Helene Steen | Extremozymes from Arctic vents |
| 14:45 | Ioannis Riziotis | Enzyme convergent evolution in three dimensions |
| 15:15 | Coffee break | |
| Session 4: Receptor evolution | Chair: Emily Claereboudt | |
| 15:45 | Yuhong Wang | Convergent evolution among fast glutamate receptors in different bilaterians |
| 16:15 | Ryan Hibbs | Decoding inhibition: native GABAA receptor assemblies in the human brain |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks | |
| 16:50 - 17:45 | Reception |