Previous Events

Date	Guest Speaker	SFB projects
Jan 13, 2020		B05_Marciniak-Czochra: Moritz Mercker "Wnt-driven pattern formation in Hydra" B06_Martin-Villalba): Oguzhan Kaya "The role of Wnt signaling in glioblastoma progression"
Dec 09, 2020	Marco Milán (IRB Barcelona) "Anisotropic tissue growth by two orthogonal morphogen gradients" Tianzuo Zhan (UMM Mannheim) “MEK inhibitors activate Wnt signaling and induce stem cell plasticity in colorectal cancer”
Nov 9, 2019	Frederic Lluis Vinas (KU Leuven, Belgium) "Uncoupling the pleiotropic effects of Wnt in pluripotency"	B03_Acebron: Anja Bufe "The role of Wnt signaling for mitosis" B03_Bastians: Yu-Chih Lin "The role of Wnt signaling for mitosis"
Oct 14, 2019	Steffen Scholpp (University of Exeter) "Intercellular Wnt trafficking in vertebrates"	Suat Özbek "A Wnt-specific Astacin Proteinase Controls Head Formation in Hydra" B04_Wittbrodt: Sevinc Gücüm "A Fish Model of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation to Study Vertebrate Central Nervous System Development"
Sep 02, 2019	Josephine Bageritz (DKFZ, Heidelberg) "How to make a gene expression atlas of a developing tissue"	A03_Gross: Pradhipa Karuna "Ykt6-dependent regulation of Wnt secretion" A04_Brügger/Boutros: Diego Aponte "Role of lipids in Wnt secretion"
Jul 08, 2019	Kerstin Bartscherer (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht) "Understanding regeneration initiation – from planarians to spiny mice"	A02_Augustin: Donato Inverso "The Tyrosine kinase receptor Tie1 shapes different organo-specific Wnt codes" B02_Aulehla: Carina Vibe "Exploring the mechanisms underlying robust patterning in the medaka model"
Jun 03, 2019	Marek Mlodzik (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York) "Wnt-signaling pathways and their link to non-ciliary functions of cilia associated proteins"	A01_Boutros: Fillip Port "A large-scale resource for tissue-specific CRISPR mutagenesis in Drosophila" B01_Niehrs: Minseong Kim "Role of Protein Phosphatase in Wnt regulation"
May 13, 2019		B07_Sinning: Andrea Svorinic "Role of DEAD box RNA helicases in kinase regulation during Wnt signaling" Z03_Boutros: Oksana Voloshanenko "Multiplex CRISPR targeting of FZD and DVL gene families" Z04_Krijgsveld: Dimitris Papageorgiou "Proteomic strategies for mechanistic understanding of Wnt signaling pathways"
Apr 08, 2019	Gilbert Weidinger (Ulm University) "Regulation of cellular plasticity during zebrafish bone regeneration"	Z02_Nienhaus: Antonia Eckert / Petr Pospisil "Quantitative fluorescence microscopy for the analysis of Wnt pathway interactions and dynamics" Z02 Ulrike Engel "Advanced fluorescence microscopy"
Mar 4, 2019	Mario Vallon "Regulation of Wnt7 signaling by GPR124 and RECK"	B05_Marciniak-Czochra "Mathematical modelling of Wnt-driven pattern formation during hydra development" B06_Martin-Villalba: Oguzhan Kaya "The role of Wnt-signaling in tumor initiation and progression"
Feb 11, 2019		A04_Brügger: Diego Aponte "Role of lipids in Wnt secretion" A04_Boutros: Alena Ivanova "Secretion mechanisms of Wnt proteins" A03 Julia Gross "Unusual SNARE Ykt6 in the regulation of Wnt trafficking"
Jan 14, 2019		A05_Holstein: Anja Tursch "Signal integration through MAPKs modulates Wnt expression during Hydra head regeneration" B03_Acebron: Anja Bufe "The roles of Wnt signaling in mitosis" B03_Bastians: Yu- Chih Lin "The role of Wnt/STOP in mitotic chromosome segregation"
Dec 03, 2018	Florian Leuschner (Heidelberg University Hospital) Myeloid responses after myocardial injury – the involvement of Wnt signaling	A06_Davidson/Nienhaus: Xianxian Wang "Advanced fluorescence microscopy for the quantitative analysis of Wnt ligand/receptor interactions" B04_Wittbrodt: Lucie Zilova "The emergence of retinal stem cells"
Nov 20, 2018	Natalia Soshnikova (Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz) Wnt signaling and specification of intestinal stem cell progenitors	A02_Augustin: Ki Hong Lee "Angiocrine Wnt signaling in the liver vasculature" B02_Aulehla: Nobuko Tsuchida-Straeten "Novel reporter mouse lines to quantify Wnt3a protein dynamics"
Oct 15, 2018	Julia Ladewig (HITBR, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim): "Niche disruptions and alterations in Wnt signaling contributing to Lissencephaly-type cortical malformations" Carsten Müller-Tidow (Heidelberg University Hospital): "Regulation of leukemic stem cell activity"	A01_Boutros: Oksana Voloshanenko "Mechanisms of Wnt11 secretion" B01_Niehrs: Edoardo Fatti "Role of DDX RNA helicases in the regulation of Wnt pathway kinases"