TriRhena Gene Regulation Club
The TriRhena Gene Regulation Club is a one-day symposium that brings together researchers from France (IGBMC), Germany (MPI-IE) and Switzerland (FMI) who share a common interest in gene regulation, and gives PhD students and postdocs the opportunity to share their unpublished work with the community, thereby strengthening international collaborations.
Next club event
- Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00-20:00
- Registration deadline: June 6, 2025.
- Venue: This meeting will be held at the MPI-IE in Freiburg.
Program
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 14:00 - 14:05 | Opening comments |
| 14:05 - 14:25 |
Olga Rosspopoff
(EPFL, Lausanne)
Transposable element co-option drives transcription factor neofunctionalization |
| 14:25 - 14:45 |
Lasha Dalakishvili
(IGBMC, Strasbourg)
Biophysical Modeling Uncovers Transcription Factor and Nucleosome Binding on Single DNA Molecules |
| 14:45 - 15:05 |
Luis Ferrández-Peral
(University of Basel)
Regulation of transcription start sites in brain development |
| 15:05 - 15:25 |
Kalina Świst-Rosowska
(MPI-IE, Freiburg)
The basic domain of Suv39h2 buffers nucleosome unfolding and stabilizes an RNA-nucleosome scaffold at mouse heterochromatin |
| 15:25 - 15:50 |
newPI talk: Raphaël Pantier
(IGBMC, Strasbourg)
New principles of global gene regulation by transcription factors promiscuously binding to AT-rich DNA |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 16:50 |
Chintan Chhatbar
(Uniklinik Freiburg)
Microglia, One Cell Type, Many Faces: A Unified Spatial Transcriptomic Map of Context-Dependent States |
| 16:50 - 17:10 |
Michele Nava (
ETH Zürich)
Heterochromatin tethered to the nuclear lamina via adapter proteins provides mechanical stability to the nucleus upon large deformation |
| 17:10 - 17:30 |
Aryan Kamal
(University of Basel)
Transcriptional regulation of cell fate plasticity in the hematopoietic system |
| 17:30 - 17:50 |
Wenjing Qi
(University of Freiburg)
Biogenesis control of small RNA fragments by the poly-U specific endoribonuclease ENDU-2 in C. elegans |
| 17:50 - 18:05 |
Boris Laukas
(10x Genomics)
Xenium - Revving up insights in spatial exploration |
| 18:05 - 20:00 | Closing remarks and then Apéro |
Practical Information
Register now
Participation is free, but registration is required. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The symposium offers no virtual participation via streaming.
Abstracts: present your work
A limited number of talk places are available. Everyone, especially young researchers and PhD students, are encouraged to submit their exciting new and unpublished work* for presentation.
*Abstracts will not be reproduced or made available to participants at the meeting.
- Abstract submission & Registration deadline: June 6, 2025
Directions to MPI-IE
The MPI-IE is located in Freiburg: Stuebeweg 51, 79108 Freiburg, Germany.
Get the directions to the MPI-IE here.
About the event
The “Gene Regulation Club” is a one-day symposium that unites groups at three research institutions for biomedical research on a regular basis:
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC, Strasbourg, France)
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI, Basel, Switzerland)
- Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics (MPI-IE, Freiburg, Germany)
The event has an intimate, interactive atmosphere with typically 100-120 participants from the TriRhena region. Each Gene Regulation Club will be dedicated to topics that revolve around the regulation of gene expression, such as chromatin, transcription, or RNA processing. In addition, PhD students and postdocs will present near-final but unpublished work from groups at each of the institutes. With an informal but high quality character of the meeting, we aim to stimulate discussion and inspire new collaborations within the Tri-Rhena area.
The Gene Regulation Club is the successor event for the popular TriRhena Chromatin Club.