• Intracellular transport
• Interactions with bacteria
• Cell motility and chemotaxis
• Multicellular development & morphogenesis
• Genome structure, expression & regulation
• Cell architecture & dynamics
• Biomedical significance

Bruno Lemaitre, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Drosophila immunity and endosymbionts

Michael Way, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Cellular signalling and cytoskeletal function

Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Biochemistry Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Biophysics and cell biology of signaling

Florence Niedergang, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
Biology of phagocytes

Françoise Stutz, Department of Cell Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Nuclear architecture, gene expression and silencing

Michel C. Milinkovitch, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Artificial and natural evolution

Very interesting workshops will take place on Monday August 21st and Tuesday August 22nd, starting at 20h00 (simultaneously with the Poster sessions):

- Amy Baldwin and Nicole Gruenheit:

     “GWDI-bank – Introducing the genome wide Dictyostelium insertion resource for functional genomics”

     “High content parallel phenotyping in Dictyostelium”

- Petra Fey:

     “dictyBase 2017: new tools and interfaces”

- Allyson E. Sgro:

     “Working toward proof-by-control of the signaling rules governing collective decisionmaking in Dictyostelium”

- Daniel Irimia:

     “The Next Dicty World Race”