Day 1
Monday, September 15th, 2025
08.00 – 09.00 Registration
Session 1. Building the wall (Chair: Cécile Morlot, IBS, Grenoble, France)
09.00 – 09.30 Simonetta Gribalbo (Institut Pasteur, France)
09.30 – 10.00 Morten Kjos (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
10.00 – 10.15 Short talk 1
10.15 – 10.30 Short talk 2
10.30 Coffee break & Posters
11.00 – 11.30 Manjula Reddy (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India)
11.30 – 12.00 Joanna Timmins (Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France)
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon break
15.00 – 16.30 Coffee & Posters
Session 2. Modifying the Wall (Chair: David Roper, Univ Warwick, UK)
16.30 – 17.00 Felipe Cava (Umea University, Sweden)
17.00 – 17.30 Jie Xiao (Johns Hopkins School of Medecine, Baltimore, USA)
17.30 – 17.45 Short talk 3
17.45 – 18.00 Short talk 4
18.00 – 18.30 Jan-Willem Veening (University of Lausane, Switzerland)
18.30 – 19.00 Christophe Grangeasse (CNRS/University of Lyon, France)
19.00 Keynote Lecture – Lori Burrows (University of McMaster, Canada)
Day 2
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Session 3. Interactions with the wall (Chair: Bavesh Kana, Univ Witwatersand, South Africa)
09.00 – 09.30 Tobias Dörr (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
09.30 – 10.00 Julien Royet (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, France)
10.00 – 10.15 Short talk 5
10.15 – 10.30 Short talk 6
10.30 Coffee break & Posters
11.00 – 11.30 Ben Berks (Oxford University, UK)
11.30 – 12.00 Vinay K Nandicoori (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India)
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon break
15.00 – 16.30 Coffee & Posters
Session 4. Inhibition of the wall (Chair: Tanja Schneider, Univ Bonn, Germany)
16.30- 17.00 Nathaniel Martin (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
17.00 – 17.30 Markus Weingarth (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
17.30 – 17.45 Short talk 7
17.45 – 18.00 Short talk 8
18.00 – 18.30 Shahriar Mobashery (University of Notre Dame, USA)
18.30 – 19.00 Simon Foster (University of Sheffield, UK)
20.00 Cocktail and Gala Diner
Day 3
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
Session 5. Regulating the Wall (Chair: Ivo G Boneca, Institut Pasteur, France)
09.00 – 09.30 Beiyaan Nan (Taxes A&M, College Station, USA)
09.30 – 10.00 Kumaran Ramamurthi (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
10.00 – 10.15 Short talk 9
10.15 – 10.30 Short talk 10
10.30 Coffee break & Posters
11.00 – 11.30 Vikas Jain (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India)
11.30 – 12.00 Ian Henderson (University of Queensland, Australia)
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon break
15.00 – 16.30 Coffee & Posters
Session 6. Coordinating the Wall (with the cell cycle) (Chair: Petra Levin, Washington Univ , USA)
16.30 – 17.00 Thomas Bartlett (Wadsworth Center, USA)
17.00 – 17.30 Francisco Garcia del Portillo (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
17.30 – 17.45 Short talk 11
17.45 – 18.00 Short talk 12
18.00 – 18.30 Paula Navarro (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
18.30 – 19.00 Hesper Rego (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
19.00 Closing of the meeting and selection of the next venue