Conference on Michael’s Domain

Lymphologie 2019

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A week ago, I visited Germany to participate in the Lymphologie 2019 conference, which took place in Bad Krozingen near Freiburg.The conference is jointly organized every two years by the DGL ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lymphologie ) and the GDL ( Gesellschaft Deutschsprachiger Lymphologen ). The meeting is overall very hands-on and clinically oriented with many workshops and practical advice. Therefore, it’s highly recommended for practitioners who are able to understand German. However, there is also a “basic science” track, and the organizers always manage to recruit some decent scientists for this track (see here: https://www.lymphologie-kongress.de/programm/samstag-03-10-15/) . Notably, the talks are delivered in German, which doesn’t make the recruiting task easier. Lymphologists in Germany continue to play a leading role in the treatment of lymphedema (and recently lipedema) with uniquely specialized experts and facilities ( Földiklinik ), but English has become the language of biomedical research also in Germany. However, there is still a need for dissemination of research results in German language and that’s why I contribute occasionally to the German-language journal “Lymphologie in Forschung und Praxis”.

ISK 2019

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The International Symposium on Kallikreins and Kallikrein-related Peptidases (ISK) took place on September 25.-27. in Prague. Being not from the kallikrein-field, I learned a lot. E.g. I was not aware that KLK4 can activate plasminogen (a fact that might explain some of our early, inconsistent results where KLK4 occasionally seemed to weakly activate VEGF-C in cell culture). Not surprisingly, many participants were interested in our findings that KLK3/PSA can activate the growth factors VEGF-C and VEGF-D, both of which are implicated in cancer progression, notably in metastasis. They confirmed that there is not very much research on the effect of KLK3/PSA mutations on human fertility, but I am sure that someone is going to look at that.Even though it is considered more prestigious to deliver a speech than to present a poster, I have to reconsider and perhaps will present next time a poster. What I would prefer most: talking AND presenting and poster. Why do so few conferences offer this possibility? What depth can you delve into if you have only 15 minutes on stage? Has the attention span of conference participants really decreased over the recent decades due to Facebook, Youtube and Instagram? Maybe: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/humans-have-shorter-attention-span-than-goldfish-thanks-to-smart/The atmosphere at the conference was really friendly and cooperative, perhaps also owing to the relatively small number of participants. If we really should extend our excursion into the KLK-field, I have many experts to turn to for help. I also met some researchers from the Charles University of Prague, who are doing lymphatic research and it looks like we can help each other out with our specific experimental possibilities. All in all, a very successful trip. Excluding the Lufthansa flight back home, which arrived so late for transit in Frankfurt that I did not manage to do shopping there on my way back as I had originally planned (many shops in Germany do close at 5 pm).

IVBM 2018 & 2020 (poster, talk, and virtual poster walk through)

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

IVBM 2018The International Vascular Biology Conference 2018 in the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been a big success so far. We received lots of positive feedback for the organization from the participants. Also my talk (“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Proteolytic Processing of VEGF-C”) and my poster received good attention.Below the poster as a PDF download.IVBM 2020The IVBM 2020 in Seoul, South Korea, moved completely online. Unfortunately, some talks are only available for a very short time (one day), and I missed already a few of those. A physical conference has the advantage that it makes sure that you can pay full attention to the event. An online event has to compete with many other issues that are trying to grab your attention.

FEBS 2004

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000

My poster for the FEBS 2004 conference in Warsaw.

Dissecting Lymphangiogenesis and Angiogenesis

Fri, 07 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The presentation slides below are for some reason extremely slow to load (about 2 minutes). You need to be very patient! Flash support has been ended by all current browsers, and this page uses Ruffle , a Flash Player emulator written in Rust, to resurrect these dead files.

Kloster Seeon Conference (October 1-4, 2000): Exploring the VEGF protein space

Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I participated in the first International Kloster Seeon “Angiogenesis” Meeting" https://www.vwfb.de/seeon-meetings in Germany, with a poster about VEGF growth factors. The venue was excellent: a former Benedictine monastery in Upper Bavaria .

The Alphabet of Angiogenesis

Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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