Keynote Speaker
Robert Haase
Invited Speakers
Sophie Acton
Pablo Carravilla
Kate McDole
Andreas Müller
Zania Stamataki
Dr Haase graduated in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden and did a PhD in medical image processing at the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus at the University of Technology TU Dresden, Germany. After deepening his expertise in bio-image analysis in the microscopy context in the Scientific Computing Facility and in Gene Myers lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, he became group leader for Bio-image Analysis Technology Development at the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Physics of Life” at the TU Dresden. His group is affiliated with and located at the Center for Systems Biology in Dresden. His research focuses on leveraging high-performance computing and facilitating advanced bio-image analysis and image data science techniques in the life sciences.
Dr Sophie Acton is a career development fellow currently funded by Cancer Research UK and the European Research Council. She graduated from the University of Bath in 2004, and received her PhD from UCL in 2008, studying mechanisms of tumour cell metastasis. Dr Acton spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and the Francis Crick Institute, London, working on immune cell trafficking and remodelling of lymphoid tissues. She started her group at the MRC laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology in 2016 working on the cell biology and tissue biology controlling immune responses within lymphoid tissue and tumour microenvironments.
Pablo Carravilla got his PhD at the Biophysics Institute of the University of the Basque Country, where he studied the organization of the HIV virus membrane and its physical properties. During his PhD, he visited Prof. Eggeling’s lab to perform super-resolution studies of antibody-HIV interactions, where he discovered advanced fluorescence microscopy. Shortly afterwards, Pablo obtained a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission to join Christian Eggeling’s group in Germany. Here, he is applying advanced and super-resolution microscopy approaches to study cellular and viral membranes.
Andreas Müller studied Biology at the TU Dresden and got his PhD at the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Medical Faculty. During this time he developed a novel correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) workflow to study the turnover of insulin secretory granules in pancreatic beta cells. For his PhD thesis he received the thesis award from the German Society for Electron Microscopy. During his postdoctoral studies he focused on the intracellular transport of insulin secretory granules using FIB-SEM to reconstruct the microtubule networks of beta cells and their interaction with insulin.
Dr Zania Stamataki is an Intermediate Career Fellow funded by the Medical Research Foundation. She obtained her PhD at Imperial College London and the Institute for Animal Health in Compton, studying B cell interactions with follicular dendritic cells and the impact of viral infection. Dr Stamataki learned in vivo lymphocyte biology as a postdoc at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and trained in hepatitis C virus research at the University of Birmingham before taking up an early career Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship to start her own group. Dr Stamataki is academic lead for early career researcher training and development and academic lead for the containment level 3 facility at the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Her group studies lymphocyte-hepatocyte interactions with a special focus on “enclysis”, a new live cell engulfment process discovered in her lab.
