Symposium 'Why so Many Ways to Die?'

For whom
Employees , Students
When
19-03-2026 from 12:00 to 19:30
Where
Hybrid: Campus Ardoyen - Seminar room - FSVM I Building, Tech Lane Ghent Science Park 71, 9052 Zwijnaarde
Language
English
Organizer
Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology (Faculty of Sciences) and Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Contact
kim.dekeyser@ugent.be
Website
https://www.ugent.be/ge/en/research/interdisciplinary-medicine-health-seminars.htm

The Departments of Biomedical Molecular Biology and Internal Medicine & Pediatrics host a symposium for the honorary doctorate of Prof Vishva Dixit.

Programme

  • 12:45: Welcome - Isabel Van Driessche (Dean of the Faculty of Sciences)
  • 13:00: Life and death, an intricate relationship - Peter Vandenabeele (UGent)
  • 13:15: Why so Many Ways to Die? - Vishva Dixit (Genentech)
  • 14:00: Cell death-inflammation crosstalk in inflammatory monocytes - Mohamed Lamkanfi (UGent)
  • 14:30: Gasdermin Pores in Inflammatory Cell Death - Katia Cosentino (University of Osnabrück)
  • 15:00: HA20 and ORAS: mechanistic insights in human diseases through mouse models - Geert van Loo (UGent)
  • 15:30: coffee break
  • 16:00: Divergent effects of inflammation with and without cell death in metabolic syndrome - Nieves Peltzer (University of Stuttgart)
  • 16:30: Ferroptosis inhibition: a new frontier in organ transplantation - Tom vanden Berghe (UAntwerp)
  • 17:00: Decoding Plant Metacaspase Functions: From Proteolytic Signatures to Cell Fate Control - Frank Van Breusegem (UGent)
  • 17:30: Genentech Postdoctoral Program - Vishva Dixit (Genentech)
  • 18:00: reception
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