Program for the URCUP 2024 (last update: 11.10.2024)

Departure: Saturday, 12.10.2024 09:30 AM; Butenandtstr. in front of building B

Saturday, 12.10.2024

11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:15-13:30 Welcome (Hendrik Zipse)
13:30-15:00 Session 1 (chair: Hendrik Zipse)
13:30-14:00 Erkan Aydin (Physical Chemistry)
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells: The role of molecular engineering
14:00-14:30 Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic (Bioinorganic Chemistry)
Exploring Redox Reactions: From Molecular Mechanisms to Practical Applications
14:30-15:00 Julian Marschner (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
Validating molecular targets and unravelling downstream biology with chemogenomics
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 2 (chair: Erkan Aydin)
15:30-16:00 Matthias Roos (Vodafone Deutschland)
Product Owner – a viable path for a chemistry PhD?
16:00-16:30 Hubert Kettenberger (Roche)
At the birthplace of new medicines: Discovery and design of therapeutic proteins at Roche
16:30-17:00 Ioannis Sapountzis (Boehringer Ingelheim)
Life Forward – a scientist’s journey in the pharmaceutical industry
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-18:30 Session 3: Flash Poster Presentations (chair: Paul Kropp)
18:30-20:00 Dinner
20:00-open end Poster Session


Sunday, 13.10.2024

07:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:30 Session 4 (chair: Alena Khmelinskaia)
09:00-09:30 Frederic Laquai (Physical Chemistry)
Emerging Semiconductor Materials for Solar Energy Conversion
09:30-10:00 Andrea Rentmeister (Chemical Biology)
Expanding the Scope of mRNA by Chemical Modifications
10:00-10:30 Martin Biel (Pharmacology)
Ocular Gene Therapy – From Bench to Bed Side
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 5 (chair: Julian Marschner)
11:00-11:30 Yvonne Pudritz (Clinical Pharmacy)
Patients, Pharmacology, and (Clinical) Pharmacy: from Theory to Practice to Theory
11:30-12:00 Jonathan Bohlen (Biochemistry)
Human genetics as a tool to understand immunity
12:00-12:30 Alena Khmelinskaia (Physical Chemistry)
(First) Tales of Dynamic Protein Assembly Design
12:30-12:45 Closing Remarks / Outlook (Wolfgang Frieß)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Monastery Tour
15:30 Departure at Kloster Irsee