Optogenetics Meeting 2023

Tentative Meeting Program

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Program

Latest update: September 25th, 2023

Day 1, Sunday, October 1st, 2023
	Opening Remarks
20:00	Keynote Lecture with Botond Roska (Chair: Tobias Moser) „Restoring vision”
	Get together
Day 2, Monday, October 2nd, 2023
from 07:00	Breakfast at La Cantina
08:30 – 10:15	Session 1: Translation (Chairs: Lukasz Jablonski and Tobias Moser)
08:30 – 08:55	Deniz Dalkara „Optogenetics in the retina - from circuit investigation to disease modeling and restoring vision”
08:55 – 09:20	Bettina Wolf and Marcus Jeschke „Optogenetic cochlea implants: from rodent early preclinical to non-human primates”
09:20 – 09:35	David Zipf „Optogenetics as a new approach to control gastric contractility”
09:35 – 09:50	Daniel Hillier „Optogenetics in large-animal models”
09:50 – 10:15	Stéphanie Lacour „Implantable optoelectronic interfaces”
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30	Session 2: Optogenetic Regulation of Protein Function (Chairs: Günter Mayer and Andreas Möglich)
10:45 – 11:10	Lukas Bugaj „Harnessing a multi-input/multi-output protein for novel optical and thermal probes”
11:10 – 11:35	Dagmar Wachten „How to control ciliary signaling by light”
11:35 – 11:50	Tejal Patwari „Optoribogenetics: Light dependent control of biological processes through PAL-RNA system”
11:50 – 12:15	Michael Wenzel „Controlling epilepsy with targeted phototherapeutics”
12:15 – 12:40	Wilfried Weber „Programming cells and materials with light”
12:40	Lunch
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:55	Session 3: Cardiac (Chairs: Stephan Lehnart and Philipp Sasse)
16:00 – 16:25	Emilia Entcheva „Applications of optogenetics to high-throughput all-optical cardiac electrophysiology for human functional genomics”
16:25 – 16:50	Leonardo Sacconi „All-optical electrophysiology in single cardiomyocyte and isolated heart”
16:50 – 17:10	Franziska Schneider-Warme „Illuminating the heterocellular heart: optogenetic approaches to assess non-myocyte contributions to cardiac electrophysiology”
17:10 – 17:25	Judith Weidtmann „Contrary effects of optogenetic- or K+ induced pre-depolarisation on cardiac conduction”
17:25 – 17:40	Claudia Richter „Always the same? – Effects of sex and tissue remodelling in aging optogenetic hearts by means of successful arrhythmia phototermination”
17:40 – 17:55	Silvia Rodriguez Rozada „Optogenetic modulation of cardiac function in freely moving mice”
18:00	Dinner
20:15	Keynote Lecture with Alexander Gottschalk (Chair: Franziska Schneider-Warme) „Optogenetic voltage clamp, OG tools for neurotransmission, and a new molecular solution for sensing UV and blue light”
Day 3, Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
from 07:00	Breakfast at La Cantina
08:30 – 10:15	Session 4: Brain (Chairs: Thomas Frank and Simon Wiegert)
08:30 – 08:55	Werner Hemmert „Watching hearing with a neuro-implant: Ultra-high resolution models of neural activity in the human inner ear”
08:55 – 09:20	Thomas Oertner „E Pluribus Unum: Optogenetic control reveals flaws in the interpretation of pharmacological experiments”
09:20 – 09:45	Sevil Duvarci „Functional architecture of dopamine neurons driving fear extinction learning”
09:45 – 10:00	Johannes Letzkus „Top-down control of neocortical threat memory”
10:00 – 10:15	Lukas Faiss „Shedding light on presynaptic plasticity: Unveiling the secrets of contralateral projecting synapses in the hippocampus”
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30	Session 5: New ChRs (Chairs: Johannes Vierock and Thomas Mager)
10:45 – 11:10	Peter Hegemann „Unexpected rhodopsins with optogenetic potential”
11:10 – 11:30	Thomas Mager „ChReef – An improved ChR for future optogenetic therapies”
11:30 – 11:50	Johannes Vierock „New light gated ion channels for multicolor optogenetics”
11:50 – 12:03	Elizaveta Podoliak „Electrophysiological characterization of a novel family of anion channelrhodopsins from Chrompodellida algae in mammalian cell lines and human iPSC-derived neurons”
12:03 – 12:15	Alexey Alekseev „Establishing an automated screening pipeline for channelrhodopsin variants: Combining planar patch-clamp and spinning disc confocal microscopy”
12:15 – 12:30	Stanislav Ott „Kalium channelrhodopsins effectively inhibit invertebrate neurons”
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:30	Poster Session & Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	Session 6: OptoGPCR / Membrane receptors (Chairs: Stefan Herlitze and Tobias Brügmann)
16:30 – 16:50	Ida Siveke „InLOV: Optogenetics for light controlled insulin signaling”
16:50 – 17:05	Arend Vogt „A simultaneous spectral illumination device for the characterization of opto-GPCRs and engineered red light-activated cyclases in microplates”
17:05 – 17:20	Richard McDowell „Spectral sensitivities of mammalian melanopsins”
17:20 – 17:35	Siri Leemann „Functional optimization of the Opto-GPCR toolkit: shining light on the importance of the proximal C-terminus”
17:35 – 18:00	Sonja Kleinlogel „Optogenetic vision restoration: The many ways to get the best out of bipolar cells”
19:00	Dinner
Day 4, Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
from 07:00	Breakfast at La Cantina
08:30 – 10:10	Session 7: Imaging (Chairs: Jan Huisken and Antoine Huet)
08:30 – 08:55	Ed Boyden „Optical tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems”
08:55 – 09:20	Emilie Macé „POpto-fUS: Unveiling whole-brain optogenetic effects using functional ultrasound imaging”
09:20 – 09:40	Christiane Grimm „Rhodopsin-based GEVIs for one- and two-photon voltage imaging”
09:40 – 09:55	Mostafa Aakhte „Cleared tissue light sheet microscopy with isotropic resolution”
09:55 – 10:10	Anupriya Thirumalai and Lennart Roos „Cochlear optogenetics and nano-structure visualized by light sheet fluorescence microscopy”
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30	Session 8: Optogenetic Switches for Regulation of intra- and extracellular Processes (Chairs: Matias Zurbriggen and Andreas Möglich)
10:45 – 11:10	Jeff Tabor „Phytochrome-family proteins for bacterial optogenetics”
11:10 – 11:25	Giada Forlani „Tracking DNA damage in living cells with an optogenetically-induced nanobody against γ-H2AX”
11:25 – 11:40	Stefanie Meier „Control of bacterial expression by red light”
11:40 – 12:00	Kun Tang „Optogenetic control of gene expression and subcellular protein localization with synthetic cyanobacteriochrome-based light-inducible dimers”
12:00 – 12:15	Robert Hughes „A single component optogenetic biosensor of cellular stress”
12:20	Closing remarks