Fifth meeting of MeDynA GDR
Dates
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 annual meeting of our GDR MéDynA will take place from November 12th (afternoon) to 14th (noon).
Invited speakers
- Edward Egelman (University of Virginia, USA. Cryo-electron microscopy and 3D reconstruction of helical assemblies) https://egelmanlab.org
- Zoher Gueroui (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Engineering and analysis of RNA condensates) https://www.chimie.ens.fr/recherche/laboratoire-pasteur/physical-and-biological-chemistry-of-living-matter/research/genetically‐encoded-functional-assemblies/
- Florence Hubert (Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. Mathematical modeling and numerical analysis of microtubules in cell migration) https://www.i2m.univ-amu.fr/perso/florence.hubert/
- Raphaël Guerois (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Saclay. Modeling of protein-based complexes) https://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/molecular-assemblies-and-genome-integrity/
- Luc Bousset (Laboratoire des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Orsay. Structural diversity of amyloid fibers) https://jacob.cea.fr/drf/ifrancoisjacob/Pages/Departements/MIRCen/themes/alzheimer-vieillissement-cerebral-modelisation.aspx
Registrations
For the registration, please fill the following file and send it by email to vlebrun@unistra.fr . Deadline for registration is September 15th.
Venue
The conference will take place in the conference room of ISIS (8 allée Gaspard Monge, 6700 Strasbourg). Accesible from train station directly with Tram C. Trams F and E also, as well as Bus G allow an easy access.
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By train. You can easily come by train (TER to Obernai) with a connection at Strasbourg Central Station. If you come from far away, we suggest you these TGVs:
- Bordeaux – Strasbourg : 7h45 – 12h38 / (or the direct 8h54-14h29 as a second option) . And return : 14h01-20h02.
- Marseille – Strasbourg : direct 8h12 – 13h43 (inoui9583). And return : 13h37-19h47 or the direct 16h16-21h49.
- By plane. You can reach the airport of Entzheim, and then reach Strasbourg directly with the TER (Entzheim airport is a station on the TER line Strasbourg).
Affordable rooms may be booked in the B&B hotel Nord Shiltigheim and Holiday Inn Nord Shiltigheim, that can be reached with the Bus G directly from Esplanade.
Similarly, hotels along the Tram C are convenient (eg Ibis Styles Stade de la Meinau; Appart’hôtel Adagio Access Strasbourg Illkirch, Ibis Styles Strasbourg Avenue du Rhin)
Otherwise, the closest hotels we could advise are : Hôtel Roses, Hôtel de l’Ill, Hôtel Esplanade.
The next MéDynA plenary meeting will be from 12th (afternoon) to 14th (noon) November 2024.
Communications : Presentations are an opportunity to showcase both our difficulties and our successes, with the aim of finding solutions from different backgrounds as well as contributing our own. Young people are therefore particularly encouraged to participate in the debates. As in every GdR meeting, we leave open the question of defining who is considered young