The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 17, 2018 at the Great and Small Conference Hall of the

Rectorate of the UK, Ovocný trh 560/5

Program:

10:00 – 10:30

Welcome address and presentation of the Primus program

Welcome words

Dr. Jan Konvalinka

prof. Pavel Hobza

10:30 – 11:00

Selected ERC grant investigators from Charles University

Matyáš Fendrych, Ph.D.

Unraveling the molecular network that drives cell growth in plants

Vladimír Hampl, Ph.D.

Life without mitochondrion

11:00 – 11:15

Application pipeline for ERC grants at Charles University

prof. Zdeněk Strakoš

11:15 – 12:30

Selected Primus investigators

James Joseph Tufano, Ph.D.

Assisted Jumping in the Elderly: a Novel Method of Physican Excercise

Pavel Doležal, Ph.D.

Biogenesis, structure and function of the infection stages in the parasitic protists

Pavel Otáhal, M.D., Ph.D.

Gene-modified T cells for the adoptive immunotherapy of cancer

12:30 – 15:00

Lunch with poster session and networking

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Surprise at the end:

prof. Petr Slavíček

"Science of Science"