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HypoxEU Live
Essen, Germany
27 – 30 September 2026

We are pleased to announce the 3rd HypoxEU in-person event. It will take place from 27 to 30 September 2026 in Essen, Germany. Further information can be found below. Register now to attend.

15:00

Registration (at the Lehr-Lern-Gebäude entrance) and Poster setup (Mensa)

18:00

Welcome to HypoxEU LIVE Essen (Joachim Fandrey)

18:05

Introducing the keynote speaker (by Chris Pugh)
Ross Rickaby/Jeroen Smaers – Biogeochemistry and Evolutionary Biology of Oxygen

19:00

Social Hour

20:00

End of the Day

Session 1: 09:00

Basic mechanisms of oxygen homeostasis (Edurne Berra & Brian Ortmann)

  • Sonia Rocha, University of Liverpool: Oxygen-dependent PHD1-mediated prolyl hydroxylation in controlling progression through mitosis
  • Alexey Shapiguzov, University of Helsinki: Mitochondria affect photosynthesis through altered tissue levels of O2
  • Jing Zhang, University of Wuhan: Hypoxia-induced alteration in chromatin looping

Flash talks: Plus 2-3 selected from abstracts

10:40

Short Break

Session 2: 11:00

Hypoxia in developmental and regenerative biology (Christian Stockmann & Carsten Scholz)

  • Can Aztekin, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen: The role of hypoxia on limb development and regeneration in axolotl and tadpoles.
  • Katrien de Boeck/Jess Snedeker, ETH, Zurich: The role of HIFs in tendinopathy
    and tendon regeneration.
  • Philipp Lehmann, Greifswald: Hypoxia on insect development (including beetles and
    butterflies), specifically on diapause, and energy metabolism.

Flash talks: Plus 2-3 selected from abstracts

12:40

Poster Session Lunch (all posters)

Session 3: 14:40

Oxygen sensing as a regulator of inflammation (Peter Mirtschink and Ben Wielockx)

  • Sarah Walmsley, Edinburgh, UK: Reprogramming the Neutrophil
  • Emily DeMichele, Dublin, Ireland: The impact of HIF1 during cancer-specific metabolic
    adaptations
  • Christa Maes, Leuven, Belgium: Pharmacological HIF activation protects against diet-induced obesity and skeletal dysfunction

Flash talks: Plus 2-3 selected from abstracts

16:20

Short Break

16:50

Keynote #2 Speaker tbc

17:30

End Of The Day

Session 4: 09:00

Metabolic Consequences of Hypoxia (Cormac Taylor & Raphael Fagundes Rosa)

  • Yoshi Henning, Essen, Germany: Targeting hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in cell death and
    metabolic dysregulation.
  • Brian Ortmann, Newcastle, UK: Chromatin modifications in hypoxia
  • Marcos Aurelio Ramirez Vitolo, São Paulo, Brazil: HIF-1 and the Gut Microbiome
  • Edurne Berra, CIC BioGUNE, Derio, Spain: Decoding Hypoxia’s Metabolic Fingerprint Through Polyamines

Flash talks: Plus 2 selected from abstracts

10:40

Short Break

Session 5: 11:00

Hypoxia response and therapeutic indications (Johanna Myllyharju & Peppi Karppinen)

  • Betty Gardie, University of Nantes: Study of hypoxia-related genes associated with hereditary erythrocytosis
  • Dörthe Katschinski, University of Göttingen: Compartment-specific hydrogen peroxide
    production in cardiomyocyte redox signaling and function
  • Peppi Karppinen (Koivunen): Cardiometabolic outcomes of roxadustat in healthy volunteers

Flash talks: Plus 2-3 selected from abstracts

12:40

Poster Session Lunch (all posters)

Session 6: 14:40

Innate and adaptive immunity (Sandra Winning and Brenda Krishnacoumar)

  • Kami Pekayvaz, Munich: Hypoxic monocytes acquire a HIF1a-mediated thrombus resolving profile
  • Hannah Sperber, Essen: Hypoxic CD73 surface expression of HIV latently infected CD4 + T-cells
  • Aline Bozec, Erlangen: HIF signaling pathways affecting adaptive immune responses, inflammation, and bone homeostasis

Flash talks: Plus 2-3 selected from abstracts

16:10

Short Break

Session 7: 17:00

Rapid oxygen sensing and hypoxia pathway cancers (Tammie Bishop)

  • James Nathan, University of Cambridge: Insights into HIF dependent and independent
    signaling
  • Tom Keeley, University of Oxford: Oxygen homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
  • Rodrigo Toledo, CNIS: The interplay between genetics and environment in hypoxia pathway tumors

Flash talks: Plus 2 selected from abstracts

18:30

Closing remarks by Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe

19:00

Social Hour

20:00

End Of The Day

Our location

Lehr- und Lernzentrum der Medizinischen Fakultät

Virchowstraße 163a
45147 Essen

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