Day 1 | Wednesday, 26th February 2025
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Registration
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Welcome Address by Max Thompson and Vasilis Papadogiannis
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15:45 - 16:30 |
Keynote Speaker
"Mechanisms that drive 3D genome folding and their function in gene regulation"
Dr. Marieke Oudelaar, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Göttingen, Germany Chair: Max Thompson |
Session 1: “Regulation of Gene Expression in Disease” Chair: Jayalini Assalaarachchi
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16:30 -16:45 |
"Two wrongs make a right: how GPCR antagonists can rescue mutant receptors" Taylor Mighell
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16:45 - 17:00 |
"Extrachromosomal circular DNA and the emergence of drug resistance" Alex Whale
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17:00 - 17:15 |
"Integration of multi-OMICs and Radio-OMICs for the development of novel anti-cancer therapies" Raj Sewduth
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17:15 - 18:00 |
Networking Break - Welcome drinks
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18:00 - 19:30 |
Workshop: “Grant Writing Workshop a.k.a. How to Ask for Money” Chair: Vasilis Papadogiannis
- Dr. Alice Bolner, Scientific Officer in the ERC executive agency for the panels LS3
- André Matias Evaldt De Barros, Strategy & Funding Office, CRG, Barcelona
- Dr. Marieke Oudelaar, EMBO YIP, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Göttingen, Germany (https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/oudelaar)
- Dr. Manuel Irimia, Group Leader, CRG, Barcelona (https://www.transdevolab.com/)
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Day 2 | Thursday, 27th February 2025
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09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote Speaker
"Modelling human early pregnancy with stem cells"
Dr. Nicolas Rivron, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Chair: Joseph Bowness |
Session 2: “Genome Regulation in Evolution and Development”
Chair: Mikhail Rotkevich
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09:45 - 10:00 |
"New approaches to study the regulators of human trophoblast development" Irene Zorzan
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10:00 - 10:15 |
"Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome" Iana Kim
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10:15 - 10:30 |
"Uncovering novel regulators of epigenetic priming through combinatorial CRISPR screening and multiomic sequencing" Komal Yasmin
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10:30 - 11:05 |
Flash talks for Poster Session 1 Chair: Aida Rodriguez |
11:05 - 11:30 |
Networking break
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11:30 - 13:00 |
Discussion Panel 1: “How to Highlight and Disseminate your Science Chair: Hanane Hadj-Moussa
- Dr. Michael Norman, BI’s Public Engagement Manager
- Dr. Sofia Araujo, Universitat de Barcelona
- Dr. Reinier Prosée, Prelights Community Manager (https://prelights.biologists.com/)
- Dr. Ilse Valtierra Gutierrez, Senior Editor, Nature Communications
- Omar Jamshed, CRG Senior Press & Communications Officer
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch break and Networking
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Session 3: “Unravelling the complexity of the Proteome” Chair: Yoon Hee Choi
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14:00 - 14:15 |
"Uncovering stress-induced responses in the tRNAome of actively translating ribosomes" Mie Monti
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14:15 - 14:30 |
"Capturing the polyUbiquitylome with pUb-STRACTER (Stringent Trypsin-Resistant Affinity Capture with Targeted Enzymatic Recovery)" Harvey Johnston
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14:30 - 14:45 |
"Molecular Choreography: γTuRC's Open-to-Closed Transition for Microtubule Birth" Cláudia Fernandes Brito
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14:45 - 15:20 |
Flash talks for Poster Session 2 Chair: Chiara Azzi
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15:20 - 16:20 |
Poster Session 1 and 2 and Refreshment
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16:20 - 19:00 |
Group Activity (optional)
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19:00 |
Dinner (Optional)
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Day 3 | Friday, 28th February 2025
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09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote Speaker
"When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cell plasticity"
Dr. Maria Abad, Altos Labs, Cambridge, UK Chair: Yoon Hee Choi |
Session 4: “Mechanisms of Healthy aging” Chair: Hanane Hadj-Moussa
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09:45 - 10:00 |
"Systematic mapping of organism-scale gene-regulatory networks in aging using population asynchrony" Matthias Eder
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10:00 - 10:15 |
"Primordial oocytes display low susceptibility to aging" Marion Salzer
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10:15 - 10:30 |
"Exploring homeostatic mechanisms of insulin peptide processing and Insulin/IGF1 signaling" Lucia Sedlackova
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Flash talks for Poster Session 3 Chair: Iana Kim
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Networking Break
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Session 5: “Cellular and Molecular Biology of our Immune System” Chair: Joseph Bowness
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11:30 - 11:45 |
"Antigenic and environmental influences on CD8 T cell differentiation" Veera Panova
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11:45 - 12:00 |
"Ectopic lung germinal centres support functional affinity maturation despite disordered structure " Stephane Guillaume
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12:00 - 12:15 |
"A posttranscriptional checkpoint determines T cell tolerance versus immunity" Georg Petkau
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12:15 - 12:45 |
Flash talks for Poster Session 4 Chair: Hanane Hadj-Moussa
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12:45 - 13:45 |
Lunch Break and Networking
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13:45 - 15:15 |
Discussion Panel 2: “Career Development beyond Academia” Chair: Devadathan Sethumadhavan
- Dr. Sonia Trigueros, Founder/Director of NIVD, Barcelona (https://nivd.world/)
- Cedric Notredame, Founder and editor of NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, CRG group leader
- Dr. Iris Uribesalgo, EU-LIFE policy maker
- Dr. Cheryl Smythe, Research management after lab-based research (Altos- Cambridge)
- Dr. Diana Dominguez Rodriguez, CRG New Ventures Manager
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15:15 - 16:30 |
Poster Session 3 and 4 and refreshments
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Closing remarks and prizes by: Hanane Hadj-Moussa and Iana Kim
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17:00 |
Departure
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