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International Postdoc Symposium | Gene regulation in development, aging and disease

International Postdoc Symposium | Gene regulation in development, aging and diseaseInternational Postdoc Symposium | Gene regulation in development, aging and disease

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Program

 

Day 1 | Wednesday, 26th February 2025

15:00 - 15:30 Registration
 
15:30 - 15:45 Welcome Address by Max Thompson and Vasilis Papadogiannis
 
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
16:30 -16:45 "Two wrongs make a right: how GPCR antagonists can rescue mutant receptors"
Taylor Mighell

 
16:45 - 17:00 "Extrachromosomal circular DNA and the emergence of drug resistance"
Alex Whale

 
17:00 - 17:15 "Integration of multi-OMICs and Radio-OMICs for the development of novel anti-cancer therapies"
Raj Sewduth
 
17:15 - 18:00 Networking Break -  Welcome drinks
 
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/)
   

Day 2 | Thursday, 27th February 2025

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
09:45 - 10:00 "New approaches to study the regulators of human trophoblast development"
Irene Zorzan

 
10:00 - 10:15 "Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome"
Iana Kim

 
10:15 - 10:30 "Uncovering novel regulators of epigenetic priming through combinatorial CRISPR screening and multiomic sequencing"
Komal Yasmin

 
10:30 - 11:05 Flash talks for Poster Session 1 
Chair: Aida Rodriguez
11:05 - 11:30 Networking break
 
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
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break and Networking
 
Session 3: “Unravelling the complexity of the Proteome”
Chair: Yoon Hee Choi

 
14:00 - 14:15 "Uncovering stress-induced responses in the tRNAome of actively translating ribosomes"
Mie Monti

 
14:15 - 14:30 "Capturing the polyUbiquitylome with pUb-STRACTER (Stringent Trypsin-Resistant Affinity Capture with Targeted Enzymatic Recovery)"
Harvey Johnston

 
14:30 - 14:45 "Molecular Choreography: γTuRC's Open-to-Closed Transition for Microtubule Birth"
Cláudia Fernandes Brito

 
14:45 - 15:20 Flash talks for Poster Session 2 
Chair: Chiara Azzi 
 
15:20 - 16:20 Poster Session 1 and 2 and Refreshment
 
16:20 - 19:00 Group Activity (optional)
 
19:00   Dinner (Optional)
 
   

Day 3 | Friday, 28th February 2025

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

 
09:45 - 10:00 "Systematic mapping of organism-scale gene-regulatory networks in aging using population asynchrony"
Matthias Eder

 
10:00 - 10:15  "Primordial oocytes display low susceptibility to aging"
Marion Salzer

 
10:15 - 10:30 "Exploring homeostatic mechanisms of insulin peptide processing and Insulin/IGF1 signaling"
Lucia Sedlackova

 
10:30 - 11:00 Flash talks for Poster Session 3
Chair: Iana Kim
 
11:00 - 11:30 Networking Break
 
Session 5: “Cellular and Molecular Biology of our Immune System” 
Chair: Joseph Bowness
11:30 - 11:45 "Antigenic and environmental influences on CD8 T cell differentiation"
Veera Panova

 
11:45 - 12:00 "Ectopic lung germinal centres support functional affinity maturation despite disordered structure "
Stephane Guillaume

 
12:00 - 12:15 "A posttranscriptional checkpoint determines T cell tolerance versus immunity"
Georg Petkau

 
12:15 - 12:45 Flash talks for Poster Session 4
Chair: Hanane Hadj-Moussa
 
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break and Networking
 
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
15:15 - 16:30 Poster Session 3 and 4 and refreshments
 
16:30 - 17:00 Closing remarks and prizes by: Hanane Hadj-Moussa and Iana Kim
 
17:00 Departure
 

 

** Note: Titles and timings of sessions will be finalized upon abstract selection.