ScheduleEvent local time
Day 1. Thursday, October 19
(Please see below for flash talks speakers and titles)
13:45 Registration
14:15 Welcome
14:30 Virginie Uhlmann, EMBL-EBI Cambridge
Turning biological morphology into numbers
15:15 Flash talks by MELIS pre- and postdocs
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Flash talks by MELIS pre- and postdocs
17:45 David Baker, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
Design of new protein functions using deep learning
Note: David Baker's talk will be an online conference streamed only in the PRBB Auditorium
Day 2. Friday, October 20
08:45 Welcome
09:00 Fernando Burdío, Hospital del Mar Research Institute Barcelona and MELIS-UPF
Opportunities and challenges in thermal ablation therapies
09:45 Mireia Vallès-Colomer, MELIS-UPF
How do our body-associated microorganisms spread? The person-to-person transmission landscape of the human microbiome
10:30 Christian Schröter, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Collective cell differentiation in early mammalian development
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Arnau Busquets, Hospital del Mar Research Institute Barcelona
Subcellular, cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying mouse behavior
12:30 Cristina Pina, Brunel University London
Noise and choices in leukaemia evolution
13:15 Awards and closing
Flash talks
Speaker |
Title |
Lucía de los Reyes Ramírez |
Behavioral and molecular outcomes of targeting CB1 receptor in a mouse model of intellectual disability |
Patricia Pérez Schmidt |
Synthesis and characterization of novel targeting nanomaterials |
Pablo Borredat |
DNA damage repair in tumour suppression |
Mar Crego Walters |
Genomic analysis of wild Bonobo populations using non-invasive samples |
Laura Ribalta |
Unraveling the neural changes induced by food addiction |
Leandro Jorquera |
Retrotransposons: a potential tool for mammalian genome engineering |
Paula Cebollada Rica |
The prize to pay in acute infections |
Mireia Ramos Rodríguez |
Noncoding regulatory functions in β-cell derived neuroendocrine tumors |
Núria Saladié Elías |
"I'm never going to use this in real life!" How master degrees in science communication help alumni enter the workforce |
María Torralvo Márquez |
Evolution of epigenomics and gene regulation in the primate radiation |
Maria del Mar Cajiao |
Preventing Tomorrow 's Addiction: Navigating Adolescent Risk Factors for Adult Cannabis Use Disorder |
Etna Abad |
The p53-activated E3 ligase RNF144B is a tumour suppressor that prevents genomic instability |
Ivan Zadra |
Boosting immunotherapy via mRNA non-sense mediated decay |
Hugo Fanlo |
How the Alzheimer’s key peptide amyloid beta affects the synapse of neurons? |
Guillermo Nevot |
Domestication of the most abundant skin commensal Cutibacterium acnes for the development of smart probiotics |
Mireia Puig |
Establishment of chronic Chikungunya infection in mosquito cells requires dynamic changes of the host and virus translation landscapes |
Elena Muscolino |
SARS-CoV-2 infection alters the host tRNA epitranscriptome |
Irune Ruiz Gartzia |
Lost Diversity and Admixture in wild gorillas population |
Marc Talló |
A novel circular RNA-based therapeutical platform for infectious and non-infectious diseases |
Altair C. Hernandez |
Integrative modeling and live-cell imaging to capture functionality of protein assemblies |
Gonzalo Ortiz Álvarez |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms governing hindbrain development – a 4D perspective |