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Symposia
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

S01 Single Molecules
01.1 Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.1-1
Unusual modes of RNA recognitions by RNA recognition motifs
Frederic Allain (Zürich, CH)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.1-2
RNA chaperones modulate RNA structural dynamics through energy transfer
Renée Schroeder (Vienna, AT)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.1-3
Structural studies on ribonucleoprotein complexes
Alfredo Torres-Larios (Mexico D.F, MX)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.1-4
DNA lesion recognition and mismatch repair
Wei Yang (Bethesda, MD, US)

S02 Trends in Biochemistry
02.1 Genome Dynamics
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.1-1
R-loops in recombination-mediated genome instability
Andrés Aguilera (Sevilla, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.1-2
Control over DNA replication in time and space
Zoi Lygerou (Patras, GR)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.1-3
Genomic studies in African populations: approaches and applications
Michele Ramsay (Johannesburg, ZA)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.1-4
DNA topology and SMC complexes in chromosome structure and stability
Camilla Sjögren (Stockholm, SE)

S03 Beyond Biochemistry
03.1 Ageing
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.1-1
Telomerase gene therapy delays aging and increases longevity in adult and old mice
Maria Blasco (Madrid, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.1-2
Proteasome activation as a novel anti-aging strategy
Stathis Gonos (Athens, GR)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.1-3
Molecular mechanisms underlying genotype-dependent responses to dietary restriction
Matt Kaeberlein (Seattle, WA, US)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.1-4
Activating conserved longevity pathways: from yeast to humans
David Sinclair (Boston, MA, US)

S04 Molecular Bases of Diseases
04.1 Neurodegenerative and Organ Degenerative Diseases
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.1-1
Disruptions on the highways of cellular signalling
Dario Alessi (Dundee, UK)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.1-2
From aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase mutations to peripheral neuropathies - a flying perspective
Albena Jordanova (Antwerp, BE)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.1-3
The reactivation of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in organ degeneration
M. Angela Nieto (San Juan de Alicante, ES)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.1-4
Clearance of misfolded proteins in systemic amyloidosis: experience with transthyretin
Maria João Saraiva (Porto, PT)

S05 Environmental Biochemistry
05.1 Oxidative Stress: Dealing with Oxygen
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.1-1
Protection of the photosynthetic apparatus against oxygen stress
Eva-Mari Aro (Turku, FI)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.1-2
PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN CONFERENCE
Dietary interventions, mitochondria, oxidants and lifespan

Alicia Kowaltowski (São Paulo, BR)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.1-3
Oxidative stress, antioxidants and apoptosis: impact on cancer therapy
Tomris Özben (Antalya, TR)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.1-4
Control of adrenal steroidogenesis via H2O2-dependent, reversible inactivation of peroxiredoxin III in mitochondria
Sue Goo Rhee (Seoul, KR)

Thursday, September 6, 2012

S01 Single Molecules
01.2 Protein Networks
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.2-1
A network medicine approach to human disease
Patrick Aloy (Barcelona, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.2-2
Role of an adrenal ferredoxin in regulating steroid hormone biosynthesis
Rita Bernhardt (Saarbruecken, DE)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.2-3
Network topology complements sequence as a source of biological information
Natasa Przulj (London, UK)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.2-4
Molecular courtship: how proteins form transient complexes
Marcellus Ubbink (Leiden, NL)

S02 Trends in Biochemistry
02.2 Transcription and Chromatin
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.2-1
Novel cellular players involved in transcription elongation
Sebastián Chávez (Seville, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.2-2
An unexpected link between nuclear topography and chromatin structure regulates HIV-1 integration and latency
Mauro Giacca (Trieste, IT)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.2-3
Non-coding RNA as an epigenetic regulator in yeast
Jane Mellor (Oxford, UK)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.2-4
Towards the understanding of histone acetyl transferase complexes in transcription regulation
Laszlo Tora (Illkirch, FR)

S03 Beyond Biochemistry
03.2 Global Regulation and Cell Reprogramming
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.2-1
Landscape of somatic mutations in normal and tumoral genomes
Anamaria Camargo (São Paulo, BR)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.2-2
Gene expression is a circular system
Mordechai Choder (Haifa, IL)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.2-3
Cloning and engineering bacterial genomes as extra chromosomes in yeast
Clyde Hutchison (La Jolla, CA, US)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.2-4
Tissue-specific epigenetic memory in various pluripotent stem cells
Kitai Kim (New York, NY, US)

S04 Molecular Bases of Diseases
04.2 Inflammation and Diseases
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.2-1
Macrophage polarization and metabolic fate
Lisardo Boscá (Madrid, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.2-2
Transfer of cargo from exosomes to bone marrow progenitors promotes melanoma metastasis
Jacqueline Bromberg (New York, NY, US)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.2-3
A complex secretory program orchestrated by the inflammasome controls paracrine senescence
Jesús Gil (London, UK)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.2-4
Intravascular immunosurveillance and peripheral tolerance by resident perivascular cells
Francisco Sánchez Madrid (Madrid, ES)

S05 Environmental Biochemistry
05.2 Dealing with Osmotic Stress
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.2-1
From the biochemical lab to the field and back: development of transgenic plants with augmented tolerance to environmental hardships
Nestor Carrillo (Rosario, AR)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.2-2
How aquaporins help microbes to adapt and survive environmental stresses
Karin Lindkvist (Lund, SE)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.2-3
Control of adaptive responses to stress by Hog1/p38 SAPKs
Francesc Posas (Barcelona, ES)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.2-4
Dynamic regulation of hyperosmotic stress signaling in the budding yeast
Haruo Saito (Tokyo, JP)

Friday, September 7, 2012

S01 Single Molecules
01.3 Membranes and Proteins
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.3-1
TRPducins: a novel paradigm to modulate ion channel signalling
Antonio Ferrer (Alicante, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.3-2
Analysing the catalytic processes of immobilised redox enzymes by vibrational spectroscopies
Peter Hildebrandt (Berlin, DE)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.3-3
Anoctamin 1 is a Ca2+-activated chloride channel and a heat sensor in nociceptors
Uhtaek Oh (Seoul, KR)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.3-4
The role of proton and sodium Ions in energy transduction by respiratory complex I
Manuela Pereira (Oeiras, PT)

S02 Trends in Biochemistry
02.3 RNA Biogenesis and Processing
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.3-1
Control of glucose homeostasis by RNA-binding protein HuD
Myriam Gorospe (Baltimore, MD, US)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.3-2
Impact of RNA nuclear experience on protein synthesis: the case of the HIV-1 mRNA
Marcelo López-Lastra (Santiago, CL)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.3-3
Assembly, structural dynamics and function of the spliceosome
Reinhard Lührmann (Göttingen, DE)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.3-4
A new function for CPEB1 coordinates alternative 3' UTR processing with translational regulation in cell cycle and cancer
Raúl Méndez (Barcelona, ES)

S03 Beyond Biochemistry
03.3 Artificial Cells and Genomes
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.3-1
Functional analysis for synthetic biology: where is the flywheel?
Antoine Danchin (Evry, FR)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.3-2
Self-assembled membranes from novel surfactants for sensing and response
Daniel Hammer (Philadelphia, PA, US)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.3-3
Expanding the central dogma
Vitor Pinheiro (Cambridge, UK)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.3-4
Chemical synthesis and installation of a bacterial genome
Hamilton Smith (La Jolla, CA, US)

S04 Molecular Bases of Diseases
04.3 Stem Cells and their Niches
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.3-1
From colon stem cells to colorectal cancer
Eduard Batlle (Barcelona, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.3-2
Niche cell-stem cell conversion regulated by the Snail class transcriptional repressor, Escargot
Leanne Jones (La Jolla, CA, US)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.3-3
Stem cells from the mammalian blastocyst - How similar are mouse and human?
Janet Rossant (Toronto, CA)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.3-4
Hedgehog signalling and cancer initiation
Rune Toftgard (Stockholm, SE)

S05 Environmental Biochemistry
05.3 Life in Extreme Environments (In memoriam of Costas Drainas)
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.3-1
Deciphering the role of large ATP-independent peptidases complexes in extremophilic Archaea
Bruno Franzetti (Grenoble, FR)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.3-2
TtgV a key regulator in solvent tolerance
Juan Luis Ramos (Granada, ES)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.3-3
Ionic compatible solutes of hyperthermophiles: how do they protect cells against heat stress?
Helena Santos (Oeiras, PT)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.3-4
Microbial biodiversity in the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Rafael Vicuña (Santiago, CL)

Saturday, September 8, 2012

S01 Single Molecules
01.4 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
From 08:30 to 09:00 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.4-1
Exploring the binding diversity of intrinsically disordered proteins involved in one-to-many signaling
Keith Dunker (Indianapolis, IN, US)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.4-2
Role of intrinsic disorder in protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions
Jane Dyson (La Jolla, CA, US)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.4-3
Recent progress in NMR spectroscopy: towards the study of intrinsically disordered proteins of increasing size and complexity
Isabella C. Felli (Florence, IT)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.4-4
Protein interactions via intrinsically disordered regions-specificity and fuzziness
Monika Fuxreiter (Debrecen, HU)

S02 Trends in Biochemistry
02.4 Autophagy and Protein Homeostasis
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.4-1
Protein folding stress in neurodegenerative disease: an interplay between ER stress and autophagy
Claudio Hetz (Santiago, CL)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.4-2
Functional characterization of Atg8-interacting proteins in selective autophagy
Matthias Peter (Zurich, CH)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.4-3
Cyclic GMP, colon cell cytostasis and autophagy
Sandhya Visweswariah (Bangalore, IN)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.4-4
Molecular bases for population variation: from SNP to SAP
Jiarui Wu (Shanghai, CN)

S03 Beyond Biochemistry
03.4 Computing with Molecules and Cells
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.4-1
Population-based bacterial computing
Martyn Amos (Manchester, UK)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.4-2
Mechanisms of antigen degradation
Alexander Gabibov (Moscow, RU)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.4-3
Uncovering the human cell lineage tree: the next grand scientific challenge
Ehud Shapiro (Rehovot, IL)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.4-4
Synthetic cellular devices: expanding the space of biological computation
Ricard Sole (Barcelona, ES)

S04 Molecular Bases of Diseases
04.4 Cancer Genomics and Biomarkers
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.4-1
Human cancer epigenomics
Manel Esteller (Barcelona, ES)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.4-2
DNA polymorphisms and the DNA mismatch repair genes in oesophageal cancer
M. Iqbal Parker (Cape Town, ZA)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.4-3
Autophagy in cell death and cancer
Kevin Ryan (Glasgow, UK)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.4-4
E-cadherin disfunction in gastric cancer. Celullar consequences and clinical applications
Raquel Seruca (Porto, PT)

S05 Environmental Biochemistry
05.4 Responding to Environmental Perception
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.4-1
What’s new in Polerovirus transmission and movement?
Bouchaib Bencharki (Casablanca, MA)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.4-2
The function of plastid redox homeostasis for coordinating development of plant photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organs
Francisco Javier Cejudo (Seville, ES)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.4-3
Can plants "think and memorize"? Exponentially integrated quantum-molecular overall regulation of growth, photosynthesis, defence and acclimatory responses in Arabidopsis
Stanislaw M. Karpinski (Warsaw, PL)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.4-4
Role of transporters in photosynthetic acclimation
Cornelia Spetea (Gothenburg, SE)

Sunday, September 9, 2012

S01 Single Molecules
01.5 Engineering and Design
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.5-1
Phototransformable fluorescent proteins: a mechanistic view
Dominique Bourgeois (Grenoble, FR)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.5-2
Why protein engineering may not always be a good idea
Jennifer L. Martin (Brisbane, AU)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.5-3
Advances in DNA simulations, from dodecamer to genomes
Modesto Orozco (Barcelona, ES)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Auditorium
S01.5-4
AFM-based force spectroscopy probing of dengue virus capsid protein binding to lipid droplets-towards a new drug target
Nuno C. Santos (Lisboa, PT)

S02 Trends in Biochemistry
02.5 Integrated Cell Structure and Function
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.5-1
The wanderings of the proto-oncogene product Ras
Philippe Bastiaens (Dortmund, DE)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.5-2
Regulation of PI3-kinase/Akt signalling by phosphoinositide phosphatases
Christina A. Mitchell (Melbourne, AU)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.5-3
Systematic lipidomic analysis of yeast mutants reveals novel regulation of lipid homeostasis and plasma membrane/ER communication
Howard Riezman (Geneve, CH)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room F
S02.5-4
The role of spindle assembly checkpoint proteins in preventing chromosome instability and tumorigenesis
Claudio Sunkel (Porto, PT)

S03 Beyond Biochemistry
03.5 Dealing with Errors and Evolution
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.5-1
The fitness landscape of Escherichia coli in its natural ecosystem
Isabel Gordo (Oeiras, PT)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.5-2
The importance of Sonic hedgehog, the 5’ Hoxd genes and Meis2 in the evolution of the bat wing
Nicola Illing (Rondebosch, ZA)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.5-3
Inferring the history of species using many genes
David Posada (Vigo, ES)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room B
S03.5-4
Mutations, error thresholds and recombination
Eörs Szathmáry (Budapest, HU)

S04 Molecular Bases of Diseases
04.5 Role of Hypoxia in Pathogenesis of Inflammation in Cancer
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.5-1
Metabolomics approaches for cancer research: from metabolic networks to target identification
Eyal Gottlieb (Glasgow, UK)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.5-2
Contrasting effects of hypoxia on peripheral and central neurogenesis
José López-Barneo (Seville, ES)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.5-3
Hypoxia signalling & tumour metabolism. Novel therapeutic approches
Jacques Pouysssegur (Nice, FR)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room A
S04.5-4
The cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), an HIF-1α target gene, is a regulator of CLL survival
Idit Shachar (Rehovot, IL)

S05 Environmental Biochemistry
05.5 Molecular Clocks and Cell Cycling
From 08:30 to 10:25 h.
08:30 to 08:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.5-1
The cell cycle and the circadian clock: dynamics of two coupled cellular rhythms
Albert Goldbeter (Brussels, BE)
09:00 to 09:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.5-2
Regulatory networks at the core of the arabidopsis circadian oscillator
Paloma Mas (Barcelona, ES)
09:30 to 09:55 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.5-3
Linking metabolism to epigenetic control
Paolo Sassone-Corsi (Irvine, US)
10:00 to 10:25 h.
Room:
Room C
S05.5-4
Linking metabolism to epigenetic control
Marcelo Yanovsky (Buenos Aires, AR)


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