Program
This meeting will be an excellent opportunity to discover the latest experimental approaches and future directions in Developmental and Cell Biology as well as to discuss new data and ideas. The program includes world leaders in different fields and a prominent place is also reserved for posters and oral contributions that will be selected from the abstracts for all sessions
This meeting will be an excellent opportunity to discover the latest experimental approaches and future directions in Developmental and Cell Biology as well as to discuss new data and ideas. The program includes world leaders in different fields and a prominent place is also reserved for posters and oral contributions that will be selected from the abstracts for all sessions
Wednesday November 18th
8:30 – 13:00
Outreach & Workshops
08:30 – 10:30
Workshop: Animal experimentation (only in Spanish)
Chairs: Augusto Escalante / Joan Galcerán
09:30 – 10:30
Outreach: Meet Developmental Biology scientists (for high school students, only Spanish)
11:00-13:00
Workshop: Journals independent Peer Review.
Chairs: Sofia J. Araújo / Teresa Rayon
14:15 – 15:30
Opening Session
14:15 – 14:30
Opening
14:30 – 15:30
Opening Lecture
Introduction: Sofia J. Araújo
Maria Leptin (EMBL) Mechanical competition alters the cellular interpretation of an endogenous genetic programme
15:30 – 16:50
Session 1 Growth & Scaling
Chair: Sofia J. Araújo / Fernando Casares
15:30 – 15:35
Session Sponsored by Developmental Dynamics (Paul Trainor)
15:35 – 16:05
Marian Ros (IBBTEC): Deepening our understanding of limb development by assessing the functional activity of limb specific enhancers
16:05 – 16:20
Jesus Lopez-Gay: Scaling between cell area and stress fiber number adjust cell elongation and mechanosensitivity during epithelial tissue dynamics.
16:20 – 16:35
Maria Rosselló: Mitochondrial function could be key in the formation of overgrowths after hippo inhibition in planarian
16:35 – 16:50
Flash talks
Maria Almuedo Castillo: YAP drives the cell cytoskeleton changes required for directed cell migration during axis elongation
Giovanni Dalmasso: A four-dimensional growing mouse limb bud reconstruction
Carlos Martín-Blanco: Control of growth and regeneration in Cloeon dipterum’s gills
Morena Raiola: 4D Quantitative analysis of heart tube morphogenesis in mouse model
16:50 – 18:00
Break+ Poster Session + Remo Room Session 1
18:00 – 19:15
Session 2 Self organization
Chair: Luciano Marcon / James Sharpe
18:00 – 18:30
Miki Ebisuya (EMBL-Barcelona) Human Time vs. Mouse Time in Recapitulated Systems
18:30 – 18:45
Nora Papai: In vitro differentiated epicardium interacts with self-organizing human cardioids
18:45 – 19:00
Carmen María Gordillo Vázquez: Natural variation in 3D tissue organization
19:00 – 19:15
Flash talks
Pablo Japón: Rules of relationship and the organization of simple multicellular animals
Antonio Tagua: Cell proliferation and three-dimensional epithelial packing are coupled during Sea Star embryonic development
Irene Delgado: Characterizing molecular mechanisms involving Meis in limb initiation and antero-posterior patterning
Jelena Raspopovic: Size-independent symmetry breaking of mouse embryoid bodies
19:15 -20:30
Remo Room Session 2
20:30 – 21:45
Remo Room AFTER Session 2
Thursday November 19th
9:00 – 10:15
Session 3 Neurodevelopment
Chair: Augusto Escalante / Fernando García-Moreno
09:00-09:30
Elisa Martí (IBMB-CSIC): Cell Signalling in Secondary Neurulation
09:30 – 09:45
Teresa Rayon: About time: the species specific pace of motor neuron development
09:45 – 10:00
Cristina Gil-Sanz: Differential gene expression in a subpopulation of early cortical radial glial cells regulates its neurogenic behavior
10:00 – 10:15
Flash talks
Daniel del Toro: Structural basis of Teneurin-Latrophilin interaction in repulsive guidance of migrating neurons
Ismael Hernández Núñez: Loss of active neurogenesis in the adult shark retina
Carlos Sanchez: The +TIP Navigator-1 is an actin-microtubule crosslinker that regulates axonal growth cone motility
Patricia Jarabo: IMPL2 secreted from glial cells modulates neuronal development
10:15 – 11:30
Break+ Poster Session + Remo Room Session 3
11:30 – 13:00
Session 4 Genomes, A Tribute to J.L. Gómez-Skarmeta
Chair: Nacho Maeso / Álvaro Rada-Iglesias
11:30 – 12:00
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford): Heads or tails: Differential FoxD3 autoregulation controls developmental switch between the neural crest and neuromesodermal progenitors
12:00 – 12:15
Tomas Pachano: Orphan CpG islands dictate the compatibility between poised enhancers and developmental genes
12:15 – 12:30
Francisca Martinez Real: The mole genome reveals regulatory rearrangements associated with adaptive intersexuality
12:30 – 12:45
Flash talks
Lorena Buono: Analysis of gene network bifurcation during optic cup morphogenesis in zebrafish
Jose M. Santos-Pereira: CTCF knockout in zebrafish links chromatin structure and developmental gene regulation
Sandra Acosta: Intronic enhancers regulate the expression of genes involved in tissue-specific functions and homeostasis
Tore Bleckwehl: Enhancer priming by H3K4 methylation safeguards germline competence
12:45 – 13:15
A Tribute to J.L. Gómez-Skarmeta
13:15 – 14:25
Break+ Poster Session+ Remo Room Session 4
14:25 – 16:15
Session 5 Cell Biology
Chair: Laura Bozal-Basterra / Olatz Pampliega / James D. Sutherland
14:25-14:30
Session Sponsored by Mechanisms of Development (Roberto Mayor)
14:30-15:30
Plenary Lecture: Monica Bettencourt-Dias (IGC): Centrosomes in Development and Disease
15:30 – 15:45
Esteban Hoijman: An epithelial phagocytic program protects the early embryo using novel actin protrusions
15:45 – 16:00
Diana Guallar Artal: RNA editing is required for mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition during somatic cell reprogramming
16:00 – 16:15
Flash talks
Delia Ricolo: Coordinated crosstalk between microtubules and actin by a spectraplakin regulates lumen formation and branching
Carlos Estella: Coordination between cell proliferation and apoptosis after DNA damage
Sergio Navarro-Cartagena: VCC is required for leaf bilateral symmetry in Arabidopsis
Ana Elena Gaspar: Non-apoptotic roles of caspases in cell migration
16:15 – 17:25
Break+ Poster Session+ Remo Room Session 5
17:25 – 18:45
Session 6 Development & Disease
Chair: Oscar H Ocaña / Cristina Villa del Campo
17:25 – 17:30
Session Sponsored by Mechanisms of Development (Ondine Cleaver)
17:30 – 18:00
Ramón Muñoz Chapuli (University of Malaga): Origin of endothelium: Ontogeny and Phylogeny
18:00 – 18:15
Khalil Kass Youssef: The control of epithelial/mesenchymal transitional states
18:15 – 18:30
Tamara González-Costa: Role of Ubiquitin Specific Protease 8 (USP8) in cardiac development and disease
18:30 – 18:45
Flash talks
Carlos Camacho de la Macorra: Maternal vgll4a regulates the activity of the actomyosin ring, upstream of Yap1, driving zebrafish epiboly
Raquel Romero Bueno: The role of nuclear envelope proteins BAF-1 and MEL-28 in chromatin organisation
Ines Marques: Repression of wilms tumor protein 1 is required to promote myocardial fate
Endika Haro: Identification of limb-specific Lmx1b auto-regulatory modules with Nail-Patella Syndrome pathogenicity
18:45 – 20:00
Remo Room Session 6
20:00 – 21:15
Remo Room AFTER Session 6
Friday November 20th
9:00 – 10:45
Session 7 Evo-Devo
Chair: Fernando García-Moreno / Isabel Almudi
09:00 – 10:00
Naoki Irie (University of Tokio) Developmental robustness may bias macro-evolutionary outcome
10:00 – 10:15
Paula Miramón: Potential adult stem cells give rise to both germinal and somatic lineages in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
10:15 – 10:30
Thomas Spruce: From regulating alternative splicing in differentiation to restricting placental growth: the evolutionary path of Mbnl3 in Eutherian mammals
10:30 – 10:45
Flash talks
Martin Estermann: Single cell transcriptomics reveals a divergent pattern of lineage specification in embryonic chicken gonads
Irepan Salvador-Martinez: CeLaVi: A Cell Lineage Interactive Visualisation tool
Cristian Cañestro: Deconstruction of the cardiopharyngeal gene network in appendicularians reveals that their free-living style is not a primitive urochordate condition
10:45 – 10:55
DrosAfrica: Building an African biomedical research community using Drosophila (Lola Martín Bermudo)
10:55 – 12:00
Break+ Poster Session + Remo Room Session 7
12:00 – 13:15
Session 8 Regeneration
Chair: Maria Losada-Pérez / Isabel Almudi / Sergio Casas-Tintó
12:00 – 12:30
Florenci Serras (University of Barcelona ): ROS, Stress and Regeneration
12:30 – 12:45
Daniela Romao: Coupling inflammation to maturation defects
12:45 – 13:00
Filipa Simões: Macrophages directly contribute collagen to scar formation during zebrafish heart regeneration and mouse heart repair
13:00 – 13:15
Flash talks
María Ester De la Cruz Crespillo: The role of Meis transcription factors in the epicardium
Alejandro Castilla-Ibeas: Absence of digit tip regeneration in a mouse model lacking nails
Helena García – Castro: Studying stem cells and differentiation with ACME dissociation and SPLIT-seq
Elena Gracia-Latorre: Development, Regeneration & Tumorigenesis: multi-tasking of a single Wg enhancer
13:15 – 14:15
Prizes and Closing Session
14:15 – 15:30
Remo Room Session 8
17:15 -18:.30
Remo Room AFTER Session 8