Event PROGRAMME November 11-14, 2024
Apostolos Bournetas (NKUA): Operations Research, Adaptive Optimization and Experimentation under Uncertainty, Stochastic Modelling
| November 11: Bioimaging & Molecular Biology |
| 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome Session |
| 9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Talk: John Eriksson, Euro-Bioimaging Director General (through streaming) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:30 Seminars |
| Daniel Jaque (UAM): Advances in Bioimaging with Luminescent Nanoparticles |
| Mario Mellado (CNB, CSIC) Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to analyze the dynamics of the chemokine receptors at the cell membrane |
| Alejandro Valbuena (CBM, UAM): BioImaging and nanomechanics of virus particles at the single molecule level by state-of-art AFM. |
| George Loudos (Bioemtech): Eyes, the first Molecular screening tool for real-time, dynamic, in vivo imaging |
| Natalia Reglero (CBM, UAM): Imaging the inflammatory response: novel roles for endothelial cell autophagy |
| 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 16:00 Seminars |
| Dirk Ortgies (UAM): Imaging myocardial infarction in the near-infrared with the help of bioorthogonal click chemistry |
| Konstantinos Stamatakis Andriani (CBM, UAM): In vivo imaging to monitor cancer progression and treatment. |
| David Míguez (CBM, UAM): High-throughput three-dimensional characterization of morphogenetic signals during the formation of the vertebrate retina |
| 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 Workshop Marta Marin (FECYT): Workshop on European projects preparation – Pathfinder, Expert and NCP Cluster 1 Health, of the European Office of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology |
| 17:30 – 19:00 Poster Session and Networking |
| November 12: Biomarkers & Biomedicine |
| 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Talk: David Sancho, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares |
| 10:00 – 11:00 Seminars |
| Anne-Sophie Chretien (AMU): Where is my mAb? CyTOF and machine learning to track therapeutic antibodies in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors |
| Jaime Millan (CBM CSIC): Exploring New Anti-Inflammatory Therapies Through Quantitative Measurement of Cellular Barrier Function |
| 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:30 Seminars |
| Jorge Ripoll (UC3M): Increasing tissue specificity in optical 3D imaging of samples |
| Emmanuil Mikros (NKUA): Introduction to Metabolomics |
| Maria Yañez Mo (CBM, UAM): Studying tetraspanins in extracellular vesicles |
| Ruth Aronson (University of the Witwatersrand): A multidimensional approach to cancer and cholesterol research: integrating in vitro, in vivo and organoid models |
| 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 16:30 Seminars (Molecular Biology and Disease) |
| Paula Díaz Fernández (UAM): Influence of Graft Immune Cell Composition and Immune Reconstitution on the Outcome of Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation |
| Andreas Agathagelidis (NKUA): Leukemia genetics, BCR repertoire and signalling |
| Maria Josefa Calzada (UAM): Chronic Pulmonary Disease Research |
| Tania García Mendiola (UAM): Biosensors for early diagnosis of diseases. |
| 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:00 Seminars |
| Michalis Liontos (NKUA): Cancer Biology and Immunology |
| Nuria Girones (CBM, UAM): Biomarkers in Chagas disease |
| 18:00 – 19:00 Workshop on CIVIS Blended Intensive Programs |
| 19:00 – 20:00 Poster Session and Networking |
| November 13: Molecular Biology and Disease |
| 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Talk: Albena Dinkova-Kostova, University of Dundee, UK |
| 10:00 – 11:00 Seminars |
| Aristides Eliopoulos (NKUA): Epigenetic Regulation of Intestinal Stem Cell Function: Insights from Drosophila |
| Eva Porlan (CBM, UAM): Unexpected regulators of neural stem cells: implications for pathology and regeneration |
| 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 14:00 Seminars |
| Sara Cogliati (CBM, UAM): Sex-Differences in Metabolism and Disease |
| Antonios Hatzigeorgiou (NKUA): The underestimated role of hepatic endothelium in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
| Javier Traba (CBM, UAM): Mitochondria, Innate Immunity and Immunometabolism |
| Riadh Ben Mansour (USfax): Biotechnology, Oxidative stress, Immunology |
| Ioannis Trougakos (NKUA): Proteome and redox instability as major drivers and hallmarks of aging |
| 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 Seminars |
| Catalina Ribas (CBM UAM): Non-canonical functions of GPCR-related signalling nodes |
| Konstantinos Palikaras (NKUA): Mitochondrial selective autophagy in neuronal homeostasis |
| Christos Kontos (NKUA): Non-coding RNAs, Cancer research (streaming) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 Seminars |
| Maria Jose Perez-Alvarez (UAM): Neurodegeneration, cerebral ischemia |
| Laura Formentini (UAM): title to be announced |
| Marta Ruiz Ortega (UAM): Cellular senescence in kidney damage |
| 18:30 – 19:30 Poster Session and Networking |
| November 14: Artifitial Inteligence and Machine Learning |
| 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Talk: María Laura Garcia Bermejo (EATRIS-ERIC): EATRIS, a key Infrastructure in Translational Medicine, digital transformation, and AI in the healthcare system. |
| 10:00 – 11:30 Seminars |
| Julian Prieto Velasco (IRYCIS, UAH): EATRIS CONNECT |
| Eric Macías (UAM): Privacy-Preserving Tabular Data Generation: Application to Clinical Records |
| Raquel Ureña (Aix-Marseille Université): Exploiting social security medical claims with AI techniques to improve breast cancer prognosis. |
| 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break |
| 12:00 – 14:00 Seminars |
| Apostolos Bournetas (NKUA): Operations Research, Adaptive Optimization and Experimentation under Uncertainty, Stochastic Modelling |
| Aythami Morales Moreno (UAM): Multimodal Learning for Human-Centric AI |
| Elias Manolakos (NKUA): Machine Learning for detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) using wearables data |
| Alicia Lozano Díez (UAM): Deep Neural Network Models for Prediction and Understanding of Binding of Hypoxia-Induced Transcription Factors in DNA Sequences |
| 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 Poster Session and Bilateral Meetings |
| 16:30 – 17:30 Sofia Otero (Oficina C, FECYT): The Science & Technology Office of the Congress of Deputies |
| 17:30 – 18:00 Closing Remarks and Conference Wrap-up |
| November 15: OPTIONAL UAM campus and research installations visit; research tutorial on in vivo imaging |