9:00 Registration 

9:30 Opening Session 

 

Session I

Chair: Fátima Carneiro (IPATIMUP | Portugal)

 

9:50 Know thyself: How the immune system is instructed to avoid self-destruction 

Thomas Boehm (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics | Germany) 

 

10:30 Vesicular communication in cancer 

Mattias Belting (Lund University Cancer Center | Sweden) 

 

11:10 Coffee Break

 

Session II 

Chair: João Relvas (IBMC | Portugal) 

 

11:40 Bacterial quorum sensing, gang culture - and the triumph of death 

George Salmond (University of Cambridge | UK) 

 

12:20 Brain-Machine Interfacing: State of the art and emerging trends

Ricardo Chavarriaga (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland)

 

13:00 Lunch

 

Session III 

Chair: Claudio Sunkel (IBMC | Portugal)

 

14:30 N-cadherin locks left-right asymmetry by ending the leftward movement of Hensen’s node cells 

Leonor Saúde (Instituto de Medicina Molecular | Portugal)

 

15:10 Coordinated control of gene expression and cell cycle progression by stress activated protein kinases (SAPKs)

Francesc Posas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Spain)

 

15:50 Coffee Break

 

Session IV 

 

16:10 Round Table "Communication in Science"

Carlos Fiolhais (University of Coimbra | Portugal) 

David Marçal (Associação Viver a Ciência | Portugal) 

 

17:45 Book Presentation “Meu Dito, Meu Escrito - De Ciência e Cientistas com um monólogo da caneta” by Maria de Sousa

Carlos Fiolhais (University of Coimbra | Portugal)

António Sousa Pereira (ICBAS | University of Porto | Portugal)

 

 

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