IRB Barcelona 3rd Postdoc Day

9:00 Welcome by the organising committee

9:05 Keynote speaker: Francesc Posas (Director of the IRB Barcelona)

10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 1: Biological Models and Disease Chairs: Ilaria Dutto/Marta Kovatcheva

10:00 Mariona Nadal-Ribelles (Single cell RNA-seq, Posas lab)

10:20 Lara Barrio Guerrero (Morphogenes in growth control, Milan lab)

10:40 Patrick Welz (Circadian clocks and organ response, Aznar lab)

11:05 Panagiotis Giannios (Progenitor cells in Drosophila, Casanova lab)

11:12 Gerhard Seisenbacher (Osmotic stress and the plasma membrane, Posas lab)

11:20 Silvia Tognetti (Osmotic stress and mitotic exit, Posas lab)

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break (terrace next to reception)

12:00 - 13:30 SESSION 2: Computational and Experimental Biology for Fighting Cancer Chairs: Fernando Salvador/Daniele Tauriello

12:00 Abel Gonzalez (Nucleosomes and mutation periodicity, Lopez-Bigas lab)

12:20 Aleksandra Karolak (The interactome through machine learning, Supek lab)

12:40 Santiago Gonzalez (Tumor evolution, Lopez-Bigas lab)

13:05 Clara Morral (rRNA synthesis in cancer stem cell potential, Batlle lab)

13:12 Raquel Battle (Tumor angiogenesis, Nebreda lab)

13:20 Francisco Martinez Jimenez (Oncoproteins and ubiquitination, Lopez-Bigas lab)

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (terrace next to reception)

15:00 - 16:20 SESSION 3: Structural Biology and Drug Design Chair: Juanjo Fraire/Salvador Guardiola

15:00 Macarena Sanchez (Brain deliverry with BBB-shuttles, Giralt lab)

15:20 Enrique Marcos (de novo protein design, Orozco lab)

15:40 Adrian Torres (Activity of tRNA deaminasas, Ribas lab)

16:05 Albert Escobedo (Stabilization of transcription factors, Salvatella lab)

16:12 Jurica Levatic (Machine learning in drug synthesis, Supek lab)

16:20 Closing remarks

16:30 -17:30 Interaction break

17:30 - 18:15 Discussion: The Pre/Post doctoral transition & PubQuiz: Do you think you know more than a postdoc?

18:30 SESSION 4: Cool-off session! (FIFTEEN Terrace)