5th Meeting Final Program, 2nd October 2009

Dear alumni,

Please find above the Final Program for our Next Meeting to be held at Porto next Friday, October 2nd, 2009. Further details in the text below.

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio, September 28th, 2009]

Dear all,

It will be already next Friday, 2nd October, the 5th EMBL Alumni Association Iberian local chapter that this year will be in Porto at IBMC.

You are still in time to make the to attend the meeting, just send an e-mail with your registration to emblalumniportugal@gmail.com

Program:

9:30 Welcome

9:40 Kinetochore-microtubule interactions, mitotic checkpoint and chromosome segregation fidelity

Elsa Logarinho Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal

10:20 Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration: from cells to drugs

Tiago Outeiro Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal

11:00 Coffee break

11:20 Towards an evolutionary cell biology

José Pereira Leal Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

12:00 Biochemical approaches to biomolecular networks

Anne-Claude Gavin European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

13:00 Lunch

14:40 RNAi-based dissection of Innate Immune Responses

Luis Ferreira Moita – Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal

15:20 Crystallographic structure of a porcine adenovirus fibre containing unique galectin-like carbohydrate recognition domains

Mark J. van Raaij Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

16:00 Coffee break

15:20 Alumni meeting

Venue:

IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal

Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

IBMC on Google Maps

Accommodation:

Special rates are available for the meeting in the following hotels close to IBMC:

HF TUELA PORTO *** (€60 single/double)

HF FÉNIX PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PARK ***** (€75 single/double)

Quality Inn Portus Cale **** (€63 single - €71 double)

To get the specials rates you should indicate the reference "EMBL Alumini Portugal-Spain meeting" in the booking.

HF - Hoteis Fenix:

Tel.....: + 351 226 194 100

Fax....: + 351 226 194 160

E-mail: porto@hfhotels.com

Quality Inn Portus Cale:

Tel.....: + 351 22 608 3900

Fax....: + 351 22 608 3906

E-mail: quality.portuscale@grupo-continental.com

Other suggested hotels:

Porto Youth Hostel
Hotel BoaVista

Support:

EMBL Alumni Association (www.embl.de/aboutus/alumni/index.html)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - IPL (www.ipleiria.pt)
IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (www.ibmc.up.pt)

Registration and contact:

E-mail to: EMBLAlumniPortugal@gmail.com

We are looking forward to see you here.

Best regards,

Paula Sebastião
Paula Sampaio

Remember - Friday 2nd October Meeting in Porto

Dear alumni,

A reminder from our Next Meeting hosts at Porto; Friday, October 2nd, 2009; participants are encouraged to confirm their assistance as soon as possible. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio, September 20th, 2009]

Dear all,

The next EMBL Alumni Association Iberian local chapter meeting will take place Friday October 2^nd at IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular in Porto, Portugal.

The EMBL group leader Anne-Claude Gavin will honour us with her presence and a seminar.

The meeting will include several open scientific talks. Speakers already confirmed are:

Tiago Fleming Outeiro (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal)

José Pereira Leal (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal)

Luis Ferreira Moita (Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal)

Mark J. van Raaij (Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Elsa Logarinho (IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal)

If you are also interested in give a talk about your current work, please send an abstract together with the registration. Posters are also welcome.

We also would like to listen you about issues to be focused in the meeting. We need your feedback to organize a nice meeting, please participate with your comments and suggestions.

Please let us know if you will attend to the meeting as soon as possible.

Preliminary program:

9:30 Welcome

9:45 Elsa Logarinho - "Kinetochore-microtubule interactions, mitotic checkpoint and chromosome segregation fidelity"

10:15 Talk to be announced

10:45 Tiago Outeiro – “Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration: from cells to drugs”

11:15 Coffee break

11:25 José Pereira Leal – “Towards an evolutionary cell biology”

12:00 Anne-Claude Gavin (IBMC-INEB Friday Noon Seminar)

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Luis Ferreira Moita – “RNAi-based dissection of Innate Immune Responses”

15:00 Mark J. van Raaij – “Crystallographic structure of a porcine adenovirus fibre containing unique galectin-like carbohydrate recognition domains”

15:30 Talk to be announced

16:00 Coffee break

16:10 Alumni meeting

17:30 Port wine taste

20:00 Dinner

Venue:

IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal

Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

IBMC on Google Maps

Accommodation:

Special rates are available for the meeting in the following hotels close to IBMC:

HF TUELA PORTO *** (€60 single/double)

HF FÉNIX PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PARK ***** (€75 single/double)

Quality Inn Portus Cale **** (€63 single - €71 double)

To get the specials rates you should indicate the reference "EMBL Alumni Portugal-Spain meeting" in the booking.

HF - Hoteis Fenix:

Tel.....: + 351 226 194 100

Fax....: + 351 226 194 160

E-mail: porto@hfhotels.com

Quality Inn Portus Cale:

Tel.....: + 351 22 608 3900

Fax....: + 351 22 608 3906

E-mail: quality.portuscale@grupo-continental.com

Other suggested hotels:

Porto Youth Hostel

Hotel BoaVista

Support:

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - IPL (http://www.ipleiria.pt)

IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (www.ibmc.up.pt)

Registration and contact:

E-mail to: EMBLAlumniPortugal@gmail.com

We are looking forward to see you in Porto.

Best regards,

Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio

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Paula Sampaio, PhD.
IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular
Universidade do Porto
Rua Campo Alegre 823
P4150-180 PORTO
PORTUGAL

Tel: +351 226074900  Ext: 1606
Fax: +351 226099157
email: sampaio@ibmc.up.pt

Web: http://www.ibmc.up.pt/

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5th Meeting Preliminary Program

Dear alumni,

A preliminary program has been prepared for our 5th Meeting to be held in Porto; Friday, October 2nd, 2009; participants are encouraged to confirm their assistance before September 20th. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio, September 7th, 2009]

Dear all,

We are waiting for you in Porto for the EMBL Alumni Association Iberian local chapter meeting, which will take place October 2^nd at IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular in Porto, Portugal.

The EMBL group leader Anne-Claude Gavin will honour us with her presence and a seminar.

The meeting will include several open scientific talks. Speakers already confirmed are:

Tiago Fleming Outeiro (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal)

José Pereira Leal (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal)

Luis Ferreira Moita (Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal)

Mark J. van Raaij (Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Elsa Logarinho (IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal)

If you are also interested in give a talk about your current work, please send an abstract together with the registration. Posters are also welcome.

We also would like to listen you about issues to be focused in the meeting. We need your feedback to organize a nice meeting, please participate with your comments and suggestions.

Please let us know if you will attend to the meeting until September 20^th

Preliminary program:

9:30 Welcome

9:45 Elsa Logarinho - "Kinetochore-microtubule interactions, mitotic checkpoint and chromosome segregation fidelity"

10:15 Talk to be announced

10:45 Tiago Outeiro – “Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration: from cells to drugs”

11:15 Coffee break

11:25 José Pereira Leal – “Towards an evolutionary cell biology”

12:00 Anne-Claude Gavin (IBMC-INEB Friday Noon Seminar)

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Luis Ferreira Moita – “RNAi-based dissection of Innate Immune Responses”

15:00 Mark J. van Raaij – “Crystallographic structure of a porcine adenovirus fibre containing unique galectin-like carbohydrate recognition domains”

15:30 Talk to be announced

16:00 Coffee break

16:10 Alumni meeting

17:30 Port wine taste

20:00 Dinner

Venue:

IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal

Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

IBMC on Google Maps

Accommodation:

Special rates are available for the meeting in the following hotels close to IBMC:

HF TUELA PORTO *** (€60 single/double)

HF FÉNIX PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PORTO **** (€67 single/double)

HF IPANEMA PARK ***** (€75 single/double)

Quality Inn Portus Cale **** (€63 single - €71 double)

To get the specials rates you should indicate the reference "EMBL Alumni Portugal-Spain meeting" in the booking.

HF - Hoteis Fenix:

Tel.....: + 351 226 194 100

Fax....: + 351 226 194 160

E-mail: porto@hfhotels.com

Quality Inn Portus Cale:

Tel.....: + 351 22 608 3900

Fax....: + 351 22 608 3906

E-mail: quality.portuscale@grupo-continental.com

Other suggested hotels:

Porto Youth Hostel

Hotel BoaVista

Support:

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - IPL (http://www.ipleiria.pt)

IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (www.ibmc.up.pt)

Registration and contact:

E-mail to: EMBLAlumniPortugal@gmail.com

We are looking forward to see you in Porto.

Best regards,

Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio

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Paula Sampaio, PhD.
IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular
Universidade do Porto
Rua Campo Alegre 823
P4150-180 PORTO
PORTUGAL

Tel: +351 226074900  Ext: 1606
Fax: +351 226099157
email: sampaio@ibmc.up.pt

Web: http://www.ibmc.up.pt/

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