7th EAA Iberian Chapter Meeting - Last Minute Recommendations

Dear alumni,

Please, find below the last minute recommendations and Updated Programme for our Next Meeting, to be held at CNIC, Madrid, on June 8th, 2012.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, June 4th, 2012]
 
Dear all,

The next EMBL Alumni meeting in Madrid is quickly approaching and there are a few things that I would like you to know before we meet in Madrid this Friday 8th:

- I am enclosing the final programme (please see attached [NB: updated version follows]). This includes a visit to the CNIC facilities at the end of the day. They would like me to tell them how many people will be interested in this visit (for organisation purposes). Please let me know if you plan to attend.

- From the CNIC they also tell me that it is necessary for you to have your DNI or passport with you, otherwise you will not be allowed to get in. They suggest to prepare a list in advance to make the entrance faster and more efficient in the morning. If you want, you can send me your DNI or passport number so that they will have the access cards ready in advance.

- They also inform me that there is no parking available for private cars and in the street the parking is not free.

- Those of you giving a presentation, please bring it ready in a pen-drive (or DVD or CD, if easier for you).

I think that this is all for now. Those of you travelling from outside Madrid have a safe journey. I look forward to meeting you in Madrid.

Best wishes,

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María dM Vivanco, PhD
CIC bioGUNE
Cell Biology and Stem Cells Unit
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Ed 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Spain
Tel: +34 94 406 1322
email: mdmvivanco@cicbiogune.es
web: www.cicbiogune.es
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Iberian Chapter - EAA Meeting Programme

Friday June 8th 2012, CNIC, Madrid

10:00 – 10.15h: Welcome (Maria Vivanco and Daniel Bachiller).

10:15 – 10:30h: Welcome and introduction to CNIC (Jose Luis de la Pompa).

10:30 – 11:15h: Marta Gómez Quintanilla: IMI and Health Spanish Representative EU's R+D Framework Programme Department.

11:15 – 12:00h: Pilar Santisteban: CSIC, Inst Investig Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Madrid and CONSOLIDER Programme Coordinator.

12:00 – 13:15h: Lunch.

13:15 – 14:00h: Iain Mattaj: EMBL Director General.

14:00 – 14:30h: Round Table.

14:30 – 15:00h: Daniel Bachiller – "Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis". Fundación Caubet-Cimera Islas Baleares/CSIC.

15:00 – 15:30h: Filip Lim: "Gene- and cell therapy of the spinal cord". Dept Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

15:30 – 16:00h: Coffee break.

16:00 - 16:30h: Ramon Serrano: "The origins and mechanisms of cellular quimiosmotic circuits". Dept Biotechnology, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

16:30 – 17:00h: Francisco Blanco: "ING proteins, chromatin structure, and cancer". CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao.

17:00 – 17:30h: DISCUSSION: action, future plans.

17:30 – 18:15h: Visit to the CNIC Facilities (ZF, animal house and imaging)

7th EAA Iberian Chapter Meeting - Programme

Dear alumni,

Please, find below the Programme for our Next Meeting, to be held at CNIC, Madrid, on June 8th, 2012.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, May 11th, 2012]
 

Iberian Chapter - EAA Meeting Programme

Friday June 8th 2012, CNIC, Madrid

10:00 – 10.15h: Welcome (Maria Vivanco and Daniel Bachiller).

10:15 – 10:30h: Welcome and introduction to CNIC (Jose Luis de la Pompa).

10:30 – 11:15h: Marta Gómez Quintanilla: IMI and Health Spanish Representative EU's R+D Framework Programme Department.

11:15 – 11:45h: Coffee break.

11:45 – 12:30h: Pilar Santisteban: CSIC, Inst Investig Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Madrid and CONSOLIDER Programme Coordinator.

12:30 – 13:15h: Iain Mattaj: EMBL Director General.

13:15 – 13:45h: ROUND TABLE.

13:45 – 15:00h: Lunch.

15:00 – 15:30h: Daniel Bachiller – "Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis". Fundación Caubet-Cimera Islas Baleares/CSIC.

15:30 – 16:00h: Filip Lim: "Gene- and cell therapy of the spinal cord". Dept Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

16:00 - 16:30h: Ramon Serrano: "The origins and mechanisms of cellular quimiosmotic circuits". Dept Biotechnology, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

16:30 – 17:00h: Francisco Blanco: "ING proteins, chromatin structure, and cancer". CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao.

17:00 – 18:00h: DISCUSSION: action, future plans.

18:00 – 18:45h: Visit to the CNIC Facilities (ZF, animal house and imaging)

7th EAA Iberian Chapter Meeting - Additional Information

Dear alumni,

As the date for our Next Meeting approaches, Maria has sent to us new info plus the detailed programme. Please, note that the programme will be posted later today in a different entry. You can find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, May 11th, 2012]

Dear EMBL Alumni,

Please find attached the programme for our next EAA Meeting in Madrid (CNIC) on June 8th. As you can see, there is an interesting mixture of science and discussion about subjects that were highlighted as important in the recent questionnaire.

I hope you will find the programme interesting and be able to make it to the meeting.

Many of you have already confirmed attendance, if you have not done so yet, but would like to participate, please let me know, I would just like to make sure that there is enough coffee and food for everybody. If you have already said no, please ignore this, and sorry for sending it again.

In addition, the EMBL Alumni Association has been very understanding with our situation and has agreed to help us with 2.500 euros, so we will be able to cover PART of our expenses. If you are going to claim some of your expenses, please remember that you will need to keep receipts and invoices for transport. Where participants require reimbursement for petrol, we would need a hand-written confirmation of payment from them, together with their receipt from the petrol station.

I look forward to seeing you in Madrid.

Best wishes,

Maria

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María dM Vivanco, PhD
CIC bioGUNE
Cell Biology and Stem Cells Unit
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Ed 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Spain
Tel: +34 94 406 1322
email: mdmvivanco@cicbiogune.es
web: www.cicbiogune.es
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7th EAA Iberian Chapter Meeting - Madrid, June 8th, 2012

Dear alumni,

Our Next Meeting will be finally held in Madrid, on June 8th, 2012. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, February 24th, 2012]

Dear EMBL Alumni,

Thank you to all of you who replied to the questionnaire I sent last December. Based on the answers and plenty of discussions we have decided to celebrate the next meeting in Madrid, Friday June 8th.

As attractive as a meeting in Mallorca sounded (I know some of you are disappointed), getting there for just one day was difficult for some people and many others could not afford to expand the meeting to two days. Therefore, Jose Luis de la Pompa very kindly agreed to host our meeting at the CNIC (gracias Jose Luis!). We hope that everyone will find it easier to make it there.

I am happy to inform you that the EMBL Alumni Association [EAA] has generously agreed to assign some funds to help us support this meeting. In addition, Iain Mattaj has agreed, once again, to find time out of his busy schedule to come to the meeting. I think that this reflects the interest that EMBL has in the Alumni Association and his appreciation for our Chapter meetings being (together with the Greek one) one of the most active and long running.

Many of you showed interest in having a meeting that includes not only great science, but also the possibility to discuss funding opportunities, facilities and services in our institutions and at the EMBL that could be used by our community, science policy, collaborative activities, networking, lobbying, etc.

Please, let me know, as soon as you can, if you are planning to attend. Please feel free to suggest names of potential speakers that you think would fit within our broad interests.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Madrid.

Best regards,

Maria
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María dM Vivanco, PhD
CIC bioGUNE
Cell Biology & Stem Cells Unit
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Ed 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Spain
Tel: +34 94 406 1322
email: mdmvivanco@cicbiogune.es
web: www.cicbiogune.es
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Iberian Chapter meeting postponed to March 2012

Dear alumni,

Our Meeting has been postponed to March 2012. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, October 14th, 2011]

Dear Alumni,

At the end of September we wrote to you regarding the EMBL Alumni Iberic Chapter meeting in Mallorca.

Many of you wrote back supporting the idea of having and open and deep discussion about a number of important issues that we will be facing in the immediate future. Unfortunately, due to the short notice of the announcement, few could confirm their attendance.

We believe that it is important to engage as many alumni as possible in these initiative, therefore, we have decided to postpone the meeting to March next year.

In the meantime more people will have the opportunity to participate in the preparatory discussions and to suggest different topics for the conference.

Our intention is to get funding to support the meeting, but for our actions to be efficient it would be necessary to have an estimate of the number of potential attendees. We will follow soon with a short questionnaire about content and future plans for the conference.

We apologize to those of you who have made plans to attend at the end of October, but the meeting is simply postponed, not cancelled, and it is going to be even better!

All the best,

Daniel and Maria

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María dM Vivanco, PhD
CIC bioGUNE
Cell Biology & Stem Cells Unit
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Ed 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Spain
Tel: +34 94 406 1322
email: mdmvivanco@cicbiogune.es
web: www.cicbiogune.es
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7th EMBL Alumni Iberian Chapter Meeting

Dear alumni,

Arrangements are being made for our 7th Meeting to be held in Palma de Mallorca, from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th of October, 2011. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco, October 4th, 2011]

Dear Alumni,

This year EMBL Alumni Iberic Chapter meeting will take place in the Hotel Barceló Albatros in Palma de Mallorca during the last weekend of October.

Thanks to funds provided by the Government of the Balearic Islands, we will be able to change the format and content of the meeting.

Accommodation costs and meals are covered by the organization, thus attendees will only have to pay for transportation. Participants would be able to arrive on Friday 28th and leave on Sunday 30th. Hotel rooms are for double occupancy, so you could bring your significant other at no extra cost (*).

Sessions will run from Saturday 29th, morning and afternoon, to Sunday 30th in the morning.

Our intention this year is to talk not just about our results and projects, but also about all other things that make our work possible. We believe that in the present economic environment this is a very important matter. In this context, our intention is to have at least one session dedicated to talks and discussions about funding opportunities, facilities and services in our institutions and at the EMBL that could be used by our community, science policy, collaborative activities, networking, lobbying, etc.

We believe that we, the EMBL alumni, have the potential to influence science and science policy in Spain, or at least, to benefit from sharing and optimizing the use of resources that are presently underused, or even ignored by the majority of us.

We are happy to say that Iain Mattaj has agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to come to the meeting and give us his vision about the current situation.

We have also invited a representative of CDTI who will discuss funding opportunities for the next two years of the 7th Framework Program and prospects for the 8th; and a representative from the MICINN who will talk about the Ley de la Ciencia (we are waiting for confirmation).

At this stage, it would be great if you could let us know if you are planning to attend, and what would be the topic(s) you would like to discuss during the meeting or if you would like to present your work, so we can make more detailed arrangements.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Mallorca.

Best regards,

Daniel Bachiller and Maria Vivanco

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María dM Vivanco, PhD
CIC bioGUNE
Cell Biology & Stem Cells Unit
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Ed 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Spain
Tel: +34 94 406 1322
email: mdmvivanco@cicbiogune.es
web: www.cicbiogune.es
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*[NB: please visit www.barceloilletasalbatros.com for details].

(on behalf of Filip Lim) meeting announcement: 1st International Spinal Cord Repair Meeting, March 25-26, 2011

Hi all, a meeting announcement that might be of interest to you on behalf of Filip Lim.
cheers
Sarah

Dear Sarah,
Would you be able to forward this to the Iberian EMBL list please? This meeting is a real bargain - those working in neuroregeneration may recognise many of the names on the program, and what better place than Barcelona?
Thanks in advance,
Filip Lim


It is our pleasure to invite you on behalf of Step by Step Foundation to the 1^st International Spinal Cord Repair Meeting, to be held in Barcelona on March 25^th and 26^th, 2011.

The 1^st Spinal Cord Repair Meeting is a one and a half day conference dedicated to recent advances in translational research in the field of Spinal Cord Injuries. The speakers are leading experts in areas which have already entered, or are expected to enter shortly, in experimental therapeutic trials in patients.

The 1^st Spinal Cord Repair Meeting is organized by Step by Step Foundation (www.fundacionsbs.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to innovative physical therapy for patients with spinal cord injuries in Barcelona. Step by Step Foundation’s principal objectives are the treatment and research for advancement in the field of spinal cord injuries and its future cure.

Please find attached the programme of our 1^st meeting and you can also find more information in www.spinalcordmeeting.org.

See you in Barcelona!

Contact us at: scrmeeting@reunionsciencia.es

EMBL Alumni Get-Together at The EMBO Meeting

Dear alumni,

Please find above the Poster for a Special Alumni Meeting to be held at Barcelona on Monday, September 6th, 2010. This Get-Together will be an extended version of the 6th Meeting of the EMBL Alumni Association's Iberian chapter, organized concurrently with The EMBO Meeting. Further details in the text below.

[from an e-mail written by Sarah Sherwood and Luis Serrano, August 16th, 2010]

Dear EMBL Alumni

Many thanks to those of you who have got back to me about the EMBL Alumni Association Get-Together, organized by the Iberian local chapter, to take place at The EMBO Meeting in September. We've set the date and programme. Here are the details:
 
Monday, September 6, 16.30-18.00
 
Foyer 0, Palau de Congresos de Catalunya (Av. Diagonal, 661-671), Barcelona

http://2010.the-embo-meeting.org/travel-information/venue.html

Programme

16.30     Welcome

16.35     Talk by EMBL Senior Scientist, Peer Bork

16.55     Sphingolipids in synapses. Lessons from Niemann Pick disease
Lola Ledesma, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid

17.10     Iron metabolism disorders: novel diseases and future research lines
Mayka Sánchez, Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer, Barcelona

17.25     How flies tell odors apart
Matthieu Louis, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona

17.40     Informal discussion and short reception (offered by the Center for Genomic Regulation and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine)

19.30     The EMBO Meeting dinner reception* 


* Fee applies. Tickets for this can be purchased directly at the meeting venue. Please let us know if you're interested so we can pass on numbers to the organizers.

Important registration information: For those alumni not attending the EMBO Meeting, please confirm with us that you will participate in the get-together and we will put your name on a list at the reception desk so that you will have access to the venue.

Help us spread the word to other alumni we may have missed!

Best wishes and hope to see you there.

Sarah Sherwood and Luis Serrano (co-organizers)

and for the records, so it begun ...

[from an e-mail written by Sarah Sherwood and Luis Serrano, July 12th, 2010]

Dear EMBL alumni in Spain and Portugal

As many of you may know, the EMBO meeting is scheduled to take place in Barcelona from September 4-7. We'd like to take advantage of the fact that several ex-EMBLers will be at the event to organize the 6th meeting of the EMBL Alumni Association's Iberian local chapter. The exact date and schedule are still to be determined, but we'd appreciate if you could get back to us and let us know...

• if you would be interested in attending
• and if you'd like to give a short talk about your work

We'll also have someone from EMBL present to give us an update on current affairs at the lab, as well as a discussion session on topics relevant to our community.

Please let us know if you think you'll be able to make it by Thursday, July 22 at the latest.

Many thanks

Sarah Sherwood and Luis Serrano
(co-organizers of the local chapter meeting)

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Sarah Sherwood
 

Office of Communications and External Relations
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Parc Científic de Barcelona
c/ Baldiri Reixac, 10
08028 Barcelona - Spain

Tel +34 93 4034636; mobile: +618 302 538
Fax +34 93 4037114
sarah.sherwood@irbbarcelona.org
http://www.irbbarcelona.org

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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5th EMBL Alumni Iberian Meeting

Dear alumni,

A date has been selected for our 5th Meeting to be held in Porto; Friday, October 2nd, 2009, and abstract submission is encouraged. Please find the details below.

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sampaio, July 24th 2009]

Dear colleges,

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

The meeting will have scientific talks open to the institute. If you are interested in present your current work, please send us an abstract until the end of August.

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. Also, let us know if you are planning to attend the meeting.

The program will be available in beginning of September.

We are looking forward to see you in Porto.

Best regards

Paula Sebastião e Paula Sampaio

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sampaio, July 9th 2009]

Olá EMBL alumni,

Please mark in your schedulers the date (2nd October) for the 5th meeting of the Iberian local chapter of the EMBL Alumni Association, which will take place at IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular in Porto, Portugal.

The meeting will have the participation of an EMBL group leader, the EMBO Installation Grantee, Tiago Outeiro, from IMM, University of Lisbon, will present his work on neurodegenerative diseases and some scientific talks open to the institute selected among the abstracts submitted by the participants. So, if you are interested in present your current work, please send us an abstract.

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.

The program will be available soon.

We are looking forward to see you in Porto.

Best regards

Paula Sebastião e 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<.at.>ibmc.up.pt

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

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Next Meeting, Porto

Dear alumni,

Preparations are under way for next meeting. Please find below several messages from our next hosts, Paula Sebastião and Paula Sampaio.

Next EMBL alumni Iberian chapter meeting in Porto

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sampaio, June 2nd 2009]

Olá EMBL alumni,

This year the 5th meeting of the Iberian local chapter of the EMBL Alumni Association will take place at IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular in Porto, Portugal.

It is appointed for September 4th. Please let us know if you intend to participate in the meeting and if this date is convenient.

The meeting will have some scientific talks open to the institute. If you are interested in present your current work, please send us an abstract. You also can bring posters.

We also would like to listen you about issues to be focused in the meeting.

Please reply as soon as possible.

We are looking forward to see you in Porto :-) .

Paula Sebastião
Paula Sampaio

Date poll for next EMBL alumni Iberian chapter meeting in Porto

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sampaio, June 5th 2009]

Dear Alumni,

Thank you very much to all that already replayed to the meeting announcement e-mail.

Attending that many of you cannot attend the meeting at September 4th, we create a Doodle poll where you could mark the days that are more convenient for you to come to Porto. The link for the the doodle is:

http://www.doodle.com/xcfbvaftbutkqw6e

Please fill the poll until 14/06, so the final date could be defined very soon.

We need your feedback to organize a nice meeting, please participate with your comments and suggestions. :-)

We are looking forward to see you here

Os melhores cumprimentos/ Saludos/ Best regards

Paula Sebastião & Paula Sampaio

Next EMBL alumni Iberian chapter meeting in Porto - Reminder

[from an e-mail written by Paula Sampaio, June 15th 2009]

Dear Alumni,

Please don't forget to choose the dates that are more convenient for you to come to Porto. Please fill the poll during this week, so the final date could be defined very soon.

The link for the the doodle is:

http://www.doodle.com/xcfbvaftbutkqw6e

We need your feedback to organize a nice meeting, please participate with your comments and suggestions. :-)

If you already fill the poll please ignore this remainder and thank you very much for your participation.

We are looking forward to see you in Porto.

Os melhores cumprimentos/ Saludos/ Best regards

Paula Sebastião & 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<.at.>ibmc.up.pt

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

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4th EMBL Alumni Spanish and Portuguese Chapter Meeting

Dear alumni,

Guillermo Montoya has submitted the definitive schedule for our next meeting, you can find it below.

[from an e-mail written by Guillermo Montoya]

Dear all ; please find enclosed the final agenda, see you here

best regards

G.

PS: please contact Guillermo directly at gmontoya<.at.>cnio.es

(edited on November 5th for some minor modifications)

4th EMBL Alumni Spanish and Portuguese Chapter Meeting

CNIO, Madrid; 28th of Novemeber, 2008.

Venue: CNIO, 2nd floor seminar room.
Melchor Fernández Almagro 3
28029 Madrid, Spain


Definitive Schedule:

9:15 Welcome, by CNIO vicedirector Erwin Wagner.

9:30 Ignacio Dolado (CNIO, Madrid): p38 MAPK mediates the invasive phenotype of human cancer cell lines.

10:00 Robert Kypta (CICbioGUNE, Bizkaia): Roles and regulation of Wnts and Wnt antagonists in cell growth and differentiation.

10:30 Guillermo Montoya (CNIO, Madrid): Molecular basis of xeroderma pigmentosum DNA repair by homing endonucleases.

11:00 Coffee break

11:45 Fatima Gebauer (CRG, Barcelona): Regulation of X chromosome dosage compensation by UNR.

12:15 EMBL Core Facilities, presented by Christian Boulin (EMBL, Heidelberg).

13:00 Council Members, presented by Cristina Espa (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación).

13:20 Alumni Association, presented by Sarah Sherwood (IRB, Barcelona).

14:00 Lunch at CNIO

15:15-16:15 General assembly

Madrid Meeting, Provisional Schedule

Dear alumni,

Guillermo Montoya has prepared a provisional schedule for our next meeting, you can find it below.

[from an e-mail written by Guillermo Montoya]

Dear all please find enclosed the provisional agenda. Ian Mattaj could not make it but there will be an EMBL Senior Group leader coming. Hope to see you here the 28th

best regards

G.

PS: please contact Guillermo directly at gmontoya<.at.>cnio.es

EMBL Alumni Spanish-Portuguese chapter meeting

CNIO, Madrid; 28th of Novemeber, 2008.

Venue: CNIO, 2nd floor seminar room.

Provisional Schedule:

9:15 Welcome, by Guillermo Montoya.

9:30 Ignacio Dolado (CNIO, Madrid): p38 MAPK mediates the invasive phenotype of human cancer cell lines.

10:00 Robert Kypta (CICbioGUNE, Bizkaia): Roles and regulation of Wnts and Wnt antagonists in cell growth and differentiation.

11:00 Fatima Gebauer (CRG, Barcelona): Regulation of X chromosome dosage compensation.

11:30 Coffee break

12:00 Guillermo Montoya (CNIO, Madrid): Molecular basis of xeroderma pigmentosum DNA repair by homing endonucleases.

12:30 EMBL Senior Scientist (to be determined).

13:15 Sarah Sherwood (IRB, Barcelona): Alumni association

14:15 Lunch at CNIO

15:15-16:15 General assembly

Next Meeting, Madrid

Dear alumni,

Preparations are under way for next meeting, to be held on Friday November 28th, at CNIO in Madrid. Please find below a message from our next host, Guillermo Montoya.

Next Iberic Chapter Meeting, Madrid, November 28th

[from an e-mail written by Guillermo Montoya]

Dear all , I am just contacting you to make some announcements [...] we have to organize the meeting in a very short time. Therefore, I´d like to have a list of attendees asap. So:

1.- People that plan to come, please send me an email confirming your assistance before the 9th-oct.

2.-Those of you that would like to give talk, please send me a summary (10-15 lines) including the the title of your talk before the 14th.

I hope I can send you a program around the 15th

Regards

G.

PS: please contact Guillermo directly at gmontoya<.at.>cnio.es

About Our Mailing List

Dear all,

Just a brief reminder about how our mailing list works.

To access the Mailing List Homepage please follow this link:
http://groups.google.com/group/EMBL-Alumni-Iberic-Chapter

To subscribe directly, please fill in this form with the email address you want to subscribe, and press "suscribirse".

Suscribirte a EMBL Alumni Iberic Chapter

Correo electrónico:

To send a message to the list, please write an email to
EMBL-Alumni-Iberic-Chapter@googlegroups.com

Best regards,

Carlos M. Luque.-

Bilbao Meeting Report

Dear alumni,

Please find below a message from María del Mar Vivanco, reporting about our latest meeting held at Bilbao last September 7th.

Iberic Chapter Meeting, Bilbao, September 7th: Some Conclusions.

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco]

Dear all,

All the participants in the last EMBL Alumni meeting in Bilbao were sorry that you could not make it. However, I thought that you may like to hear that the meeting worked out very well. In principle 30 people had agreed to participate although at the last minute 9 people had to cancel for different reasons.

On Friday 7th we enjoyed a lovely sunny day, excellent scientific presentations with lots of questions and an intense but productive (we hope!) discussion about different Alumni issues. I am enclosing a summary of some of the topics discussed (fyi) and our suggestions to try and improve the situation. [NB: please read the document appended below]

Afterwards we had a great visit to the Guggenheim museum and a pleasant walk by the river appropriately followed by a refreshing drink and a nice dinner at a club.

I hope that many of you will be able to come to the 4th EMBL Alumni [Iberic] Chapter Meeting that will take place at the IRB in Barcelona next year (Sarah Sherwood very kindly volunteered the location).

Best wishes,

Maria

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Maria dM Vivanco, PhD
Cell Biology and Stem Cells Unit
CIC bioGUNE
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia
Edificio 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
SPAIN

Tel +34 94 406 1322
Fax +34 94 406 1301
mdmvivanco<.at.>cicbiogune.es
http://www.cicbiogune.es
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3rd Iberic Chapter Meeting in Bilbao, 7th September 2007: Alumni issues

1) Some Alumni mentioned their attempts in the past to contact EMBL directly about potential use of the EMBL workshop or help with patent issues and all of them found the same lack of response.

Suggestion: perhaps this and other issues that may come up in the future should first be directed to Juan Valcarcel, as our Alumni representative, who may know better who to address in order to obtain an official response of some kind.


2) Wikipedia web page: we all thought that it is an excellent idea.

Suggestion: it could also include the Alumni association information to improve its visibility.


3) Several of us have tried to take advantage of the EMBL PhD student rejects lists and found that we are usually too late.

Suggestion: the student applicants be offered the opportunity of looking at positions available in Alumni labs as soon as they are rejected by EMBL.


4) Information on funding opportunities in Spain and Europe and tips on how to succeed.

Suggestion: inviting an experienced speaker (ie, somebody from the ANEP, FIS or ERC).


5) Interactions through blog and/or emails.

Suggestion: to replace blog with Wiki plus automatically updatable email list or to have access to the local blogs through the Alumni association web page.


6) Redefining the aims of the Iberic chapter.

Suggestion: With a smile and a dose of irony the Alumni agreed that a major benefit of the meetings is a therapeutic sharing of problems encountered with Spanish bureaucracy (see 7).


7) There is a general complaint about the paperwork involved in hiring foreigners in Spain. Even when the scientist belongs to an European country, the person has to obtain a special permit (involving queuing for hours); this does not happen to EU nationals in other European countries. In addition, Spain insists on the homologation of PhD titles obtained in European Universities, and this can involve several years of paperwork.

Suggestion: we are aware that this goes beyond the area of influence of EMBL, but perhaps if it were brought up “at the highest level” it could contribute to make a difference in the future.

Next Meeting, Bilbao

Dear alumni,

Preparations are under way for next meeting. Please find below a message from our next host, María del Mar Vivanco.

Next Iberic Chapter Meeting, Bilbao, September 7th

[from an e-mail written by María del Mar Vivanco]

Dear Alumni,

Some of you may have already received this email, but quite a few have bounced back to me, therefore, I thought I should try an alternative way to reach as many of you as possible:

The next "EMBL alumni in Spain" meeting will take place in Bilbao on Friday, September 7th. I am happy to say that Iain Mattaj has agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to come to the meeting.

The format will be similar to the one in Valencia last year (more details will be provided at a later date). At this stage it would be great if you could let me know if you think you will be attending so we can make more detailed arrangements.

If anybody is particularly interested in presenting at this meeting, please let me know.

Best regards,

Maria


________________________________
Maria dM Vivanco, PhD
Cell Biology and Stem Cells Unit
CIC bioGUNE
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia
Edificio 801A
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
SPAIN

Tel +34 94 406 1322
Fax +34 94 406 1301
mdmvivanco<.at.>cicbiogune.es
http://www.cicbiogune.es
________________________________

Iberic Chapter at EMBL&cetera

Dear alumni,

Thanks to our fellow alumna Sarah Sherwood, a chronicle of the last meeting held in Valencia can be found within the pages of the December 2006 EMBL&cetera issue. Please find below a copy of the article and enjoy!

[from an article written by Sarah Sherwood]

Alumni hit Valencia for 2nd Iberian reunion

A warm, sunny day in late summer on the shores of the Mediterranean. With this kind of setting, it didn’t take a lot of armtwisting to convince EMBL alumni to switch off their computers, hang up their lab coats and head over to the beach for the second gathering of the EMBL Alumni Association’s Iberian local chapter. The event, attended by more than 25 alumni currently living on the Iberian peninsula, took place on 29 September at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

After a short welcome, EMBL alumni took to the podium to discuss their latest research. Speakers included Alfonso Valencia, María del Mar Vivanco, local chapter head Juan Valcárcel, Domingo Barettino, Jordi Bernués and Alberto Muñoz. Topics ranged from protein interaction networks to vitamin D and colon cancer, and gave participants not only a great opportunity to hear the latest in Spanish science, but also to explore possibilities for collaboration. After the morning session, shop talk carried on over into lunch as the participants regrouped at a seaside restaurant, enjoying a magnificent seafood paella and other Iberian delicacies.

Between courses, alumni took stock of the progress that they have made in setting up their local chapter. Since their last meeting, the chapter website has been improved and now includes a blog, set up by Carlos Luque, to facilitate communication among members. Continuing areas of activity include completing alumni profiles in the online searchable database, which will hopefully help members identify people with particular expertises and career paths. Future projects include organising a laboratory management course and promoting visits of students and postdocs to alumni labs.

Thanks are due to reunion organisers Ramon Serrano and Angel Nebreda who delivered a top-notch programme and a truly pleasant day with friends old and new. Next year’s event is scheduled to take place in September or October in Bilbao, and will be hosted by María del Mar Vivanco at the CICbioGUNE. Current EMBL staff take note: the Iberian alumni want to strengthen ties with current EMBL staff and are planning on inviting some of you to their next reunion. If you’re interested, get in touch with María at mdmvivanco<.at.>cicbiogune.es.

– Sarah Sherwood