Program & Abstract Book
Day 1 February 19th
11:00-14:00 Registration
14:00-14:30 Welcome and Introduction to the meeting
14:30-15:10 Keynote by Victor Ambros
MicroRNA-regulated pathways in C. elegans development
Introduced by Andrea Calixto
15:20-17:55 Short talks I
Chair: Daniel Hochbaum
15:20-15:40 Judith Yanowitz. Specialization of genome integrity pathways in germ cells
15:40-15:55 Miriam Virgolini . Alcohol responses in Caenorhabditis elegans exposed to lead during development
15:55-16:15 Mark Alkema. Migraines, Microbiomes and Metabolism.
16:15-16:30 Javier Huayta. C. elegans Lifespan Regulation by Spatiotemporal Activity of DAF-16
16:30-16:50 Coffee break
16:50-17:05 Arlés Urrutia. Bacterially produced metabolites protect C. elegans neurons from degeneration
17:05-17:25 Eugenia Goya. More than a gut feeling: Probiotic Bacillus subtilis protects from Parkinson's disease-associated alpha-synuclein aggregation in C. elegans
17:25- 17:40 Pablo Gleiser. Emergent behavior in a robotic model of C. elegans
17:40-17:55 Gabriel Pedroso Viçozzi. Possible lipid reducing effect of atorvastatin nanoparticles co- encapsulated with vegetal oils in Caenorhabditis elegans
17:55-19:40 Poster Session
20:00 Welcome cocktail
Day 2 February 20th
9:00-9:50 THE EMBO Keynote Lecture by Manuel Zimmer
From connectome structure
to
function: mechanisms underlying neuronal population dynamics in C. elegans.
Introduced by Diego de Mendoza
10:00-13:00 Short talks II
Chair: Inés Carrera
10:00-10:20 Benjamin Podbilewicz. A novel cell-specific delivery system in C. elegans
10:20-10:35 Andrea Carranza. Effects of Chlorogenic acid on thermotolerance in C. elegans via HIF-1, HSF-1 and autophagy.
10:35-10:55 Marie Gendrel. Re-defining a GABAergic neuron
10:55-11:10 Gabriela Blanco. Neural Modulation of Foraging Strategies in C. elegans
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-11:50 Hannes Buelow. How glycans can shape dendrites
11:50-12:05 Caroline Brandão Quines. (p-ClPhSe)2 regulates Caenorhabditis elegans metabolic pathways in an AGE-1/DAF-16 dependent-manner and independent of PFK-1/DAF-16
12:05-12:25 Daiana Silva-Ávila. Safety assessment of nanomaterials: the worth of the worm
12:25-12:40 María Hornos Carneiro. CoQ10 restores fertility by rescuing BPA-induced oxidative DNA damage in the C. elegans germline
12:40-13:00 Félix Soares. C. elegans as a tool for neurotoxicology paradigms: metals and protein aggregation
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:15-14:45 Workshop
Calcium Imaging: Manuel Zimmer
14:45-17:05 Short talks III
Chair: Diego Rayes
14:45-15:00 Andrea Cuentas.
A bulk endocytosis-like mechanism is hijacked to remove presynaptic terminals in remodeling GABA neurons
15:20-15:35 Marilina Raices. Characterization of the meiotic double-strand break pathway
15:35-15:55 Riva de Paula Oliveira. XPA-1 and EXO-3 impairment causes neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans through negative regulation of redox homeostasis and protein degradation pathways
15:55-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:30 Marcela Legue. Bacterial small RNA RsmY is required for a transgenerationally-inherited behavior in C. elegans
16:30-16:50 Diego de Mendoza. Cannabinoids are essential for cholesterol mobilization in C. elegans
16:50-17:05 Gastón Prez. Reversal of intracellular cholesterol sequestration: a role of endocannabinoids conserved from worms to mammalian cells
17:05-19:30 Poster Session
Day 3 February 21st
9:00-10:40 IBRO Symposium Neural mechanism of aging, stress and neurodegeneration
Chair: María José De Rosa
9:00-9:20 Andrea Calixto. Bacterial metabolites change the fate of dying neurons
9:20-9:40 Diego Rayes. Neural control of cytoprotective mechanisms
9:40-10:00 Alexandra Byrne. Intrinsic mechanisms of functional axon regeneration
10:00-10:20 Claire Bénard. Neuronal and extracellular factors in the lifelong maintenance of the nervous system
10:20-10:40 Marcela Brocco. Stress and sensory neurons
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:50 Short talks IV
Chair: Cecilia Mansilla
11:00-11:20 Daniel Hochbaum. Dauer, longevity and development
11:20-11:35 Tania Veuthey. The flight response induces the release of an insulin-like peptide from the intestine to inhibit cytoprotective mechanisms
11:35-11:55 Rosa Navarro. Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in the Gonad of C elegans During Stress.
11:55-12:10 Andrés Binolfi. In-cell NMR and beyond: high resolution metabolic profiling in Caenorhabditis elegans by in vivo NMR spectroscopy
12:10-12:30 Marc Pilon. Genetics of Membrane Fluidity Regulation in C. elegans
12:30-12:50 Andrés Vidal-Gadea. Using the burrowing behavior of C. elegans to study the pathophysiology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
12:50-14:00 Lunch
14:15-16:10 Short talks V
Chair: Andrea Calixto
14:15-14:35 Alicia Meléndez. Autophagy in Germline Development
14:35-14:55 Rafael Vázquez-Manriquez. Opposing steroid signals regulate protein homeostasis through modulation of the fat metabolism
14:55-15:10 Cecilia Mansilla. The lipoyl-relay pathway is essential for development in Caenorhabditis elegans
15:10-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-15:50 Betina Córsico. Using C. elegans to determine the functions of lipid binding proteins of parasitic nematodes.
15:50-16:10 Michael Francis. Molecular mechanisms controlling synaptic growth and remodeling
16:20-18:20 Poster Session
18:30-19:10 Closing Lecture by Marian Walhout
Worms, bugs & drugs
Introduced by Diego Rayes
19:15 Closing remarks
21:00 Farewell Party
* Panels for posters are 90 cm wide x 140 cm height, you can prepare your favorite size that can fit that.
*For short oral presentations you will have 15min including questions so we recommend you prepare the talk for 13 min.
*For long oral presentations you will have 20min including questions so we recommend you prepare the talk for 18 min.