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Program 

 

Registration and Welcome 

08:30 - 10:00     Registration  

09:00 - 09:10       Welcome message by the Director of the Institute of Biomedicine and of the Dep. of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro        

09:10 -09:20      Opening of the symposium by the organizers 

  

9:20 - 10:45 Lipids as mediators and biomarkers in immunity and infection 

Chairs: Bruno Neves and Catarina Almeida, University of Aveiro 

9:20 - 10:00          Dániel Torocsik. Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN) “Sebaceous glands of the skin - at the crossroads of lipid metabolism and inflammation” 

10:00 - 10:20        Ricardo Jorge Leal Silvestre. University of Minho, Portugal “Intramacrophage lipid accumulation and susceptibility to Leishmania infection” 

10:20 - 10:30        Q&A 

10:30 - 10:35        Flash-talk 1: Marta Fernandes, IMM-João Lobo Antunes, Portugal. "Sphingosine kinase activity is essential for IL-7R-mediated signaling in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but not in healthy lymphocytes" 

10:35 - 10:40        Flash-talk 2: Catarina Andrade. I3S, Portugal.  "Examining how Enzyme Replacement Therapy affects the invariant Natural Killer T cells in individuals with Acid Sphingomyelinase Disease" 

10:40 - 10:45        Q&A 

10:45 - 11:15        Coffee Break / Poster Session. 

  

10:15 - 12:50 Lipid signaling in tissue regeneration and aging  

Chairs: Sandrina Nóbrega Pereira e Bruno Neves, University of Aveiro 

10:15 - 11:55         Nektarios Tavernarakis. University of Crete, Greece  

"Nuclear lipid droplet deposition during ageing" 

11:55 - 12:15        Maria João Sarmento. IMM-João Lobo Antunes, Portugal “How the nuclear envelope grows old: the role of ether lipids in healthy human aging” 

12:15 - 12:25        Q&A 

12:25 - 12:35        Daniela Bispo. CICECO - University of Aveiro, Portugal “Understanding Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenesis Variability among Donors: a Step Forward with NMR Lipidomics” 

12:35 - 12:40        Flash-talk 3: Júlia Silva, iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Portugal "The impact of systemic lipids on the reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells" 

12:40 - 12:50        Q&A 

12:50 - 14:15        Lunch* / Poster Session 

*Lunch is not provided for the participants. 

  

14:15 - 15:50 Lipid remodeling in cancer 

Chairs: Luisa Helguero and Rita Ferreira, University of Aveiro 

14:15 - 14:55        Tony Petan. Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia “From Fat to Signals of Life & Death: Lipid Droplets Control the Generation of Mitogenic Lipid Mediators and Ferroptotic Death Signals” 

14:55 - 15:15        Ana Maria Gil. CICECO - University of Aveiro, Portugal “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) lipidomics – an holistic insight into cancer cell metabolism” 

15:15 - 15:25        Q&A 

15:25 - 15:35        Ana Luisa Ferro Magalhães. IMM-João Lobo Antunes, Portugal “A positive feedback loop between IFN-γ signaling and cholesterol uptake sustains PD-L1 expression in breast cancer cells” 

15:35 - 15:40        Flash-talk 4: Diogo Estêvão, i3S and ICBAS, Portugal. "Metabolic deregulation: how rectal cancer cells escape radiotherapy-induced cell death" 

15:40 - 15:50        Q&A 

15:50 - 16:10        Coffee Break / Poster Session 

 

  

16:10 - 16:40       Round Table: Lipid Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets 

Chair: Francisco Amado, Dep. Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro 

Dániel Torocsik, MD, PhD. Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN). 

Alex Dickens, PhD. Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku, Finland 

Maria Luísa Dória, PhD. R&D Department, Bial, Portugal 

Christian Neves, MD. CHBV, Aveiro and iCBR- University of Coimbra, Portugal 

  

16:40 - 16:50        Best Flash talk and Best poster award Sponsored by Lipotype 

16:50 - 17:00        Closing remarks 

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