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Program

 

Registration and Welcome

08:30 - 10:00     Registration 

09:00 - 09:10       Welcome message by the Directors 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

 

Lipids as mediators and biomarkers in immunity and infection

Chairs: Bruno Neves and Catarina Almeida, Universidade de 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 - 10:25        Flash-talk 1 (Selected from abstracts submitted)

10:25 - 10:30        Flash-talk 2 (Selected from abstracts submitted)

10:30 - 10:45        Q&A

 

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

 

Lipid signaling in tissue regeneration and aging 

Chairs: Sandrina Nóbrega Pereira e Alexandra Nunes, Universidade de Aveiro

10:15 - 11:55               Nektarios Tavernarakis. Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas and Medical School of the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece "Nuclear lipid droplet deposition during ageing"

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

12:15 - 12:25        Daniela Bispo. CICECCO - Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal “Understanding Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenesis Variability among Donors: a Step Forward with NMR Lipidomics”

12:25 - 12:30        Flash-talk 4 (Selected from abstracts submitted)

12:30 - 12:45        Q&A

 

12:45 - 14:15        Lunch* / Poster Session

*Lunch is not provided for the participants.

 

Lipid remodeling in cancer

Chairs: Luisa Helguero and Rita Ferreira, Universidade de Aveiro

14:15 - 14:55        Tony Petan. Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, 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. CICECCO - Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) lipidomics – an holistic insight into cancer cell metabolism”

15:15 - 15:30        Ana Luisa Ferro Magalhães. Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, Portugal “A positive feedback loop between IFN-γ signaling and cholesterol uptake sustains PD-L1 expression in breast cancer cells”

15:30 - 15:35        Flash-talk 4 (Selected from abstracts submitted)

15:35 - 15:50        Q&A

 

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

 

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

Chair: to be announced.

Dániel TorocsikMD, 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, researcher. CHBV, Aveiro and Laboratory of Physiology - iCBR- Medicine Faculty, University of Coimbra.

 

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

16:50 - 17:00        Closing remarks

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