Barcelona BioMed Seminars
Leading international scientists from different areas of the biomedical sciences are invited to present and discuss their results and ideas in a series of weekly seminars. These seminars allow IRB Barcelona researchers and the local scientific community to learn about the latest developments in the life sciences, and provide an opportunity for direct contact with each seminar speaker. Barcelona BioMed Seminars are open to the scientific community, capacity permitting.
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19 May 2008
Cell and Developmental Biology Programme Seminar
Myosin II and the morphogenesis of the imaginal discs
Speaker: Luis M. Escudero
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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21 May 2008
Cell and Developmental Biology Programme Seminar
Chemotaxis in Drosophila: Making sense of graded olfactory stimuli
Speaker: Matthieu Louis
EMBL-CRG
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23 May 2008
Plenary Seminar
Is the DNA damage response (DDR) a bona fide tumour suppressor barrier?
Speaker: Óscar Fernández Capetillo
CNIO
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26 May 2008
Cell and Developmental Biology Programme Seminar
Differential regulation of sister chromatid cohesion in female Drosophila germ line stem cells
Speaker: Rui G. Martinho
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
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28 May 2008
Cell and Developmental Biology Programme Seminar
The role of the histone variant macroH2A during cell fate decisions
Speaker: Marcus Buschbeck
Epigenetics and Cancer Lab Center for Genomic Regulation - CRG
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30 May 2008
Plenary Seminar
The oncogenic role of TGF-beta in glioma
Speaker: Joan Seoane, PhD
Medical Oncology Program, Vall d’Hebron
University Hospital Research Institute
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
Barcelona, Spain
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6 June 2008
Plenary Seminar
Novel Strategies to Resolve Inflammation
Speaker: Dr. Adriano G. Rossi
Professor of Respiratory and Inflammation Pharmacology MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
Queen’s Medical Research Institute
University of Edinburgh Medical School
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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13 June 2008
Plenary Seminar
Neuron-glia metabolic coupling and plasticity
Speaker: Dr. Pierre J. Magistretti
Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Centre de Neurosciences Psychiatriques,
CHUV – Université de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
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17 June 2008
Extraordinary Seminar
Unveiling novel regulators of senescence using genetic screenings
Speaker: Jesús Gil
Cell Proliferation Group
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK









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