Programme
| Thursday, 17th March 2016 | ||
| 09.00 | Registration | |
| 09.30 | Opening session | i3S representative | |
| SESSION 01 | POPULATION GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION Chair: António Amorim |
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| 09.45 | “The history in our genes” | |
| Cristian Capelli | U. Oxford, United Kingdom | ||
| 10.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 | "On the importance of being structured: should we revisit the demographic history of species? (and how it could apply to humans)" |
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| Lounès Chikhi | IGC, Lisbon, Portugal & CNRS, Toulouse, France | ||
| 11.45 | “Understanding the impact of chromosomal inversions on the evolution of the human genome” |
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| João Alves | U. Vigo, Spain | ||
| 12.15 | “Chromosomal inversions and natural selection” | |
| Jorge Vieira | i3S/IBMC, Porto, Portugal | ||
| 12.15 | Poster session and Lunch | |
| SESSION 02 | CANCER AND PATHOGEN EVOLUTION Chair: Miguel Arenas |
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| 14.30 | “Cancer phylogeography” | |
| David Posada | U. Vigo, Spain | ||
| 15.15 | “Integrating NGS data to assess host-microbe interactions in asthma” | |
| Marcos Pérez-Losada | George Washington University, USA & CIBIO-InBIO, Porto, Portugal |
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| 16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.30 | “Escherichia coli adaptation in the mammalian gut” | |
| Isabel Gordo (IGC, Lisbon, Portugal) | ||
| 17.15 | “Genome dynamics of a generalist microbe: competence for transformation generates stochastic variation and an open pangenome in Bacillus subtilis” | |
| Patrícia Brito | IGC, Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| 20.00 | Meeting dinner | |
| Friday, 18th March 2016 | ||
| SESSION 03 | WIDENING THE SPECTRUM OF PATHOGENIC VARIATION Chair: Carla Oliveira |
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| 09.30 | "An analysis of the n=1 problem in human genetics" | |
| Don Conrad | Washington University in St. Louis, USA | ||
| 10.15 | Coffee break | |
| 10.45 | "Next-generation sequencing approaches in neurogenetics" | |
| Isabel Alonso | i3S/ UniGene, Porto, Portugal | ||
| 10.30 | “Patterns of gene expression variation across dozens of human tissues and hundreds of individuals.” |
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| Pedro Ferreira | i3S/ IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal | ||
| 12.15 | “Sequence variation at KLK and WFDC clusters and its association to male infertility” | |
| Patrícia Marques | i3S/ IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal | ||
| 12.30 | Poster session and Lunch | |
| SESSION 04 | EXPLORING THE REGULOME: FROM GENES TO PROTEINS Chair: Alexandra Lopes |
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| 14.00 | “Post-transcriptional control by multi-functional RNA-binding proteins: from phenotypes to regulatory mechanisms” | |
| Nicola Gray | U. of Edinburgh, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, United Kingdom |
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| 14.45 | “How mRNA translation is involved in modulating nonsense-mediated decay in transcripts with AUG-proximal nonsense mutations” |
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| Luísa Romão | INSA, Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| 15.30 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00 | "Regulation of transcriptional reactivation of the oocyte during meiosis" | |
| Rui Martinho | U. Algarve, Portugal | ||
| 16.45 | “Dissecting the molecular mechanisms controlling alternative polyadenylation in human T cells: MCL1 3’ends regulation” | |
| Isabel Castro | i3S/ IBMC, Porto, Portugal | ||
| 17.30 | Poster prize announcement | |
| Closing session | ||
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