Program IX Spanish Worm Meeting
Thursday October 24th, 2024
8:30-9:15 Registration and poster placement
9:15-9:30 Opening presentation
SESSION 1 (9:30-11:05) Chair Peter Askjaer
Keynote talk: Julie Ahringer (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge).
Talk 1: “The cell cycle regulator APC/CFZR-1 acts during somatic gonad development regulating the DTC-SS decision in Caenorhabditis elegans”. David Borrego Pérez.
Talk 2: “fzr-1/Cdh1 co-regulates sexually dimorphic quiescent neural progenitor re-activation and asymmetric cell division”. Carla Lloret Fernández.
Talk 3: “Exploiting the CRISPR/Cas9 system to label chromosomes of C. elegans gonads”. Cristina Piñeiro López.
11:05-11:35 Coffee break
SESSION 2 (11:35-13:10) Chair Julián Cerón
Invited talk: Nicholas Stroustrup. “Systematic mapping of organism-scale gene-regulatory networks in aging using population asynchrony”
Talk 4: “Erucin, a natural isothiocyanate, prevents polyglutamine-induced toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans via AAK-2/AMPK and DAF-16/FoxO signaling”. Martina Balducci.
Talk 5: “The mitochondrial prohibitin complex PHB regulates neuronal and glial morphology in ageing”. Jesús Fernández Abascal.
Talk 6: “Exploring homeostatic mechanisms of insulin peptide processing and Insulin/IGF1 signaling”. Lucia Sedlackova.
Talk 7: “The evolution of developmental genetic biases explains divergent phenotypic evolutionary rates”. Joao Picao Osorio.
13:10 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Poster session
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
SESSION 3 (17:00-19:45) Chair Manolo Muñoz
Invited talk: Anna Laromaine. “C. elegans bridging Nanotechnology and nanomedicine”
Talk 8: “Restoration of Mitochondrial and Dopaminergic Neuronal Integrity in a C. elegans Parkinson’s disease Model through Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Na+/Ca2+ exchanger”. Silvia Romero Sanz.
Talk 9: “Depletion of the mitochondrial sirtuin sir-2.3/SIRT4 enhances neuronal function in C. elegans models of Huntington disease”. Cristina Trujillo del Río.
Talk10: “A progeria-associated BAF-1 mutation modulates ribosome expression and vesicular trafficking in C. elegans”. Adrián Fragoso.
18:20-18:30 Short break
Talk11: “Exogenous Prion-Like Proteins and Their Potential to Trigger Cognitive Dysfunction”. Natalia Sanchez de Groot.
Talk12: “The role of the Touch Receptor Neurons in locomotion of C. elegans”. Aleksandra Pidde.
Talk13: Laura Molina García. “Conflict during learning reconfigures the neural representation of positive valence and approach behaviour”
Talk14: David Aristizabal Corrales. “Rapid in vivo characterisation of the functional impact and vulnerabilities for PTEN tumor suppressor gene variants”
Talk15: Jeremy Vicencio Gumarao. “Engineering the auxin inducible degron system to obtain tunable in vivo control of organismal protein abundance”
Talk Inf: Nuria Flames “CGC European Hub”
20:30 Bus to restaurant
21:00 Conference dinner
Friday October 25th, 2024
SESSION 4 (9:00-11:00) Chair Nuria Flames
Talk16: “The C. elegans Integrator complex, its function and regulation”. Juan Cabello Pardos.
Talk17: “Avoiding meiosis catastrophe by BRC-1/BRD-1 phosphorylation after DNA damage”. Nuria Fernández Fernández.
Talk18: “The transcription factor HLH-30 is a key regulator of L1 larvae adaptation to starvation”. Alejandro Mata Cabana.
Talk19: “A histone deubiquitinase regulates the mitochondrial unfolded protein response and longevity interacting with insulin signalling”. Sergio Gordillo García.
Talk20: “PERK regulates adaptive UPR signalling and the promotion of mitochondrial function and dynamics via Mitochondrial-ER Contact Sites”. Jose C. Casas Martínez.
Talk21: “Sulfated Steroid Hormones enhance starvation resistance during C. elegans L1 diapause”. Carlos Gómez.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
SESSION 5 (11:30-13:05) Chair Marta Artal
Invited talk: Eric Cornes. “Exploring the role of RNA condensates in germline gene regulation”
Talk22: “CelEsT: a unified gene regulatory network for estimating transcription factor activities in C. elegans”. Marcos Francisco Pérez Browne.
Talk23: “Gene regulatory mechanisms underlying emergence of novel neuronal functions”. Andrea Millán Trejo.
Talk24: “Longitudinal molecular profiling of nervous system at single-cell resolution identifies key features of fate determinants”. Antonio Jordan Pla.
Talk25: “The circle of motivation”. Julián Cerón.
13:05 –13:15 Concluding remarks
13:15 – 14:30 Farewell lunch
