Hosted at FORTH Heraklion,
Crete 21-22 June 2024
On the first day, we had scientific presentations by all partners that were open to the broader scientific community. Dr.Vasiliki Theodorou (IMBB-FORTH, SCENTINEL co-PI, project coordination and management) opened the consortium’s meeting, welcomed and presented the rationale behind building the project based on scientific needs and the aims of the team. (link).
It was a pleasure having Dr.Kasia Siudeja (Institute Curie) as an invited speaker to present her work ‘Genetic mosaicism in Drosophila intestine and the activity of retrotransposons (link).
Prof.Christos Delidakis (IMBB-FORTH, SCENTINEL co-PI, coordination) presented work from his lab on ‘Drosophila brain tumor models’ (link).
Dr.Angela Giangrande (IGBMC, SCENTINEL co-PI) presented work from her team on ‘Drosophila immune cells in development and disease’ (link). Dr. Freddy Monteiro (IRB) presented the IRB Functional Genomics Core Facility, workflow and processing of single-cell projects (link). Dr.Camille Otto-Attolini (IRB, SCENTINEL co-PI) presented the workflow of single-cell services at the IRB Biostatstics/Bioinformatics Core Facility (link).
Mattieu Lavigne (IMBB, SCENTINEL co-PI) presented work from his lab on ‘Transcriptional regulation’ (link). Ass.Prof.Vasiliki Petousi (Uoc) presented on the involvement of a ‘Social Scientist’s involvement in biomedical research’ (link). Dr.Nikos Konstantinides (CNRS IJM) presented his lab’s work on ‘Neuronal diversity in development and evolution’ (link). PhD candidate Sergei Pirogov represented Prof.Mattias Mannervik lab and presented on ‘Chromatin dynamics in Drosophila embryonic development’ (link).
On the second day, IMBB members (V.Theodorou, M.Stapountzi and V.Kapoulea) gave a hands-on session attended by (P.Cattonez, N.KOnstantinides and S. Porogov) on Drosophila CNS injections in host flies for allograft tumor propagation and on dissection and isolation of tumor material for genomics assays and staining for immunohistochemistry.
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Programme
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FRIDAY 21 JUNE (Seminar Room 1-Fotakis) |
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14:45 – 15:00 |
Welcome and Project’s rationale (Vasiliki Theodorou, IMBB) |
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15:00- 15:45 |
Kasia Siudeja (Institit Curie) : Genetic mosaicism in the Drosophila intestine – from somatic mutations to endogenous retrotransposon activity. |
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15:45 – 16:15 |
Christos Delidakis (IMBB) : A fly brain tumour model and its microenvironment |
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16:15- 16:45 |
Angela Giangrande (IBMC) : Of glia and macrophages: immunity and beyond |
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16:45 – 17:15 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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17:15 – 17:45 |
Camille Otto-Attolini/ Freddy Monteiro (IRB) : Single Cell Services at IRB Barcelona: From Groundwork to Partnership |
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17:45 – 18:15 |
Mat Lavigne (IMBB) : Studying the impact of nascent RNA synthesis on gene regulation |
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18:15 – 18:45 |
Vasiliki Petousi (UoC) : Social scientists in biomedical research; Investigating the scientific ecosystem. |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
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SATURDAY 22 JUNE (Payatakis Room) |
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9:00 – 11:00 |
Hands-on session on Drosophila tumour allografts |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Nikos Konstantinides (IJM): Evolution and development of neuronal diversity |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Sergei Pirogov (Mannervik lab, SU): The link between gene expression and chromatin in Drosophila development |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
LUNCH |
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13:30 – 13:45 |
Project overview, WP objectives, management actions (Vasiliki Theodorou) |
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13:45 – 14:15 |
WP1 Coordination and Management |
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14:15 – 14:45 |
WP2 Capacity building |
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14:45 – 15:15 |
WP3 Research excellence |
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15:15 – 15:45 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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15:45 – 16:15 |
WP4 Strategic partnership |
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16:15 – 16:45 |
WP5 Outreach and sustainability |
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16:45 – 17:30 |
Wrapup |
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18:00 |
Dinner |
Compiled by V.Theodorou