Program

10 - 14 november 2024

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  • Monday, November 11

    09:00-10:00 h Plenary 1
    OPENING LECTURE

    Presenter:
    Tom Misteli, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (CCR-NCI-NIH), USA


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 1
    DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION OF NUCLEAR FUNCTION

    Chairpersons:
    Sui Huang, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
    Thoru Pederson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 2
    PHASE SEPARATION IN CELL BIOLOGY

    Chairperson:
    Rosa E. Navarro, UNAM. Mexico

    Schedule:
    10:30-10:55 - “Phase separation in the control of cilia initiation”
    Won-Jing Wang, - National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.

    10:55-11:20 - “Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of innate immunity and venoms”
    Steven Boeynaems, - Baylor College of Medicine, USA.

    11:20-11:45 - “Maternal mRNA localization in embryos”
    Andrea Putnam, - Jieon Lee University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

    11:45-12:10 - “A plant stress protein: structural flexibility and cellular organization under water deficit”
    Coral Martínez-Martínez, Teresa B. Nava-Ramírez, Marisa S. Otegui, Alejandra Covarrubias, - Biotechnology Institute, UNAM, México.

    12:10-12:30 - “Stress-Induced Biomolecular Condensates in the C. elegans Germline”
    Rosa E. Navarro, Valeria A. Ramírez-Ramírez, Arianne M. Cristino-Miranda y Andrea V. Cervantes-Ayala - Cell Physiology Institute, UNAM, México.


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 3
    TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES

    Chairpersons:
    Juan Pedro Luna-Arias, CINVESTAV, Mexico
    José Federico Bernardo Castro Muñoz-Ledo, CINVESTAV, Mexico

    Schedule:
    Ferenc Müeller, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Làszlò Tora, INSERM, CNRS, France
    Marco Igor Valencia-Sánchez, New York University, United States
    José Federico Bernardo Castro Muñoz-Ledo, CINVESTAV, Mexico
    Juan Pedro Luna-Arias, CINVESTAV, Mexico


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 4
    PHYSICS AND CELL BIOLOGY OF MITOTIC CHROMOSOME FORMATION

    Chairperson:
    William Earnshaw, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Schedule:
    16:30-17:00 -
    Ed Banigan, MIT Cambridge, USA.

    17:00-17:30 -
    Dave Thirumalai, University of Texas Austin, USA.

    17:30-18:00 -
    Johan Gibcus, University of Massachusetts, USA.

    18:00-18:30 -
    Fernanda Cisneros-Soberanis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.


  • Tuesday, November 12

    09:00-10:00 h Plenary 2
    LECTURE

    Presenter:
    Wanderley de Souza, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 7
    CELL BIOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTOZOA

    Chairperson:
    Martha Espinosa Cantellano, CINVESTAV, México

    Schedule:
    10:30-11:00 -
    Adolfo Martínez Palomo, CINVESTAV, Mexico

    11:00-11:30 -
    Iris Bruchhaus, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany

    11:30-12:00 -
    Rossana Arroyo-Verástegui, CINVESTAV, Mexico

    12:00-12:30 -
    Jaime Ortega-Mena, CINVESTAV, Mexico


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 8
    CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

    Chairperson:
    Fernando Navarro, CINVESTAV, México

    Schedule:
    10:30-11:00 - “Pathogenic E. coli- a master cell biologist”
    B. Brett Finlay, OC, OBC, FRSC, FCAHS. CIFAR Senior Fellow and Co-Director Michael Smith Laboratories. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

    11:00-11:30 - “Gastrointestinal Melioidosis and the role of the T6SS in Burkholderia pseudomallei pathogenesis”
    Alfredo G. Torres, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA .

    11:30-12:00 - “Enteroaggregative E. coli Pic is a key factor for interacting with intestinal goblet cells”
    Fernando Navarro-García, Department of Cell Biology. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV). Mexico City, México.

    12:00.12:30 - “The locus of enterocyte effacement of enteropathogenic E. coli: a unique toolbox for virulence gene regulation”
    José Luis Puente, Instituto de Biotecnología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 9
    CELL ORGANELLE DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS

    Chairperson:
    Jesús Aguirre-Linares, UNAM, Mexico.

    Schedule:
    10:30-11:00 - “Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis and Fusion Dynamics”
    Gyorgy Hajnoczky, Benjamin Cartes Saavedra, Victor Hugo Sánchez Vázquez, Arijita Ghosh, Raghavendra Singh, David Weaver. - MitoCare Center for Mitochondrial Imaging Research and Diagnostics, Thomas Jefferson University, USA.

    11:00-11:30 - “Regulation of Mitochondrial Division and Actin Depolymerization by Reactive Oxygen Species”
    Jesús Aguirre Linares. - Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Mexico.

    11:30-12:00 - “A Novel Chimeric Transcriptional Modulator Maintains Mitochondrial DNA Integrity in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
    Alicia González. - Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Mexico.

    12:00-12:30 - “Plant Polar Growth Requires a Specific and Dynamic Distribution of Organelles to Coordinate Apical Growth and Responses to Biotic Interactions”
    A. Becerril-Cuevas, Hen-Ming W., A. Cheung, J. Palacios-Martínez, A. I. Chávez-Martínez, P. Jiménez-Chávez, R. Morales-Sotelo, T. J. Parra-Aguilar, J. Olivares-Grajales, O. Santana-Estrada, S. Ryken, M. Bezanilla, Luis Cárdenas. - Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Mexico.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 10
    NEW APPLICATIONS IN CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY

    Chairperson:
    Gabriel López-Velázquez National Institute of Pediatrics, México

    Schedule:
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    Pedro Gutiérrez Castrellón, International Scientific Council for Probiotics, Mexico.

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    Paul de Vos, Netherlands.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 11
    MEMBRANE DYNAMICS

    Chairperson:
    Ruey-Hwa Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    Schedule:
    16:30-17:00 - “Bro1 proteins govern multivesicular body fate switch to regulate exosome secretion and cancer progression”
    Ruey-Hwa Chen, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

    17:00-17:30 - “Precise control of microtubule structure and intracellular trafficking in living cells and behaving animals”
    Yu-Chun Lin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan.

    17:30-18:00 - “Cell biological and functional roles of Sphingomyelinases in Microcephaly”
    Chih-Chiang Chan, Graduate Institute of Physiology, National Taiwan University.

    18:00-18:30 - “Roles of cardiolipin conversion in mitochondrial dynamics and quality control”
    Ya-Wen Liu, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 12
    PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS: GENETIC, MANIPULATION, DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION AND ORGANOIDS

    Chairperson:
    Iván Velasco UNAM, Mexico.

    Schedule:
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    Knut Woltjen, Kyoto, Japan.


  • Wednesday, November 13

    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 13
    MEMBRANE AND ATPases

    Chairperson:
    Gerardo Contreras CINVESTAV, Mexico

    Schedule:


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 14
    CSCB-IFCB. ORGANELLE INTERACTIONS AND REGENERATION I

    Chairperson:
    Ye-Guang Chen, Tsinghua University, China

    Schedule:
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    Ye-Guang Chen, Tsinghua University.

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    Quan Chen, Nankai University.

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    Chuanhai Fu, University of Science & Technology of China.

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    Kai Jiang, Wuhan University.


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 15
    TISSUE ENGENEERING

    Chairperson:
    Cristina Velasquillo, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra (INR), Mexico.

    Schedule:
    10:30-10:50 - “Tissular Biology and Tissue Engineering”
    Rosario Ortíz Hernández, Electron Microscopy, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM.

    10:50-11:15 - “Application of nanotechnology in biotechnology”
    Rosa Helena Bustos Cruz, Universidad De La Sabana – Chía, Cundinamarca. Research in nanotechnology applied in human health.

    11:15-11:40 - “Biomaterials for regenerative Medicine”
    Araida Hidalgo-Bastida, Department of Life Sc, Manchester Metropolitan University.

    11:40-12:05 - “Neocartilage by tissue engineering. Potential applications for auricular reconstruction”
    María Cristina Velasquillo Martínez, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra”, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico.

    12:05-12:30 -
    Ming-Jer Tang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 17
    CSCB-IFCB. ORGANELLE INTERACTIONS AND REGENERATION II

    Chairperson:
    Ye-Guang Chen, Tsinghua University, China.

    Schedule:
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    Dong Li, Institute of Biophysics.

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    Xing Liu, Hefei Science Center for Cross-Disciplinary Sciences.

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    Bing Zhao, Nanchang University.

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    Xuebiao Yao, MOE Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics.

  • Thursday, November 14

    09:00-10:00 h Plenary 4
    Recognition of “self”: Uncovering new components that regulate Papaver self-incompatibility using a “poppidopsis” SI-PCD model system

    Presenter:
    Noni Franklin-Tong, University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom.



    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 19
    CELL AGING

    Chairpersons:
    Mauricio Rojas, Ohio State University, USA.
    Annie Pardo, UNAM México.

    Schedule:
    10:30 - “Introduction”
    Mauricio Rojas, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

    10:40-11:00 - “Towards a systems-level understanding of cellular aging in yeast”
    Alexander De Luna, Centro de Investigación sobre el Envejecimiento, Cinvestav, Mexico.

    10:40-11:00 - “Towards a systems-level understanding of cellular aging in yeast”
    Alexander De Luna, Centro de Investigación sobre el Envejecimiento, Cinvestav, Mexico.

    11:00-11:20 - "Linking Nuclear Envelope Dysfunction to Cellular Senescence"
    Ya-Hui Chi, Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan.

    11:20-11:45 - “Aging and Senescence, Critical Players in Lung Repair and Disease”
    Ana Mora, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

    11:45-12:05 - “Mechanisms of neuronal senescence”
    Susana Castro, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.

    12:05–12:30 - “Fibroaging a dismissed player regulated by extracellular matrix”
    Annie Pardo, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.


    10:30-12:30 h Symposium 21
    CELL BIOLOGY OF PLANTS

    Chairperson:
    Javier Andrés Juárez-Díaz, UNAM, México

    Schedule:
    10:30-10:45 - “XAANTAL1 and 2 in flowering transition and meristems maintenance”
    Berenice García Ponce de León, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM.

    10:45-11:00 - “Unlocking symbiosis: How SnRK1 regulates P. vulgaris partnerships”
    Kalpana Nanjareddy, ENES-León, UNAM.

    11:00-11:15 - “Long distance transport of RNA in plants”
    Roberto Ruiz Medrano, CINVESTAV-IPN.

    11:15-11:30 - “Marchantia polymorpha GOLDEN2-LIKE transcriptional factor is a key protein for chloroplast differentiation and plant vegetative development”
    Arihel Hernández Muñoz, , Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM.

    11:30.11:45 - “Beyond the classical pathway: Understanding unconventional protein secretion in plant cells”
    Javier Andrés Juárez Díaz, , Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM.

    11:45-12:00 - “Investigating MEIosis Associated Degradation (MEIAD) during meiotic recombination in plants”
    Eugenio Sánchez Morán, , School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.

    12:00-12:15 - “Cellular insights into the S-RNase-based self-incompatibility system”
    Felipe Cruz García, , Facultad de Química, UNAM.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 22
    INNOVATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: CELLS AND ORGANS ON CHIPS

    Chairperson:
    Tatiana Fiordelisio, UNAM, México

    Schedule:
    - “Some aspects in t lymphocytes mechanobiology”
    Pierre Henry Puech, Adhesion & Inflammation, Marseille, France.

    - “Studying dynamic cell interactions in vitro with Celldetective”
    Laurent Limozin, Adhesion & Inflammation, Marseille, France.

    - “Blood-brain barrier-on-a-chip: A novel tool to study neuroinflammation”
    Edda Sciuto/NIcolás Pérez, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Mexico.

    - “Lung regeneration via 3D cultures of progenitor cells”
    Yair Romero López, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico.

    - "Characterization of transmigration and effect of NK cell geometry"
    Diana Velázquez, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico.


    16:30-18:30 h Symposium 23
    ADVANCES IN CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    Chairperson:
    Wanderley de Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Schedule:
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    Ming-Daw Tsai, Taiwan.

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    Meng-Chiao Ho, Taiwan.



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