WORKSHOPS
“CURRENT TRENDS IN
BIOMEDICINE”
2017
CAMPUS ANTONIO MACHADO
BAEZA, SPAIN
CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY:
FROM MOLECULAR MECHANISMS
TO DISEASE
Baeza, Spain • 13th-15th November 2017
Organized by:
Guillermo de Cárcer Spanish National Cancer Research
Centre (CNIO). Madrid, Spain.
Pablo Huertas
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular
y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER);
Universidad de Sevilla. Sevilla, Spain.
Andrés J. López-Contreras Center for Chromosome Stability
(CCS) and Center for Healthy Aging,
Panum
Institute,
University
of
Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sponsors:
SCOPE
The fidelity in chromosome maintenance and segregation are indispensable
to maintain genomic stability and the perpetuation of life as we know it. A
cell that fails in such processes will end up with an aberrant set of
chromosomes, and this may lead to different types of diseases.
Chromosomal Instability (CIN) is the gain and/or loss of whole
chromosomes or chromosomal segments. There are a variety of human
diseases directly related to Chromosomal Instability. Most diseases related
to CIN share a high susceptibility to develop cancer, and in certain cases,
premature ageing. Thus, the study of the causes and consequences of CIN
has become one of the leading fields in biomedical research in the last
years. Chromosomal Instability accounts for different types of
chromosomal alterations: Aneuploidy, which stands for numerical
alterations of chromosomes in a given cell; Chromosomal
Rearrangements, where chromosomes become broken, and the resultant
chromosomal fragments are either fused to other chromosomes, rearranged,
or simply gained or lost into a cell; and Chromothripsis, the generation of
highly rearranged chromosomes from a single catastrophic event. The goal
of this Workshop is to bring together experts in DNA repair and
chromosome segregation in order to address the phenomenon of CIN as a
whole and facilitate the communication between scientists from different
fields to foster cross disciplinary approaches.
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
The workshop will bring together a maximum of 17 speakers and 35
participants, to form a group of around 50 people. The scientific
programme will start in the morning of Monday, November 13 th, and will
end around noon on Wednesday, November 15th. Ample time for informal
discussion will be reserved. Participants will be invited to present a poster.
VENUE OF THE WORKSHOP
The workshop will be held in Baeza, at the “Campus Antonio Machado”, a
XVII century building turned into a Conference Centre of the Universidad
Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA). This Seat includes a residence, where
participants will be accommodated. Baeza is a World Historic Heritage
town, renowned for its Renaissance and Gothic buildings.
SPEAKERS
Andrés Aguilera
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y
Medicina Regenerativa CABIMER, Universidad
de Sevilla. Sevilla, Spain.
Robert Benezra
Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. New York, NY,
USA.
Guillermo de Cárcer
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
(CNIO). Madrid, Spain.
Oscar Fernández-Capetillo
Spanish National Cancer Research
Centre (CNIO). Madrid, Spain // Science for Life
Laboratory, Division of Genome Biology,
Department of Medical Biochemistry and
Biophysics, Karolinska Institute. Stockholm,
Sweden.
Floris Foijer
European Research Institute for the Biology of
Ageing, University of Groningen, University
Medical Center Groningen. Groningen, The
Netherlands.
Ian D. Hickson
Center for Chromosome Stability (CCS) and
Center for Healthy Aging, Department of Cellular
and Molecular Medicine, University of
Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eva Hoffmann
Center for Chromosome Stability (CCS),
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
Copenhagen, Denmark // Genome Damage and
Stability Centre, University of Sussex. Brighton,
UK.
Pablo Huertas
Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y
Medicina
Regenerativa
(CABIMER);
Departamento de Genética, Universidad de
Sevilla. Sevilla, Spain.
Jan O. Korbel
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL),
Genome Biology Unit. Heidelberg, Germany //
European Molecular Biology LaboratoryEuropean Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. Cambridge,
UK.
Andrés J. López-Contreras
Department
of
Cellular
and
Molecular Medicine, Center for Chromosome
Stability (CCS) and Center for Healthy Aging,
Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jiri Lukas
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein
Research, Faculty of Health and Medical
Sciences,
University
of
Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Helder Maiato
Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab, IBMCInstituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, i3SInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde,
Universidade do Porto. Porto, Portugal.
André Nussenzweig Laboratory of Genome Integrity, National Cancer
Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Bethesda, MD, USA.
Rocío Sotillo
Division of Molecular Thoracic Oncology,
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).
Heidelberg, Germany.
Evi Soutoglou
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire
et Cellulaire (IGBMC); INSERM, U964, 67404;
CNRS, UMR7104; Illkirch / Université de
Strasbourg, Strasbourg; France.
Zuzana Storchová
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of
Kaiserslautern. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Madalena Tarsounas
CR-UK/MRC
Oxford
Institute
for
Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology,
University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.
DEADLINE: 15th SEPTEMBER 2017
MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION:
http://www.unia.es/biomedicine
[email protected]
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Campus Antonio Machado
Palacio de Jabalquinto
Plaza de Santa Cruz, s/n. 23440 Baeza (Jaén), Spain
Tel: +34 953 74 27 75. Fax: +34 953 74 29 75. E-mail: [email protected]