IMPSG-2020
PROGRAM
23th January - THURSDAY
9:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 11:00
Welcome address and opening session
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Keynote Speaker - SCOTT MILLER, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
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Plasticity lost and found: cyanobacterial adaptation to novel environments
SESSION: MICROBIAL GENETICS
11:00 - 12:30
CHAIR: Sandra Sousa (i3S) & Leonor Faleiro (UALG)
11:00-11:45 - INVITED SPEAKER - JOSEP CASADESÚS (Facultad de Biología, Seville)
Formation of bacterial lineages by non mutational mechanisms
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11:45-12:00 - Lia Godinho
Mapping the NBD-TMD interaction domain of a multitask B. subtilis ABC type-I
importer ATPase
12:00-12:15 - Vanessa Costa
Targeting Mycobacterial RNases with an X-ray Machine Gun
12:15-12:30 - Cláudia Vicente
Understanding the role and delivery of Pratylenchus penetrans effectors proteins
​12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
SESSION: GENETICS & EVOLUTION
​14:00 - 15:30
CHAIR: Paulo Durão (IGC) & Rita Castilho (UALG)
14:00-14:45 - INVITED SPEAKER - JOSÉ MELO-FERREIRA (Cibio, Porto)
Recurrent evolution of seasonal coat colour change polymorphism
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14:45-15:00 - Roberto Balbontín
DNA breaks are key contributors to the cost of antibiotic resistance
15:00-15:15 - Sara Francisco
Phylogeographic patterns of the poisonous fish Scorpaena maderensis: a tale on genetic connectivity and preliminary insights on venom diversity
15:15-15:30 - Tomás Azevedo
Evolution of Axial/Paraxial mesoderm formation: The role of CNOT2
​15:30-16:30
Coffee Break
Poster Presentation
SESSION: PLANT GENETICS
​16:30 - 17:15
CHAIR: Margarida Santos (INIAV) & Filomena Fonseca (UALG)
INVITED SPEAKER - CARLOTA VAZ PATTO (ITQB)
Harvesting fields of genes through association studies
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17:30 - 18:30
SPG General Assembly
19:30
Welcome Reception - Claustro do Museu de Faro (Porto de Honra)
20:00
Dinner Downtown
24th January - FRIDAY
SESSION: GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY
​09:00 - 10:30
CHAIR: Rui Martinho (UA) & Álvaro Tavares (UALG)
09:00-9:45 - INVITED SPEAKER - CHRISTIAN BRAENDLE (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
The molecular basis underlying the assimilation of matricide
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09:45-10:00- Marta Vitorino
Three cases of Rett syndrome with heterozygous mutations in the Mecp2 gene. Similarities and differences with reports from the literature possibly related to random inactivation of the X chromosome.
10:00-10:15 - Gil Carraco
Gene expression oscillations with tissue-specific periodicity in temporal control of embryo development
10:15-10:30 - Ana Filipa Castro
Is Bidirectional Transcription of the Pathogenic Repeat Associated with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 37?
​10:30 - 11:45
Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
11:45-12:30 - INVITED SPEAKER - HUGO OLIVEIRA (ICArEHB, Faro)
Breaking bread: seeing plant domestication in the Near East through different Lens.
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​12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
SESSION: GENETICS AND AGING
​14:00 - 15:30
CHAIR: Natércia Conceição (UALG) & Cláudia Almeida (CEDOC)
14:00-14:45 - INVITED SPEAKER - FERNANDO GIANFRANCESCO (IGB, Naples)
Genetics of late-onset disorders: Paget's disease of bone
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14:45-15:00 - Mariana Barata
BIN1 a gene at risk in Alzheimer’s disease
15:00-15:15 - Rui Martinho
Drosophila embryo splicing takes place as RNA polymerase II transcribes past recursive and canonical splice sites
15:15-15:30 - Rebekah Koppenol
Stress Granules dynamics in Polyglutamine diseases
​15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
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SESSION: GENETICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATIONS
​16:00 - 17:30
CHAIR: Paula Morais (UC) & Gareth Pearson (CCMAR)
16:00-16:45 - INVITED SPEAKER - ISABEL ALMUDI (Andalusian Centre of Developmental Biology, Spain)
Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies
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16:45-17:00 - Hugo Barreto
The Landscape of Adaptive Evolution of a Gut Commensal Bacteria in Aging Mice
17:00-17:15 - Gareth Pearson
Stable cross-generational phenotypic divergence along a latitudinal gradient in the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera: Oceanography, physiology and transcriptional profiles
17:15-17:30 - Paula Morais
Importance of metal resistant genes in bacterial surviving in contaminated environments with toxic metal pollutants
​17:45
- Final comments and closing remarks
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- Announcement of Best Poster and Best Short Communication Prizes
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