IMPSG 2021
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Day 1 | July 1, 2021
14h00 Opening Session
14h15 Rachel O’Neill “Retroelements, centromere turnover and karyotypic evolution”
University of Connecticut, USA
Session I – Animal Genetics
15h00 Fernando Casares “Variations on OrganSize Control”
University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
15h30 Moisés Mallo “How do vertebrate embryos build their bodies”
Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal
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Session II – Plant Genetics
16h00 Pat Heslop-Harrison “The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution”
University of Leicester, UK
16h30 Paula Duque “Alternative splicing control of development and stress response during early plant growth”
Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal
17h00 Zoom Break
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Session III – Microbial genetics
17h15 John Morrissey “Unlocking the synthetic biology potential of the non-traditional yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus”
University College Cork, Ireland
17h45 Miguel Cacho Teixeira “Using Functional Genomics and Systems Biology to address antifungal drug resistance, drug targeting and drug design”
University of Lisbon, Portugal
18h15 Associação Pseudoxantoma Elástico (Dra. Marta Jacinto)
Pitch Sessions 1 and 2 – Parallel sessions
18h30 Pitches (Parallel virtual sessions in accordance with the number of abstracts received)
19h30 Round Zoom Table - Discussion
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Day 2 | July 2, 2021
Session V – Biomedical Genetics
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14h00 Laura Valle “Novel hereditary colorectal cancer genes”
Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
14h30 Manuela Grazzina “Genetic heterogeneity in bigenomic disorders: pathogenicity of mtDNA and nuclear DNA in the NGS era”
University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Session IV – Evolutionary Genetics
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15h00 Albano Beja “Livestock genomes still retain information from their wild ancestors”
University of Porto, Portugal
15h30 David Ray “Transposable Element Diversity in Mammalian Genomes”
Texas Tech University, USA
16h00 Zoom Break
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Session VI – Emerging Technologies in Genetics
16h15 Luís Almeida “Gene therapy approaches for Machado-Joseph disease”
University of Coimbra, Portugal
16h45 Wendy Harwood “Advances in crop genome editing technologies”
John Innes Centre, UK
17:15 Karen Miga “Telomere-to-Telomere chromosome assemblies: new insights into genome biology and structure”
University of California Santa Cruz, USA
18:00 Closing Session
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The programme schedule is in Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00).
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