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Integrating morphogenesis with cell growth and cell division

Life and Matter Sciences International Symposium September 17-18, 2010 Salamanca

General information

Venue: Aula Rector Villanueva. Salón de Actos del Centro de Investigación del Cáncer. Campus Miguel de Unamuno. 37007 Salamanca

All sessions will be in English

Organized by:

Fundación Ramón Areces

Coordinator/s:

Sergio MorenoInstituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer.
CSIC-Universidad de Salamanca. Spain

Paul NurseThe Rockefeller University. New York. United States

Pilar PérezInstituto de Microbiología Bioquímica. CSIC-Universidad de Salamanca. Spain

Description
Programme

The size and form of cells, tissues and organisms is a fundamental problem in cell biology. Major questions such as how cells achieve a balanced growth or how the bidirectional communication between cell cycle and cell morphology occurs, are unsolved or only partially understood. In this conference we will bring together a group of scientists working on cell cycle, cell growth, and morphogenesis to discuss how cells integrate these three processes during cell division. We will also have a group of systems biology scientists using functional genomics and large-scale assays in which many of the genes or proteins of the cell can be tracked in parallel through space and time in an attempt to understand function of multimolecular modules at the whole-cell level.

In summary, we expect this conference to be a major international scientific event with a wide scope at the interface of modern research areas. The conference assembles a diverse panel of leading international scientists that cover these areas and will explore means of strengthening efforts, encouraging new ideas, and setting collaborations to improve our understanding of major biological questions.

Friday, 17

9:00

Opening Ceremony

Julio R. Villanueva
Fundación Ramón Areces. Spain.

María Ángeles Serrano
Universidad de Salamanca. Spain.

Paul Nurse
Pilar Pérez
Sergio Moreno
Coordinators of Symposium.

Session I: Cell cycle

Chairman:
Michael Hall
Biozentrum. University of Basel. Switzerland.

9:30

Controlling the cell cycle

Paul Nurse

10:15

DNA replication and recombination in fission yeast

Francisco Antequera
Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica. CSIC-Universidad de Salamanca. Spain.

11:00

Break

11:30

Temporal ordering of mitotic progression

Frank Uhlmann
Cancer Research UK. London. United Kingdom.

12:15

New insights into the regulation of the mitotic exit network

Fernando Monje
CABIMER. Sevilla. Spain.

13:00

Budding yeast as a model for asymmetric cell division

Yves Barral
Institute of Biochemistry. Zurich. Switzerland.

Session II: Cell growth

Chairman:
Paul Nurse

16:00

TOR signaling and the control of cell and whole body growth

Michael Hall

16:45

Role of oxidative stress in protein damage, cellular signalling and life span in fission yeast

Elena Hidalgo
Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona. Spain.

17:30

Break

18:00

Growth rate, not noise, sets the critical size through the START network

Martí Aldea
Universidad de Lérida. Spain.

18:45

Cell migration and cell division in ameboid-like yeast cells

Rafael Daga
Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Sevilla. Spain.

Saturday, 18

Session III: Morphogenesis

Chairman:
Charlie Boone
University of Toronto. Canada.

9:00

Morphogenesis and the cell cycle in fission yeast

Sophie Martin
University of Lausanne. Switzerland.

9:45

Cell polarity establishment in fission yeast

Phong Tran
Institut Curie. Paris. France.

10:30

Break

11:00

Mechanical aspects of fission yeast cell growth and division

Fred Chang
Columbia University. New York. United States.

11:45

Cdc42 organizes actin cytoskeleton and secretion to shape the fission yeast

Pilar Pérez

12:30

Regulation of the Ndr kinase Cbk1 by Cdks during yeast-hypha transition

Jaime Correa
Universidad de Extremadura. Badajoz. Spain.

Session IV: Systems biology

Chairman:
Frank Uhlmann

15:00

The genetic landscape of a cell

Charlie Boone

15:45

Genome regulation in fission yeast

Jürg Bähler
University College. London. United Kingdom.

16:30

Break

17:00

System-level feedbacks in cell cycle control

Bela Novak
University of Oxford. United Kingdom.

17:45

Design of biological systems

Luis Serrano
Centro de Regulación Genómica. Barcelona. Spain.

18:30

Closing remarks

Sergio Moreno
Paul Nurse
Pilar Pérez

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