Workshop in Biomedicine 2010

Coordinator: Prof. Fernando de la Cruz (delacruz@unican.es)
Dates: January 25 to February 5, 2010
Time: 10h to 13h
Place: Aula 11, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cantabria

Invited speakers:
25 January
“Genetics of complex diseases”
1. The Wnt pathway in skeletal disorders. Dr. José Antonio Riancho (Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander)
2. Regulatory SNPs and the Genetics of lipid disorders. Dr. José Carlos Rodríguez-Rey (UC

26 January“The plasticity of microbial genomes”
1. The organization and dynamics of the Vibrio cholerae genome
2. Integrons as agents of genome plasticity
Dr. Didier Mazel (Institut Pasteur, Paris)

27 January“New strategies for combating bacterial antibiotic resistance”
1. Antibiotic resistance as a critical problem in public health
2. The biological clues of evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance as targets for intervention.
3. Eco-Evo strategies in the control of antibiotic resistance.
Dr. Fernando Baquero (Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid)

28 January
“Cancer”
1. Tyrosine kinase receptors as therapeutic targets in cancer. Dr. Atanasio Pandiella (CIC, CSIC, Salamanca)
2. Desorganization of cellular differentiation by oncogenic transcription factors. Dr. Javier León (UC)

29 January
(Sto Tomás de Aquino) NO class!

1 February
“The dilemma of sexuality and vegetative reproduction: the case of mucoral fungi”
Dr. Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo (Dept. of Genetics, University of Sevilla)

2 February“Molecular and systemic perspectives on the origins of life. Recent advances in support of the compartment-first scenario”
1. Origin and definition of life
2. Prebiotic membranes
Dr. Kepa Ruiz Mirazo (UPV, San Sebastián)

3 February “The physics behind systems biology”
1. Computational modelling of gene regulatory networks
2. The gene regulation function
Dr. Luis Vielva (UC)

4 February“Bacterial conjugation”
1. DNA processing during conjugation. Dr. Gabriel Moncalian (UC)
2. Type IV protein secretion systems. Dr. Iñaki Arechaga (UC)

5 February“Genomics of Complex Diseases”
1. A historic account of the human genome project
2. Methods of high-thorughput sequencing
3. SNPs in human disease
Dr. Jesús Sainz (IBBTEC, CSIC Santander).