International Symposium and Training Course

" Calcium Signalling, with special attention to cell motility and the cytoskeleton"

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COURSE PROGRAMME
Each Lecture is 50 min long plus 10 min discussion
Time Monday 17   Tuesday 18   Wednesday 19
  Morning Morning   Morning
8:30 - 9:30 J. Mercer, "Genetics of Unconventional Myosins"   G. Bloom, "Regulation of Actin Assembly and Cell Motility by IQGAP1."   G. Gundersen, "Role of Rho family GTPases in regulating the cytoskeleton".
       
9:30 - 9:40 Short break Short break   Short break
9:40-10:40 W. Provance, "Introduction to light microscopy and image processing"   A. Caceres, "Microtubule-microfilament interactions during axon formation"   R. Benavente, "Nuclear lamins and the organization of the nuclear envelope".
10:40 -11:00 Long break Long break   Long break
11:00 -12:00 R. Larson, "The nucleoskeleton: structural organization within the nucleus"   E. Mules, "Rab GTPases and organelle motility."   I. Herrera, "Trafficking of prion proteins: the caveolae-mediated vs. the clathrin-mediated pathway. Immunoelectron microscopic approach"
           
12:00 -13:30 Lunch   Lunch   Lunch
       
  Afternoon Afternoon   Afternoon
13:30 -14:30 J. R. Sotelo Silveira   S. Chifflet, "Actin cytoskeleton an the plasma membrane potential of epithelial cells"   L. Goutebroze,"Molecular organization of
nodes of Ranvier in vertebrate myelinated fibers".
14:30 -15:00 Long break   Long break   Long break
15:00 - 8:00 Practical Course   Practical Course   Practical Course

 

COURSE PROGRAMME
Each Lecture is 50 min long plus 10 min discussion
Time   Thursday 20   Friday 21
    Morning   Morning
8:30 - 9:30   J. Kendrick-Jones, " Probing the intracellular functions and properties of unconventional myosins"   E. Chini, "Physiological role of intracellular Ca2+ messengers
         
9:30 - 9:40   Short break   Short break
9:40 - 10:40   C. Cameron, "Regulation of Myosin V Activity by Calcium."   Chalk talk
10:40 - 11:00   Long break   Long break
11:00 - 12:00   F. S. Espindola,  "Myosin Va, calmodulin, snares and secretion"
 
 
  Chalk talk
         
12:00 - 13:30   Lunch   Lunch
         
    Afternoon   Afternoon
13:30 - 14:30   A. Kun, "Axonal glial relationship"   Trip to the Symposium
17:30 - 18:00   Long break    
18:00 - 19:00   Practical Course  

 

COURSE PROGRAMME
Each Lecture is 50 min long plus 10 min discussion
Time   Monday 24   Tuesday 25   Wednesday 26
8:30 - 9:30   H. Oberleithner, "Nanoscopy in Physiology and Medicine."   O. Uchitel, "Calcium channels and channelopathies"   J. Naranjo, "Calcium regulated gene expression"
9:30 - 9:40   Short break   Short break   Short break
9:40 - 10:40   R. DiPolo, "Nucleotide regulation of the sodium-calcium exchanger through modulation of regulatory ion interactions."   A. Darszon, "Ca2+ channels and sperm physiology."   C. Gutierrez Merino, "ROS/RNS involved in the deregulation of neuronal
bioenergetics in the early stages of necrotic and apoptotic death".
10:40-11:00   Long break   Long break   Long break
  E. Carafoli, "Calcium as a signalling agent: from phyisiology to pathology"   D. Bano, "Calcium deregulation in neuronal degeneration".   M. Dierssen, "Calcium regulation of dendritic development"
 11:00-12:00      
       
12:00-13:30   Prof. Ad Honorem Lunch     Lunch     Lunch
13:30-14:30   G. Folle,"Flow Cytometry, Principles, Applications and Perspectives"   W. Martínez   A. Fernández,"Postnatal reurogenesis in the vertebrate nervous system"
14:30-15:00   Break   Break   Break
15:00-18:00   Practical Course   Practical Course   Practical Course
             

 

COURSE PROGRAMME
Each Lecture is 50 min long plus 10 min discussion
Time Thursday 27

Friday 28

8:30-9:30 J. C. Benech, "Ca2+ free measurement in Biological Systems"
9:30-9:40 Short break Short break
9:40-10:40 G. Brum,"Regulation of Ca2+ sparks in skeletal muscle"  
10:40-11:00 Long break Long break
11:00-12:00 G. Pizarro, " Ca2+ release amphibian muscle, a tale of two channels" C. Chalar
12:00-13:30   Lunch Lunch
13:30-14:30 M. Brauer, "Semaphorin signalling in cell migration"  
14:30-15:00 Break  
15:00-18:00 Practical course  

 

 

Experimental Course

October 17-19

October 25-27

15:00 - 18:00 Aldo Calliari (location IIBCE). "Axonal Fields in Culture: a methodological aproach to study axonal biochemistry" A. Fernández & G. Casanova (location School of Sciences). Studing Postnatal  Neurogenesis by immunocytochemistry.
15:00 - 18:00 William Provance & Ryan Karcher (location IIBCE). "Melanosome dynamics in melanophores"
S. Chifflet (location School of Medicine), "Organization of the cytoskeleton in epithelial cells. Role of the plasma
membrane potential."
15:00 - 18:00 A. Kun, (location IIBCE), Molecular Characterization of Peripheral Nerve Cytoskeleton G. Brum & G. Pizarro (location School of Medicine), Measurement of Ca release in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
15:00 - 18:00 J. R. Sotelo Silveira (location IIBCE). Periaxoplasmic Ribosomal Domains and the Axonal Cytoskeleton. C. Chalar (location IIBCE). Study of Gen Expression Related to Calcareous Corpuscles in Echinococus granulosus
15:00 - 18:00 G. Folle, (location IIBCE), Flow Cytometry: Principles, Applications and Perspectives J. C. Benech & C. Escande (location IIBCE) "Calcium signals in isolated nuclei and activation of transcription factors"
15:00 - 18:00 W. Martínez (location IIBCE) Jong Tai Chun (location IIBCE), "Subcellular specific expression of GFP fusion proteins in HeLa cells"