Programme

15:00h - 16:00h

Opening Keynote:
Antonio Giraldez Yale University (USA)

ChromGEM reveals chromatin ultrastructural transitions underlying the first lineage decision in mammalian embryos

16:00h - 17:30h

Early Embryonic Development: Gastrulation and MZT.

16:00h - 16:30h

Invited talk 1:
Manuel Irimia
Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) (Barcelona).

Evolutionary landscapes of zygotic genome activation across animals.

16:30h - 16:45h

Selected talk 1
Blanca Pijuan-Sala
EMBL

Visualising the subnuclear distribution of open chromatin in situ during early Drosophila embryogenesis.

16:45h - 17:00h

Selected talk 2
Marion Thompson
CABD

Uncovering the role of post-translational modifications in regulating the maternal-to-zygotic transition.

17:00h - 17:30h

Invited talk 2:
Esteban Hoijman
Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB) (Barcelona)

How the microenvironment shapes early development.

17:30h - 18:00h

18:00h - 19:30h

Early Embryonic Development: Stem Cells

18:00h - 18:30h

Invited talk 3:
Sergio Acebrón
University of the Basque Country (EHU)/Ikerbasque Research Foundation/Heidelberg University (Bilbao and Germany)

How to build a mosaic: a role for embryo patterning signals in genome maintenance.

18:30h - 18:45h

Selected talk 3
Thomas Spruce
CABD / Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

YAP1, its isoforms and interactors as critical regulators of ES cell pluripotency.

18:45h - 19:00h

Selected talk 4
María Olmedo
Universidad de Sevilla

HLH-30/TFEB orchestrates chromatin reorganization and maintains stem cell quiescence during developmental arrest in C. elegans.

19:00h - 19:30h

Invited talk 4:
Elena Camacho Aguilar
Universidad de Sevilla/ Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology (CABD) (Sevilla)

Dynamic signalling and cell fate transitions during early human development: insights from quantitative stem-cell-based models.

19:30h - 20:00h

20:00h - 21:30h

21:30h - 23:00h

09:00h - 09:15h

Introduction by the President of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology, Eloisa Herrera

09:15h - 10:15h

Opening Keynote (ISDB Sponsored):
Marco Milan. Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona).

Aneuploidy and development.

10:15h - 11:30h

Morphogenesis and Organogenesis I

10:15h - 10:45h

Invited talk 5:
Katerina Karkali
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO) (Madrid).

CNS Structural and Functional Optimization in the Drosophila Embryo.

10:45h - 11:00h

Selected talk 5
Luis María Escudero
IBiS / Universidad de Sevilla

A natural programmable metamaterial controls 3D curvature of compound eyes.

11:00h - 11:15h

Selected talk 6
James C-G. Hombría
CABD

Shade enhancers, a novel class of redundant shadow enhancers uncovered by functional JAK-STAT signalling pathway dissection in Drosophila.

11:15h - 11:30h

Selected talk 7
Lucas Cunha
UPF

Early development of the early otic placode and the morphogenetic balance between the asymetric epithelizing OEPD and migrating neural Crest.

11:30h - 12:00h

12:00h - 13:30h

Morphogenesis and Organogenesis II

12:00h - 12:30h

Invited talk 6:
Hannah Stuart

EMBL, Barcelona

Self-organisation in neural tube organoids.

12:30h - 12:45h

Selected talk 8
Antonio Jesús Tagua Jañez
Institut Pasteur

Spatio-temporal synchronisation of caspase activation and its impact on cell death pattern.

12:45h - 13:00h

Selected talk 9
Elena Sánchez
CSIC–CABD

Cell type-specific regulation of gene expression and chromatin accessibility by mechanical tension during gastrulation.

13:00h - 13:30h

Invited talk 7:
Noel Blanco-Touriñán

Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), CSIC–UPV, Valencia

Regulation of tissue integration in emerging organs.

13:30h - 16:00h

16:00h - 17:30h

Neurodevelopment

16:00h - 16:30h

Invited talk 8:
Fernando García-Moreno
Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience (Bilbao).

How early embryos shaped vertebrate brain evolution.

16:30h - 16:45h

Selected talk 10
Antonio Herrera Camacho
EPFL / UGR

Organizers or disorganizers? A folate-sensitive cortical hem organizer dictates the divergent outcomes of one-carbon-limited brain development.

16:45h - 17:00h

Selected talk 11
Eduardo Fernández Ortuño
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante

Early diversification of neural progenitor cells in the dorsal pallium of amniotes.

17:00h - 17:30h

Invited talk 9:
Joaquina Delas
University College London (UCL) (UK).

Cis-regulatory strategies for cell fate choice: spatial, temporal and synthetic patterning in the vertebrate neural tube.

17:30h - 18:00h

18:00h - 19:30h

Evo-Devo

18:00h - 18:30h

Invited talk 10: EMBO YIP Lecture
Francisca Martínez Real
Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology (CABD) (Sevilla).

Regulatory mechanisms underlying limb adaptation in moles.

18:30h - 18:45h

Selected talk 12
Isabel Almudí Cabrero
IRBio / Universitat de Barcelona

Gene duplication and co-option originated a male specific visual system in mayflies.

18:45h - 19:00h

Selected talk 13
Christina Paliou
CABD

Characterizing the small-spotted catshark embryonic fins at single-cell resolution.

19:00h - 19:30h

Invited talk 11:
Jorge Hernández García
Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP), Madrid

The rise of auxin as a signal during complexification.

19:30h - 20:00h

20:00h - 21:30h

21:00h - 22:30h

09:00h - 10:00h

Opening Keynote (ISDB Sponsored):
Anna Bigas. Hospital del Mar Research Institute/Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute.

The complexity of making Blood Stem Cells: from the embryo to the dish

10:00h - 11:30h

Developmental Disorders

10:00h - 10:30h

Invited talk 12:
Ethel Queralt
Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV) (Valencia).

Nipbl disruption in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome alters chromatin organisation.

10:30h - 10:45h

Selected talk 14
Isabel del Pino
Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC–UMH

A Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Arising from Enhancer of Polycomb Homologue 1 Haploinsufficiency.

10:45h - 11:00h

Selected talk 15
Peter Askjaer
CABD

A progeria mutation in baf-1 confers neuroprotection against polyQ-based aggregates.

11:00h - 11:30h

Invited talk 13
Murielle Saade
Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB) (Barcelona).

From building to breaking: Human-specific cellular mechanisms in neurodevelopment.

11:30h - 12:30h

12:30h - 13:30h

12:30h - 13:00h

Marta Shahbazi

13:00h - 13:30h

2024 — Alejandro Castilla Ibeas
2025 — Luis Hernández Huertas

13:30h - 14:00h