Meetings and Courses 2017

ICGEB
April March February

8 Feb Course US imaging in cardiac and vascular medicine: Organisers:

Serena Zacchigna (ICGEB Trieste, Italy)
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from pre-clinical to clinical studies and Savino Lacerenza, (FUJIFILM VisualSonics,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
in collaboration with Fujifilm VisualSonics Contact: courses@icgeb.org
Trieste, ITALY
6 Mar Course Mouse genetics; models for human diseases Organiser:
Glauco Tocchini-Valentini (Institute of Cell
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Trieste, ITALY Biology/CNR, Rome, Italy)
Contact: courses@icgeb.org

2 Apr Course New trends in molecular plant breeding Organiser:

Shireen Kamal Assem (AGERI-Agricultural Genetic
6 Cairo, EGYPT Engineering Research Institute, ARC-Agricultural
Research Center, Cairo, Egypt)
Contact: shireenassem@ageri.sci.eg

4 May ESTAMPA-IARC-ICGEB 1st International congress of colposcopy and Organisers:

May

Gino Venegas Rodriguez (Peruvian League Against

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lower genital pathologies Cancer, Lima, Peru) and IARC/WHO Prevention and
Implementation Group (Lyon, France)
Lima, PERU Contact: informes@ligacancer.org.pe

26 June Course Bioinformatics: computer methods in molecular and systems Organiser:

June

Sndor Pongor (Pzmny Pter Catholic

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biology University, Budapest, Hungary)
Contact: courses@icgeb.org
Trieste, ITALY
3 Jul Joint ICGEB-ICTP-APCTP Workshop Systems biology and molecular Organisers:
July

Matteo Marsili (ICTP Trieste, Italy), Vittorio

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economy of microbial communities Venturi (ICGEB Trieste, Italy), Daniel Segre
(Boston University, USA), Simon Levin (Princeton
Trieste, ITALY University, USA) and Pan-Jun Kim (APCTP, Korea)
Contact: smr3129@ictp.it

12 Jul Course Advances in the development of bioenergies: the use Organisers:

Mario Carlos Nazareno Saparrat (UNLP, La Plata,
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of microorganisms to transform lignocellulosic materials Argentina) and Giuliano Degrassi (ICGEB Buenos
Aires, Argentina)
La Plata, ARGENTINA Contact: degrassi@icgeb.org

17 Jul DrosAfrica-ICGEB Workshop Drosophila melanogaster in biomedical Organisers:

DrosAfrica (www.drosafrica.org)
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research: low-cost and profitable Samuel Babafemi Olaleye and Amos Abolaji
(University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Ibadan, NIGERIA Contact: sbolaleye@yahoo.com, amos_abolaji@
yahoo.com
September

2 Sep 3rd ICGEB Workshop on human papillomavirus and associated Organiser:

Ana Paula Lepique (University of So Paulo, Brazil)
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malignancies: biology, prevention and therapy Contact: alepique@icb.usp.br
So Paulo, BRAZIL

12 Sep Workshop Mechanisms of neurodegeneration Organisers:

Tibor Hortobgyi (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
15 Budapest, HUNGARY and Emanuele Buratti (ICGEB Trieste, Italy)
Contact: hortobagyi@med.unideb.hu

18 Sep Workshop Host-directed therapeutic strategies for infectious diseases Organiser:

Frank Brombacher (ICGEB Cape Town, South Africa)
21 Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Contact: nurhaan.larnie@icgeb.org
October

16 Oct Course Cells and animal models for drug discovery Organiser:
Mariela Bollati-Fogolin (Institut Pasteur de
27 Montevideo, URUGUAY Montevideo, Uruguay)
Contact: secretaria@pasteur.edu.uy

23 Oct Workshop Buenos Aires research conferences on autophagy. Organiser:

Maria Ines Vaccaro (University of Buenos Aires,
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Molecular mechanisms in biology and diseases Argentina)
Contact: mvaccaro@ffyb.uba.ar
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

24 Oct Course Fluorescence microscopy - FluoMicro@ICGEB Organisers:

Alessandro Marcello (ICGEB Trieste, Italy)
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in collaboration with Nikon and Paolo Maiuri (IFOM, Milan, Italy)
Contact: courses@icgeb.org
Trieste, ITALY
November

21 Nov The Arturo Falaschi Conference Series 2017 Organiser:

Emanuele Buratti (ICGEB Trieste, Italy)
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Atypical dementias: from diagnosis to emerging therapies Contact: Dementias2017@icgeb.org
http://www.icgeb.org/AtypicaDementias2017.html
Trieste, ITALY

27 Nov International conference on vaccine research and development Organiser:

Dinakar M. Salunke (ICGEB New Delhi, India)
29 New Delhi, INDIA Contact: icgeb.director@gmail.com

29 Nov Workshop Malaria parasite biology: strategies for drug and vaccine Organisers:
Pawan Malhotra and Asif Mohmmed
1 Dec
development (ICGEB New Delhi, India)
Contact: malariaws@icgeb.res.in
New Delhi, INDIA

ICGEB Sponsored Events

22 Feb Expanding Caenorhabditis elegans research: first Latin American worm meeting Organiser:
Gustavo Salinas (Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay)
24 Montevideo, URUGUAY Contact: secretaria@pasteur.edu.uy

28 Feb 31st International Papillomavirus conference (HPV2017) Organiser:

Anna-Lise Williamson (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa)
4 Mar Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Contact: susan.lanfear@uct.ac.za, hpv@kenes.com

12 Mar Gordon Research Conference on tropical infectious diseases: advances in Organiser:

Jesus G. Valenzuela (National Institute of Allergy
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basic and translational research and Infectious Diseases - NIH, Rockville, USA)
Contact: jvalenzuela@niaid.nih.gov
Texas, USA

27 Mar Cambridge-Africa molecular laboratory training and the African Diaspora Organiser:
JR Biotek Foundation
4 Apr
Biotech Summit 2017 Contact: cni21@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge, UK

17 Jul 2017 International DNA tumour virus meeting Organiser:

Joanna Parish (University of Birmingham, UK)
22 Birmingham, UK Contact: med-cpdbookings@contacts.bham.ac.uk

24 Jul 34th Meeting of the European Section of the International Society Organiser:
Lucie Carrier (University Medical Center
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for Heart Research (ISHR) Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
Contact: ishr-hamburg-2017@uke.de
Hamburg, GERMANY
9 Aug Climate change and biodiversity symposium Organiser:
Gustavo Gutierrez Espeleta (University of Costa Rica)
11 San Jos, COSTA RICA Contact: gustavo.gutierrez@ucr.ac.cr

24 Sep International summer school on Prion and Prion-like neurodegenerative Organiser:

Gianluigi Zanusso (University of Verona, Italy)
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disorders - 3rd edition Contact: gianluigi.zanusso@univr.it
Desenzano del Garda, ITALY
Sep JCOM Masterclasses 2017 Organiser:
Paola Rodari (Sissa Medialab srl, Trieste, Italy)
Dec Trieste, ITALY Contact: masterclasses@jcom.sissa.it

9 Oct IX Latin American Society for developmental biology meeting 2017 Organiser:
Natalia Pabn-Mora (Universidad de Antioquia,
13 Medelln, COLOMBIA Medelln, Colombia)
Contact: lucia.pabon@udea.edu.co

2 Nov LASC - XIV Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology Organiser:

John Ewer (Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)
7 Valparaiso, CHILE Contact: john.ewer@uv.cl

1 Dec BH2017 pre-congress course on genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 Organiser:

Mario Pablo Estrada (Center for Genetic
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technology. Application to plant breeding Engineering and Biotechnology, Habana, Cuba)
Contact: abel.hernandez@cigb.edu.cu
Varadero, CUBA
2 Dec Cell Biology 2017 - ASCB/EMBO 2017 meeting Contact:
Marta Chacon
6 Philadelphia, USA Email: MChacon@ascb.org

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