Speakers

Conference Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Rachel Green (Johns Hopkins University, USA).

IUBMB Jubilee Lecture.

Research in the Green laboratory focuses on examining the molecular mechanisms of translation and their implications for gene regulation. This includes the study of the diverse aspects of translation and its regulation in different systems, with a recent focus on defining the molecular mechanisms that specify the high fidelity of protein synthesis during translation.

Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands).

The EMBO Keynote Lecture.

The Van Oudenaarden group uses a combination of experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to quantitatively understand decision‐making in single cells, with a focus on questions in developmental and stem cell biology.

Confirmed Speakers
(Alphabetical order; subject to change)

Paulo P. Amaral (INSPER - Institute of Education and Research, Brazil).

Dr. Amaral's research has been focused on regulatory networks involving non-coding RNAs and their covalent modifications during embryonic development, and in stem cells and disease. Current research in the Amaral group is at the intersection of molecular biology and bioengineering, for the development of analytical tools and techniques for the study of biomolecules.

Michael Axtell (Pennsylvania State University, USA).

Research in the Axtell lab focuses on small RNA functions in plants, and uses genetics, molecular biology, and genomics approaches.

Benjamin Blencowe (University of Toronto, Canada).

Research in the Blencowe lab focuses on mechanisms underlying the regulation of gene expression and how these mechanisms are disrupted in human diseases and disorders. Most of their research is directed at understanding how alternative splicing is regulated and integrated with other layers of gene expression to control fundamental biological processes.

Daniela Delneri (University of Manchester, UK).

The Delneri lab focuses on understanding the interplay between genes and environment, including plasticity of mutations in protein coding genes and non-coding RNAs elements, the impact of chromosomal rearrangements on reproductive isolation and fitness, and the evolution of genomes in hybrid species including biotechnological aspects.

Natalia de Miguel (Instituto Tecnológico Chascomús, CONICET-UNSAM, Argentina).

The de Miguel group is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of anaerobic animal parasites. Currently, the laboratory is focused on DNA methylation, 3D genome organization, and gene expression changes in Trichomonas vaginalis.

María Ana Duhagon (Universidad de la República, Uruguay).

The Duhagon group uses genomics, and cell and molecular biology approaches to study non-coding RNAs in prostate cancer.

Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde (University of New South Wales, Australia)

The Fernandez-Valverde group studies the evolutionary dynamics of non-coding RNA molecules using a variety of plant and animal species with diverse evolutionary scales. They use bioinformatic and genomic data analysis tools to understand the evolution of these molecules and the regulatory mechanisms in which they participate.

Mariana Gómez Schiavón (Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)

The Evolutionary Systems Biology lab aims to understand how the dynamic properties of gene regulatory circuits emerge, proliferate and persist through natural selection

Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez (Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile).

The goal of the Plant Systems Biology lab is to understand how plants sense and respond to nutrients and, in particular, how nutrient signals interact with other signaling pathways to coordinate global gene expression in plants.

Danny Reinberg (New York University School of Medicine, USA).

The Reinberg lab studies the dynamic processes shaping chromatin structure and channeling transcriptional outcome, key to fostering a cellular identity.

Geraldine Seydoux (Johns Hopkins University, USA).

The Seydoux lab studies how single-cell embryos localize RNAs and proteins to pattern developmental potential. They use genetics, microscopy, and biochemistry to identify, observe, and manipulate RNAs and proteins in and out of cells.

Salvatore Spicuglia (Aix-Marseille University, France)

The Spicuglia group has a long-standing interest in the fields of epigenetics and transcriptional regulation during lymphoid cell differentiation. The team has set up and developed genome-wide approaches, along with state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods, to study epigenetics together with transcriptional regulation in normal developing and transformed T lymphocytes.

Matthew Taliaferro (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA).

The Taliaferro lab studies how the expression of genetic information is spatially regulated within a cell, with a focus on subcellular RNA localization. The group uses experimental and computational methods to understand mechanisms behind this regulation and how disruption of the process can result in neurological disease.

Juan Pablo Tosar (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Research in the Tosar lab is focused on the development of new nucleic acids / protein detection techniques in biological samples, with emphasis in liquid biopsies. They then try to use these techniques in RNA-based molecular diagnosis and to understand the role of extracellular RNAs in intercellular communication.

Elena A. Vidal (Universidad Mayor, Chile).

The Vidal group studies how plants adapt and respond to the environment, using genomics and systems biology approaches.

Justin W. Walley (Iowa State University, USA).

The Walley lab investigates molecular mechanisms that underpin plant growth, development, and environmental responses. The group specializes in mass spectrometry-based proteomics to globally quantify protein abundance and post-translational modifications.

Emily Wong (University of New South Wales, Australia).

The main goal of the Regulatory Systems Laboratory is to understand how changes in the genome control transcriptional changes during developmental, regenerative, and evolutionary processes.

Itai Yanai (NYU School of Medicine, USA).

Research in the Yanai lab focuses on the interface of gene expression, development, and evolution. The group is interested in exploring how developmental pathways evolve at the molecular level, for which its carries out intricate embryological experiments at the level of individual cells and apply computational approaches to explore the resulting data.