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PROGRAMME & Book of Abstracts PROGRAMME & book of abstracts “. MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER” www.EDBC2019Alicante.com ORGANISED BY CONTENTS SPONSORS & COLLABORATORS ORGANIZATION .......................................................................... 4 GENERAL INFORMATION ......................................................... 5 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKERS AND AUTHORS ................ 8 CONGRESS TIMETABLE ............................................................ 9 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 23 .................................................................... 12 THURSDAY 24 ........................................................................ 13 FRIDAY 25 ............................................................................... 16 SATURDAY 26 ........................................................................ 19 POSTER SESSIONS ................................................................... 21 EXHIBITORS AND SPONSORS ................................................ 48 ABSTRACTS ................................................................................ 51 AUTHORS’ INDEX ...................................................................... 263 4 EDBC2019 EDBC2019 5 ORGANIZATION GENERAL INFORMATION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE INVITED SPEAKERS VENUE Ángela Nieto. Alicante Enrique Amaya. Manchester Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante - ADDA Víctor Borrell. Alicante Detlev Arendt. Heidelberg Paseo Campoamor, s/n Sergio Casas-Tintó. Madrid Laure Bally Cuif. Paris 03010 Alicante, Spain Pilar Cubas. Madrid Fernando Casares. Sevilla www.addaalicante.es Joan Galcerán. Alicante Denis Duboule. Geneva Leonor Saude. Lisboa Isabel Fariñas. Valencia WIFI Miguel Torres. Madrid Beverley Glover. Cambridge WiFi internet access will be available at the Congress venue Marcos González-Gaitán. Geneva SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Anne Grapin-Botton. Copenhagen REGISTRATION Ángela Nieto. Alicante Edith Heard. Heidelberg REGISTRATION FEES James Briscoe. London Peter Holland. Oxford Fees in Euros (€) (VAT Included) After 1 August Margaret Buckingham. Paris Roberto Mayor. London - Member* 500 € Anne Ephrussi. Heidelberg Nipam Patel. Woodshole Magdalena Goetz. Munich Ana Pombo. Berlin - Non Member 650 € Peter Holland. Oxford Alex Schier. Basel - Student Member 300 € James Sharpe. Barcelona James Sharpe. Barcelona - Student non Member 500 € Elly Tanaka. Vienna Didier Stainier. Bad Nauheim - Industry / Corporate 700 € Kate Storey. Dundee Miguel Torres. Madrid *Members of European Societies affiliated to the International Society of Developmental Biology (ISDB) Rolf Zeller. Basel Marja Timmermans. Tübingen REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDES María-Elena Torres-Padilla. Munich - Admission to all scientific sessions Eldad Tzahor. Israel - Access to Exhibition area - Welcome reception at the venue on 23rd October TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT - Coffee breaks during the congress period AOPC BY MERCURI Professional Congress Organiser - Pic nic Lunch bags on 24th and 25th October Avda. Diagonal, 497 - Special fee for congress dinner on 25th October in Hall Séneca (by Michelin star Chef María José San Román) E-08029 Barcelona - Program & Book of Abstracts through the website during the Congress Tel. +34 933 027 541 [email protected] ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE www.edbc2019alicante.com Congress participants will receive a certificate of attendance after the Congress, always on request. 6 GENERAL INFORMATION EDBC2019 EDBC2019 GENERAL INFORMATION 7 SECRETARIAT AND REGISTRATION DESK SOCIAL PROGRAMME OPEN EVERY DAY AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES WELCOME RECEPTION rd rd - Wednesday, 23 October from 15.00 to 19.00 Wednesday 23 October at 20.00 at the Exhibition and Posters area th - Thursday, 24 October from 08.30 to 19.00 CONGRESS DINNER th - Friday, 24 October from 08.30 to 19.00 Friday 25th October at 20.30 in Hall Séneca (by Michelin star Chef María José San Román). - Saturday, 26th October from 08.30 to 13.30 Ticket will be requested at the entrance. Buses will be available from ADDA to the congress dinner venue, Hall Séneca, after the BADGES sessions conclude. Return by your own means. For security reasons, badges must be worn at all times throughout the congress and the Bus departure: 20.00 social events. It will be your entrance ticket to the venue and all scientific sessions. Meeting point: ADDA main entrance EUR 25.00 (VAT included) will be charged for replacing a lost badge and for re-printing due to incorrect submission of names and/or company names or addresses. DISCLAIMERS The information contained in this program is correct at the time of publication. The CONGRESS OFFICIAL HOTEL European Developmental Biology Congress and/or its agents have the right for any Melià Alicante Hotel **** reason beyond their control to alter or cancel, without prior notice, the Congress or any Plaza del Puerto, 3 of the arrangements, timetables, plans or other items relating directly or indirectly to 03001 Alicante, Spain the Congress. The Organisation and/or AOPC shall not be liable for any loss, damage, 10 minutes by bus from the ADDA, venue of the EDBC 2019 Congress expenditure or inconvenience caused to participants and their belongings either during or as a result of the Congress or at the hotels, or as a result of such alteration or OTHER SUGGESTED HOTELS cancellation. Please check the validity of your own insurance. - Eurostars Lucentum **** - Tryp Gran Sol **** - NH Rambla de Alicante *** - La City Mercado *** LIABILITY By registering for the congress, and / or by participating in the exhibition held along with the 2019 EDBC Alicante, participants and exhibitors agree that the Organizing Committee or the Congress Secretariat cannot accept liability for personal injuries sustained, or for loss or damage of property belonging to congress participants, either during, or as a result of the meeting. COFFEE BREAKS Coffee breaks are included in the registration fee and will be offered in the exhibition area. PIC-NIC LUNCH Pic-nic lunch bags will be collected in the Exhibition and Poster area. Please make sure you bring your pic nic lunch ticket. Online requested special diets will also require ticket. 8 EDBC2019 EDBC2019 9 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKERS AND AUTHORS CONGRESS TIMETABLE The Speakers’ Preview Room will be located next to the registration desk. The opening hours are: WED 23 THU 24 FRI 25 SAT 26 - Wednesday, 23rd October from 15.00 to 19.00 EXHIBITION - Thursday, 24th October from 08.30 to 19.00 - Friday, 24th October from 08.30 to 19.00 S01 S05 S09 - Saturday, 26th October from 08.30 to 13.30 Cell Biology of Organisation of Human 09.30 –11.00 h Development Developmental Development SPEAKERS Fields and Disease All oral presentations must be delivered to the Speakers’ Preview Room at least 1hour 11.00 –11.30 h COFFEE BREAK before their session. Those authors presenting in the first session of the day may do so the day before. All speakers are kindly requested to make their presentations during the S02 S06 PL04 allotted time, which appears in the programme. 11.30 –13.00 h Stem Cells and Regeneration and Closing Lecture Differentiation Homeostasis POSTERS Posters will be displayed throughout the Congress. 13.00 –13.30 h WORKSHOPS rd FLASH TALKS AWARD SESSION - Set up: Wednesday 23 October from 15.00 to 19.30 & DEMOS th - Dismantling: Saturday 26 October at 13.30 13.00 - 13.30 Please contact the Congress Secretariat for adhesive material. Any poster left after 13.30 (SALA DE CÁMARA) 10xGenomics Symposium: on Saturday will be removed. The Organisers cannot accept liability for lost or damaged 13.30 –15.30 h Biology at true resolution POSTER SESSIONS & LUNCH posters. with 10X Genomics 14.00 - 15.30 POSTER SESSIONS (SALA A1 - 2ND FLOOR) - Poster Session I: Even Numbers Thursday 24th October from 13.30 to 15.30 Outreach event: Conversación & Speed-dating con científicos - Poster Session II: Odd Numbers Friday 25th October from 13.30 to 15.30 S03 S07 15.30 –17.00 h 15.30 - 17.00 Genome Dynamics Authors are required to stand by their poster during the Poster Session they have been (SALA DE CÁMARA) Evo-Devo assigned. Poster codes coincide with the board number. Panel Discussion: Preprints in Development and scientific publishing 17.00 –17.30 h REGISTRATION COFFEE BREAK 17.00 –20.00 S04 S08 OPENING 17.30 –19.00 h Growth and Physiology of 18.30 –19.00 Form Development PL01 PL02 PL03 19.00 –20.00 h Opening Lecture Plenary Lecture Plenary Lecture WELCOME CONGRESS RECEPTION DINNER EDBC2019 11 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME 12 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME EDBC2019 EDBC2019 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME 13 WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 09.30 - 11.00 SYMPOSIUM 01. CELL BIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT 13.00 - 17.00 WORKSHOPS & DEMOS CHAIR: Patrick Lemaire - Paris, France 13.00 - 13.30 10xGenomics Symposium: Biology at true resolution with 10X Genomics (Sala de Cámara) 09.30 INVITED TALK INTERPLAY BETWEEN MOLECULAR AND MECHANICAL CUES CONTROL COLLECTIVE MIGRATION 14.00 - 15.30 Outreach event: Conversación & Speed-dating con científicos (Sala A1 - 2nd Floor) OF NEURAL CREST CELLS Roberto Mayor - London, United Kingdom 15.30 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Preprints and scientific publishing (Sala de Cámara) 09.55 YOUNG PI SELECTED TALK DYNAMICS OF NEURAL STEM CELL NICHE MORPHOGENESIS IN DROSOPHILA S1-YPI 17.00 - 20.00 REGISTRATION Pauline Spéder Murphy - Paris, France 10.20 ABSTRACT-SELECTED TALK 18.30 - 19.00 OPENING REGULATION OF THE ADULT MUSCLE QUIESCENT STEM NICHE BY NOTCH SIGNALING S1-ST Meryem Baghdadi - Paris, France 19.00 - 20.00 OPENING LECTURE 10.35 INVITED TALK CELL BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS REGULATING NEUROGENESIS CHAIR: Joan Galcerán - Alicante, Spain
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