SPBD Meeting
3rd Meeting of the SPBD
7-10 October 2015
Alfamar Beach and Sport Resort
The Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD) organized its 3rd Meeting jointly with the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) and the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) in the Alfamar Beach and Sport Resort, Algarve, Portugal on 7-10 October 2015.
Organizing Committee
Domingos Henrique (Lisbon, Portugal)
Cláudia Gaspar (Lisbon, Portugal)
Raquel P. Andrade (Faro, Portugal)
Tatiana Resende (Porto, Portugal)
Ana Ribeiro (Lisbon, Portugal)
Cátia Laranjeira (Oeiras, Portugal)
Pedro Barbacena (Lisbon, Portugal)
Ana Raquel Jacinto (Lisbon, Portugal)
HEART WITH]OUT[ BORDERS
The international conference “HEART WITH]OUT[ BORDERS– cardiovascular development, disease & repair”, was held in Porto on 28-29th November 2014.
This event has been conceived to nurture and promote fundamental and translational research in cardiovascular biology. A panel of renowned keynote speakers furthered our knowledge of the heart and discussed how to develop regenerative/repair therapies that may be effectively translated into the clinic. This first edition of “HEART WITH]OUT[ BORDERS was particularly designed to encourage direct contact amongst young and senior researchers in a trans-disciplinary perspective that clearly reflects the aspirations of three independent scientific societies, i.e. the Society of Cardiology (SPC), the Society of Developmental Biology (SPBD) and the Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) which were co-responsible for organization of the event.
Your participation was essential to promote insight and animated discussion in a way that inspired all participants! We look forward to the next one!
See pictures from the meeting here!
List of Speakers:
CHRISTINE MUMMERY | Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
EVA VAN ROOIJ | Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
FELIX B. ENGEL | University Hospital Erlangen (Academia), Nephropathology, Experimental Renal and Cardiovascular Research, Erlangen, Germany
JOSE M. PÉREZ-POMARES| Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Bioptechnology, University of Málaga, Málaga & CNIC-Madrid, Spain
SIGOLÈNE MEILHAC| Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
THOMAS BRAUN | Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Development in Action
The SPBD organizes the “Development in Action” - DiA – series with the objective of bringing the Portuguese Developmental Biology community together a few times a year. The DiA series exists in two different formats.
DiA Symposia are thematic symposia that focus on a topic of interest to developmental biologists. The DiA Symposia have a free format but are usually a full afternoon, with 4 – 5 speakers and time for discussion. Members interested in organizing DiA Symposia are encouraged to contact the DiA Meetings coordinator to learn more about the support SPBD can provide. DiA Symposia can conver a broad range of themes of interest to Developmental Biologists and SPBD welcomes speakers working outside the field of developmental biology.
Special DiA Meetings are full day meetings organised with our “out-of-Lisbon” members in mind: so far, such meetings have been held at the Universities of Algarve, Minho and Porto. The objective is to organize one of these full day Special DiA Meetings once a year.
The present organising committee is: Lígia Tavares, coordinator (i3S), Dalila Silva (IMM), Pedro Santos (FCUL), Rita Gorgulho (CEDOC) and Rita Fior (Champalimaud). The DiA Committee can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Thank you all for a wonderful meeting!
SPBD president, Diogo Castro, closes the DevBioMed meeting. Many thanks to the organizers, speakers, chairs and the audience for a fantastic meeting!
2019 DevBioMed Symposium
On behalf of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD) and the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), we invite you to attend the first DevBioMed Symposium – From Developmental Biology to Medicine and Back.
The ultimate goal of Developmental Biology is to understand how different cell types, tissues and organs arise from one single cell, the fertilized egg. By elucidating the mechanisms of cell growth, differentiation and morphogenesis during embryogenesis, as well as ageing and regeneration in postnatal life, Developmental Biology offers critical insights into numerous human diseases such as infertility, birth defects and cancer. In addition, developmental studies have fueled the fields of stem cell biology, organoid models and Regenerative Medicine, providing novel tools for biomedical research and drug discovery. Conversely, clinical descriptions of congenital anomalies have greatly advanced our understanding of basic developmental processes.
Counting with an outstanding panel of invited speakers, the DevBioMed Symposium aims at bringing together research scientists and clinicians to discuss the exciting crossroads between the fields of Developmental Biology and Medicine.
We look forward to welcoming you at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown on December 13th!
Entrance is free upon registration and subject to availability.
Registration Deadline: 9 December 2019
Registration and Programme: click here
Rita Fior (CF) & Ana Teresa Tavares (SPBD & CEDOC)
(Organising Committee)
DevBioMed Symposium
From Developmental Biology to Medicine and Back
13 December 2019, CF (Lisbon, Portugal)
Champalimaud Foundation (CF) | Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD)
Preliminary Programme:
09h00 – Welcome – Champalimaud Foundation Representative
Session 1 – Clinical Applications of Developmental Principles
Session Chair: Paulo Navarra-Costa (IGC and ISAMB, PT)
09h20 – Bill Heald (UK; CF, PT)
09h50 – Isabel Palmeirim (UAlg ,PT)
10h10 – Maria do Carmo Fonseca (iMM, PT)
10h30 – Discussion
11h00 – Coffee Break
Session 2 – Embryonic Patterning and Birth Defects
Session Chair: Susana Lopes (CEDOC, PT) and Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir (FCUL, PT)
11h20 – Moisés Mallo (IGC, PT)
11h40 – Jorge Correia Pinto (ICVS, PT)
12h00 – Claudio Stern (UCL, UK)
12h30 – Discussion
13h00 – Lunch Break
Session 3 – Cellular Development and Tumorigenesis
Session Chair: Domingos Henrique (iMM, PT) and António Jacinto (CEDOC, PT)
14h30 – Juan Pedro Martinez Barbera (UCL, UK)
15h00 – Mónica Bettencourt Dias (IGC, PT)
15h20 – Catarina Homem (CEDOC, PT)
15h40 – Discussion
16h10 – Coffee Break
Session 4 – Microenvironment in Regeneration and Cancer
Session Chair: José Bessa (i3S, PT) and Nuno Gil (CF, PT)
16h30 – Leonor Saúde (iMM, PT)
16h50 – Luís Costa (iMM, PT)
17h10 – Rita Fior (CF, PT)
17h30 – Discussion
18h00 – Closing Remarks – Diogo Castro (President of SPBD)
18h15 – Wine & Cheese Reception
21 June 2019 - Special DiA Meeting @UAlgarve (full day)
Final programme:
07h40 - Bus from Lisbon to Faro
11h15 - Reception and Coffee Break
11h30 - Invited Speaker Álvaro Tavares (CBMR, UAlg, Faro, Portugal) | Another Mob joins the crowd - Mob3 in development
12h00 - Invited Speaker Mário Soares (Diogo Castro Lab, IGC, Oeiras, Portugal) | Mitotic bookmarking by transcription factors in vertebrate neurogenesis
12h30 - Short Talk Marta Liber (Raquel Andrade Lab, CBMR, UAlg, Faro, Portugal) | Frozen chicken: Promoting the massive meta-analysis of chicken microarray data
12h45 - Flash Talks
- Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir (FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal) | A fibronectin-dependent mechanotransduction pathway in control of the chick embryo segmentation clock
- Jorge Borbinha (António Jacinto Lab, CEDOC, Lisbon, Portugal) | Metabolic reprograming during zebrafish caudal fin regeneration
- Ana Cristina Maia-Fernandes (Raquel Andrade Lab, CBMR, UAlg, Faro, Portugal) | A novel morphometric tool describing early chick embryo elongation
- Gil Carrasco (Raquel Andrade Lab, CBMR, UAlg, Faro, Portugal) | A miR-Seq approach to temporal control of Embryo Clock oscillations
- Susana Lopes (CEDOC, Lisbon, Portugal) | Uncoupling organ laterality events during embryogenesis
13h00 - Lunch Cantina (UAlg)
13h30 - Poster Session Building 1 Atrium
14h30 - Invited Speaker Rita Teodoro (CEDOC, Lisbon, Portugal) | Peripheral axonal ensheathment is regulated by Ral GTPase and the exocyst complex
15h00 - Invited Speaker - Juan Ramón Martínez Morales (CABD, Seville, Spain) | Bifurcation of the neural retina and retinal pigment epithelium specification networks: From optic cup morphogenesis to retinal degenerative diseases
15h30 - Short Talk Ana Rebelo (Catarina Homem Lab, CEDOC, Lisbon, Portugal) | The role of surrounding tissues for tumour-like neuroblast proliferation
15h45 - Short Talk Andreia Pimpão (Renata Freitas Lab, i3S/IBMC, Porto, Portugal) | Hoxd13 targets and vertebrate limb evolution
16h00 - Coffee Break and Group Photo
16h15 - Social/Cultural Event
17h45 - Bus from Faro to Lisbon
DiA Symposium “Cell and tissue mechanics in development and disease”
8 February 2019 FREE ENTRY!
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, C2 building, room 2.3.13.
Programme:
15h00 - 15h10 | Welcome
15h10 - 15h40 | Theodoor H. Smit (Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands)
A mechanical perspective on somitogenesis.
15h50 - 16h20 | Maria José Oliveira (INEB/i3S, UPorto)
Decellularized matrices as biomimetic models of the tumour microenvironment.
16h30 – 17h00 | Coffee Break
17h00 - 17h30 | Cristina Barrias (INEB/i3S, UPorto)
Microtissue engineering for therapeutic vascularization.
17h40 - 18h10 | Lara Carvalho (CEDOC, NMS-UNova Lisboa)
Occluding junctions as novel regulators of tissue mechanics during wound repair.
18h20 - 18h25 | Closing
This DiA Symposium was transmitted by videoconference to Porto, Faro and Aveiro!
The DiA Meeting on 22 June 2018 was a full day Special DiA meeting at UAlgarve!
See the complete programme here!
Group picture from the full day Special DiA Meeting on 22 September 2017 at UAlgarve, Faro
Keynote speakers were:
Rita Fior (Champalimaud Foundation)
Raquel P. Andrade (Centro de Biomedicina Molecular e Estrutural, Universidade do Algarve)
See here for the detailed programme!
Group picture from the full day Special DiA Meeting on 10 July 2015 at IBMC/INEB, Porto
The Special DiA Meeting in Porto 2015 had close to 60 participants!
Group picture from the full day Special DiA Meeting on 4 July 2014 at University of Algarve, Faro
The Special DiA Meeting 2014 had over 50 participants!
2014 SPBD
SPBD held its 2014 Meeting together with SEBD in Madrid, 13-15 October 2014. In this Meeting, the X SEBD Meeting, the two Iberian Societies also associate themselves with the Japanese Society of Developmental Biology (JSDB).
Organization of the X SEBD Meeting: Miguel Manzanares and Paola Bovolenta.
Three pre-meeting Workshops were held in the morning of 13 October:
1. Regulatory logic of developmental systems.
2. Stem cells and niches.
3. Plant development.
The meeting also had a Special Symposium "Madrid flies - an homage to Gines Morata".
See the full programme.
Check http://www.sebd2014.com/ for more info.
Click here to download the abstract book.
SPBD organized a bus from Lisbon to Madrid and back, for a symbolic fee of €10 return trip / per SPBD member. SPBD members coming from Porto/Braga/Coimbra/Faro to catch the bus in Lisbon did not pay the €10. Non-members paid the full cost of €100 / person for the return trip.
2013 SPBD Meeting
2nd SPBD Meeting
24-26 October 2013
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
The Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD) organized its 2nd Meeting jointly with the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) and in association with the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapy (SPCE-TC) in FCUL on 24-26 October 2013. The meeting had 125 participants who contributed to the meeting with two keynote addresses, 12 talks by invited speakers, 24 short talks and 63 posters.
Here are some images from the meeting!
The Best Short Talk Award (sponsored by Tecniplast) was given to two talks, one by Aida Costa (IMM) and another by Gabriel G. Martins (IGC). The Best Poster Award (sponsored by Leica) was given to Raquel Mendes (IMM).
During the meeting, the SPBD gave its first SPBD Award: at the service of Developmental Biology in Portugal (Prémio SPBD: ao serviço da Biologia do Desenvolvimento em Portugal), which was awarded to Prof. Eduardo G. Crespo for his excellence in teaching Developmental Biology to undergraduate students.
PROGRAMME
Thursday | 24th October
14:00 – 16:30 Registration and poster setup
16:30 – 17:00 Welcome address | António Jacinto - SPBD president, with Angela Nieto - SEBD president and José António Belo –
representing SPCE-TC
Session I - Developmental mechanisms during organogenesis.
Chair: António Jacinto
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote speaker I | Didier Stainier
Imaging heart development and function in zebrafish.
Sponsored by Ultragene.
18:00 – 18:30 Invited speaker 1 | Miguel Torres
Cell competition in mammalian organogenesis.
18:30 – 18:45 Short talk 1 | Rui Benedito
Molecular regulation of vascular development by Notch.
18:45 – 19:15 Coffee break
19:15 – 19.45 Invited speaker 2 | Fernando Casares
Gene network rewiring and eye architectures in Drosophila.
19:45 – 20:00 Short talk 2 | Marta Figueiredo
The role of Notch signaling in early development of thymus and parathyroid glands.
20:00 – 20:15 Short talk 3 | Diogo S. Castro
Transcriptional control of vertebrate neurogenesis by the proneural factor Ascl1/Mash1.
20:15 – 20:30 Short talk 4 | Susana S. Lopes
How does the left-right organizer regulate organ laterality?
20:30 Welcome cocktail – Museu da Cidade
with a musical surprise sponsored by STAB Vida _ your easy genetics laboratory.
Friday | 25th October
Session II – Balancing cell proliferation and movements in development and disease.
Chair: Fernando Casares
09:00 – 09:30 Invited speaker 3 | Rui Martinho
Drosophila early zygotic expression: putting a camel through the eye of a needle.
09:30 – 09:45 Short talk 5 | Jorge V. Beira
Dpp signalling counteracts JNK-dependent apoptosis in Drosophila embryos.
09:45 – 10:00 Short talk 6 | Patrícia Ybot-Gonzalez
Actin, Wnt-PCP and the closure of neural tube in mouse embryo.
10:00 – 10:15 Short talk 7 | Oscar H. Ocaña
Reciprocal repression between Pax2 and Snail controls epithelial plasticity during mesoderm development.
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Invited speaker 4 | Eric Theveneau
Mechanisms of collective cell migration in mesenchymal cells.
11:15 – 11:30 Short talk 8 | Pedro Campinho
Tension-oriented cell divisions limit anisotropic tissue tension in epithelial spreading during zebrafish epiboly.
11:30 – 11:45 Short talk 9 | Gabriel G. Martins
Mesoscopic imaging in developmental biology and “Haeckaliens”
11:45 – 12:15 Invited speaker 5 | Angela Nieto
Cell plasticity in development and disease.
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:00 Poster Session I
Session III - Relating time and space in development.
Chair: Élio Sucena
15:00 – 15:30 Invited speaker 6 | Kim Dale
Molecular regulation of vertebrate body axis formation.
15:30 – 15:45 Short talk 10 | Barbara Vreede
Evolution builds novel traits on crucial developmental events: the case of Drosophila's egg appendages.
15:45 – 16:00 Short talk 11 | Filipa Alves
Quantifying and modelling variation in butterfly wings.
16:00 – 16:15 Short talk 12 | Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
A new gene cluster of developmental regulatory(?) genes with obscure origin, intriguing shared regulation, and unknown
functions.
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:15 Invited speaker 7 | Alisson Gontijo
Molecular mechanism of action of DILP8, a new insulin-like peptide.
17:15 – 17:30 Short talk 13 | Raquel P. Andrade
The segmentation clock in temporal control of collinear HoxB gene expression.
17:30 – 17:45 Short talk 14 | Renata Freitas
Hoxd13 and the fin-to-limb transition in vertebrates.
17:45 – 18:15 Invited speaker 8| Moisés Mallo
Deciding whether to make trunk or tail during vertebrate development.
18:15 – 19:00 General assembly meetings (SPBD / SEBD)
20:00 Conference dinner – Casa do Alentejo
Saturday | 26th October
Session IV- Stem cell biology and cell therapy (SPCE-TC).
Chair: Domingos Henrique
09:00 – 09:30 Invited speaker 9 | José António Belo
Cerl2 in development and disease.
09:30 – 09:45 Short talk 15 | Paulo N.G. Pereira
Ccbe1: a secreted protein with cardiomyogenic potential.
09:45 – 10:00 Short talk 16 | Tatiana P. Resende
Towards heart (re)-genesis: Kinetics of the mouse cardiac proliferative compartment.
10:00 – 10:15 Short talk 17 | Aida Costa
From embryonic stem cells to sensory hair cells: a cell reprogramming approach.
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Invited speaker 10 | Alexandra Marques
Stem cells and extracellular matrix impact in tissue regeneration.
11:15 – 11:30 Short talk 18 | Sergio Menchero
Regulating Cdx2 and the trophectoderm lineage in the mouse blastocysts.
11:30 – 11:45 Short talk 19 | Maria M. Gomes Fernandes
BMP signalling: role in pluripotency and differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.
11:45 – 12:00 Techniplast presentation.
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:00 Poster session II
Session V- Balancing proliferation and differentiation during tissue morphogenesis and regeneration.
Chair: Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir
15:00 – 15:30 Invited speaker 11 | Paola Bovolenta
Boc and Cdon as regulators of Shh diffusion.
15:30 – 15:45 Short talk 20 | Florencia Cavodeassi
Precocious organisation of the retinal field within the anterior neural plate underlies the onset of eye morphogenesis.
15:45 – 16:00 Short talk 21 | Inês Sequeira
The dynamics of long-term hair follicle stem cells.
16:00 – 16:15 Short talk 22 | Rita Mateus
Regulation of tissue growth during zebrafish caudal fin regeneration through the Hippo pathway.
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:15 Invited speaker 12 | Domingos Henrique
From ES cells to neurons.
17:15 – 17:30 Short talk 23 | Marianne Deries
Myf5/Mrf4-dependent myotome provides essential extracellular cues for epaxial muscle differentiation.
17:30 – 17:45 Short talk 24 | Fernanda Bajanca
In vivo analysis of human Dystrophin dynamics in the zebrafish embryo.
17:45 – 18:45 Keynote speaker II | Shahragim Tajbakhsh
Skeletal muscle stem cells in muscle development and regeneration.
Sponsored by Grupo Taper - Zeiss
18:45 – 19:00 Tecniplast Best Short Talk Award & Leica Best Poster Award Ceremony
19:00 – 19:20 Closing remarks | Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir, Organizing Committee.
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