Programme
UTC+0 now:
Oct 11- Drosophila Studies in Drug Screening and Disease
| 13:30 UTC+0 | Prof N Aba Appiah Amfo, Prof Julius Fobil and Prof Dorothy Yeboah-Manu | U of Ghana, Ghana | "Welcome and Opening Remarks" |
| 14:00 | Dr Isabel Palacios and Dr Dolores Martín-Bermudo | Queen Mary U, UK and U Pablo de Olavide, Spain | "Introducing Drosafrica" |
| 14:30 | Dr Amos Abolaji | U Ibadan, Nigeria | "Drosophila melanogaster: An Adaptable Model Organism for the Study of Chemically-Induced Diseases" |
| 15:00 | Dr Sergio Casas | Insituto Cajal, Spain | "Glia-neuron communication mediates neurodegeneration in glioblastoma" |
| 15:30 | Dr Lucía García López | Instituto de Neurociencias, Spain | "Harnessing Drosophila for Drug Screening" |
Oct 12- Diet, Cancer, Neurodegeneration and Morphogenesis in Drosophila
| 13:30 | Dr Carlos Ribeiro | Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal | "The gourmet fly: dissecting the mechanisms underlying feeding decisions" |
| 14:00 | Dr Monsurat Gbadamosi | ICGEB, Italy | "A Drosophila model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" |
| 14:30 | Dr Paul Langton | U Bristol, UK | "Xrp1 and Irbp18 trigger a feed-forward loop of proteotoxic stress to induce the loser status" |
| 15:00 | Prof Cayetano González | Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain | "Learning about malignant growth from Drosophila brain tumours" |
| 15:30 | Prof Eric Wieschaus | Princeton U, USA | "Mechanical Tension, Cell Shapes and Epithelial Mesenchymal Transitions during Drosophila Gastrulation" |
Oct 13- Using Drosophila to study Circadian Rhythm, Cancer and morphogenesis
| 13:00 | Prof Michael Rosbash | Brandeis U, USA | "The Drosophila-Circadian Rhythm Story: Past, Present and Future" |
| 14:00 | Dr Hammed Badmos | U Glasgow, UK | "Drosophila: A model for cancer research" |
| 14:30 | Dr Katja Röper | Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK | "Mechanisms and mechanics of tube morphogenesis" |
| 15:00 | Dr Rashidat Abdulazeez | Ahmadu Bello U, Nigeria | "Round Table: Working with Drosophila In Africa" |
| 16:00 | Prof Ross Cagan | Glasgow U, UK | "Curing Fly Cancer" |
| 16:30 | "Closing Remarks" |