Academic Programme

Preliminary Agenda

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20
15:00 – 16:00 OPENING KEYNOTE

Pura Muñoz Cánoves: Aging as a treatable condition: New approaches to bring back youthfulness to aged muscle and its stem cells
16:00 – 17:30

SARCOPENIA AND AGING

  • 16:00h – 16:30h / Mª Carmen Gómez Cabrera: Mitochondrial Plasticity as a Driver of Healthy Muscle Aging
  • 16:30h – 16:45h / Selected Talk 1
  • 16:45h – 17:00h / Selected Talk 2
  • 17:00h – 17:15h / Selected Talk 3
  • 17:15h – 17:30h / Selected Talk 4
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 – 18:30 Flash Talks / Poster Session 1
18:30 – 19:30 Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
09:00 – 10:30

MUSCLE BIOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT AND STEM CELLS

  • 9:00h – 9:30h / Shahragim Tajbakhsh:
  • 9:30h – 9:45h / Selected Talk 5
  • 9:45h – 10:00h / Selected Talk 6
  • 10:00h – 10:15h / Selected Talk 7
  • 10:15h – 10:30h / Selected Talk 8
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Early-career researchers flask talks
12:00 – 13:30

MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY AND EXERCISE

  • 12:00h – 12:30h / Francisco José Amaro Gahete: Más allá de la masa muscular: ejercicio y músculo esquelético en salud y enfermedad
  • 12:30h – 12:45h / Selected Talk 9
  • 12:45h – 13:00h / Selected Talk 10
  • 13:00h – 13:15h / Selected Talk 11
  • 13:15h – 13:30h / Selected Talk 12
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00

MODELS IN MUSCLE BIOLOGY

  • 14:30h – 15:00h / Saverio Tedesco: Advanced in vitro disease modelling of neuromuscular diseases and (gene) therapies
  • 15:00h – 15:15h / Selected Talk 13
  • 15:15h – 15:30h / Selected Talk 14
  • 15:30h – 15:45h / Selected Talk 15
  • 15:45h – 16:00h / Selected Talk 16
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Pharmas/Industry Presentations
17:30 – 18:00 Flash Talks / Poster Session 2
18:00 – 19:00 Poster Session 2 (even numbers)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22
09:00 – 10:30

CLINICAL NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

  • 9:00h – 9:30h / Adolfo López-Munain: Papel del músculo en la fisiopatología de la ELA
  • 9:30h – 9:45h / Selected Talk 17
  • 9:45h – 10:00h / Selected Talk 18
  • 10:00h – 10:15h / Selected Talk 19
  • 10:15h – 10:30h / Selected Talk 20
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Pharmas/Industry Presentations
12:30 – 14:00

MUSCLE-TARGETED THERAPIES

  • 12:30h – 13:00h / Amelia Aránega-Jiménez: Muscle Stem Cells as Therapeutic Targets: From Homeostasis to Disease
  • 13:00h – 13:15h / Selected Talk 21
  • 13:15h – 13:30h / Selected Talk 22
  • 13:30h – 13:45h / Selected Talk 23
  • 13:45h – 14:00h / Selected Talk 24
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:30 Best Posters and Talks Awards Announcements
15:00 – 15:15 Closing Remarks
15:15 – 17:15 First SEMIO Assembly