The 7th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) will be held in Sitges, Spain on June 9-12, 2005. IBANGS is a rapidly developing young society that brings together scientists interested in the latest advances in the rapidly developing fields of neurobehavioural genetics. The conference will consist of three days of sessions, including symposia, posters and plenary lectures delivered by invited experts in the fields of genetics, neurobiology and behavioural research.

"Metastasis: genes and functions" is the title of the conference that Joan Massagué, chairman of the department of Cancer Biology and Genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will give on March 15, 2005 at 12 am at the conference hall at the CRG (CMIMA building). Massagué was recently awarded with the "Premio Principe de Asturias" and is interested in how growth factors, signalling pathways, and gene expression programs control normal cell proliferation and cancer cell metastasis.

For the second year we invite scientists, universities, schools and different areas of the municipal administration of Barcelona to take part in the world celebration that will be realized this year between 14 and on March 20.

Meeting room: Sala de actos CMIMA
Pg. Maritim, 37-49
08003 Barcelona
Spain

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has organized a one-day symposium about “Cancer, transcription and development” on November 15, which will take place at the Sala de Actos of the CMIMA building. Kelly McNagny, associate professor of Department of Medical Genetics of the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Florencio Varas, researcher of the Thomas Graf Laboratory at the CRG, are organizing this symposium, which coincides with Graf’s birthday.

The Cell in Development

Auditorium CMIMA
Centre de Regulació Genòmica
Passeig Marítim, 37-49 - 08003 Barcelona

Applications:
eva.ibanez@crg.es, telf 932240961

More Information:
Coordinadora del Simposi - Cristina Fillat
cristina.fillat@crg.es, telf. 932240961

“Plasticity of hematopoietic stem cells and their differentiated progeny” is the title of the talk that Thomas Graf, researcher and professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the Centre for Genomic Regulation, will give next Friday, April 16th at 12am at the Sala Josep Marull at the IMIM/UPF building, as part of the scientific sessions of the Fundació PRBB.

“Seven days to promote the knowledge about Neuroscience”