Launching Symposium of the European Science Foundation Research Networking Programme “QuanTissue: Quantitative Models in Cell and Developmental Biology”
  
Organiser: Hernán López-Schier (CRG - Barcelona)
  

WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT RARE DISEASES?

Have you heard of Huntington's chorea, the fragile X syndrome or Noonan syndrome?

Do you know what a rare disease is?
Do you know how many types of rare diseases are there?
Did you know that in Spain there are over 3 million people affected by rare diseases?
How are patients and families organized to share questions and concerns?
Which role does research play currently in this context?

Invited speakers:

Cellular reprogramming: a real tool of regenerative medicine?

In recent years, there have been numerous studies of how adult cells of our body can be turn back into stem cells (i.e. those that have the potential to become any type of adult cell). A skin cell, for example, can be "induced" (converted) into a stem cell again, and then be transformed into a cell of another tissue (muscle, nerve, blood, etc.).

The V CRG PhD Students Symposium is a CRG internal symposium with the aim to provide a platform for the young scientists working at the CRG. All 2nd year students will give a short talk focusing on the main question they want to address in their PhD and how they are planning to do this. In addition posters of 3rd year students will give an overview of work that is being carried out in our institute.

Easy Science Conference: "Genome complexity and medicine: illness prediction gets complicated"

The study of the genome through sequencing produces an enormous quantity of data. This data is analysed by bioinformatics researchers dedicated to the management and analysis of all of the information obtained when a genome is sequenced via, for example, mathematical, biological, computer and statistical tools.

Organizers: Sergi Serrano and Joan Albanell (Hospital del Mar-IMIM), Xavier Rúbies (CRG)

Symposium overview

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Organizers: Roderic Guigó, Cédric Notredame, Toni Gabaldón, Fyodor Kondrashov, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia
  
Symposium overview

EASY SCIENCE CONFERENCE SERIES: Cancer and Aging: Getting the Balance Right

It is difficult to imagine that cancer and aging would have much in common. Aging is a normal biological process that happens to every living organism leading towards the end of life, whereas cancer is a terrible disease that strikes an unlucky few.

The cell art competition is open to any students between 8 and 18 years old and their teachers!

There are 3 categories and 3 prizes within each category, including a prize for teachers!

You don’t have to know everything about the cell, you just need imagination and curiosity!