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Organised by: the Genomics Unit of the CRG Core Facilities.
              
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Organizers: CRG Postdoc Committee

Symposium overview
The CRG Postdoc community organized this symposium aiming to reflect the work achieved by CRG Postdocs. Together with the talks of the invited speakers, this symposium will be a day for sharing scientific knowledge and bridging interdisciplinary projects.

Invited speakers

Organised by: Miguel Beato, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain

Symposium overview

This Workshop is the final event of the Consolider “Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease” project, in which 9 research groups worked together during 4 years, in order to achieve significant advances in the field of epigenetics and chromatine.

THE TWO-FACED IMMUNE SYSTEM. WHEN DOES IT PROTECT US AND WHEN DOES IT ATTACK US?

What are allergies? What is immunotherapy? Shall we vaccinate us against everything? What are autoimmune diseases? How and why do they appear?

We will talk about different aspects of immunology with the following invited speakers:

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Speakers

Prof. Richard Morris (Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh) is one of the pioneers in developing cognitive tests to reveal hippocampal contribution to spatial memory. He has also significantly contributed to our understanding of NMDA mediated signaling in synaptic plasticity and introduced the concept of synaptic tagging.

Barcelona Symposium "Frontiers in Biology"

Organised by: Hernán López-Schier, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain

Symposium overview

 ARE YOU TAKING CARE OF YOUR HEART?

How could you recognize a cardiovascular risk? Do cardiovascular diseases have a genetic background? Smoking, dieting, the environment… do they influence your heart's health?

Top scientists working on different areas related to cardiovascular diseases will answer these and other questions. An open debate with the following speakers:

Organised by: CRG and UPF

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