Registration and poster set-up

Welcome and Opening of the Congress

Keynote Lecture

Carmine Settembre, TIGEM, Naples, Italy
From bulk to selective: a journey through the physiological relevance of autophagy

Coffee break

Session 1 • Cell Communication

The EMBO Keynote Lecture
Chiara Zurzolo, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Reshaping cellular connectivity with tunneling nanotubes

Alessandra Boletta, San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Primary cilia and nutrient sensing: an unexpected liaison between cellular organelles

Rossella Venditti, University of Naples Federico II - TIGEM, Italy
Function and regulation of ER-TGN contact sites

Poster Session 1

Buffet dinner

Keynote Lecture

Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan University of Geneve, Switzerland
Growth and scaling in development through endocytosis

Session 2 • Self Organization in Biology

Alfonso Martinez Arias (Keynote Lecture), ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
Gastrulation: a stem cell perspective

Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Milena Bellin, University of Padua, Italy
Cardiac microtissues from human pluripotent stem cells to model and correct inherited heart disease

Excursion to the temples and lunch box

The Fondazione Umberto Veronesi Keynote Lecture

Patrizia Agostinis, VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium
Cancer cell plasticity, drug-tolerant persisters, and vulnerability to ferroptosis

Coffee break

Session 3 • Biology of Metastasis

Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris, France
Self-organization of tumor hierarchy and stemness

Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Emergency granulopoiesis in cancer progression

Marco Montagner, University of Padua, Italy
Using a molecular time machine to understand the determinants and evolution of metastatic cancer cells

Industry session

Poster Session 2

Buffet dinner

Parallel Sessions

Session 1 • Cell Communication, Metabolism, Signalling and Trafficking

Session 2 • Cellular stress, Stem cells, Development and Regeneration

9:00-10:45     5 selected talks (for each session) from abstracts

10:45-11:15     Coffee break

11:15-13:00     5 selected talks (for each session) from abstracts

Light lunch

Keynote Lecture

Volker Haucke, FMP, Berlin, Germany
Lipid control of membrane dynamics in health and disease

Session 4 • From Neurobiology to Biology of the Brain

Giampietro Schiavo, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Restoring axonal transport in neurological diseases

Orly Reiner, Weizzman Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Advancing neurodevelopmental research: developing human brain organoid models to investigate brain malformations

Alessandro Fiorenzano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Directing cell fate, maturation, and brain repair using human pluripotent stem cells

Coffee break

Session 5 • Artificial Intelligence

Carlo Tacchetti, University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
From cloud to bedside: the pitfalls and opportunities of AI in medicine

Francesca Buffa, Bocconi University and IFOM, Milan, Italy
Using machine learning and multi-agent modelling to dissect the tumor microenvironment

Guillaume Jacquemet, University of Turku, Finland
Studying cancer cell metastasis in the era of deep learning for microscopy

Official closure of the meeting

ABCD Assembly

Gala dinner