ABCD 2025 :: Programme

Wednesday, 24 September

13:00-15:00	Registration and poster set-up
15:15-15:30	Welcome and Opening of the Congress
15:30-16:15	Keynote Lecture Carmine Settembre, TIGEM, Naples, Italy From bulk to selective: a journey through the physiological relevance of autophagy
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-18:45	Session 1 • Cell Communication Chiara Zurzolo (Keynote Lecture), Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Alessandra Boletta, San Raffaele, Milan, Italy Rossella Venditti, University of Naples Federico II - TIGEM, Italy
18:45-20:45	Poster Session 1
21:00-22:30	Buffet dinner

9:00-9:45	Keynote Lecture Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan University of Geneve, Switzerland Growth and scaling in development through endocytosis
9:45-11:45	Session 2 • Self Organization in Biology Alfonso Martinez Arias (Keynote Lecture), ICREA, Barcelona, Spain Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Miriam Bellin, University of Padua, Italy
12:00-16:00	Excursion to the temples and lunch box
16:00-16:45	Keynote Lecture Patrizia Agostinis, VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium Cancer cell plasticity, drug-tolerant persisters and vulnerability to ferroptosis
16:45-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-18:45	Session 3 • Biology of Metastasis Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris, France Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK Marco Montagner, University of Padua, Italy
18:45-19:15	Industry session
19:15-21:00	Poster Session 2
21:00-22:30	Buffet dinner

9:00-13:00	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
13:00-14:00	Light lunch
14:15-15:00	Keynote Lecture Volker Haucke, FMP, Berlin, Germany
15:00-16:15	Session 4 • From Neurobiology to Biology of the Brain Giampietro Schiavo, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK 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
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-18:30	Session 5 • Artificial Intelligence Carlo Tacchetti, University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy Francesca Buffa, Bocconi University and IFOM, Milan, Italy Guillaume Jacquemet, University of Turku, Finland Studying cancer cell metastasis in the era of deep learning for microscopy
18:30-18:40	Official closure of the meeting
18:40-19:00	ABCD Assembly
20:00-22:30	Gala dinner