Proteins: Structure and Function - Iberic Symposium
Coordenadora: Ana Margarida Damas (ICBAS/IBMC/UP) e Miguel de La Rosa (Sevilha University & CSIC)

1- Miquel Coll (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
Structural biology of horizontal gene transfer
2- Claudio M Gomes (ITQB/UNL, Portugal)
Protein aggregation pathways at the synaptic milieu

Regulatory RNAs in Biology
Coordenadores: Alexandra Moreira (IBMC/UP) e Carla Oliveira (IPATIMUP)

1- Torben Heick Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Production of small RNAs upstream of and within human genes
2- Sónia Guedes de Melo (Harvard Medical School, BIDMC)
MicroRNA Machinery in human cancer 

Gene Expression and Disease
Coordenadores: Leonor Cancela (UAlg) e Elsa Bronze (FFUP)

1- Roland Schule (Center for Clinical Research, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Androgen receptor function is regulated by histone demethylases: Implication
for prostate cancer
2- Isabel Palmeirim (UAlg, Portugal)
Counting time to form proper vertebrae

Computational Biochemistry
Coordenadores: Armindo Salvador (CNBC/UC) e Claudio Soares (ITQB/UNL)

1- Ron Milo (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Rethinking carbon fixation
2- António M. Baptista (ITQB/UNL, Portugal)
Studying biomedically relevant systems by molecular simulation

Neurosciences (co-organized by: Portuguese Society of Neuroscience)
Coordenadores: Dora Brites (FFUL) e João Relvas (IBMC/UP)

1- Vivaldo Moura Neto (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil)
Cross-talk between parenchyma and glial cells: highlights in brain tumors
2- Francisco Ambrósio (IBILI/FMUC, Portugal)
Pro-inflammatory mediators in diabetic retinopathy: molecular determinants of blood-retinal barrier breakdown

Clinical Biochemistry and Mechanisms of Disease
Coordenadores: Catarina Oliveira (FMUC/CNC) e Manuela Grazina (FMUC/CNC)

1- Adrián Llerena (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Drug metabolism and brain dysfunction
2- Isabel Tavares de Almeida (FFUL, Portugal)
Intermediary metabolism dysfunction: what biomarkers tell us? 

Membranes: from Model Systems to Cells
Coordenadores: Manuel Prieto (IST) e Graça Soveral (FFUL)

1- Carlos Gutierrez-Merino (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Protein microdomains of redox and calcium transport systems in the neuronal plasma membrane
2- Faustino Mollinedo (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Lipid rafts as a target in the triggering of apoptosis 

Biotechnology
Coordenadores: Margarida Casal (UM) e Odília Queirós (ISCSN/CESPU)

1- Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello (University of Valladolid, Spain)
“Recombinamers” as highly functional macromolecules of biotechnological origin.
2- Nuno Arantes de Oliveira (Alfama Inc, Portugal)
Money, mice and carbon monoxide: the wonderful world of drug development

Redox, Stress and Cell Death
Coordenadores: Cecília Rodrigues (FFUL) e Georgina Correia da Silva (FFUP)

1- Gerry Melino (University of Leicester, UK)
p73 and p63, the ancestral members of the p53 family: why we need them?
2- Tiago Outeiro (FMUL, Portugal)
Proteostasis imbalance: from cell stress to neurodegeneration and back