Day 2
December 10th
Venue: Centro Cultural - UFRGS
09:30 – 11:30
Career development workshop
How to take the next career step?
Speakers and students
13:00 – 13:35
Metabolic regulation of inflammation
Vishwa Deep Dixit
Yale University, USA
13:35 – 14:00
Neuroimmune mechanisms in allergies
Esther Florsheim
Yale University, USA
14:00 – 14:35
Smell, food and metabolism
Luis Saraiva
Sidra Medicine, Qatar
14:35 – 15:15
Selected talks by participants
Modulation of CD8+ T lymphocytes differentiation by lactate
Carolina Calôba
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Insights into bioenergetics of CD8+ T lymphocytes: A possible role for NAD
Alice Sampaio
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Characterization of human adipose derived stem cells (hADSCs) and extracellular vesicles (EVs) and evaluation of hADSC derived EVs therapeutic potential as a treatment for stroke-induced animals
Luis Pedro Bernardi
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
15:15 – 15:40
Mammalian tree of life as an essential tool for comparative biology
Nathan Upham
Yale University, USA
15:40 – 16:25
Coffee break
16:25 – 17:00
Beyond neuronal circuits: the emerging field of astrocytes in the control of metabolism
Cristina Cáceres
Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Germany
17:00 – 17:25
Sympathy for the microbes
Paul Muller
Rockefeller University, USA
17:25 – 18:00
From the gut comes the strut: And when neuropods abstain, indecision reigns
Diego Bohorquez
Duke University, USA