Monday morning
LECTURE HALL - A -
LECTURE HALL - B -
LECTURE HALL - C -
LECTURE HALL - D Osmoregulation
Monday afternoon
International GPCR Symposium
Tuesday morning
Molecular Evolution, Structures and
Functions of GPCRs -1
Signalling pathways in Immunity
Hormones in Development and
Reproduction
Hormones in Development and
Reproduction
Endocrine Disruption
Novel Hormones and Receptors in the
Animal Kingdom
Omics and Physiology of Insect
Neuropeptides
Functions of Steroids, their Receptors and
Binding Proteins
Model Organisms in Comparative
Endocrinology and Neurobiology
Wednesday
afternoon
Thursday morning
Comparative Genomics and Evolution
Omics and Physiology of Insect
Neuropeptides
Regulation of Thyroid Hormone Action at
Multiple Levels
Endocrinology and Chronobiology
Molecular Evolution, Structures and
Functions of GPCRs -2
Stress and Adaptation
Thursday afternoon
Leopoldina Symposium on Seasonal
Rhythms
Recent Advances in Comparative
Endocrinology & Neurobiology:
Young Investigator Symposium
Recent Advances in Comparative
Endocrinology & Neurobiology:
Young Investigator Symposium
Tuesday afternoon
Wednesday morning
International GPCR Symposium
Neurobiology and Behaviour
Feeding and Metabolism
Scientific Programme of the Symposia at CECE2016:
Monday, August 22:
International GPCR Symposium: “G protein-coupled receptors: Structure,
Evolution and Function” (morning + afternoon sessions)
Organizers: Marc Parmentier (Brussels, Belgium), Paul Proost (Leuven, Belgium), Silvano
Sozzani (Brescia, Italy), Jan Steyaert (Brussels, Belgium), Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium),
Jozef Vanden Broeck (Leuven, Belgium)
9.15: Chris Tate (Cambridge, UK) - “Structure of the human adenosine A2A receptor bound to
an engineered G protein”
9.45: Torsten Schöneberg (Leipzig, Germany) - “What are they waiting for? - Tethered
agonism in GPCRs”
10.15-10.30: Morning Break
10.30: Céline Gales (Toulouse, France) - “Biased agonism at 7TM”
11.00: Jean-Yves Springael (Brussels, Belgium) - “Coexpression of CCR7 and CXCR4 during B
cell development controls CXCR4 responsiveness and bone marrow homing”
11.30: Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium) - “Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate couples glycolytic flux
to activation of Ras downstream in the GPCR-controlled glucose sensing network of yeast”
12.00: Young-Joon Kim (Gwanju, South Korea) - “Two for one, one for two: Myoinhibitory
peptide and sex peptide receptor”
12.30: Heleen Verlinden (Leuven, Belgium) - “The pleiotropic allatoregulatory neuropeptides
and their receptors”
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break (+ Posters)
14.00: Henrik Dohlman (Chapel Hill, NC-USA) - “Protons as second messenger regulators of
GPCR signaling”
14.30: Francisco Ciruela (Barcelona, Spain) - “Unraveling the function of GPR37 in the brain:
more than a Parkinson’s disease-associated receptor”
15.00: Mauro Teixeira (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) - “Developing anti-inflammatory drugs for
infectious diseases”
15.30: Rik Janssens (Leuven, Belgium) - “Natural nitration of CXCL12 reduces its signaling
capacity and chemotactic activity in vitro and abrogates intra-articular lymphocyte
recruitment”
16.00-16.15: Afternoon Break
16.15: Mette Rosenkilde (Copenhagen, Denmark) - “Chemokine receptor activation progress towards novel therapeutic principles”
16.45: Martine J. Smit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - “ABSTRACT TO BE RECEIVED”
17.15: Marc Parmentier (Brussels, Belgium) - “Chemerin and its receptors in leukocyte
trafficking, inflammatory diseases, metabolism and cancer”
17.45: Poster session (GPCRs)
This international symposium is jointly organized in the frame of the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction
Poles programme (BELSPO - IAP P7/40) “G protein-coupled receptors: from structures to functionally
validated targets” coordinated by Marc Parmentier.
Hormones in Development and Reproduction (morning + afternoon sessions)
Organizers: Charlotte Cornil (Liège, Belgium), Carlo Di Cristo (Benevento, Italy), Angela Lange
(Mississauga/Toronto, Canada), Rüdiger Schulz (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
SOTA lectures:
You Lee Son (Tokyo, Japan) - “The effect of GnIH on the signaling pathways leading to the
activation of GnRH neurons triggered by kisspeptin and VIP”
Juli Wade (East Lansing, Michigan - USA) - “The Roles of Estradiol and Specific Z-Chromosome
Genes in Masculinization of the Zebra Finch Song System”
Maurice Elphick (London, UK) - “Neuropeptide signalling in echinoderm reproduction and
development”
Mark R. Brown (Athens, Georgia - USA) - “Different neuropeptides convergently activate egg
maturation in mosquitoes”
ORAL presentations:
Joris M. Koene (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - “The neuroendocrine consequences of being
male and female at the same time”
Almas Juma (Melbourne, Australia) - “Effect of Plag1 deficiency on gene expression in the
hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis in male mice”
Vincent Hellier (Liège, Belgium) - “Sexual motivation is driven through kisspeptin neuron
activity”
Anne Houbrechts (Leuven, Belgium) - “Permanent deiodinase type 2 deficiency alters local
thyroid hormone levels, disturbs development and strongly reduces fertility”
Xianyu Lin (Gent, Belgium) - “FoxO directs the timing of larval-pupal metamorphosis through
ecdysteroid signaling in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum”
Cynthia Lenaerts (Leuven, Belgium) - “Functional and pharmacological characterization of the
ecdysis triggering hormone receptor in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria”
Katleen Crabbé (Leuven, Belgium) - “The role of SGPP-5 in the reproductive cycle of the
desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria”
Masatoshi Mita (Tokyo, Japan) - “Species specificity of relaxin-like gonad-stimulating
peptides in starfish”
Scott Cummins (Sippy Downs, Australia) - “Neurohormones that regulate molluscan and
echinoderm reproduction”
Carlo Di Cristo (Benevento, Italy) - “Nervous control of reproduction in Octopus in the time of
Genomics”
Osmoregulation (morning session)
Organizers: Ian Orchard (Mississauga/Toronto, Canada), Patrick Prunet (Rennes, France)
SOTA lectures:
Shireen Davies (Glasgow, UK) - “Osmoregulation and stress tolerance in Drosophila
melanogaster”
Pung-Pung Hwang (Taipei, Taiwan) - “Molecular physiology of hormonal actions on body fluid
ionic and acid-base homeostasis in zebrafish”
ORAL presentations:
Tom Ole Nilsen (Bergen, Norway) - “Effects of androgens on osmoregulatory mechanisms in
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)”
Yung-Che Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) - “Convergent signaling of neurohypophysial hormones on
epithelial ion regulation in cephalopods”
Anthony Dornan (Glasgow, UK) - “Mapping water transport in insect renal systems”
Meet Zandalawa (Stockholm, Sweden) - “Unraveling of the corazonin circuit identifies novel
roles for this signaling system in Drosophila”
Ian Orchard (Mississauga/Toronto, Canada) - “Neurohormonal control of diuresis: discoveries
from the blood-gorging bug, Rhodnius prolixus”
Neurobiology and Behaviour (afternoon session)
Organizers: Lut Arckens (Leuven, Belgium), Darron Cullen (Leuven, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Antón Barreiro-Iglesias (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) - “Serotonin promotes the
development and regeneration of spinal cord motor neurons in zebrafish”
Stephen M. Rogers (Tempe, Arizona, USA) - “Mechanisms of locust phase change: parallels
and differences across several different lineages”
ORAL presentations:
Dušan Žitnan (Bratislava, Slovakia) - “Expression and functional analysis of neuropeptides in
ticks”
Shobha Bhargava (Pune, India) - “Orexigenic response of Neuropeptide Y to varying
nutritional status in the tadpole brain of frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis”
Jan Watteyne (Leuven, Belgium) - “Behavioral phenotyping of neuropeptidergic mutants in C.
elegans experience-dependent salt chemotaxis”
Emiel Geeraerts (Leuven, Belgium) - “Unravelling mouse behaviour upon optogenetic
activation of the superior colliculus”
Carlos Aramburo (Queretaro, Mexico) - “Neuroprotective effects of growth hormone in the
green iguana neuroretina”
Jean-François Picimbon (Jinan, China) - “RNA trafficking in moth pheromone gland cells”
Tuesday, August 23: (morning sessions)
Molecular Evolution, Structures and Functions of GPCRs - 1
Organizers: Heleen Verlinden (Leuven, Belgium), Christian Gruber (Vienna, Austria)
SOTA lectures:
David Gloriam (Copenhagen, Denmark) - “Comparative GPCR structure and sequence
analyses in GPCRdb and in ligand design”
Christian Gruber (Vienna, Austria) - “Pharmacology of nature-derived neuropeptide ligands”
ORAL presentations:
Daiane Boff (Leuven, Belgium) - “Role of receptor CXCR2 in the pathogenesis of experimental
septic arthritis”
Anne Lemaire (Brussels, Belgium) - “Mouse P2Y4 nucleotide receptor is a negative regulator
of cardiac adipose-derived stem cell differentiation and cardiac fat formation”
Julien Hanson (Liège, Belgium) - “Molecular determinants for constitutive activity of GPR101,
an orphan GPCR associated to X-linked acrogigantism syndrome (X-LAG)”
Gunnar Kleinau (Berlin, Germany) - “Regulatory mechanisms and signaling of G-protein
coupled receptor 83”
Els Lismont (Leuven, Belgium) - “Using BRET biosensors to detect direct G protein activation”
Signalling pathways in immunity
Organizers: Paul Proost (Leuven, Belgium); Elisabeth Eppler (Basel, Switserland)
SOTA lectures:
Mieke Gouwy (Leuven, Belgium - “The cytokine-serum amyloid A-chemokine network”
Niels Wynant (Leuven, Belgium) – “RNA interference based antiviral immunity in insects”
ORAL presentations:
Roger Huybrechts (Leuven, Belgium) - “In Locusta migratoria, bacterial PAMPs make GBP
activating the hemocytes whereas angiotensin converting enzyme regulates proinflammatory peptides”
Fariba Poosti (Leuven, Belgium) - “Interferon gamma peptidomimetic targeted to interstitial
myofibroblasts attenuates renal fibrosis after unilateral ureteral obstruction in mice”
Pieter Ruytinx (Leuven, Belgium) - “The role of the CXC chemokine CXCL4 and its variant
CXCL4L1 in monocyte differentiation”
Elisabeth Eppler (Basel, Switzerland) - “CD40 mediated hepatitis in TNF-receptor 1 gene
knockout mice”
Vincent Vanheule (Leuven, Belgium) - “The COOH-terminal GAG binding CXCL9(74-103)
peptide inhibits CXCL8-induced neutrophil extravasation and monosodium urate crystalinduced gout in mice”
Endocrine Disruption
Organizers: Barbara Demeneix (Paris, France), Jean-Baptiste Fini (Paris, France), Dries Knapen
(Antwerp, Belgium), Lucia Vergauwen (Antwerp, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Helmut Segner (Bern, Switzerland) - “The vertebrate immune system as a target of endocrine
disrupting compounds”
Jean-Baptiste Fini (Paris, France) - “Mixtures of environmental xenobiotics affect endocrine
signalling and brain development”
ORAL presentations:
David Du Pasquier (Evry, France) - “Inter-laboratory OECD validation of the Xenopus
Embryonic Thyroid Signalling Assay”
Salima Aroua (Le Havre, France) - “Long term dietary exposure of adult common sole (Solea
solea) to the flame retardants PBDEs – impact on thyroid and reproductive status”
Ellen Michiels (Antwerp, Belgium) - “Development of a zebrafish embryo test for
environmental risk assessment of endocrine disrupting pharmaceuticals using nanoinjection”
Frederike Gröner (Berlin, Germany) - “Boon and bane – do painkiller residues act as
estrogenic endocrine disrupting compounds in fish?”
Hamid Habibi (Calgary, Canada) - “Reproductive and developmental impairment by low
concentrations of environmental contaminants with hormone-like activity in fish using Omics
approach”
Feeding and Metabolism
Organizers: Encarnación Capilla (Barcelona, Spain), Dick Nässel (Stockholm, Sweden)
SOTA lectures:
Mark Sheridan (Lubbock, Texas - USA)- “Mechanisms that underlie nutrition-associated
‘metabolic shifting’ of growth hormone”
Angela Lange (Mississauga/Toronto, Canada) - “Insulin-like peptides in Rhodnius prolixus: the
vector of Chagas disease”
ORAL presentations:
Ayelén M. Blanco (Madrid, Spain) - “Ghrelin Modulates Digestive Enzymes and Glucose
Transporters in Goldfish Gut and Hepatopancreas in vitro via the GHS-R1a Receptor, and PLCPKC and AC-PKA Signaling Pathways”
Mark R. Brown (Athens, Georgia - USA) - “Endocrines and microbes get mosquitoes through
feast and fast”
Encarnación Capilla (Barcelona, Spain) - “Use of primary cultured adipocytes to better
understand adipogenesis, lipid metabolism and fat accumulation in fish”
Martina Gáliková (Göttingen, Germany) - “Drosophila melanogaster Adipokinetic hormone
regulates food intake and expression of other neuropeptide regulators of fly metabolism”
Dick Nässel (Stockholm, Sweden) - “Effects of reproductive dormancy on metabolism and
genome-wide transcriptome in Drosophila melanogaster”
Wednesday, August 24:
Novel hormones and receptors in the Animal Kingdom (morning session)
Organizers: Joao Cardoso (Faro, Portugal), Deborah Power (Faro, Portugal)
SOTA lectures:
Gáspár Jékely (Tübingen, Germany) - “Large-scale combinatorial deorphanization of GPCRs in
the annelid Platynereis”
Maria-Dolors Piulachs (Barcelona, Spain) - “Regulation of insect oogenesis. More than an
endocrine interplay.”
ORAL presentations:
Jerome Delroisse (Mons, Belgium) - “The anatomy of neuropeptide gene expression in a
pentaradial bilaterian – the starfish Asterias rubens (Phylum Echinodermata)”
Esther Odekunle (London, UK) - “Molecular and neuroanatomical characterization of
vasopressin/oxytocin-type signalling in an echinoderm”
Isabel Beets (Leuven, Belgium) - “An evolutionary conserved neuropeptidergic network
underlying C. elegans behavioral plasticity”
Kristien Van Camp (Antwerp, Belgium) - “In search for neuropeptides in the zebrafish brain
by LC-MS”
Heather Marco (Rondebosch, South Africa) - “The first characterisation of a crustacean
neuropeptide receptor: the putative GPCR for red pigment-concentrating hormone of
Daphnia pulex”
Comparative Genomics and Evolution (afternoon session)
Organizers: Dan Larhammar (Uppsala, Sweden), Frans Schuit (Leuven, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Nils Wierup (Malmö, Sweden) – “ABSTRACT TO BE RECEIVED”
Dean Semmens (London, UK) - “Genomic/transcriptomic identification of neuropeptides in
echinoderms yields new insights into neuropeptide evolution”
ORAL presentations:
Bernard Peers (Liège, Belgium) - “Transcriptional landscape of the major pancreatic cells
reveals conserved expression patterns amongst distant vertebrate species”
Harshavardhan Budamgunta (Antwerp, Belgium) - “Micro peptides as a new class of bioactive peptides in higher eukaryotes”
Amir Fallahshahroudi (Linköping, Sweden) - “QTL mapping for traits associated with stress
neuroendocrine reactivity in chicken”
Aniruddha Pandit (Glasgow, UK) - “DINeR- A Database for Insect Neuropeptide Research”
Dan Larhammar (Uppsala, Sweden) - “Efforts to identify gnathostome-cyclostome orthologs
by conserved synteny”
Omics and Physiology of Insect Neuropeptides (morning + afternoon
sessions)
Organizers: Shireen Davies (Glasgow, UK), Julian Dow (Glasgow, UK), Miriam (Vinnie) Altstein
(Bet Dagan, Israel), Jozef Vanden Broeck (Leuven, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Ronald J. Nachman (College Station, Texas - USA) – “Mimetic analogs of neuropeptides as
rational tools in the development of novel pest arthropod management strategies”
Reinhard Predel (Köln, Germany) - “What can we expect from insect neuropeptidomics? An
update”
Angela Lange (Mississauga/Toronto, Canada) - “The involvement of Rhopr-CRF/DH in feeding
and reproduction in Rhodnius prolixus”
Neil Audsley (Sand Hutton, UK) – “G-protein coupled receptors as targets for next generation
pesticides”
ORAL presentations:
Miriam Altstein (Bet Dagan, Israel) - “Insect Neuropeptides: A Basis for the Design of a Novel
Group of Insect Control Agents: The PK/PBAN Family as a Case Study”
Yoshiaki Tanaka (Tsukuba, Japan) - “A molluscan neuropeptide elevenin regulates the body
color via a G protein-coupled receptor Nl-A42 in the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens”
Sven Zels (Leuven, Belgium) - “The sulfakinin signalling system regulates feeding and
digestive processes in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria”
Gerd Gäde (Rondebosch/Cape Town, South Africa) - “Beetles of the superfamily
Scarabaeoidea are a rich source for novel peptides of the adipokinetic hormone family”
Heleen Verlinden (Leuven, Belgium) - “Adipokinetic hormone and its receptor in the desert
locust, Schistocerca gregaria”
Zita Liutkeviciute (Vienna, Austria) - “Oxytocin-like signalling in ants”
Heinrich Dircksen (Stockholm, Sweden) - “Cell-specific distribution of three ion-transportpeptide splice forms in the central and peripheral nervous system of larval and adult
Drosophila”
Elwyn Isaac (Leeds, UK) - “Neuropeptide control of crop function of the dipteran pests, Delia
radicum and Drosophila suzukii”
Na Yu (Gent, Belgium) - “Potential interactive amino acids in the Tribolium castaneum
sulfakinin receptors for ligand binding”
Jean-Paul Paluzzi (Toronto, Canada) - “CAPA neuropeptides in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti:
anti-diuretic actions and cellular distribution”
Julian Dow (Glasgow, UK) - “Signals for cells: signalling and transport in the insect Malpighian
tubule”
Functions of steroids, their receptors and binding proteins (morning
session)
Organizer: Frank Claessens (Leuven, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Marcel Schaaf (Leiden, The Netherlands) - “Molecular mechanisms of Glucocorticoid
Receptor action in zebrafish”
Vanessa Dubois (Lille, France) - “Anabolic effects of androgens on skeletal muscle in mice and
men”
ORAL presentations:
Matthew Fuxjager (Winston-Salem, North Carolina -USA) - “Androgens, muscle, and
athleticism: uncovering mechanisms of physically elaborate reproductive behavior”
Ferran Jardi (Leuven, Belgium) - “Testosterone Regulation of Physical Activity Behavior:
Mechanisms of Action”
Yamina Zatra (Algiers, Algeria) - “Testosterone modulation of adrenocortical activity and
adrenal immunolocalisation of the androgen receptors in the Saharan gerbil Gerbillus
tarabuli”
Ewa Szwejser (Cracow, Poland) - “The role of estrogen receptors and aromatase in carp
leukocyte activation”
Michaël Laurent (Leuven, Belgium) - “Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) regulation of
androgen and estrogen bioactivity: of mice and men”
Regulation of Thyroid Hormone action at multiple levels (afternoon session)
Organizers: Veerle Darras (Leuven, Belgium), Samantha Richardson (Bundoora, Australia)
SOTA lectures:
Deborah Power (Faro, Portugal) - “Insights into the role of the thyroid receptors in skin
maturation during flatfish metamorphosis”
Samantha Richardson (Bundoora, Australia) - “Evolution of transthyretin from uricase to T3
distributor to T4 distributor”
ORAL presentations:
Michelle Leemans (Paris, France) - “Mixtures suspected to impede neurodevelopment and
metabolism affect thyroid hormone signaling in Xenopus laevis”
Yugo Watanabe (Melbourne, Australia) - “Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the
thyroidal activity in avian life stage transitions”
Nele Bourgeois (Leuven, Belgium) - “Intracellular thyroid hormone availability in the chicken
embryo: an in situ localization study of transporters and deiodinases”
Sander Raymaekers (Leuven, Belgium) - “Type 2 deiodinase in the developing song system of
the zebra finch: a path to neuroplasticity?”
Pieter Vancamp (Leuven, Belgium) - “The developing cerebellum in need of thyroid
hormones: a crucial role for monocarboxylate transporter 8”
Model organisms in Comparative Endocrinology and Neurobiology
(morning session)
Organizers: Bart Braeckman (Ghent, Belgium), Lieve Moons (Leuven, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Alessandro Cellerino (Jena, Germany) - “From the bush to the bench: the annual fish Nothobranchius
furzeri as a model organism for neurobiology of aging”
Florian Raible (Vienna, Austria) - “Biochemical identification of the annelid brain hormone reveals an
ancient role of sesquiterpenoids in regulating animal reproduction”
ORAL presentations:
Pedro Palma (Faro, Portugal) - “Unveiling STC and PTHrP actions on metabolism: a metabolomics
approach using 1H-NMR”
Elisabeth Eppler (Basel, Switserland) - “Model systems in diabetes mellitus research: what can we
learn from different species and methodological approaches?”
Matthias Van Hiel (Leuven, Belgium) - “Towards dIfferential neuropeptide expression upon
trypanosome infection in tsetse flies”
Luca Fancsalszky (Leuven, Belgium) - “C. elegans as a model to unravel neuropeptidergic control of
learning and memory”
Patrick Laurent (Brussels, Belgium) - “Systematic genetic analysis of dense core vesicle biology in C.
elegans”
Thursday, August 25: (morning sessions)
Endocrinology and Chronobiology
Organizers: Florian Raible (Vienna, Austria), Horst-Werner Korf (Frankfurt, Germany)
SOTA lectures:
Davide Dulcis (La Jolla, California - USA) - “Photoperiod-dependent neurotransmitter
switching in the adult brain affecting stress response”
Martina Pfeffer (Frankfurt, Germany) - “Melatonin and its role in the circadian system”
ORAL presentations:
Michaela Fredrich (Frankfurt, Germany) - “Melatonin-dependent rhythmicity in cell
proliferation and apoptosis in the hippocampus of adult mice”
Moran Homola (Frankfurt, Germany) - “Impact of melatonin receptor deficiency on ecto-5’nucleotidase mRNA levels in the mouse prosencephalon”
Mamta Tripathy (Delhi, India) - “GDF9 in ovary of Hemidactylus flaviviridis: molecular
characterization, phylogenetic analysis, stage specific expression and gonadotropic
regulation”
Martin Zurl (Vienna, Austria) - “Elucidating the function of the melatonin biosynthesis pathway in the
marine bristleworm Platynereis”
Shona Wood (Manchester, UK) - “ABSTRACT TO BE RECEIVED”
Molecular Evolution, Structures and Functions of GPCRs - 2
Organizers: Heleen Verlinden (Leuven, Belgium), Christian Gruber (Vienna, Austria)
SOTA lectures:
Kathleen Van Craenenbroeck (Gent, Belgium) - “Interaction between dopamine D2-like
receptors and µ opioid receptor”
Patricia Pietrantonio (College Station, Texas - USA) - “Are GPCRs back to insect taste
perception? A kinin mimetic elicits aversive behavior in mosquito Aedes aegypti and inhibits
the sugar taste neuron”
ORAL presentations:
Joao Cardoso (Faro, Portugal) - “Expansion of the Secretin-GPCR members in the molluscs”
Shi Tian (London, UK) - “Urbilaterian origin of paralogous GnRH and corazonin neuropeptide
signalling pathways”
József Fodor (Budapest, Hungary) - “Identification and functional characterization of the
pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide receptor isoforms from Mamestra
brassicae”
Jorge Ronderos (La Plata, Argentina) - “The GPCR allatotropin/orexin family: an ancestral
conserved mechanism of signals, as a probable alternative system of phylogenetic molecular
markers”
Elisabeth Marchal (Leuven, Belgium) - “Ligand specificity of insect neuropeptide G-protein
coupled receptors”
Stress and Adaptation
Organizers: Gudrun De Boeck (Antwerp, Belgium), Patrick Kestemont (Namur, Belgium)
SOTA lectures:
Patrick Prunet (Rennes, France) - “Plasticity of the corticotrope axis reactivity in rainbow
trout exposed to stressors.”
James Carr (Lubbock, Texas - USA) - “Glutamate receptor regulation of tectal CRF release”
ORAL presentations:
Maithé Corbani (Montpellier, France) - “V1B and CRF1 receptors involved in stress associate
as heterodimers in the living pituitary to form assemblies with functional synergism”
Benoît Bernard (Namur, Belgium) - “Temperature shift impairs osmoregulatory capacities
during the smoltification phase of two Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) strains”
Sebastien Baekelandt (Namur, Belgium) - “Neurophysiological stress response of pikeperch
Sander lucioperca juveniles to intensive culture conditions”
Nadezhda Goncharova (Sochi, Russian Federation) - “Individual and age-related differences
in stress responsiveness of HPA are associated with features of vasopressinergic and
melatoninergic regulation”
Nataly Gruntenko (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) - “Stress response in Drosophila
melanogaster: biogenic amines, juvenile hormone, 20-hydroxyecdysone and insulin signalling
are involved”
Young Investigator Symposium (Wednesday afternoon + Thursday morning
sessions)
Organizers: Bert De Groef (Bundoora, Australia), Elisabeth Marchal (Leuven, Belgium)
ORAL presentations:
Weigang Cai (London, UK) - “Localisation of the expression of a calcitonin-type neuropeptide
in echinoderm”
Luis Alfonso Yanez Guerra (London, UK) - “Functional characterization of a tachykinin-like
neuropeptide signaling system in an echinoderm”
Rik Verdonck (Leuven, Belgium) - “A look into the brain transcriptome of Schistocerca
gregaria during early behavioural gregarisation”
Additional speakers will be selected from the ‘poster abstracts’.
Poster sessions (Monday and Wednesday)
The posters will be displayed during the entire period of the conference (Monday morning Thursday morning).
Presenters will be requested to be at their poster during one of the four following sessions:
Monday, August 22, 13.30-14.30; Monday, August 22, 17.30-18.30; Monday, August 22,
18.30-19.30; Wednesday, August 24, 13.30-14.30
Some ‘poster abstracts’ will be selected for an extra oral presentation in the ‘Young
Investigator Symposium’.