2019 Presentations, Courses & Video

Ask the Master

Maria de Sousa, Professor Emeritus of University of Porto
Interviewed by Ioav Cabantchik
Lisbon, June 15, 2018 for broadcast at the 2019 EMBL Conference

Educational Day Talks

Sunday, May 5, 2019

• 09:00 - 18:00
• Introductory Course: Iron Essentials for Clinicians and Scientists
  Coordinated by Jodie Babitt, Ioav Cabantchik and Hal Drakesmith
• 09:00 - 09:05
• Introductory Remarks
  Ioav Cabantchik, President IBIS
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 09:05 - 12:30
• Session 1: Basic Properties and Methodologies
  Chairs: Greg Anderson and Robert Fleming
• 09:05 - 09:45
• BioIron: Origin, chemical properties and evolution
  Kostas Pantopoulos
  McGill University, Canada
• 09:45 - 10:30
• Iron transport proteins: Gateways of cellular and systemic iron homeostasis
  Mitchell Knutson
  University of Florida, United States of America
• 11:00 - 11:45
• Mechanisms controlling cellular iron homeostasis in mammals
  Rick Eisenstein
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America
• 11:45 - 12:30
• Systemic iron homeostasis
  Jodie Babitt
  Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, United States of America
• 13:30 - 15:30
• Session 2: Genetic and Acquired Iron Disorders
  Chairs: Clara Camaschella and Günter Weiss
• 13:30 - 14:00
• Genetic diseases causing iron deficiency and iron overload: Two faces of the same coin
  Laura Silvestri
  San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
• 14:00 - 14:30
• Erythropoiesis and iron metabolism: Crosstalk, implications, and therapeutic options in iron loading anemias
  Yelena Ginzburg
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States of America
• 14:30 - 15:30
• Iron in cancer, infection, kidney and liver diseases: Innocent bystander or therapeutic target?
  Igor Theurl and Heinz Zoller
  Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
• 16:00 - 17:30
• Session 3: Global Issues
  Chairs: Domenico Girelli and Dorine Swinkels
• 16:00 - 16:45
• The pathophysiology and diagnosis of iron deficiency and anaemia in populations and patients
  Sant-Rayn Pasricha
  Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
• 16:45 - 17:30
• Nutritional (dietary) and "functional" deficiencies in the first and third world
  Michael Zimmermann
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 17:30 - 18:00
• Session 4: The Future of BioIron
  Chair: Hal Drakesmith
• 17:30 - 18:00
• Open questions in basic and clinical iron research "It is hard to make predictions, especially about the future."--Yogi Berra
  Tomas Ganz and Elizabeta Nemeth
  University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
• 18:30 - 19:30
• Keynote Lecture: Analyzing microbiomes in us and on our planet
  Peer Bork
  EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

EMBL COURSE Techniques for Studying Iron in Health and Disease

• EMBL Course — Introduction to Practicals and Experimental Protocols
• EMBL Course — Introduction to Practicals — Class Presentations
• EMBL Course — Techniques for Studying Iron in Health and Disease — Introductory lectures
• References for the Theoretical and Practical Parts of the Course