1st Advanced Summer School

We would like to invite you to participate in the 1st Advanced Summer School of the series Interrogations at the Biointerface, which will be held in Porto from the 20th to the 24th of June 2011, to debate aspects that may be shared by cancer and regeneration.

These Schools are a joint initiative of:

INEB/IPATIMUP/IBEC

This  will be the first School where the Cancer/Regeneration Interface will be debated at length.

The School will focus on the role played by stem cells and the surround microenvironment in regeneration as well as the role of cancer-initiating cells.

We invite you to bring questions that may contribute to the advancement of knowledge and build up an area of integrative science.

Participants  are  encouraged  to  prepare  a poster with their most recent data,  to  be  presented  at  the  course  poster session. The deadline for Abstract Submission is 4th May 2011.

In  hands-on Laboratory Sessions selected participants will have the chance of learning  techniques  on  cancer  cell  invasion  and  stem  cell-based
regeneration.

The School is credited according to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). 

The Organization will fund 5 Travel Awards on a competitive basis to assist students to present posters relevant to their research programmes. Candidates should send an application to apfilipe@ineb.up.pt until May 1^st. The travel award will consist of a free registration and a contribution of 150? towards accommodation expenses.  Applicants should send a motivation letter and the abstract of the poster they intend to present, together with a letter of support from their supervisors.     

Further information can be found at 
» http://www.summerschool2011.ineb.up.pt/index.php 

The Organizing Committee 
Angel Raya (IBEC, UPC), Josep Planell (IBEC, UPC), Mário A. Barbosa (INEB, UP) and Raquel Seruca (IPATIMUP)