Our 2023 (MC4+mini scientific congress) face-to-face meeting will be kindly hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, on May 2-4 2023.
The scope of this meeting is to present the scientific activities of the Action produced up to now, to discuss the current efforts and plan the future scientific and capacity-building activities.
In addition, the Flagship Project on Artificial Intelligence workshop will take place on the 4th to discuss further developments and next steps. Members interested in joining the AI flagship may be in contact with Maria Ikonomopulou for further information on this.
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Tuesday May 2nd 2023
Scientific symposium (Scientific Committee: Gregor Anderluh, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Yiannis Sarigiannis, Blerina Vrenozi)
11.00 – 13.30 Registration
Chairs: Yiannis Sarigiannis, Blerina Vrenozi
13.30 – 13.45 Welcome Speeches (Dean of School of Life and Health Sciences of the University of Nicosia)
13.45 – 14.25 Michel Dugon, (University of Galway, Ireland): Time to speak about scorpionism, a “forgotten” tropical disease
14.25 – 15.05 Aida Verdes (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain): Spatial Venomics: On-tissue imaging of toxin genes and peptides in venomous marine invertebrates
15.05 – 15.45 Andreas Sergides (Biogena – API, Cyprus): From Venoms to Drugs
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee Break
Chairs: Gregor Anderluh, Maria Ikonomopoulou
Flagship projects
16.00 – 16.20 Gonzalo Colmenarejo (IMDEA Food Institute, Spain): Application of AI methods to elucidate toxins activity
16.20-16.40 Ayse Nalbantsoy (Ege University, Turkey): Anticancer activity of venom toxins
16.20 – 16.40 Ivan Koludarov (Technical University of Munich): Novel computational tools to study gene evolution and evolution of function
STSM session
17.00 – 17.08 Konrad Hus (Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland): Enhancing Venom Research Experience at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
17.08 – 17.16 Eleonora Maria Pieroni (Association for Cephalopod Research “CephRes” Napoli, Italy): Testing physiological and behavioural responses of mollusc venoms in the invertebrate model Caenorhabditis elegans
17.00 – 17.50 Ayse Nalbantsoy (Ege University, Turkey): Determination of the chemical content of Anatolian Bee venom samples collected from different geographical regions in Turkey
17.00 – 17.50 Manuel Tenorio (Universidad de Cádiz-INBIO, Spain): Venomic studies on cone snail and spiders – from venom extraction to peptide synthesis
17.00 – 17.50 Shirin Ahmadi (Technical University of Denmark): Proteomics and histological assessment of an organotypic model of human skin following exposure to Naja nigricollis venom
17.00 – 17.50 Stylianna Mirallai (University of Nicosia): Identification of fluorescent compounds in the shed exoskeleton of Mesobuthus cyprius
17.50 – 19.30 Welcome Cocktail (Traditional Local Finger Food)
Wednesday May 3rd 2023
Morning Session Management Committee Meeting
9.00 – 9.30 General overview of the EUVEN action and activities– Gregor Anderluh
9.30 – 9.45 Report on the performance of EUVEN – Andrea Tarallo
9.45 – 10.30 Budget, Future activities- voting – Gregor Anderluh
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00 Report on the activities of different Working Groups, Communication, STSM, ITC– WG leaders or co-leaders
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Flagship projects
14.30 – 15.00 Report on Flagship projects– Maria Ikonomopoulu, Ayse Nalbantsoy
15.00 – 16.00 Work on the Flagship projects (in parallel); work in working groups (in parallel)
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.30 Work on the Flagship projects (in parallel); work in working groups (in parallel)
Official Dinner
Thursday May 4th 2023
Morning Session Flagship projects and the future planning
9.00 – 9.30 Report on the activities of Flagship projects– Maria Ikonomopoulu, Ayse Nalbantsoy
9.30 – 10.00 Planning for the future: Potentials for joint application under Horizon Europe- Ivica Ilić (head of the Project Office, National Institute of Chemistry)
10.00 – 10.15 Planning for the future: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral programs and Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters – Juan Carlos G. Galindo
10.15 – 10.30 Planning for the future: MSCA Doctoral Networks– Gregor Anderluh
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Plans for the future: GP3 and beyond– Gregor Anderluh
11.15 – 12.00 Closing Remarks
12.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Flagship project: Application of artificial intelligence methods to elucidate toxins activity
14.30 – 17.30 Work on the Flagship project– Maria Ikonomopoulu