Mayka Sanchez of the Iron and Cancer group at the IMPPC was at the Haemochromatosis Association's stand at the TV3 Marathon this year.
On Friday 11 December the IMPPC held a Symposium with international speakers at the Hotel Colon, Barcelona.A paper published by Marcus Buschbeck in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology reveals how epigenetic changes can regulate key developmental genes.
Buschbeck et al. The histone variant macroH2A is an epigenetic regulator of key developmental genes. Nat Struct Mol Biol (2009) pp. 1-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1665
The official Opening of the IMPPC took place on 25 June 2009
Dr Mullis gave the talk entitled «Chemically Programmable Immunity»
A workshop on Cancer Genomics took place at the IMPPC on 29 April. The director of the IMPPC, Manuel Perucho chaired the meeting which included the speakers Jun Yokota and Hiromi Sakamoto from Japan; Rafael Rosell from Spain and Juergen Reichardt from Australia. The speakers discussed different aspects of predictive and personalized medicine of cancer.