
19th and 20th of May 2022
Registration (In-Person and Online)
Until May 10 of 2022
Abstract Submission
Until April 25 May 1 of 2022
WELCOME
The Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), and Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB) and Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (INIAV) are very pleased to invite you to the 10th Iberian Congress on Prions, to be held in UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal, on the 19th and 20th of May 2022. The congress is part of the research project Chronic wasting disease Risk assessment in Portugal n. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029947 (02/SAICT/2017).
The invited speakers are renowned researchers in the areas of Prion Structure and Biology, Prion Diseases in animals and Prion-like diseases in Humans which are the main subjects of discussion of the congress.
INVITED SPEAKERS
PRION DISEASES IN ANIMALS

Debbie McKenzie
PhD. Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences & Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
PRION DISEASES AND PRION-LIKE DISEASES IN HUMANS

Roberto Chiesa
Head of Laboratory of Prion Neurobiology at the Neuroscience Department at the Mario Negri Institute.
PRION DISEASES IN ANIMALS

Romolo Nonno
Head of the Italian Reference Laboratory for genetics and strain typing of animal TSEs ; Responsible for strain typing activities within the European Reference Laboratory for TSEs.
PRION DISEASES AND PRION-LIKE DISEASES IN HUMANS

Ana Cristina Rego
Associate Professor with Aggregation and CNC/CIBB Group Leader at University of Coimbra
PRION STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGY

Szymon W. Manka
Head of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) laboratory at the UCL Institute of Prion Diseases (MRC Prion Unit)