Programme
Thursday, 26 May
| 14.00-14.30 | Welcome |
| Session I |
Stem cell, reprogramming and regeneration Chair: Mauro Giacca (Trieste) |
| 14.30-15.10 |
ABCD Lecture: Michele de Luca (Modena) Human epithelial stem cells and regenerative medicine |
| 15.10-15.35 |
EMBO YIP Lecture: Davide Corona (Palermo) Chromatin Binding, Nucleosome Spacing and ncRNA-mediated Regulation of the Remodeling ATPase ISWI |
| 15.35-16.00 |
Serena Zacchigna (Trieste) Novel therapies for old hearts |
| 16.00-16.15 |
Silvia Parisi (Naples) Dies1: a new regulator of ESC pluripotency |
| 16.15-16.30 |
Marcello Tortorici (Pavia) Catalysis and combinatorial assembly of histone demethylase LSD1 complexes |
| 16.30-18.00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session I |
| 18.00-18.25 |
Pier Lorenzo Puri (Rome & La Jolla, CA, USA) Epigenetic control of gene expression during muscle regeneration |
| 18.25-18.40 |
Livia Modica (Milan) The role of Prep1 in regulating hematopoietic stem cell maintenance |
| 18.40-18.55 |
Roberta Benetti (Trieste) b1 at the interface of cancer and stem cell function: miR-335 as a bridge |
| 19.00 | Cocktail |
Friday, 27 May
| Session II |
Signalling pathways: how to govern differentiation proliferation and metabolism Chair: Valerio Orlando (Rome) |
| 9.00-9.40 |
Keynote Lecture: Stefano Piccolo (Padua) TGF-beta signaling in development and cancer |
| 9.40-10.05 |
Lawrence Banks (Trieste) The role of the Human Papillomavirus E6 oncoprotein in malignant progression |
| 10.05-10.30 |
Emilio Hirsch (Turin) Integration of PI3K scaffold and catalytic functions in health and disease |
| 10.30-10.45 |
Mariaceleste Aragona (Padua) Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction |
| 10.45-11.10 | Coffee Break |
| 11.10-11.35 |
Guidalberto Manfioletti (Trieste) Function of the HMGA molecular network in cancer cells |
| 11.35-11.50 |
Carolina Prezioso (Rome) Signal dependent dynamics of two different prc2 polycomb complexes control skeletal muscle differentiation |
| 11.50-12.05 |
Marco Sandri (Padua) Signaling pathways that control ubiquitin-proteasome and autophagy-lysosome systems in skeletal muscles |
| 12.05-12.20 |
Sara Calabretta (Rome) Activation of MNK2/eIF4E pathway by the splicing factor SF2/ASF supports pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and survival to genotoxic stress |
| 12.20-12.35 |
Silvia Di Agostino (Rome) Mutant p53 and Plk2 proteins are components of an oncogenic autoregulatory feedback loop |
| 12.35-14.30 | Lunch Break |
| Session III |
Postgenomic approaches to cell and molecular biology Chair: Stefano Piccolo (Padua) |
| 14.30-15.10 |
Keynote Lecture: Gianni Cesareni (Rome) Mapping the human phosphatome on growth pathways |
| 15.10-15.35 |
Stefano Gustincich (Trieste) Long non-coding antisense RNA controls UchL1 translation through the 5’ overlapping region and an embedded SINEB2 repeat |
| 15.35-16.00 |
Diego Di Bernardo (Naples) Systems Biology approaches to elucidate gene function and drug mode of action |
| 16.00-16.15 |
Giulio Di Minin (Trieste) A genome-scale protein interaction profile of Drosophila p53 uncovers additional nodes of the human p53 network |
| 16.15-16.30 |
Livia Caizzi (Turin) Ligand independent-binding of Estrogen Receptor alpha revealed by genome-wide analysis in breast cancer cells |
| 16.30-16.45 |
Anna Sofia Eulalio (Trieste) High-throughput functional screening identifies miRNAs controlling cardiomyocyte proliferation |
| 16.45-17.40 | Coffee Break and Poster Session II |
| Session IV |
Effective communication and publishing Chair: Giannino Del Sal (Trieste) |
| 17.40-18.20 |
Bernd Pulverer (Chief Editor, The EMBO Journal) The future of scientific publishing |
| 18.20-19.10 |
Eric May (Consultant and Trainer, Germany) Communicating Science – understanding the public and the news media |
| 19.10-20.10 | General SIBBM Assembly |
| 20.30 | Social dinner |
Saturday, 28 May
| Session V |
Cancer stem cells and epigenetics Chair: Giulia Piaggio (Rome) |
| 9.30-10.10 |
Keynote Lecture: Pier Giuseppe Pelicci (Milan) Cancer stem cells |
| 10.10-10.25 |
Marco Napoli (Trieste) A Pin1 / mutant p53 axis promotes aggressiveness in breast cancer |
| 10.25-10.40 |
Sara Sessa (Aviano) Twist1 interacts with and promotes p53 degradation |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.25 |
Giuseppe Testa (Milan) Reprogramming cell fate in cancer and induced pluripotency: the role of silencing chromatin |
| 11.25-11.50 |
Salvatore Oliviero (Siena) Myc-dependent epigenetic modifications that contribute to stemness |
| 12.00 | Chiara D'Onofrio "Giovani" Award (prize to be awarded to the best Selected Talk) and Final remarks |
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24 May 2011
The Programme and Abstracts book is now available for
download
Important date
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Registrations open
25 March 2011
Deadlines
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Abstract submissions
3 May 2011 -
Registrations
20 May 2011
Organisers
Giannino Del Sal
LNCIB, Univ. of Trieste
Mauro Giacca
ICGEB, Trieste
Valerio Orlando
DTI, Rome
