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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
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Important date

  • Registrations open
    25 March 2011

Deadlines

  • 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