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Wednesday September 13 - Palazzo Steri - Sala
dei Baroni |
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18.30
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Commemoration
of Professor Alberto Monroy
G.Bernardi, G.Giudice,
D.Epel, R.Levi Montalcini
Welcome cocktail |
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Thursday
September 14
Dip.
Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo
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Chairman
M. Stefanini |
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9.00
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F.
Rosati Università degli Studi, Siena
"The life of the human sperm"
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9.30
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D.
Mac Clay, Duke University, Durham
"Building the sea urchin embryo: a legacy
to the work of Alberto Monroy" |
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10.00
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G.
Schatten Pittsburgh Development Center
"Regenerative Medicine Frontiers:
Discovering disease mechanisms and novel pharmaceuticals, while
responsibly investigating the biomedical feasibilities of customized
cell transplantation therapies" |
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10.30
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G.
Barsacchi, Università di Pisa
"Eye development: from early events to
cell fate" |
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11.00
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Coffe
Break |
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11.15
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V.
Matranga, CNR, Palermo
"Cell-substrate interactions and ecto-mesoderm
signaling in the sea urchin embryo skeletogenesis" |
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11.45
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G.
Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica "A. Dohrn", Napoli
"The neo-selectionist theory of genome
evolution: an ultra-Darwinian, epigenomic theory"
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12.15
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C.
Saccone, Università di Bari
"Mitochondrial-nuclear relationships in
the evolution of OXPHOS genes in Metozoa" |
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13.00
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LUNCH |
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14.30
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POSTER
SESSION |
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Chairman
G. Bernardi |
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15.30
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M.
Hoshi, Tokio Institute of Technology
"Egg jelly as a signal for sperm" |
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16.00
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M.
Stefanini, Università La Sapienza, Roma
"Biology of spermatogonial stem cells and
their potential therapeutic and biotechnological use" |
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16.30
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P.
Cantatore, Università di Bari
"Regulation of mitochondrial transcription
in invertebrate organisms" |
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17.00
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A.M.
Rinaldi, Università degli Studi, Palermo
"Nuclear mitochondrial interaction
and development" |
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Friday September 15 |
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Chairman
G. Giudice |
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9.00
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G.
Spinelli, Università degli Studi, Palermo
"Chromatin dynamic and regulation of gene
expression in the sea urchin embryo" |
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9.30
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V.
Vacquier, University of California, San Diego
"A potential answer to Alberto Monroy's
question concerning the mechanism by which the species-specificity
of fertilization could evolve and be maintained as species continue
to diverge" |
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10.00
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C.
Campanella, Università Federico II, Napoli
"Caracterizations of sperm binding
glycoconjugates located at the fertilization site of D. pictus egg" |
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10.30
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G.
Sconzo, Università degli Studi, Palermo
"Cell stress in sea urchin embryos
and in mouse stem cells" |
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11.15
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Coffee
Break |
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11.30
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H.
Halvorson, PCMTB
"Bacterial spores: A model for microbial
development" |
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12.00
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G.
Tocco, Università "La Sapienza", Roma
"Acetylcholine and the signalling
system for neuronal differentiation" |
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12.30
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D.
Epel, Stanford University, California
"How the act of fertilization saves
the life of the egg" |
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13.15
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LUNCH |
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Chairman
G. Schatten |
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15.00
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L.
Vittorelli, Università degli Studi, Palermo
"Vesicle mediated cell-cell and cell-matrix
interactions" |
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15.30
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Y.
Yokota, Aichi Prefectural University
"Unique features of sea urchin yolk
protein" |
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16.00
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M.
Di Carlo, CNR, Palermo
"The sea urchin: a model system to study
Alzheimer's disease" |
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16.30
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D.
Geraci, CNR, Palermo
"Allergens from Parietaria judaica pollen,
the main cause of allergic reaction in the Mediterranean area" |
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17.00
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G.
Giudice, Università degli Studi, Palermo
"Sea urchin fertilization" |
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