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9th Summer School on Advanced Biotechnology
Program (download pdf)
Sunday, August 31 2014
18:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome party
Botanical Garden, Via Lincoln 2, Palermo
Monday, September 1 2014
9:15 Welcome and Opening remarks
Natural products
Chairman: A.M.Puglia
9:30 Stefano Donadio: “Natural products research”
10:00 Margherita Sosio: “New bioactive compounds from actinobacteria”
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Giuseppe Gallo: "Proteomics as a tool to study metabolic pathways
associated with antibiotic production in actinomycetes”
11:30 Roberta Pozzi: “What can we learn from peptidoglycan analysis?”
12:00 Sebastian Perkams: “Cultivation of terrestric microalgae and screening
for novel compounds”
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch
Natural products II
15:00 Drenusha Sadiku, Claudia Ralser and Marc Lechner: “Expression of
recombinant proteins in the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”
15:30 Rosario Vanella "Synthetic Biology for the identification of novel
11ßHSD1 inhibitors in yeast"
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 -18:00 Poster preparation by the students
Tuesday, September 2 2014
Novel approaches in health care
Chairman : Daniel Gygax
9:00 Eric Kübler: “Multiplex Assay System for fast Determination of Disease Causing Bacteria“
9:30 Denis Prim: “Sample preparation challenges in point-of-care
diagnostic systems developments"
10:00 Martin Wolf: “Recombinant proteins for diagnosis and therapy
of weed pollen allergies”
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Lino Reggiani: “Proteotronics: electronic devices based on proteins”
11:30 Romina Buchs: “Infectious Disease cell-models, their use in industry”
12:00 Alessia Liguori: “Vaccine Research in the era of genomics”
12.45-14:30 Lunch
Nanoparticles and Tissue engeenering
14:30 Giulio Ghersi: "New nano-particles generation by beta
irradiation process, their functionalization in addressing target
and cargo release process"
15:00 Ramon Weishaupt: “Studying the interaction of (poly)peptides
and nano fibrillated cellulose”
15:30 Paolo Netti “Cell instructive materials to engineering biological
tissues in vitro”
16:00 Valerio Brucato: “Try to bridge in vivo / in vitro models, vascular
bioprosthesis and angiogenized complex scaffolds”
16:30 Afrouznia-Taleb Sanaz “Reconstructed human skin models to
study wound healing“
17:00 Coffee break
17-18:30 Poster preparation by the students
Wednesday, September 3 2014
Statistics
Chairman : Jack Rohrer
9:00 Beate Sick: “Correlation, association, and causality”
Cell biology
Chairman : Eric Kübler
9:30 Jack Rohrer: “Differentiation of macrophages to osteoclasts
- Development of a novel cell based assay”
10:00 Italia Di Liegro: “Novel routes for brain cell-to-cell communications”
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Vincenzo Cavalieri: “Chromatin insulators - Regulatory
mechanisms and prospective application for gene therapy”
Catalysis and alternative solvent media
Chairman : Christoph Griesbeck
11:30 Christian Frech: “New conceptual approach in the design
of C-C cross-coupling catalysts. From fundamentals to application”
12:00 Francesca D’anna: “Ionic Liquid Binary Mixtures: Promising
reaction media for carbohydrate conversion into 5-hydroxymethyl furfural”
12:45- 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Gabriele Amore: “Hunting for the Sicilian Wine yeasts’ treasure trove”
15:00 – 18:00 Poster preparation by the students
18:30 Poster exhibition, wine* and cheese!
*gift of “Istituto Regionale Vini e Oli”, Palermo
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