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XXIX National Congress
In Collaboration with the
American Society for Investigative Pathology
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
September 10-13, 2008
Meeting Program
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Room A
17.00
Opening
Ceremony
Plenary Lecture
James R. Baker
– University of Michigan (USA):
Nanotechnologies for the Enhancement of Human Health
Social event:
TBD
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
08.00 – 09.00 Poster Session (view the posters)
Host - Pathogen Interactions Room B
09.00 -- 10.15 Plenary Session
Francesco Dieli –
University of Palermo (Italy): “Recent advances in
the immune response of M. Tuberculosis”
Giuseppe Scala – University of Catanzaro (Italy): “Assessing
HIV1 – human molecular interactions in vivo”
Marina de Bernard – Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine
(Italy): “The neutrophil-activating protein of Helicobacter pylori
(HP-NAP) as an immune modulating agent”
10.15 – 10.30 Break
10.30 – 11.30 Poster Discussion
11.45 – 12.45 Roundtable: A controversial issue: Infectious Disease
and Atherosclerosis
Antonio Cassone – Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (Italy)
Mario Mirco D’Elios – Department of Internal Medicine, Firenze
(Italy)
Alan Attie – University of Wisconsin (USA)
12.45 Lunch (on your own)
Redox Reactions in Human Pathophysiology Room B
14.00 – 16.30 Roundtable
G. Poli – University of Torino (Italy): Introduction
Giovanni Mann – King’s College (UK): “Redox regulation of
transcription factors: Implication in human pathophysiology”
Josè Vina – University of Valencia (Spain): “Mitochondrial redox
changes in men and women during aging”
Umberto Marinari – University of Genova (Italy): “Redox
regulation of PKCs and MAPKs in cell function, survival or death”
Mario Comporti – University of Siena (Italy): “Oxidative stress
and liver fibrosis”
S. A. Fuqua – University of Houston (USA): “Oxygen species and
cancer”
16.30 – 16.45 Break
16.45 – 17.45 Oral Presentations Selected from Submitted Abstracts
17.50 – 18.30 Plenary Lecture
Daniel Metzger – CNRS (Strasbourg): “Spatiotemporal induction of
somatic mutagenesis and functional correlates of nuclear receptor
signaling”
Social event: TBD
Friday, September 12th, 2008
08.00 – 09.00 Poster Session (view the posters)
Nutrition and Cancer
09.00 – 10.30 Symposium
Vincent Castronovo – University of Liege (Belgium):
Introduction
Vincent Castronovo – University of Liege (Belgium):
“Mitochondrial disease and the role of oxidative stress in cancer
development and progression”
Zdenko Herceg – IARC, Lyon (France): “Nutrition and
epigenetics – Foods that control gene expression”
Adriana Albini –IRCCS Multimedica, Milan (Italy):
“Angionutrition: The role of nutrients in the control of
tumor-associated angiogenesis”
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 11.45 Roundtable Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer
Vincent Castronovo – University of Liege (Belgium)
Michael Pollak – University of McGill (Canada)
Antonio Belfiore – Università di Catanzaro (Italy)
Sebastiano Andò – Università della Calabria (Italy)
11.45 – 12.45 Poster Discussion
12.45 Lunch (on your own)
14.00 Symposium 2
Novel Biomarkers in Oncology
M. E. Sobel: Introductory remarks – American Society for
Investigative Pathology (USA)
W. B. Coleman – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(USA): “Epigenetic biomarkers in cancer diagnostics”
P. Monga – University of Pittsburgh (USA): “Which way the WNT
blows: stem cells in liver development and cancer”
G. J. Tsongalis – Dartmouth Medical School (USA): “In search
of metastatic tumor cells”
15.45 Break
16.05 Abstract
17.05 Signal Transduction 1
N. Perrotti – University of Catanzaro: “The role of Sgk1 in
the regulation of sodium transport, cell proliferation,
differentiation and survival”
17.25 Awards
Social event: TBD
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Signal Transduction and Approach to Molecular Therapies
8.00 –
8.50 Plenary Lecture
Stuart A. Aaronson
– Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (USA): “Wnt signaling
and cancer”
8.50 – 10.45 Roundtable: Targeted therapy against human
kinases: Have we made real progress in the treatment of cancer?
F. Ciardiello –
University of
Napoli 2 (Italy) “Suppressing EGFR tyrosine
kinase activity in lung cancer: results and future perspectives”
M.
Santoro –
University of
Napoli (Italy) “Inhibition of c-RET kinase activity
for the treatment of thyroid cancer”
Piersandro Tagliaferri
– University of Catanzaro (Italy) “Targeting the Raf
kinase in human malignancies: molecular and translation issues”
Paulo Vigneri
– University of
Catania (Italy) “Inhibitors of BCR-ABL kinase: have we cured
CML?”
10.45 – 11.00 Break
10.30 – 11.30 Poster Discussion
11.30 – 13.00 Symposium: Biosystem
13.00 Lunch (on your own)
Aging
14.30 – 16.30 Roundtable
Claudio Franceschi –
University of
Bologna (Italy): “Functional role inflammatory genes in
Alzheimer’s disease”
Calogero Caruso –
University of
Palermo (Italy): “Inflammatory mediators: a pharmacogenomic
approach in Alzheimer’s disease”
Daniela Quaglino - University
of Modena e Reggio Emilia: “The protein approach to
aging: the human fibroblast model”
16.30 Adjourn
Social
event: TBD
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