Wednesday 24 September
13:15 Special Interest Subgroups
- Exposure to electromagnetic fields
15:30 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONGRESS
16:00 FISV Lecture I Expression of neurosecretion in differentiated cells is governed by the transcription repressor factor, REST Jacopo Meldolesi (Milan)
17:00 Plenary Symposium: Development and Cancer
19:00 Wine & Cheese Welcome Party
20:30 Round Table I: Stem cells and health
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Thursday 25 September
08:30 Oral Communication Session I
- Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation
- Genetics of microorganisms and microbial biotechnologies
- Stem cells, development and differentiation
- DNA damage and mutagenesis
- Nerve muscle interactions
- Plant development and diseases
- Cellular stress, apoptosis and autophagy
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary Symposium: Copy Number Variation
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Posters: Themes 1-7
16:00 FISV Lecture II Evolution and development of shape in plants Enrico Coen (Norwich, United Kingdom)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Parallel Symposia I
- Common and Divergent Routes in Autophagy and Apoptosis
- Integrating Genomic, Functional and Environmental Information
- DNA Damage and Chronic-degenerative Di seases
- Plant Natural Products: more useful to Plants or to Humans?
20:30 Round Table II: Genetically modified organisms
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Friday 26 September
08:30 Oral Communication Session II
- Chromosomes, Genetic Diversity and Evolution
- Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology
- Cell Cycle, Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors
- Plant mineral nutrition, metabolism and environmental stresses
- Bioinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics
- Membrane Trafficking, Adhesion and Signal Transduction
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Parallel Symposia II
- Hepatitis C Virus: from Molecular Biology to Therapeutic Strategies
- Role of Transposable Elements in Phenotypic Diversity and Genome evolution
- NAD as a Key Player in Signal Transduction
- Molecular Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Posters: Themes 8-13
16:00 Chiara D'Onofrio Lecture T-cell co-stimulation at the immunological synapse Antonella Viola (Milan)
17:00 Meetings of Individual Scientific Societies
- ABCD
- AGI
- SIBBM
- SIMA
- SIMGBM
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Saturday 27 September
09:00 Plenary Symposium: The Ubiquitin/UBL system
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 EMBO Lecture What we have learned from structures of the ribosome Venki Ramakrishnan (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
12:30 CLOSING OF CONGRESS
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