Pre-Congress Meeting

Bologna, Italy • 18-19 September 2019

The pre-congress meeting will be held at the same location as the ABCD 2019 Congress, Savoia Hotel Regency.

Information

The pre-congress meeting is reserved for post-docs and Ph.D. students who are under 35 years at the date of the congress. Attendance will be limited to 70 participants.

Participation in the pre-congress meeting is reserved to post-docs and Ph.D. students who will attend and submit an abstract to the ABCD 2019 National Congress.

In case of oversubscription, acceptance will be decided by the organisers based on the quality of the presented abstracts.

Among the participants of the pre-congress meeting, fifteen will be selected for oral presentations during the pre-congress meeting. All participants (including those selected for oral presentations) are still expected to present their posters at the ABCD 2019 National Congress.

There is no registration fee for the pre-congress meeting and for the pre-congress meeting dinner.

All post-docs and Ph.D. students accepted to attend the pre-congress meeting will receive a travel fellowship to help defray their lodging and travel costs.

Programme

Wednesday, 18 September

12:00-14:00

Arrival and Registration

14:00-15:00

Keynote Lecture

Sandra Schmid (Dallas, TX, USA)
Lessons learned from a life in science

15:00-15:20

Matteo Astone (Padua, Italy)
Clock ticks during angiogenesis: dissecting the endothelial role of circadian clock gene Bmal1

15:20-15:40

Harikrishnareddy Paluvai (Udine, Italy)
Unscheduled HDAC4 repressive activity in human fibroblasts triggers TP53‐dependent senescence and favours cell transformation

15:40-16:00

Annalisa Pecoraro (Naples, Italy)
Cyclin D1 and E2F1: novel targets of uL3 in cancer cell response to ribosomal stress

16:00-16:20

Federica Polverino (Rome, Italy)
Spindle orientation is regulated by the Aurora-A/TPX2 axis and contributes to faithful chromosome segregation

16:20-16:40

Elisabeth Wyart (Turin, Italy)
Altered iron metabolism promotes cancer cachexia

16:40-17:10

Coffee break

17:10-17:30

Chiara Salis (Rome, Italy)
Long non-coding RNA MALAT-1 acts as a master controller of cellular metabolism in prostate cancer

17:30-17:50

Andrea Castiglioni (Milan, Italy)
NCAM1/CD56 is a determinant of self-renewal and tumorigenic ability in prostate cancer stem cells

17:50-18:10

Denisa Baci (Varese, Italy)
Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR), novel anti-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic agent in prostate cancer

18:10-18:30

Halenya Monticelli (Padua, Italy)
Role of mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter in breast cancer

18:30-18:50

Aurora Savino (Turin, Italy)
Network analysis allows to unravel breast cancer molecular features and to identify novel targets

19:30-21:00

Dine with the Scientists

21:15-22:30

Round Table on Science Communication

Discussants: Elisabetta Argenzio (The EMBO Journal, Germany), Pier Paolo Di Fiore (University of Milan and IEO, Milan, Italy), Tom Kirchhausen (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)

Thursday, 19 September

9:00-10:30

Keynote Lecture

Tom Kirchhausen (Boston, MA, USA)
Imaging subcellular dynamics from molecules to multicellular organisms

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:20

Gaia Butera (Padua, Italy)
Mitochondrial adaptation in parvalbumin knockout muscle fibers

11:20-11:40

Luca Gozzelino (Turin, Italy)
Characterization of PI3KC2β in the pathogenesis of Focal Epilepsy

11:40-12:00

Valeria Cutillo (Milan, Italy)
Spatiotemporal regulation of type I interferon expression determines antiviral CD4+ T cell polarization

12:00-12:20

Stefano Sol (Naples, Italy)
Epidermal p63 is essential to control systemic levels of TSLP through repression of KLK6

12:20-12:40

Riccardo Rizzo (Naples, Italy)
From Golgi dynamics to glycan processing to function: GOLPH3 retrotransports selected glycoenzymes across maturing cisternae to generate growth-promoting glycosphingolipid patterns

12:40

Buffet lunch and Adjourn

 

Organisers

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Tomas Kirchhausen