| Monday, June 7th, 2010 | ||
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| Venue: Aula Magna, Sapienza Università di Roma |
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17:00 - 18:30 |
OPENING CEREMONY Chairpersons: Paolo Amati, Michel Goldberg, Robert Parienti, David Mirelman Welcome: Prof. Luigi Frati, Rector, Sapienza Università di Roma |
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| Plenary Lecture I Giulio Cossu (Milan) Cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
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| Reception in the adjacent hall (by invitation) |
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| Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 | ||
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Venue: Auditorium I Clinica Medica, Policlinico Umberto I, |
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| SESSION I | MUSCLE STEM CELLS Chairperson: Roberto Foà (Rome) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Margaret Buckingham (Paris) Pax regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Eldad Tzahor (Rehovot) Cardiovascular and skeletal muscle stem cell progenitors |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Fabrice Chrétien (Paris) Skeletal muscle stem cell properties during homeostasis and regeneration |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Laura Pelosi (Rome) Role of tissue niche on muscle regeneration and diseases |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION II |
EPITHELIAL STEM CELLS AND TISSUE REPROGRAMMING Chairperson: Fiona Watt (Cambridge, UK) |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Michele de Luca (Modena) Regenerative medicine by means of cultured epithelial stem cells |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Ruggero de Maria (Rome) Therapeutic potential of cancer stem cell targeting |
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| 12:30 - 13:00 | Alessandra Salvetti (Pisa) Adult stem cells and tissue regeneration: in vivo investigations using planarians as model system |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
SESSION III |
EMBRYO AND POSTNATAL STEM CELLS Chairperson: Massimo Martelli (Perugia) |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Yair Reisner (Rehovot) Embryonic pig tissue for the correction of Type I diabetes |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Philip Avner (Paris) Controlling X-inactivation: from stem cells to differentiation |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Paolo Bianco (Rome) Postnatal progenitors of mesoderm derived tissues |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Vania Broccoli (Milan) Genetic reprogramming and iPS cells: Technical advances and applications in neural development and disease |
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| 16:30 - 16:45 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION IV |
EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND INDUCED PLURIPOTENCY Chairperson: Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Paris) |
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| 16:45 - 17:15 | Michel Revel (Rehovot) Nerve Myelinating cells from human ES cells |
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| 17:15 - 17:45 | Yoav Soen (Rehovot) Regulation of human embryonic stem cells as a model for early human development |
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| Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 | ||
| Venue: Auditorium I Clinica Medica, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza Università di Roma |
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SESSION V |
NEURONAL STEM CELLS Chairperson: Giulio Cossu (Milan) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Martino Gianvito (Milan) Neural stem cells in neurological disorders: The good, the bad and the complex |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Gil Levkowitz (Rehovot) Realtime analysis of neuronal progenitors' development in the zebrafish embryo |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Pierre-Marie Lledo (Paris) Stem cells in the adult brain: How, where and why |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION VI |
STEM CELL NICHES (I) Chairperson: Nancy Guillén (Paris) |
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| 10:45- 11:15 | Ana Cumano (Paris) The microenvironment of immature hematopoietic stem cells in fetal liver |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Steffen Jung (Rehovot) In vivo origins of mononuclear phagocytes |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 | Tsvee Lapidot (Rehovot) Dynamic interactions between the nervous and immune system with the microenvironment, regulate hematopoietic stem cells |
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| 12:15 - 12:45 | Francois Schweisguth (Paris) Specification and maintenance of multipotent progenitor cells in Drosophila |
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| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch Break | |
SESSION VII |
STEM CELL NICHES (II) Chairperson: Ernesto Di Mauro ( Rome) |
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| 14:15 - 14:45 | Hélène Strick-Marchand (Paris) Human immune system (HIS) mice: A new tool to decipher immune responses in man |
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| 14:45 - 15:15 | Lilach Gilboa (Rehovot) Coordinating stem cell establishment with niche formation in the Drosophila ovary |
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| 15:15 - 15:45 | Jean-Francois Nicolas (Paris) Elongation in chordates: A view from clonal analysis |
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| 15:45 - 16:15 | Marco Tripodi (Rome) The liver as a stem cell niche |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Plenary Lecture II Chairperson: Antonio Musaró (Rome) Fiona Watt (Cambridge U.) Stem cells in mammalian epidermis |
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17:15 - 17:30 |
CLOSING CEREMONY |
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Updated: 26/05/2010 11:20:19 Contact E-mail: David.Mirelman@weizmann.ac.il
