Pre-Congress Meeting

Bologna, Italy • 20-21 September 2017

The pre-congress meeting will be held at the same location as the ABCD 2017 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 2017 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, thirteen 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 2017 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 the pre-congress meeting will receive a travel fellowship of 150 EUR to help defray from their lodging and traveling costs.

Programme

Wednesday, 20 September

12:00-14:00

Arrival and Registration
(pre-congress meeting participants will register also for the congress)

14:00-15:00

Carmine Settembre (Pozzuoli, NA, Italy)
Developmental regulation of autophagy in health and disease

15:00-15:25

Elisa Barbieri (Milan, Italy)
Calcium and mitochondria role in EGFR endocytosis

15:25-15:50

Martina Bonucci (Paris, France)
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: molecular targets of mTORC1 and the role of S6 Kinases

15:50-16:15

Federica Cermola (Naples, Italy)
Vitamin C and L-Proline antagonistic effects capture alternative states in the pluripotency continuum

16:15-16:50

Coffee break

16:50-17:15

Maria Chiara De Santis (Turin, Italy)
PI3K-C2α regulates mitotic spindle assembly and chemotherapy response in breast cancer

17:15-17:40

Miriam Formica (Milan, Italy)
A Drosophila model to understand the role of autophagy in Glioblastoma

17:40-18:05

Elisa Franforte (Udine, Italy)
A lack in MEF2D-HDAC9 feed-back mechanism is relevant for leiomyosarcomagenesis

18:05-18:30

Mara Gagliardi (Rome, Italy)
Aldo-keto reductases confer resistance of human skin melanoma to ferroptosis induction

18:30-18:55

Samuele Negro (Padua, Italy)
CXCL12α/SDF-1 from perisynaptic schwann cells promotes regeneration after motor axon terminal injury

19:15-21:00

Dine with the Scientists

21:15-22:30

Round Table

"The dark side of genomics"

Discussants: Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Thursday, 21 September

8:30-10:30

Tomas Kirchhausen (Boston, MA, USA)
Imaging cellular dynamics from molecules to organisms

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:25

Elena Torlai Triglia (Berlin, Germany)
Interplay between RNA polymerase II and Polycomb throughout terminal neuronal differentiation

11:25-11:50

Paola Festa (Zurich, Switzerland)
Impaired autophagy bridges lysosomal storage disease and epithelial dysfunction in the kidney

11:50-12:15

Marilina Piemontese (Pozzuoli, NA, Italy)
Altered autophagosome-lysosome fusion causes collagen trafficking defect in lysosomal storage diseases

12:15-12:40

Marco Fantuz (Trieste, Italy)
Alterations of the secretory pathway induced by missense mutant-p53

12:40

Buffet lunch and Adjourn

Organisers

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Tomas Kirchhausen

Ruggero Pardi