Programme Overview
Thursday
28 September
11:30
A tribute to Arturo Leone

12:00
Special Interest Subgroups
  • ChIP-on-Chip
  • Visualizing DNA damage
  • Genes and neural development
  • Soil (bio)remediation
  • Network biology
  • Stress response: a tribute to Arturo Leone
  • Cell migration and leukocyte recruitment

15:30
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONGRESS

16:00
EMBO Lecture
Molecular mechanisms in plants that synchronise flowering with the changing seasons
George Coupland (Cologne, Germany)

17:00
Plenary Symposium:
Evolution of genes and genomes

19:00
Wine & Cheese (Get together)

20:30
Round Table: Open Access

Friday
29 September
08:30
Minisymposia I
  • Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation
  • Genetics of microorganisms and microbial biotechnologies
  • Membrane trafficking, adhesion and transduction
  • Stem cells, development and differentiation
  • DNA repair and mutagenesis
  • Plant-pathogen interactions

10:30
Coffee break

11:00
Plenary Symposium:
Membrane fusion and fission

13:00
Lunch break

13:00
EMBO Italian Members Meeting

14:00
Posters: Groups 1-6 + SIS

16:00
CHIARA D'ONOFRIO Lecture
Microtubules, kinetochores and the mitotic checkpoint: from protein architecture to biological function
Andrea Musacchio (Milan)

17:30
Parallel Symposia I
  • DNA processing and repair
  • Genetic models of infertility: from yeast to humans
  • The translational apparatus in eukaryotes
  • Light and development

20:30
Round Table: Research Funding

Saturday
30 September
08:30
Minisymposia II
  • Population genetics and evolution
  • Cellular stress and apoptosis
  • Environmental microbiology and ecology
  • Plant mineral nutrition and metabolism
  • Neurodegeneration and neurorepair mechanisms
  • Cell cycle, oncogenes and tumor suppressors

10:30
Coffee break

11:00
Parallel Symposia II
  • p53 protein family: from mechanisms to patients
  • Models of mitochondrial diseases
  • Migration and pathfinding
  • Emerging viruses

13:00
Lunch break

14:00
Posters: Groups 7-12

16:00
FISV Lecture
Regulation of gene expression in the brain: promoter choice, alternative splicing, and microRNAs
Tom Maniatis (Cambridge, MA, USA)

17:00
Scientific Society Meetings

    Sunday
    1 October
    09:00
    Plenary Symposium:
    Symbiosis

    11:00
    Coffee break

    11:30
    GIORGIO TECCE Lecture
    MicroRNAs and chromosomal abnormalities in cancer cells
    Carlo Croce (Columbus, OH, USA)

    12:30
    CLOSING CEREMONY