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Organized by
Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB)
University of Torino
in collaboration with
Italian Federation of Life Sciences (FISV)
Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology (SIBBM)
Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA)
Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF)
Italian Proteome Association (ItPA)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Life Sciences,
Italian Research Council Rome
Scientific Committee and International Advisory Board
Chairman Sergio Papa
Organizing Committee
Chairman Gianfranco Gilardi
36th FEBS CONGRESS
Torino, Italy June 25 – 30, 2011
“Biochemistry for Tomorrow’s Medicine”Scientific Committee:Chairman
Sergio Papa SIB
Honorary Chairman
Paolo Arese SIB
MembersLilia Alberghina SIB Giulio Magni SIB
Andrea Bellelli SIB Fabio Malavasi SIB
Irene Bozzoni SIB Alberto Mantovani SIICA
Maurizio Brunori SIB Jacopo Meldolesi FISV
Federico Bussolino SIB Salvatore Oliviero FISV
Felice Cervone FISV Valerio Orlando FISV,SIBBM
Filiberto Cimino SIB Pier Giuseppe Pelicci FISV
Daniela Corda SIB Carola Ponzetto SIB
Riccardo Cortese SIB Piero Pucci SIB, ItPA
Paolo Comoglio FISV Menico Rizzi SIB
Vincenzo Cuomo SIF Maria Grazia Roncarolo FISV
Antonio De Flora SIB Giuseppe Rotilio SIB
Aldo Fasolo SINS Francesco Salvatore SIB
Giorgio Lenaz SIB Gianpietro Semenzato SIICA
Giovanna Lucchini FISV Roberto Sitia FISV
Lucio Luzzatto FISV Tommaso Russo SIB
International Advisory board:Philip Cohen UK Pier Paolo Pandolfi USA
Pascale Cossart F Israel Pecht IL
Stephanie Dimmeler D Leena Peltonen FIN
Paul Freemont UK Francesco Ramirez USA
Joseph Houstek CZ Francisco Sanchez-Madrid E
Sirpa Jalkanen FIN Claudina Rodrigues Pousada P
Karl Kuchler A Anthony Schapira UK
Nils-Goran Larsson S Kai Simons D
Iain Mattaj D Vladimir Skulachev RUS
Gerry Melino UK
Adam Szewczyk FEBS Congress Counsellor
36th FEBS CONGRESS Torino, Italy
June 25 – 30, 2011 “Biochemistry for Tomorrow’s Medicine”
Organizing Committee
Chair
Gianfranco Gilardi SIB
Deputy
Fiorella Altruda FISV Marco Arese SIB Mauro Patrone SIB Luciana Avigliano SIB Enrica Pessione SIB Maria Cavaletto SIB Marco Piccinini SIB Tiziana Crepaldi SIB Menico Rizzi SIB Silvia Deraglio SIB Sheila Sadeghi SIB Ada Funaro SIII Guido Serini SIB Dario Ghigo SIB Francesca Silvagno SIB Giuliana Giribaldi SIB Fabiola Sinigaglia SIB Carlo Giunta SIB Guido Tarone FISV Andrea Graziani SIB Franco Turrini SIB Emilio Hirsch FISV Francesca Valetti SIB Evelin Keiling Schwarzer SIB Bruno Venerando SIB
The scientific programme will consist of Plenary Lectures, 45 parallel
Symposia/Workshops and Poster Sessions covering the following areas.
• The Genome in the 3rd millennium
• Complexity in RNA biology
• Following the life of a protein
• Cell-Cell communication
• Membrane dynamics
• Molecular basis of development
• Systems Biology
• Molecular engineering for medicine
• Prokaryote biochemistry: Friends and foes in the microbial world
• Metabolic control and disorders
• Recent advances in cancer biology
• Cellular Senescence and Aging
• Rare diseases reveal new biochemical mechanisms
• Biochemistry of the Brain and Neurodegenerative disorders
• Molecular basis of Cardiovascular diseases
• Biochemistry of immunity and inflammation
• Biochemistry and molecular biology of malaria and tuberculosis
• Plant Biochemistry for Health and Tomorrow’s Medicine
• Molecular and cellular therapeutics
Poster sessions will cover the areas of Symposia/Workshops
and additional areas:
• Bioenergetics
• Lipid metabolism
• Enzymology
Special sessions/tutorials on Science and Society, Women in Science,
Education in Biochemistry, Satellite Industry sponsored Symposia,
and a Commercial Exhibition are scheduled.
The Congress will be preceded on June 22-25, 2011 by the Young Scientists Forum.
36th FEBS CONGRESS Torino, Italy
June 25 – 30, 2011 “Biochemistry for Tomorrow’s Medicine”
Fee Structure (VAT 20% included)
Early Till 31/03
€
Regular Till 30/06
€
On Site €
ACADEMIC
400
470
550
GRADUATE STUDENTS
150
170
200
NON-ACADEMIC
500
600
700
ACCOMPANYING PERSONS
80
100
120
Category N. of rooms
at Conference site
N. of rooms
available
At 10-20 mins
Prices
5-star hotels 295 80 160-210
4-star hotels 630 1,600 130-170
3-star hotels 500 1,300 65-125
Low-cost
Accommodation
(Olympic Village)
1,100 400 25-35
TOTAL 2,525 3,380
36th FEBS CONGRESS
Torino, Italy
June 25 – 30, 2011
“Biochemistry for Tomorrow’s Medicine”
Rates for accommodation in Torino
Elena Conti (Germany) confirmed Sir Hans Krebs Plenary Lecture
(scheduled for Sunday June 26th at 11:30 –12:30)
- Sirpa Jalkanen (Finland) confirmed Prakash Datta Plenary Lecture
Homing-associated molecules as targets to prevent harmful inflammations (scheduled for Monday June 27th at 17.30 – 18.30 )
and cancer spread
- Luis Serrano (Spain) confirmed EMBO Plenary Lecture
(scheduled for Wednesday June 29th at 11:30 –12:30)
- John Mattick (Australia) confirmed IUBMB Plenary LectureRNA as the computational engine of the epigenomic control (scheduled for Tuesday June 28th at 11:30 – 12:30)
of development and brain function
- Pier Giuseppe Pelicci (Italy) confirmed Theodor Bücher Plenary Lecture
Regulation of Self Renewal in Cancer Stem ( scheduled for Sunday June 26th – 17.30 – 18.30)
- Roger D. Kornberg (USA) Opening Plenary Lecture acceptance pending
- Bruce Spiegelman (USA) Closing Plenary Lecture acceptance pending
PABMB Plenary Lecture pending
Wise Lecture * pending
Plenary Lectures
* The Lecturer will be the one that the WISE Committe will select.
Symposia Area S1 The Genome in the 3rd millenium
S1.1 Coding and noncoding information in genome function (Sunday, June 26th)
Thomas Jenuwein German Epigenetic control by histone methylation
Job Dekker USA Three-dimensional architecture of the human genome
Thomas R. Gingeras USA Making sense of the pervasive transcription in eukaryotic cell
Geoff Faulkner United Kingdom Junk" DNA remodelling the human genome and transcriptome
S1.2 Mechanisms controlling genome integrity (Sunday, June 26th)
John F.X. Diffley United Kingdom Mechanism and regulation of DNA replication
Yosef Shiloh Israel The ATM-Mediated DNA Damage Response: The System and the Pathways
Julie Cooper United Kingdom Telomeres and the challenges to chromosome integrity
Andrea Musacchio Italy
S1.3 Epigenetic control of cell fate ( Monday, June 27th )
Geneviève Almouzni France
Dirk Schübeler Switzerland
Renato Paro Switzerland Epigenetic reprogramming during tissue regeneration
Amanda Fisher United Kingdom
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S2 Complexity in RNA biology
S 2.1 Non coding RNA: evolution, function ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Witold Filipowicz Switzerland Regulation of miRNA function and metabolism in mammalian cells including neurons
Caroline Dean United Kingdom
Rene Ketting The Netherlands
Pier Paolo Pandolfi USA
S 2.2 Small RNA in disease ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Reuven Agami The Netherlands
John Rossi USA Small RNA Therapies for the Treatment of HIV Infection
Adrian Krainer USA
Maria Carmo-Fonseca Portugal
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S3 Following the life of a protein
S 3.1 Protein synthesis, traffic and turnover (Sunday, June 26th)
Aaron Ciechanover Israel
Ada Yonath Israel
Hidde Ploegh USA
Peter-Michael Kloetzel Germany
S 3.2 Protein folding and binding (Sunday, June 26th)
William. A. Eaton USA Watching single protein molecules fold by FRET spectroscopy
Alan R. Fersht United Kingdom
Joel L. Sussman Israel
Peter Tompa Hungary Unusual binding modes of intrinsically disordered proteins
S 3.3 NAD-dependent Post-translational modifications ( Monday, June 27th )
Andreas Ladurner Germany
Daniela Corda Italy Novel developments in protein mono-ADP-ribosylation
Mathias Ziegler Norway NAD+ - a key molecule in cellular signalling
Michael Hottiger Switzerland
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S4 Cell-Cell communication
S 4.1. Intercellular trafficking of signal molecules (Sunday, June 26th)
Elena Zocchi Italy Abscisic acid, a new mammalian pro-inflammatory hormone
Friedrich Koch-Nolte Germany Regulation of P2X7 activation by extracellular NAD
Alberto Darszon Mexico
Shin-ichiro Imai USA
S 4.2 Regulation of cell functions by intercellular contact systems (Sunday, June 26th)
Charles Streuli United Kingdom How integrins control breast development and function
Paola Defilippi Italy Integrin regulation of tumour cell growth and invasive properties
Walter Birchmeier Germany Wnt/beta-catenin in stem and cancer stem cells
Geert Berx Belgium acceptance pending
Symposia Area S 5 Membrane dynamics
S 5.1 Membrane dynamics
(Sunday, June 26th)
Alberto Luini Italy Organization and homeostasis of the intracellular membrane transport pathways
Vivek Malhotra Spain Mechanism of protein secretion: conventional and unconventional
Marino Zerial Germany Systems analysis of endocytosis and signalling
Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan USA
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
S 5.2 Organelle dynamics (Sunday, June 26th)
Luca Scorrano Switzerland
Graca Raposo France
Sharon Tooze United Kingdom Trafficking and signalling in mammalian autophagy
Graham Warren Austria
S 5.3 Membrane dynamics and disease
( Monday, June 27th )
William Balch USA
Ari Helenius Switzerland Role of endosomes in virus entry
Sergio Grinstein Canada Membrane dynamics during phagocytosis
Ira Milosevic USA
Symposia Area S 6 Molecular basis of development
S 6.1 Stress adaptation and development ( Monday, June 27th )
David Ron United Kingdom
Andrea Ballabio Italy
Naihe Jing China The molecular mechanisms of spinal cord development
Richard I Morimoto USA
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
S 6.2 Cell shape determination ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Frank Costantini USA Cellular events in branching morphogenesis during kidney development
S 6.3 Development of cognition and language ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Wieland Huttner Germany
Lamberto Maffei Italy
Symposia Area S 7 Systems Biology
S 7.1 Omics and Bioinformatics (Sunday, June 26th)
Sampsa Hautaniemi Finland Efficient bioinformatics approaches for large-scale data analysis
Alfonso Valencia Spain
Peer Bork Germany
Søren Brunak Denmark
S 7.2 Networks and circuits (Sunday, June 26th)
Barbara Bakker The Netherlands Kinetic modelling of fatty acid metabolism in mouse
Carstern Carlberg Luxembourg
Thomas Höfer Germany Transcriptional regulatory networks that specify T cell fate
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 8 Molecular Engineering for medicine
S 8.1 Synthetic biology for medicine ( Monday, June 27th )
Rita Bernhardt Germany Bacterial hydroxylases and their potential to synthesize pharmaceutical products
Debashis Ghosh USA
S 8.2 Biomedical application of nanotechnology ( Monday, June 27th ) Francesco Stellacci USA
Ruth Duncan United Kingdom
Symposia Area S 9 Prokaryote biochemistry: Friends and foes in the microbial world
S 9.1 Probiotics as health-promoting agents ( Monday, June 27th )
Kathryn Riedel Switzerland Moonlighting proteins as biomarkers for probiotic safety
Brian Henderson United Kingdom Bacterial Communication with the Human Host in Health and Disease
Through the Medium of Molecular Chaperones
Effie Tsakalidou Greece Milk protein fragments induce bacteriocin biosynthesis in Streptococcus
macedonicus: perspectives in food preservation and infection control
S 9.2 Antimicrobial drug discovery: a new challenge for the future
Jean Marie Pagès France Antibiotic Transport and Efflux pumps: New Strategies to combat bacterial resistance
Lloyd Czaplewski United Kingdom
Vanessa Sperandio USA
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 10 Metabolic control and disorders
S 10.1 Nuclear receptors and lipid metabolism ( Monday, June 27th )
Nagy Laszlo Hunghery Crosstalk between nuclear receptors and cytokine signaling coordinates lipid
metabolism and inflammatory signaling and underpins cell type specific gene expression
Peter Tontonoz USA Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of cholesterol metabolism
Bart Staels France Role of PPAR signalling in diabetic dyslipidemia
Susanne Mandrup Denmark
S 10.2 Molecular perspectives for diabetes ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Johan Auwerx Switzerland NAD sensor and metabolic control
Massimo Federici Italy TIMP3/TACE: acting at the interface of metabolic and vascular disorders
Agnieszka Dobrzyn Poland
Jiarui Wu China Systems Biology for diabetic biomarker discovery
S 10.3 Redox balance and obesity ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Louise Casteilla France
Paul Holvoet Belgium
Vladimir Skulachev Russia Mitochondria-targeted penetrating ions as inhibitors of organismal senescence program
and obesity
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 11 Recent advances in cancer biology
S 11.1 Genes and Pathways in Cancer ( Wednesday, June 29th )
René Bernards The Netherlands Dissecting mechanisms of cancer drug resistance
through functional genetics
Chris J. Marshall United Kingdom
S 11.2 Cancer Stem Cells and Metastasis ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Tomas Brablets Germany
Klaus Pantel Germany
S 11.3 Cancer Genomics and Epigenetics ( Thursday, June 30th)
Michael Stratton United Kingdom
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 12 Cellular Senescence and Aging
S 12.1 Plasticity of Aging ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Rafael de Cabo USA
Linda Partridge United Kingdom
Michael Hall Switzerland
Fontana Luigi USA Metabolic and molecular effects of long-term calorie restriction in humans
S 12.2 Cellular Senescence ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Judith Campisi USA Cellular senescence links inflammation and aging
Daniel Peeper The Netherlands Senescence and tumor suppression
Lenhard K. Rudolph Germany
Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna Italy
Symposia Area S 13 Rare diseases reveal new biochemical mechanisms
S 13.1 Rare metabolic diseases ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Stylianos E. Antonarakis Switzerland The Connectivity of Genomic Elements
Miguel C. Seabra United Kingdom Pathogenesis of diseases involving defects in Rab GTPase function and
membrane traffic
Francesco Salvatore Italy The internal fight of nutritional genetic diseases: the cases of hereditary fructose
intolerance and hyperphenylalaninemias or Nature and nurture in genetic diseases: the
cases of hereditary fructose intolerance and hyperphenylalaninemias
Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba Spain Pathogenic mechanism in Lafora’s disease.
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
S 13.2 Mitochondrial diseases ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Massimo Zeviani Italy
Arnold Munnich France
Douglas Wallace USA
Michael Ryan Australia Characterisation of factors required for assembly of mitochondrial complex I and their
defects in disease
Symposia Area S 14 Biochemistry of the Brain and Neurodegenerative disorders
S 14.1 Recent advances in neurodegenerative disorders ( Monday, June 27th )
Luca Steardo Italy
Maria Grazia Spillantini United Kingdom
Dominic Walsh Ireland
Inna Slutsky Israel Amyloid-beta: from release to synaptic function
S 14.2 Dopaminergic neurons and Parkinson disease. ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Antonio Simeone Italy Otx2 in adult meso-diencephalic dopaminergic neurons
Anders Björklund Sweden
Alain Prochiantz France Therapeutic transcription factors in Parkinson's disease
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 15 Molecular Basis of Cardiovascular diseases
S 15.1 Development of vascular system ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Lena Claesson Welsh Sweden
Ralf Adams Germany
Srivastava Deepak USA Regulatory Networks Controlling Cardiac Cell Fate
Guido Serini Italy
S 15.2 Molecular basis of cardiovascular diseases ( Thursday, June 30th )
Stefan Engelhardt Germany MicroRNAs as therapeutic targets in cardiac disease.
Emilio Hirsch Italy Genetic Modeling of PI3K inhibition in health and disease
Alain Tedgui France Role of T and B lymphocytes in atherosclerosis
Eli Keshet Israel Re-vascularization mediated rescue of dysfunctional cardiomyocytes and reversal
of heart remodeling
Symposia Area S 16 Biochemistry of immunity and inflammation
S16.1 Ectoenzyme network and diseases ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Simon Robson USA
Laura Airas Finland
Silvia Deaglio Italy
Richard Ebstein Israel CD38 Mediates Social Behavior in Clinical and non-Clinical Subjects
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
S 16.2 Structure and function of innate immunity receptors ( Wednesday, June 29th )
Luke O'Neill Ireland
Veit Hornung Germany
Jürg Tschopp Switzerland
Lorenzo Moretta Italy Human NK receptors: functional characteristcs and clinical applications
S 16.3 Receptors and signal transduction ( Thursday, June 30th )
Oreste Acuto United Kingdom T cell antigen receptor signalling
Ada Funaro Italy
Symposia Area S 17 Biochemistry and molecular biology of malaria and tuberculosis
S 17.1 Biochemistry and molecular biology of Tuberculosis (Wednesday, June 29th )
Barry Clifton E. USA The role of the deazaflavin cofactor F420 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Stewart Cole Switzerland
Roland Brosch France ESX/Type VII secretion in tubercle bacilli - a key factor in virulence and protection
Katarina Mikusova Slovakia Playing biochemistry with mycobacterial cell wall - an old good drug target
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
S 17.2 Biochemistry and molecular biology of Malaria (Thursday, June 30th )
Maria Mota Portugal Approching malaria from the host side
Dominique Soldati-Favre Switzerland Molecular events governing the lytic cycle in Apicomplexa
Michael Lanzer Germany Transporters as mediators of drug resistance in the human malaria parasite
Plasmodium falciparum
Artur Scherf France
Symposia Area S 18 Plant Biochemistry for Health and Tomorrow’s Medicine
S 18.1 Green Factory ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Cathie Martin United Kingdom Engineering phenylpropanoid metabolism in crops for healthier foods
Eva Stöger Austria Plant-produced pharmaceutical antibodies
Roberto Bassi Italy Domeaticating unicellular photosynthetic eucariotes for the production of biofuels
and recombinant proteins
Harro Bouwmeester The Netherlands acceptance pending
S 18.2 Plant Innate Immunity ( Tuesday, June 28th )
Brian Staskawicz USA
Ulla Bonas Germany Plant targets of bacterial effector proteins
Jonathan Jones United Kingdom
Giulia De Lorenzo Italy Healthy food for a healthy life: engineering resistance by constructing chimeric
receptors for pathogen recognition
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers
Symposia Area S 19 Molecular and cellular therapeutics
S 19.1 Vectors for therapeutic and experimental applications (Wednesday, June 29th )
Thierry Vanden Driessche Belgium
Tony Cathomen Germany
Luigi Naldini Italy
S 19.2 Gene and cell therapy for genetic diseases (Thursday, June 30th )
Natalie Cartier France
Alessandro Aiuti Italy
Juan Bueren Spain Perspectives for the Gene Therapy of Inherited Diseases Affecting the Hematopoietic Stem Cells:
The Fanconi Anemia Model
Shin-ichi Muramatsu Japan Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease: Strategies to restore local dopamine production
Symposia and Confirmed Speakers