7 - 8 Maggio

Ph. D. Day '14B

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La ricerca dei Dottorandi al Vallisneri

th Wednesday, May 7 , 2014

10a.m.-12.30 a.m. - Display of posters and posters discussion (Vallisneri building)2 p.m.-5 p.m. - Display of posters and posters discussion (Vallisneri building)

thThursday, May 8 , 2014

9.00 – 9.15 Welcome address

Opening lecture

9.15 – 10.00 Dietelmo Pievani (Department of Biology, University of Padua) SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY. Biosciences at the frontier of public debates Oral presentations by former PhD students

10.00 – 10.30 Paolo Grumati (Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) To eat, or not to eat, that is the question: Autophagy as a selective cleanser

10.30 – 11.00 Roberta Sartori (VIMM, Padua) Role of TGFb/Myostatin and BMPs signalling in muscle homeostasis

Coffee break (11.00 – 11.30)

11.30 – 12.00 Edoardo Missiaglia (Project manager, Bioinformatics Core Facility, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) From Glis glis to Swiss! Translational Bioinformatics in a Core Facility

12.00 – 12.30 Mirko Santello (Institute of Physiology, University of Bern) Plasticity of cortical neurons in chronic pain 12.30 – 13.00 Sandro Vivona (Stem CentRx, San Francisco) From NSF-driven SNARE complex disassembly to alpha-synuclein, a biophysical perspective on neurotransmission

Lunch - Student room, ground floor (13.00 – 14.30)

Oral presentations by selected PhD students (14.30 – 17.30)

Concluding remarks

Spritz - Student room, ground floor (17.30 – 18.30)

si ringraziano:

Segreteria Organizzativa:Manno MariaDept. of BiologyTel.:+39 0498276276maria.manno@unipd.it

Aula Magna Centro Interdipartimentale "A. Vallisneri"via U. Bassi 58b, Padova

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