Programme

Registration

Lunch

Welcome addresses and Introduction

Valeria Matranga & Gaetano Cairo

Plenary Lecture

Juan-Lucio Iovanna (Marseille, France)

Role of the stress proteins in pancreatic cancer progression

Session I
Cell stress and cancer

Chairs: Valeria Matranga and Giuseppe Montalto (Palermo)

Francesco Cappello (Palermo)

Trafficking and secretion patterns of Hsp60 in tumor cells

Alessandra Montecucco (Pavia)

The cell response to replication defects affects alternative splicing programs and cell morphology

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session II
Cell stress and oxidative stress

Chairs: Gaetano Cairo (Milan) and Gabriella Sconzo (Palermo)

Sonia Levi (Milan)

Skin fibroblasts from Pantothenate Kinase Associated Neurodegeneration patients showed altered cellular oxidative status induced by defective iron-handling

Maria Ragusa (Palermo)

Effects of cadmium exposition on sea urchin development by SSH and RT-qPCR techniques

Giovanna Romano (Naples)

Cellular and molecular responses to toxic diatom oxylipins in marine herbivores

Roberta Russo (Palermo)

UV-B activates the transcriptional expression of Pl-c-jun, an early responsive gene in sea urchin embryos

Giuseppina Turturici (Palermo)

Isolation of cell clones from stem cell population more resistant to oxidative stress for tissue repair

Business meeting: election of Vice-Chair

Poster Tour

Dinner

Plenary Lecture

Gabriele Multhoff (Munich, Germany)

Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) based immunotherapies for the treatment of solid tumors

Session III
Cell stress and signalling

Chairs: Sonia Levi (Milan) and Melchiorre Cervello (Palermo)

Rosa Bonaventura (Palermo)

A combination of cadmium and UV-B radiation impairs sea urchin embryo development and induces cell stress response at the gene and protein levels

Gaetano Cairo (Milan)

Control of iron homeostasis under conditions of stress erythropoiesis

Sergio Giannattasio (Bari)

Yeast programmed cell death: integration of cell adaptation and death pathways through mitochondrial stress response pathways

Anna Palumbo (Naples)

Environmental stress in marine organisms: role of nitric oxide

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session IV
Cell stress: apoptosis and autophagy

Chairs: Alessandra Montecucco (Pavia) and Maria Carmela Roccheri (Palermo)

Roberto Chiarelli (Palermo)

A possible role of autophagy for the execution of apoptosis in cadmium-exposed sea urchin embryos

Riccardo Cristofani (Milan)

The HSPB8 by complexing with Bag3/Hsc70/CHIP removes mutant SOD1 in models of familiar amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Davide Esposito (Naples)

A novel extraribosomal function of human rpL3 involves antitumoral activity in Calu-6 cells through p21-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis

General discussion and conclusions

Lunch
[winners of the Poster contest announced]