Programme

Registration

Neurogenesis and Neural Development

Chair: Ferdinando Di Cunto (Turin)

Nicoletta Carucci (Rome)

Region-specific function and regulation of Retinoic Acid (RA) signalling in neural progenitors

Federico Luzzati (Turin)

Neuronal genesis in the striatal parenchyma during progressive degeneration

Chiara Rolando (Turin)

Distinct roles of NOGO-A and NOGO receptor 1 signaling in the homeostatic regulation of adult Neural Stem Cell activity and in neuroblast migration

Gabriella Sarò (Turin)

The role of ArhGAP15, a negative regulator of the small-GTPase Rac1, in neuronal migration and neuritogenesis during cortical development

Coffee break

Development and Disease

Chair: Antonio Musarò (Rome)

Caterina Missero (Naples)

p63 regulation of gene expression programs in skin development and disease

Nadia Lo Iacono (Milan)

Pin1 is a Dlx5 target gene that modulates ΔNp63α protein stability during limb development

Elisa De Luca (Turin)

Characterization of vascular smooth muscle cells in zebrafish

Giulia Garaffo (Turin)

The homeodomain gene Dlx5 controls peripheral olfactory differentiation and axonal connection, via complex protein-coding and microRNA regulations

Anna Cariboni (London, United Kingdom)

Failure of GnRH neuron migration and survival in mice lacking SEMA3A and VEGF164 signalling via Neuropilins

Free evening

Invited Speaker

Vania Broccoli (Milan)

Speeding up genetic cell reprogramming: the direct shortcut

Stem Cells, Development, Differentiation (1)

Chair: Enzo Calautti (Turin)

Matteo Perino (Milan)

Direct conversion of mouse and human fibroblasts into functional dopaminergic neurons

Daniela Privitera (Milan)

Development of pantotenate kinase associate neurodegeneration disease model by direct reprogramming of patients’ fibroblasts

Coffee break

Stem Cells, Development, Differentiation (2)

Chair: Enzo Calautti (Milan)

Sharmila Fagoonee (Turin)

The RNA-binding protein, ESRP1, is a novel regulator of pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells

Silvia Pellegrini (Milan)

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS) as a source of insulin-producing cells

Alessandro Rosa (Rome)

Generation of new tools and iPS cell-based in vitro model systems to study Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Ilda Theka (Milan)

Establishing a fast method for the generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from human iPS cells

Stem Cells and Cancer

Chair: Sara Cabodi (Turin)

Caterina La Porta (Milan)

Senescent cells in growing tumors: population dynamics and cancer stem cells

Elisabetta Ercole (Turin)

Human medulloblastoma stem-like cells: comparison between cancer stem cells from medullospheres and basal cell lines

Lunch

Invited Speaker

Maria Pia Cosma (Barcelona, Spain)

Somatic cell reprogramming as a mechanism for tissue regeneration

Signaling in Development

Chair: Massimo Santoro (Turin)

Alessandra Costa (Rome)

Exploiting Vasopressin signaling in muscular atrophy and dystrophies

Irene Franco (Turin)

Class II PI3K-C2α: a novel regulator of vesicular trafficking at the base of the primary cilium

Anna Musto (Naples)

Dies1: a new player of BMP4 signalling in ESCs

Giusy Tornillo (Turin)

Role of p130Cas in the control of epithelial cell commitment and differentiation in the mammary gland

Poster Session and Coffee Break

Social dinner at restaurant "La Pace"

Stem Cells and Regeneration

Chair: Giorgio Merlo (Turin)

Viviana Costa (Rome)

A common progenitor gives rise to hepatic epithelial and mesenchymal derivatives: new insights in development, regeneration and liver fibrosis

Letizia De Chiara (Turin)

Murine germline-cell derived pluripotent stem cells differentiated into tubular-like renal epithelial cells can protect from renal ischemia/reperfusion injury

Gabriella Ranaldo (Novara)

A novel iPSC-based strategy to correct the bleeding phenotype in hemophilia A

Diego Zanolini (Novara)

FVIII expression and secretion in bone marrow cells capable of correcting bleeding in hemophilia A mice

Coffee break and departure