The pre-congress meeting is reserved for post-docs and Ph.D. students who are under 35 years at the date of the congress. Attendance will be limited to 100 participants.
Participation in the pre-congress meeting is reserved to post-docs and Ph.D. students who will attend and submit an abstract to the ABCD 2023 National Congress.
In case of oversubscription, acceptance will be decided by the organisers based on the quality of the presented abstracts.
Among the participants of the pre-congress meeting, twenty-two will be selected for oral presentations during the pre-congress meeting. All participants (including those selected for oral presentations) are still expected to present their posters at the ABCD 2023 National Congress.
There is no registration fee for the pre-congress meeting and for the pre-congress meeting dinner.
Fellowships will be available for post-docs and Ph.D. students accepted to attend the pre-congress meeting to help defray their lodging and travel costs.
Thursday, 21 September |
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8:30-8:45 |
Chinmay Maheshwari (Novara, Italy) |
8:45-9:00 |
Maria Iavazzo (Pozzuoli, NA, Italy) |
9:00-9:15 |
Francesca Spinelli (Padua, Italy) |
9:15-9:30 |
Martina Cusan (Padua, Italy) |
9:30-9:45 |
Vanessa Tolotto (Udine, Italy) |
9:45-10:00 |
Elisa Costanzo (Palermo, Italy) |
10:00-10:15 |
Simona Ricciardi (Pozzuoli, NA, Italy) |
10:15-11:00 |
Keynote Lecture 
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30-11:45 |
Davide Acquarone (Turin, Italy) |
11:45-12:00 |
Gaia Laurenzi (Rome, Italy) |
12:00-12:15 |
Laura De Rosa (Naples, Italy) |
12:15-12:30 |
Roberta Romano (Lecce, Italy) |
12:30-12:45 |
Carina Cojocaru (Candiolo, TO, Italy) |
12:45-13:00 |
Giuseppe Mancuso (Promega) |
13:00-13:15 |
Awarding of the "Luca Daveggio" prize |
13:15-15:30 |
Free time until the beginning of ABCD Congress. Lunch boxes provided. |
Schmid’s highly collaborative laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute (1988-2012) and then UT Southwestern (2012-2020), applied cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, and quantitative live cell microscopy to define the molecular mechanisms underlying clathrin-mediated endocytosis; with particular focus on the paradigmatic fission GTPase, dynamin. Schmid’s work, published in over 170 articles and reviews, has been recognized by numerous awards, including her election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. She has held many leadership positions, including Chair of Cell Biology at Scripps (2001-2012) and UTSW (2012-2020); Founding Editor of Traffic and Editor-in-chief of MBoC (2004-2010) and President of the American Society for Cell Biology (2011). She currently serves as the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, an independently funded biomedical research institute that partners with Stanford, UC San Francisco and Berkeley to understand the mechanisms underlying diseases and develop new technologies that can lead to actionable diagnostics and effective therapies.
Seeing is believing; visual observations are a vital part of scientific studies. They are also key to the communication of science to the public and the participation of the public in the importance of scientific research and we use them to transmit knowledge and interpretation.
Direct observation of molecular events in vivo is a key goal of contemporary microscopy. Three recently developed forms of optical microscopy available in our laboratory -- Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy (LLSM), Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy optimized with Adaptive Optics (AO-LLSM) and focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) -- are poised to bridge the gap between molecules and cells, either as independent entities in culture, as components of organoids, or as components of living tissues. The richness and magnitude of the data over periods ranging from seconds to hours, create new challenges for obtaining quantitative representations of the observed dynamics and for deriving accurate and comprehensive models for the underlying mechanisms needed to address problems in cell physiology and vertebrate development.
Our research program combines these frontier optical-imaging modalities with Artificial Intelligence Deep and Machine Learning methods to examine cellular membrane remodeling processes exemplified by cell size regulation and organization of the ER during cell division, post mitotic formation of nuclear pores complexes, organelle biogenesis, generation of intraluminal vesicles in endosomes, endosomal traffic and endosomal escape, immune responsiveness, lipid homeostasis, cell-cell recognition, and the interaction dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 or other viruses with host cells during early stages of infection.
Telmo Pievani (1970) is Full Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Padua, where he covers the first Italian chair of Philosophy of Biological Sciences since 2015. After Ph.D. researches in USA, he has been Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan Bicocca (2001-2012). Past President (2017-2019) of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology, he is Fellow of several academic Institutions and scientific societies. He is member of the editorial boards of Evolution: Education and Outreach, Evolutionary Biology, Rendiconti Lincei Sc. Fis. Nat., Nature Italy, Istituto Treccani, and the Italian edition of Scientific American. He is author of 322 publications, included several books: “Introduction to Philosophy of Biology” (Laterza, 2005); “The Theory of Evolution” (Il Mulino, 2010); “Born to Believe” (Codice Edizioni, 2008, with V. Girotto and G. Vallortigara); “The Unexpected Life” (Cortina Editore, 2011); “Homo sapiens. The Great History of Human Diversity” (Codice Edizioni, 2011, with L.L. Cavalli Sforza), “Introduction to Darwin” (Laterza, 2012); “The End of the World” (Il Mulino, 2012); “Freedom of migration” (Einaudi, 2016, with V. Calzolaio); “How we will be” (Codice Edizioni, 2016, with L. De Biase); “Imperfection. A natural history” (Cortina, 2019, MIT Press, 2022); “The Earth after us” (Contrasto, 2019; with F. Lanting’s photos), “Finitude” (Cortina, 2020); “Serendipity” (Cortina, 2021); “Nature is bigger than us” (Solferino, 2022). Fellow of the Scientific Board of science festivals in Italy, since 2014 he is fellow of the International Scientific Council of MUSE in Trento. He is Director of “Pikaia”, the Italian website dedicated to evolution (www.pikaia.eu). He is Director of the University of Padua web magazine, Il Bo LIVE (https://ilbolive.unipd.it). With Niles Eldredge, Ian Tattersall and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, he curated International science exhibitions. Author of books for children and theatre scientific shows, he collaborates with RAI radio and TV projects, he is a columnist for Il Corriere della Sera, and the magazines Le Scienze and Micromega. Personal website: www.telmopievani.com
