Keynote speaker
Prof. Tullio Pozzan
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy
Tullio Pozzan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Padua and member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), of the Accademia dei Lincei, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2018.
Historically, Prof Pozzan scientific interest has been focused on calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis in animal cells and its role in cell signalling, in both health and disease. In addition to Ca2+, the interest is also concentrated on cAMP signalling. In this context, novel tools have been generated and characterized and several signaling pathways linked to these second messengers have been detailed. All these methodologies are used to address with novel approaches the role of second messenger heterogeneity in different physio-pathological conditions not only in cell lines or primary cell cultures, but also in tissue preparations and in vivo.
Confirmed Invited speakers
Prof. Zhenming Pei
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Prof. Ildiko Szabo
Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
Prof. Colin Brownlee
Emeritus Professor within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton and a Senior Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
Prof. Guo Yan
State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Prof. Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Division of Evolutionary Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Prof. Rainer Hedrich
Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Prof. Cyril Zipfel
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Edward Farmer
Département de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
