Protein Toxins:
a Journey between Physiology and Medicine

a symposium in honour of Prof. Cesare Montecucco

22-23 February 2018
Padua, Italy

 

Preliminary Programme

Thursday, 22 February 2018

Aula Magna, Complesso Interdipartimentale Vallisneri
University of Padua

14:00

Welcome Addresses

Tullio Pozzan, Director of the Dept of Biomedical Sciences, CNR
Giuseppe Zanotti, Director of the Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua

14:30-18:00

Alumni of Prof. Cesare Montecucco

14:30-14:45

Marina De Bernard (Padua, Italy)

Travelling... with Cesare

14:50-15:05

Gert Moll (Groningen, The Netherlands)

Use of bacterial lanthipeptide biosynthesis for generating target-specific stable therapeutics

15:10-15:25

Philip Washbourne (Eugene, OR, USA)

Development of Forebrain Control of Social Orienting

15:30-15:45

Maurizio Molinari (Bellinzona, Switzerland)

Life and death of proteins

15:50-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-16:30

Rossella Pellizzari (Padua, Italy)

From the research to the leadership

16:35-16:50

Fiorella Tonello (Padua, Italy)

An eclectic spirit never stops

16:55-17:10

Michela Rigoni (Padua, Italy)

From snakes to peripheral neuroregeneration

17:15-17:30

Ornella Rossetto (Padua, Italy)

The booming field of botulinum neurotoxins

17:35-18:00

Giampietro Schiavo (London, UK)

Of men and neurons

18:00-18:15

Gerolamo Lanfranchi, Director of the Dept of Biology, University of Padua

18:15-18:30

Cesare Montecucco (Padua, Italy)

Friday, 23 February 2018

Aula Magna, Palazzo Bo
University of Padua

9:00-10:00

Session 1
Chair: Giampietro Schiavo

Opening

Rosario Rizzuto, Rector of the University of Padua
[10 min]

Plenary Lecture

Pietro De Camilli (New Haven, CT, USA)

Contact sites between organelles in the control of lipid transport and membrane identity
[40 min + 10 min discussion]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-12:30

Session 2
Chair: Giampietro Schiavo

10:30-11:00

Michela Matteoli (Milan, Italy)

Immuno-synaptopathies: when the immune system affects synaptic function
[30 min + 5 min discussion]

11:05-11:35

Jordi Molgo (Paris, France)

Sprouting of motor nerve terminals induced by botulinal neurotoxins
[30 min + 5 min discussion]

11:40-12:20

Thomas Binz (Hannover, Germany)

Re-engineering botulinum neurotoxins to increase therapeutic potential
[30 min + 5 min discussion]

12:30-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:30

Session 3
Chair: Ornella Rossetto

14:00-14:40

Plenary Lecture

Antonio Lanzavecchia (Bellinzona, Switzerland)

Dissecting human antibody responses: useful, basic and surprising findings
[40 min + 10 min discussion]

14:50-15:20

Matteo Caleo (Pisa, Italy)

Effects of botulinum neurotoxins in the central nervous system
[30 min + 5 min discussion]

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:30

Session 4
Chair: Marina De Bernard

16:00-16:30

Roberto Eleopra (Milan, Italy)

Botulinum toxin for movement disorders and more: the Montecucco's experience
[30 min + 5 min discussion]

16:35-17:15

Plenary Lecture

Rino Rappuoli (Siena, Italy)

Doing science, saving lives
[40 min + 10 min discussion]

17:30

Concluding remarks