Aula Magna, Palazzo Bo, University of Padua

9:00

Welcome Addresses

Rosario Rizzuto, Rector of the University of Padua
Giuseppe Zanotti, Director of the Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua

9:20-9:40

Cesare Montecucco (Padua, Italy)

Intercellular signalling in the regeneration of the neuromuscular junction

9:40-10:00

Jacopo Meldolesi (Milan, Italy)

Yes, no trouble to get various types of collaboration started and pursued

10:00-10:20

Claes Wollheim (Geneva, Switzerland)

VDAC1 as executer gene and novel drug target in type 2 diabetes

10:20-10:40

Richard W. Tsien (New York, NY, USA)

Memory storage as a collaboration of calcium signaling proteins

11:40-12:00

Ole H. Petersen (Cardiff, United Kingdom)

Calcium signalling in the mysterious pancreatic stellate cells

12:00-12:20

Andrew P. Thomas (Newark, NJ, USA)

IP₃ dynamics adds excitability to calcium signaling

12:20-12:40

Israel Sekler (Be'er Sheva, Israel)

Control of mitochondria by light and calcium

14:40-15:00

Marek Michalak (Edmonton, AB, Canada)

ER homeostasis and stress coping strategies

15:00-15:20

Aldebaran M. Hofer (Boston, MA, USA)

The primary cilium: an independent cAMP signaling organelle

15:20-15:40

Manuela Zaccolo (Oxford, United Kingdom)

cAMP nanodomains

15:40-16:00

Rüdiger Rudolf (Heidelberg, Germany)

Cruising in fluorescent waters: cAMPaign for sympathetic interactions

17:00-17:20

Cristina Fasolato (Padua, Italy)

Ageing with mice and men

17:20-17:40

Giorgio Carmignoto (Padua, Italy)

Astrocytes at the center of the brain of neurons

17:40-18:00

Rosario Rizzuto (Padua, Italy)

The mitochondrial calcium uniporter

18:00

Concluding remarks
Tullio Pozzan (Padua, Italy)