Programme

Registration

Lunch

Session I

Chairs: Simona Paladino and Chiara Zurzolo (Naples)

Arianna Crespi (Milan)

Role of POF1B in epithelial polarity

Carolina Crespo (Milan)

The PAR polarity complex controls the directional migration of medaka macrophages to sites of tissue injury in vivo

Maria Svelto (Bari)

Knockdown of BBS10 in renal cells affects apical targeting of AQP2: a possible explanation for the polyuria associated with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome

Grazia Tamma (Bari)

A novel regulatory mechanism of AQP2 trafficking to explain the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis

Alessia Castagnino (Genoa)

ErbB2 membrane redistribution induced by Trastuzumab in SKBR3 cells

Elisa Duregotti (Padua)

Calpains participate in nerve terminal degeneration induced by spider and snake presynaptic neurotoxins

Coffee break

Session II

Chair: Nica Borgese (Milan)

Annalea Conte (Lecce)

Biogenesis of the yeast cytochrome bc₁ complex

Laura Pancrazi (Pisa)

Rett Syndrome and FOXG1 subcellular localization

Francesco Consolato (Milan)

Mitochondrial network fragmentation caused by enhanced OPA1 processing leads to impaired mitochondrial calcium uptake in Afg3l2 null cells

Grazia Della Sala (Pisa)

Cellular mechanisms of Niemann Pick type C disease

Plenary Lecture

Pietro De Camilli (New Haven, CT, USA)

Membrane dynamics and phosphoinositide signaling in the endocytic pathway

General discussion and election of next chair

Dinner

Poster Session, Wine and Dessert

Session III

Chairs: Stefano Bonatti (Naples) and Paolo Remondelli (Salerno)

Andrea Orsi (Milan)

Monitoring differential UPR activation by over-expression of ER client proteins

Sara Colombo (Milan)

Assembly, trafficking and up-regulation of the α₃β₄ neuronal nicotinic receptor

Giulia Papiani (Milan)

ER-derived cytoplasmic inclusions generated by mutant, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-associated VAPB are cleared by the proteasome

Alexandre Mironov (Milan)

COPII vesicles are not transport carriers

Rossella Venditti (Naples)

Sedlin binds Sar1p and controls type II procollagen trafficking by modulating the cycle of COPII

Carmen Faso (Zurich, Switzerland)

ER exit sites exist independently of the Golgi in the highly reduced parasitic protozoan Giardia lamblia

Coffee break

Session IV

Chairs: Carlo Tacchetti (Genoa) and Francesco Filippini (Padua)

Paola Bagnato (Genoa)

Role of ErbB1 in Trastuzumab-induced ErbB2 signaling and internalization

Giusi Caldieri (Milan)

Identification of novel candidate proteins involved in the non-clathrin endocytic pathway of the epidermal growth factor receptor

Rosa Molfetta (Rome)

Syk kinase activity regulates the coupling of ubiquitinated FcεRI to the endocytic pathway

Maria De Luca (Lecce)

RILP and V1G1: functional interaction in mammalian cells

Adriana Di Benedetto (Bari)

Nuclear translocation of oxytocin receptor mediates increased expression of osteoblast specific genes

Giuseppe Di Noto (Brescia)

Immunoglobulin free light chains trafficking pathway

Lunch and Departure