ISSNAF - Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundationannounces its 2011 Annual Event that will take place on September 17, 2011 in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Health.

Amongst the projects presented by under-40 researchers of Italian origin affiliated to North American centres during the meeting (oral or poster sessions), an ISSNAF Commission will award  the ISSNAF Young Investigator Awardand the Paola Campese Award for Research on Leukemia.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:50        Registration (free) and Poster display

8:50 – 9:20        Welcome addresses and introductions
Vito M Campese, President ISSNAF
Giuseppe Perrone, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles
Massimo Casciello, Direttore Generale, Dir. Scientifica e Tecnologica, Ministero della Salute
Massimo-Piattelli Palmarini, ISSNAF, Program Committee Chair

9:20 – 11:20      Session 1: Bio-Medicine Research Projects
Chair: Valter Longo (USC, Los Angeles)

9:20 - 9:40         New developments on Lung Human Disease
Caterina Tiozzo (CHLA, USC, Los Angeles)

9:40 - 10:00       New approaches to environmental stress response
Edoardo Airoldi (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

10:00 - 10:20     Intracellular delivery with miniaturized high-speed fluidic jets
Andrea Adamo (MIT, Boston)

10:20-10:40       Progenitor cells in amniotic fluid
Ilenia Zanusso (CHLA, USC, Los Angeles)

10:40-11:20       Coffee Break and Poster Presentations

11:20 - 12:20     Session 2: Bio-Medicine Research Projects
Chair: Lucio Comai (USC, Los Angeles)

11:20-11:40       Biological camouflage and its diagnostic and therapeutic implications
Ennio Tasciotti (The Methodist Hospital System, Research Institute, Houston)

11:40 - 12:00     Computer-aided drugs in the treatment of leukemia
Stefano Costanzi (NIH, Bethesda)

12:00 - 12:20     Chronic Kidney Disease and Stem cells
Laura Perin (CHLA, USC, Los Angeles)

12:20 - 12:40     The Italian Ministry of Public Health: Call for Grant Applications 
Massimo Casciello, Direttore Generale, Dir. Scientifica e Tecnologica, Ministero della Salute

12:40 - 14:00     Lunch and Poster Presentations

14:00 - 14:20     Guest Speaker Section: The International Space Station Project
Luciano Saccani – Senior Vice President, Thales Alenia Space

14:20 – 15:20    Section 3: Neuro and Cognitive Sciences Research Projects
Chair: Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona

14:20 - 14:40     Awareness and cognition in disorders of consciousness,
Martin M. Monti (UCLA, Los Angeles)

14:40 - 15:00     New inhibitory transmission in the mouse brain,
Marisa Roberto (The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego)

15:00 - 15:20     Inferring hidden motivation from the face
Filippo Rossi (University of Arizona)

15:20 – 15:40     Coffee Break and Poster Presentations

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