ESTOOLS - Advances with human embryonic stem cells - Programme of 2009 Annual Meeting in Rome
Programme of 2009 Annual Meeting in Rome
ESTOOLS OPEN SYMPOSIUM ON
STEM CELL SCIENCE, ETHICS & COMMUNICATION
“Dissolving the boundaries of stem cell knowledge”
Wednesday 27 May
Venue: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Via della Lungara, 00165 ROMA
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PROGRAMME (updated 7 May)
08:30 Registration desk open (prior online registration required for entry)
09:15 Opening Prof. Mario Stefanini (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
09:20 Introduction Prof. Peter Andrews (ESTOOLS Coordinator / Director Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK)
09:30 SESSION 1: Latest developments in science. Chair: Prof. Elena Cattaneo (ESTOOLS Principal Investigator / Director of Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Milan)
09:30-10:00 Lecture: Prof. Magdalena Goetz (ESTOOLS Scientific Advisory Panel / Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany) "Neurogenesis from glial cells - how to make neurons in the adult brain"
10:00-10:30 Lecture: Prof. Austin Smith (ESTOOLS deputy Coordinator / Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge, UK) "Natural and induced pluripotency"
10:30-11:00 Lecture: Prof. Peter Andrews (ESTOOLS Coordinator / Director Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK) "Stem Cell Fates: Attraction and the Single Cell"
11:00 COFFEE
11:30 SESSION 2: Outside the lab: patenting and the non-scientific environment. Chair: Prof. Kate Millar (ESTOOLS Ethics Advisory Panel / University of Nottingham, UK)
11:30-11:50 Lecture: Prof. Goran Hermeren (ESTOOLS Director for Ethics / Chair, European Group on Ethics in Science & New Technologies / University of Lund, Sweden) "Ethics, politics and patents"
11:50-12:15 Lecture: Prof. Joseph Straus (Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany) "Patenting of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Europe after the WARF Decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office"
12:15-12:30 Commentary by Prof. Oliver Bruestle (ESTOOLS Director / Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Germany
12:30 Pre-lunch Lecture: Mr Charles Sabine (NBC News War Correspondent) "My twenty-first century battlefield - the unassailable right of people to treat ill health"
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 SESSION 3: The conditions for successful communication & engagement between the public and pluripotent stem cell research at the Italian & European level.
Round Table: Chaired by Prof. Demetrio Neri (University of Messina / Member of Italian Government National committee for bioethics / ESTOOLS Ethics Advisory Committee)
Mr Sébastien Duprat (ESTOOLS Training & Outreach Manager, Univ. of Sheffield) with Dr Sylvie Coyaud, Dr Armando Massarenti, Dr Gianna Milano, Mr Charles Sabine
14:45 SESSION 4: Applications of stem cells. Chair: Prof. Peter Andrews
14:45-15:15 Lecture: Prof. Peter Coffey (Head of Ocular Biology & Therapeutics & Director of The London Project to Cure Blindness / Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK) "Stemming vision loss with stem cells – seeing is believing"
15:15-15:45 Lecture: Prof. Paolo Bianco (Professor of Pathology at the Medical School & Department of Experimental Medicine & Pathology at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy) "Potency, multipotency, pluripotency - facts and fiction"
15:45 COFFEE
16:15 SESSION 5: Science, law and ethics. Chair: Prof. Goran Hermeren
16:15-16:35 Lecture: Dr Christian Desaintes (European Commission) "The EU policy for funding research on human embryonic stem cells in FP7"
16:35-17:05 Lecture: Prof. Giuseppe Testa (ESTOOLS Ethics Advisory Panel / European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy) "Patrolling lineage boundaries: the new developmental biology in the public sphere"
17:05-17:35 Lecture: Prof. Stefano Rodotà (Professor of Civil Law, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
17:35-18:05 Lecture: Senator Ignazio Marino
18:05-18:20 Commentary and take-home messages: Dr Marco Cappato (Member of European Parliament)
18:20 Prof. Goran Hermeren to introduce the Anne McLaren Prize presentation of award by the ESTOOLS Ethics Advisory Panel
18:30 Closing words and Reception
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