Skeletal Muscle: from Molecules to Function

a symposium in honour of
Prof. Carlo Reggiani

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1 October 2018
Padua, Italy

Programme

Monday, 1 October 2018

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

9:30-9:50

Stefano Schiaffino (Padua, Italy)

A long journey with Carlo in the Padua muscle incubator

9:50-10:10

Roberto Bottinelli (Pavia, Italy)

The exciting time of skeletal muscle research with Carlo in Pavia

10:10-10:30

Ger Stienen (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Energy supply and demand in skeletal and cardiac muscle: Amsterdam To Padua

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:20

Vincenzo Sorrentino (Siena, Italy)

More than twenty years of conversations on muscle biology and other topics

11:20-11:40

Lars Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden)

Bench to bedside research on critical illness myopathy and ventilator induced diaphragm muscle dysfunction

11:40-12:00

Corrado Poggesi (Florence, Italy)

Thin filament regulation of muscle contraction: function and dysfunction

12:00-12:20

Marco Sandri (Padua, Italy)

Fighting dogma for the beauty of the truth

12:20-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-13:50

Mike Geeves (Canterbury, UK)

Muscle myosin isoforms: how do they define contraction parameters

13:50-14:10

Bert Blaauw (Padua, Italy)

From molecules to muscle and back

14:10-14:30

Leonardo Nogara (Padua, Italy)

How to save a first-year Ph.D. student

14:30-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-15:20

Rado Pisot & Boštjan Šimunič (Koper, Slovenia)

From Santorio Santorio to Carlo Reggiani: skeletal muscle structure and function with detraining and retraining

15:20-15:40

Marco Narici (Padua, Italy)

Muscle force in ageing and disuse: quo vadis?

15:40-16:30

Keynote lecture
Carlo Reggiani (Padua, Italy)

TBD