Programme:

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5th Serafino Zappacosta Conference, co-organised with the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathology, and held in the “Serafino Zappacosta” Seminar room of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples

Naples, 27 January 2012

 

“Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria: Stem cells, Complement, Auto-immunity”

 

Lucio Luzzatto (Università di Firenze, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Florence, Italy)

 

Elizabeth Simpson (Vice President Ceppellini  School, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London,  Fellow of the Royal Society), "Welcome Address and Introduction"

 

 

 

4th Serafino Zappacosta Conference, co-organised with the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathology, and held in the “Serafino Zappacosta” Seminar room of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples

Naples, 30 June 2010

 

“Allelic exclusion in the immune system”

 

Yehudit Bergman ( Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research,  The Hebrew University Medical School,  Jerusalem, Israel)

Silvia Fontana Zappacosta  (President, Ceppellini  School)  “Welcome address”

Elizabeth Simpson  (Vice President Ceppellini  School, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London,  Fellow of the Royal Society)  “Introduction”

 

 

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3rd Serafino Zappacosta Conference, co-organised with, and held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Palazzo Serra di Cassano

Naples, 4 June 2009

 

“Small interfering RNAs and Immune-regulation”

 

Dr. Silvia Fontana (Pres., Ceppellini School, Naples) “Introduction to the Ceppellini School”

Prof. Enrico Avvedimento (Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare  e Molecolare, Università di Napoli Federico II) “Small RNAs, transcription and epigenetic modifications”

Prof. Ofer  Mandelboim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ) “Proteins and microRNAs controlling NK cell activity”

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2nd Serafino Zappacosta Conference, co-organised with, and held at, the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples

Naples, 16 June 2008

 

“1908 – 2008  Science and culture in Naples:  the Mechnikov heritage a century after the Nobel Prize”

 

Dr. Silvia Fontana (Pres., Ceppellini School, Naples) “About the Ceppellini School”

Dr. Christiane Groeben (Historical Librarian, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn) “The Naples experience of Ilya Mechnikov”

Prof. Helmut Hahn (Berlin Medical Association and Koch-Mechnikov Forum, Berlin, Germany) “From Mechnikov to today: Mechnikov’s impact on the development of immunology”

Dr. Sergio Grinstein (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) “Phagocytosis 100 years later: imaging proteins, lipids and charges”

Dr. Rosaria De Santis (Researcher, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples) “Following the tracks of immunity:  back to the urochordates”

 

 

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1st Serafino Zappacosta Conference, co-organised with, and held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Palazzo Serra di Cassano

Naples, 1 February 2007

 

“Xeno-transplantation: biological advances, clinical possibilities, philosophical and ethical concerns”

 

The Conference Chairmans: G. Marotta (Naples) and Robert J Lechler (London)

G. Marotta (Naples): "Science and Philosophy: the long standing collaboration between the Scuola Superiore d’Immunologia Ruggero Ceppellini and the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici"

R.J. Lechler (London):  Xeno-transplantation: biological advances, clinical possibilities, philosophical and ethical concerns