[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, October 3, 2006 - Dr. Daniela Melchiorri

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Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, October 3, 2006 - Dr. Daniela Melchiorri

KILLAM LECTURE


Speaker:	Daniela Melchiorri, Ph.D.
		Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology
		The University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)

Title:	Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Self-renewal and Differentiation of Embryonic
		and Neural Stem Cells

Place:	de Grandpre Communications Centre

Date:		Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Time:		4:00 pm

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Dear Colleagues,
 
Dr. Daniela Melchiorri from Rome, Italy will be presenting a Killam seminar on Tuesday October 3rd at 16:00. Dr. Melchiorri¹s research focuses on how neurotransmitters play novel roles in CNS morphogenesis. She is particularly interested in how metabotropic and ionotropic glutamate receptors, and the ephrins, may coordinate neurogenesis, differentiation and survival in the CNS. 
 
Dr. Melchiorri¹s seminar is entitled:
 
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Self-renewal and Differentiation of Embryonic and Neural Stem Cells
 
 
With best wishes,
 
 
Abbas Sadikot
 
 
Examples of Dr. Melchiorri¹s recent publications:
 
Spinsanti P, De Vita T, Di Castro S, Storto M, Formisano P, Nicoletti F, Melchiorri D. Endogenously activated mGlu5 metabotropic glutamate receptors sustain the increase in c-Myc expression induced by leukaemia inhibitory factor in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. J Neurochem. 2006 99:299-307.
 
Cappuccio I, Verani R, Spinsanti P, Niccolini C, Gradini R, Costantino S, Nicoletti F, Melchiorri D. Context-dependent regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation by mGlu4 metabotropic glutamate receptors.
Neuropharmacology. 2006 51:606-11.
 
Cappuccio I, Spinsanti P, Porcellini A, Desiderati F, De Vita T, Storto M, Capobianco L, Battaglia G, Nicoletti F, Melchiorri D. Endogenous activation of mGlu5 metabotropic glutamate receptors supports self-renewal of cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. Neuropharmacology. 2005;49 Suppl 1:196-205
 
Canudas AM, Di Giorgi-Gerevini V, Iacovelli L, Nano G, D'Onofrio M, Arcella A, Giangaspero F, Busceti C, Ricci-Vitiani L, Battaglia G, Nicoletti F, Melchiorri D. PHCCC, a specific enhancer of type 4 metabotropic glutamate receptors, reduces proliferation and promotes differentiation of cerebellar granule cell neuroprecursors. J Neurosci. 2004 24:10343-52.