Appendix C

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Matteo Adinolfi

Galton Laboratory, University College, London, UK

Diagnosi prenatali usando la PCR quantitativa fluorescente

André Adoutte

Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire 4, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

An updated molecular phylogeny of the Metazoa: implications for understanding the evolution of development

Ueli Aebi

Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Molecular dissection of nuclear pore complex structure and function

Alice Alldredge

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

The role of marine snow in the ecology of the ocean

Donald M. Anderson

Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Red tides and harmful algal blooms: a global perspective

Marcos Antezana

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Off-frame tri- and di-nucleotide preferences in Drosophila coding regions: selection or context-dependent mutation?

Kirk Apt

Martek Biosciences Inc., Columbia, MD, USA

Genetic transformation of marine algae

David Armstrong

Laboratory of Signal Transduction, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Physiological significance of protein phospatase inhibition by aquatic microbial toxins

Michael Arnold

Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Paradigm lost: natural hybridization and evolution

Charles Auffray

Unité de Génétique Moléculaire et Biologie du Développement, CNRS, Villejuif, France

The genexpress IMAGE knowledge base of the human brain and muscle transcriptome

George Augustine

Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter secretion: a functional view

John Avise

Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Phylogeography and conservation biology in the marine realm and elsewhere

Hilmar Bading

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

How calcium signals regulate gene expression

Jolanta Baranska

Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

The role of Ca²⁺ and protein kinase C in regulation of phosphatidylserine synthesis in glioma C6 cells

Dagmar Barthel

Brussels, Belgium

Faunistics, biology and ecology of Antarctic and subarctic sponges

Jaap J. Beintema

University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Molecular evolution of the ribonuclease superfamily

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Distribuzione di organismi su coste rocciose: l’analisi sperimentale delle modalità e dei processi

Giacomo Bernardi

Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Oceanographic and ecological barriers to gene flow in marine fish populations: examples from the Pacific

Robert F. Bonner

Laboratory of Integrative & Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA

Laser capture microdissection approaches to macromolecular analysis of normal development and pathology

Mohamed Bradai

Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Sfax, Tunisia

La protection des tortues marines en Tunisie

Euan Brown

Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

L-glutamate action in the nervous systems of vertebrates and cephalopods

Francesca Carlomagno

Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Studio dell’estensione del linkage disequilibrium nella popolazione "founder" degli Afrikaaner

Stephen Cohen

Developmental Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Axis formation in Drosophila limb development

Immacolata Coraggio

Istituto Biosintesi Vegetali, CNR, Milan, Italy

Mybleu: un fattore trascrizionale di riso capace di attivare la trascrizione dimerizzando con il B-Zip Opaco2

Riccardo Cortese

Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare P. Angeletti, Pomezia (Rome), Italy

Combinatorial libraries in biology and medicine

John Jack Costello

Biology Department, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA

Prey detection and capture by the lobate ctenofore Mnemiopsis leidyi

Mark J. Costello

Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

The marine biodiversity agenda in Europe: rationale, approaches, and the role of the European register of marine species project

Marianna Crispino

Dipartimento di Fisiologia Generale ed Ambientale, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Sintesi proteica nelle terminazioni nervose del calamaro Loligo vulgaris

Vittoria Cubellis

Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biologica, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Modelling e dinamica molecolare: il caso della ribonucleasi seminale bovina

Christine Dambly-Chaudiere

Laboratoire de Neurogénétique, INSERM 432, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Development and specification of the peripheral nervous system in Drosophila

Eric H. Davidson

Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Gene regulatory circuitry in development and evolution

Massimo Delledonne

Università di Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy

The role of nitric oxide in plant-pathogen interactions

Markus U. Ehrengruber

Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Recombinant Semliki Forest virus and Sindbis virus efficiently infect neurons in hippocampal slice cultures

Gerard Evan

Biochemistry of the Cell Nucleus Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund,

London, UK

Apoptosis in cancer

Adam Eyre-Walker

Centre for the Study of Evolution & School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Deleterious mutations and the human genome: how did we survive the last 6 million years

Godeleine Faugeron

Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France

DNA methylation and gene silencing in Ascobulus: effects on transcription and chromatin

William Fenical

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Chemical ecology of soft-bodied marine invertebrates

Jean-Pierre Feral

Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Banyuls-sur-mer, France

Relationships between dispersal capacities and the structuring of marine benthic invertebrate species

Ruth Gabizon

Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Biochemistry and genetics of prion disease

Christian Gache

Station Marine, CNRS, Villefranche-sur-mer, France

Patterning along the animal-vegetal axis of the sea urchin embryo

Daniela Gadotti

Department of Biology, Idaho State University, USA

Identification of reproduction-specific genes in ferns and flowering plants

Aurelio Galli

Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

New mechanism for norepinephrine and dopamine transport: the cotransporter becomes a ion channel

John Garthwaite

The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, London, UK

Nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the central nervous system

Anton Gerats

Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium

- Transposon tagging and insertion mutagenesis in Petunia

- The role of Apetala 2 genes in floral development

Michael Ghiselin

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

The evolution of chemical defense in opistobranch gastropods

Phil Gilmartin

Centre for Plant Sciences, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

A bouquet of molecular genetic analyses on flower development in Silene and Primula

David L. Glanzman

Departments of Physiological Science and Neurobiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Classical conditioning in Aplysia reconsidered: the role of postsynaptic mechanisms

Dan Graur

Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Identifying selection at the molecular level

Arthur Grossman

Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA, USA

Phosphorelay control of light harvesting biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

Heidi Harley

New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL, USA

Object representation in dolphins: identity vs. conditional cross-modal matching

Carl Philipp Heisemberg

Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK

Genes involved in forebrain development in the zebrafish Danio rerio

A.R. Hoelzel

Department of Biological Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK

Spatial and temporal patterns in the phylogeography of marine organisms: the case of marine mammals

Motonori Hoshi

Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

- Egg signals for the induction of the acrosome reaction in starfish

- Switching from asexuals to sexuals in Planarians

Nicole Le Douarin

Institut d’Embryologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire du CNRS et du Collège de France, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

A novel view in neurulation in Amniotes

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Global warming: myth or reality?

Lynn Margulis

Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

Symbiogenesis and evolution

Gennaro Marino

Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biologica, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Le prospettive della spettrometria di massa nella ricerca biologica

Yasushi Matsui

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Genetic characterization of yeast counter-parts of tumor suppressor gene lethal (2) giant larvae

Jim McGhee

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Development of the C. elegans digestive tract

Liliana Minichiello

Developmental Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory,

Heidelberg, Germany

Role of Neurotrophin receptors in the nervous system

Sebastien Mongrand

University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Eukaryotic chloropast lipid metabolism, a new hypothesis concerning lipid transfer in plant cells

Barbara Mussi

Studiomare, Ischia (Na), Italy

Sintesi di uno studio sui cetacei nell’arcipelago pontino-campano. Anni 1991-1998

Roland Nitschke

Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Examination of the regulation of passive nuclear pore permeability in epithelial cells using live cell confocal microscopy

Nicolò Parrinello

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Emociti e meccanismi citotossici nell’immunità delle ascidie

Villoo Pattel

Plant Genome Laboratory, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India

From rice genes to rice genomics in India

Pietro Piffanelli

Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK

Mlo disease resistance gene is the founder of a novel class of 7 trans-membrane proteins in plants

Jacques Pouyssegur

Centre de Biochimie-CNRS, Université de Nice, Nice, France

Control of cell proliferation. Role of MAP kinases and spatio-temporal regulation

Werner Rathmayer

Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Peptidergic modulation of neuromuscular performance in Crustaceans

Gabino Rios Garcia

Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Cellular de Plantas, Valencia, Spain

Halotolerance genes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Filomena Ristoratore

Laboratoire de Génétique des Poissons, INRA, Jouy en Josas, France

Espressione ectopica di un gene Engrailed in medaka (Oryzias latipes): effetti sullo sviluppo del sistema nervoso centrale

Rosario Rizzuto

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Diagnostica, Sezione di Patologia Generale, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Targeted bioluminescent and fluoroscent probes to study cell signalling

Joandomènec Roos

Departement d’Ecologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ten-year ecological monitoring of a marine reserve (Medas Islands, Catalonia, Spain): results and prospects

Jean-Luc Rossignol

Institut Jaques Monod, Paris, France

Eukaryotic DNA methylation as an evolutionary device

Joel H. Rothman

Department of MCD Biology, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Patterning the early C. elegans embryo: molecular control of germ layer differentiation

Giuseppe Scapigliati

Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Biotecnologie animali: studi sul sistema immunitario del teleosteo Decentrarchus labrax e applicazioni in acquacoltura

Vittorio Sgaramella

Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy

La resistibile ascesa della clonazione umana

Antonio Simeone

Istituto Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica, CNR, Naples Italy

Ruolo dei geni Otx nello sviluppo ed evoluzione del cervello

Pramod Srivastava

Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA

Heat shock proteins: ancient functions, modern roles

Richard Steinhardt

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

Berkely, CA, USA

The mechanism of facilitated cell membrane resealing

Richard Strathmann

Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA, USA

Swimming, cell cycles, and the evolution of development rates of planktonic embryos

Kurt Tande

Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Trans-Atlantic study of Calanus finmarchicus (TASC), idea, status and perspectives

Uday Tirlapur

Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

Phytochrome-regulated physiological and morphogenetic events in turions of Spirodela polyrhiza

Daniel Tomsic

Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Learning and memory in crabs: behavioral and mechanistic studies

Marco Tripodi

Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

Immortalizzazione di epatociti differenziati

Ageeth van Tuinen

INRA, Versailles, France

Genetic dissection of cell elongation in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl and its control by light

Giovanni Vendramin

Istituto Miglioramento Genetico Piante Forestali, CNR, Florence, Italy

Uso di marcatori microsatellite plastidiali per l’analisi della diversità genetica e della storia evolutiva in specie forestali

Michael Vishnevetsky

Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Carotenoid-associated proteins and carotenoids: necessity or option?

Timothy Wyatt

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Vigo, Spain

Algal population dynamics: are algae victims?

Kaska Yakup

Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Pamukkale Üniversitesi, Denizli, Turkey

The nesting ecology of sea turtles on the beaches of Eastern Mediterranean

Moshe Yaniv

Department of Biotechnology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

The role of HNF1alpha, beta homeoproteins in development and organ function