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Appendix D
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Meetings
Advanced Phytoplankton Course
Taxonomy and Systematics
Vico Equense (Naples), 10-30 May 1998
Organizer
Donato Marino
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Faculty
Grethe R. Hasle
Director of the course
University of Oslo
Department of Biology, Marine Botany
Oslo, Norway
Marie-Josèphe Chrétiennot-Dinet
Observatoire Oceanologique de Banyuls
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
I.N.S.U. - C.N.R.S, Laboratoire Arago
Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Carina B. Lange
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Geological Research Division
La Jolla, USA
Jacob Larsen
IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae, Botanical Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark
Marina Montresor
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Karen A. Steidinger
Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Marine Research Institute
St. Petersburg, USA
Carmelo R. Tomas
Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Marine Research Institute
St. Petersburg, USA
Jahn Throndsen
University of Oslo
Department of Biology, Marine Botany
Oslo, Norway
Adriana Zingone
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Invited lecturers
Patrizia B. Albertano
Dipartimento di Biologia
Universita’ di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Rome, Italy
Lars Edler
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Oceanographic Laboratory
Sweden
Lucia Mazzella
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Goals
The Course was meant for already experienced researchers actively working in fields of research that require species identification such as phytoplankton ecology and physiology, and for experts in taxonomy and systematics who need to upgrade their expertise. The aim of the course was to increase and update the expertise of the students in the identification of diatoms, dinoflagellates, coccolithophorids and other flagellate species. Special attention was given to species implicated in the formation of exceptional or harmful blooms.
The objectives of the Course were:
To provide an updated theoretical background for the morphology, taxonomy and classification of the most important phytoplankton groups.
-.To teach, in practical classrooms, methods and criteria for correct identification of species, with special emphasis on light microscopy techniques.
-.To allow students to acquire updated information on specialized literature.
-.To diffuse information and awareness on toxic and potentially toxic species.
-.To create a forum for discussion of general and specific aspects of systematics, ecology and geographic distribution of phytoplankton species.
Content
The Course included the following activities:
- Theoretical classrooms on general taxonomic features of marine diatoms, dinoflagellates (including cysts), coccolithophorids and other flagellates.
- Practical classrooms on the identification of selected species belonging to the different algal groups in the light microscope.
- Special techniques, such as acid frustule cleaning for diatoms, squashing and theca staining for dinoflagellates.
- Scanning (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) techniques, with practical sessions devoted to the observation of selected species.
- Techniques for establishing and maintaining clonal cultures.
- Serial dilution technique to establish mixed flagellate cultures.
- Field cruise with demonstration of sampling techniques.
- Integrative seminars on specific taxonomic issues (nuisance species, marine cyanobacteria, epiphytic diatoms, etc.).
Napoli Social Learning Conference
Social learning and cultural transmission:
from invertebrates to great apes and humans
Towards a biological synthesis
Naples, 30 June-5 July 1998
Key Speakers
Cristina Alberini
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
Providence, USA
James DeZazzo
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
USA
Dorothy Fragaszy
Psychology Department
University of Georgia
Athens, USA
Bennet G. Galef
Department of Psychology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
Mirella Ghirardi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze
Università di Torino
Turin, Italy
Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Department of Psychology
Concordia University
Montréal, Canada
David L. Glanzman
Department of Physiological Sciences UCLA
USA
Mitchell Glickstein
Department of Anatomy UCL
London, UK
Cecilia M. Heyes
Department of Psychology UCL
London, UK
Jeffrey H. Kogan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
USA
Louis Lefebvre
Department of Biology
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Hector Maldonado
Department of Biology
Buenos Aires University
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andrew Packard
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Andrew N. Spencer
University of Alberta and Bamfield
Canada
James Traniello
Department of Biology
Boston University
Boston, USA
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Istituto di Psicologia
CNR
Rome, Italy
Andrew Whiten
Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
UK
Thomas Zentall
University of Kentucky
USA
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn 125 years
A symposium dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Gaetano Salvatore
Naples, 27-28 November 1998
Session 1-Tributes to the memory of Prof. Gaetano Salvatore
Franco Salvatore, Naples, Italy
Stelio Varrone, Naples, Italy
Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Paris, France
Howard K. Schachman, Berkely, U.S.A.
Session 2
Santiago Grisolia, Valencia, Spain Chairperson
Bernardino Fantini, Geneva, Switzerland: Science, Art, and Music in the Cultural Tradition of the Stazione Zoologica
Richard Darwin Keynes, Cambridge, U.K.: Darwin, Marine Biology, and the Evolution of the Nervous System
Session 3
Paolo Fasella, Rome, Italy Chairperson
Renato Dulbecco, Milan, Italy: Genes and Tumours
Francisco Ayala, Irvine, U.S.A.: Malaria’s Eve: Evolution and Population Structure of P. falciparum
Roberto Di Lauro, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn: Development and Evolution of the Thyroid Gland
Session 4
Emile Zuckerkandl, Palo Alto, USA Chairperson
Werner Arber, Basel, Switzerland: Comments to the Theory of Molecular Evolution
Takashi Gojobori, Tokyo, Japan: Genomic Evolution
Giorgio Bernardi, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn: The Evolution of the Vertebrate Genome and its General Implications
Session 5
Gabriel Macaya, San Josè, Costa Rica Chairperson
Victor S. Smetacek, Bremerhaven, Germany: Iron in the Sea: Is Today’s Ocean Anaemic?
Maurizio Ribera d’Alcalà, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn: The Mediterranean Sea: a Fast Evolving Coastal Ocean
Chris Bowler, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn: How Plants see the Light: Mechanisms of Light Signal Transduction
Session 6
Eduoardo Consiglio, Naples, Italy Chairperson
François Gros, Paris, France: Genetic Clocks and Somatic Differentiation
Walter Gehring, Basel Switzerland: The Genetic Control of Eye Morphogenesis and its Evolutionary Implications
Chris Wylie, Minneapolis, U.S.A.: What my Mother told me: Material Genes theat Control early Development in Vertebrate Embryos
Session 7
Frank Gannon, Heidelberg, Germany Chairperson
Edoardo Boncinelli, Milan, Italy: Genetic Control of Brain Development
Ricardo Miledi, Irvine, U.S.A.: Learning about the Brain using Frog Oocytes
Ira Pastan, Bethesda, U.S.A.: Bioengineering of Immunotoxins for the Therapy of Cancer
Session 8
Georges Cohen, Paris, France Chairperson
Gary Felsenfeld, Bethesda, U.S.A.: The Establishment and Maintenance of Active Chromatin Domains
Benno Müller-Hill, Köln, Germany: Understanding Lac Repressor
L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Stanford, U.S.A.: The contribution of Molecular Genetics to the Study of Human Evolution
François Jacob, Paris, France: Concluding Remarks
Opening of the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution
Sala Affreschi Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn 26 November 1998
Speakers
Giorgio Bernardi Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Howard K. Schachman Berkely, U.S.A.
Richard Darwin Keynes Cambridge, U.K.
Werner Arber Basel, Switzerland
François Jacob Paris, France
In conjunctions with other organization:
Frontiere della Biologia 5
Corso di aggiornamento per i docenti della scuola media inferiore e superiore
Naples, 15, 22, 23, 29, 30 April e 6, 7, 14 May 1998
Il ruolo delle Scienze Ambientali nell’ambito delle politiche ambientali ed economiche del nostro Paese
Primo Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana Scienze Ambientali
Naples, 14-15 May 1998
Diversità e Cambiamento
1° Convegno Nazionale delle Scienze del Mare
Ischia, 11-14 November 1998
Trasduzione del segnale: dal recettore al nucleo
Minicorso Pratico SIBBM (Società Italiana di Biofisica e Biologia Molecolare)
Naples, 17-21 May 1999
Insegnanti
Enzo Calautti (CBRC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
Sandro Goruppi (LNCIB, Area di Ricerca, Trieste)
Caterina Missero (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn)
Oreste Segatto (Laboratorio di Immunologia, Istituto Regina Elena, Rome)
Phytosphere ’99
Major advances in European Plant Biotechnology Research
Partnerships and Networking in the Community Framework IV Programme
Rome, 7-9 June 1999
Conference Highlights
Control of Genes
Mapping and Function
Development and Architecture
Embryogenesis
Stress response
Metabolic pathways
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