Virtual Seminar: Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints

Dr. Letizia Cito (avatar: Pica Clip), member of Digi S Lab team directed by prof. Giuseppe Russo (avatar: Alfa Roux), will present a seminar entitled “Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints” inside “TLE” Second Life island (Created by the writer Ted W. Goss) on November 12 2008
at 8:00 am SL time.
The conference will be focused on the role exerted by cell cycle checkpoints in controlling normal cellular growth, aiming to explain how the disruption of this mechanism might influence and/or cause cancer development.
The meeting will be opened to a various audience, from scientists to people with a non scientific background, with the aim to involve every person in an educational spirit.
Dr. Cito and prof. Russo are members of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO) of Philadelphia, PA USA. SHRO is a well known Research Institute with its virtual headquarters in the “Biomedicine Research Labs” island in Second Life.
Professor Antonio Giordano, the founder and president of SHRO, has been the first to discover the protein cyclin A, a substance that regulates growth in the cell cycle. Also, Prof. Giordano discovered other important genes such as the tumor suppressor gene Rb2/p130 and the cyclin-dependent kinases CDK9 and CDK10, genetic substances that must be activated to guarantee proper progression through the cell cycle. Different researchs have revealed that CDK9 plays also a critical role in cell differentiation, particularly in muscles, HIV transcription, and the inception of tumors.

After Pica Clip’s talk, there will be a presentation of Fayamdria Foley, member of American Cancer Society, about the stress of cancer and patients support.
Pica Clip and Fayandria Foley have been invited by Noke Yuitza, member of Open Science, an association founded on 2008 in the Faculty of Biology of University of Barcellona, with the intention to approach science and environment to society to exploring new channels of communication between science and people.

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