Seminar and International conference with a Digi S Lab member
The Seminar
Letizia Cito (avatar: Pica Clip), member of Digi S Lab team directed by prof. Giuseppe Russo (avatar: Alfa Roux), successufelly presented on november 12 a seminar entitled “Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints” inside “TLE” Second Life island at Akamu Cove. The meeting has been praized by the appreciation of a various scientific and not scientific audience.
The seminar about "Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints" was focused on explaining the connection between DNA damages and failure of cellular molecular pathways.
In normal cell DNA coding sequences are transcribed and translated into
proteins. When DNA is damaged its coding sequences suffer alterations whose results are protein gain of functions or protein loss of functions. When different gains and losses of function accumulate inside the cell it mutates from normal to tumoral.
Several alterations are referred to cell cycle and its related checkpoints. Since cell cycle is a mechanism consisting in stop and go signals if the balance among these signals is lost because of gene mutations and related protein alteration the result of mitosis will be two mutated cells.
As best is our knowledge about molecular mechanism leading to cancer, as best we can find treatment. Investigating on RB2 function in professor Antonio
Giordano's laboratories it has been found that a peptide derived from RB2
may be a good treatment (until now sperimented in mice) to arrest cancer cell growth.
After dr. Cito`s talk, there has been the touching speech of a real cancer patient, who described her daily struggle against this devasting disease with a sense of hope and grateness for organizations committed in scientific research against tumors.
ATTACCHED THE SEMINAR`S SLIDES
Copenhagen International Meeting
Dr. Letizia Cito of Digi S Lab team recently also attended to the meeting “Internet research 9.0: rethinking community, rethinking place” at Copenhagen, Denmark, from 15th to 18th of October 2008.
Different topics were discussed such as the use of Internet and, more specifically the use of Web 2.0. The most interesting talks were centered on Second Science (Science using Second Life platform), eLearning and eHealth. In particular, the last two topics have been analyzed considering relationships between teachers, students, doctors and patients.
During Second Science sessions it was discussed the existence of different areas in Second Life platform aimed to teach various subjects such as Genetics, Meteorology, Environment and Water Pollution. There are different types of scientific islands targeting normal and high specialized audience answering a growing attention of a mixed target. In this meeting, it was shown that a virtual reality platform such as Second Life can produce and improve tools to teach to students in geographically independent environments.
Letizia Cito (avatar: Pica Clip), member of Digi S Lab team directed by prof. Giuseppe Russo (avatar: Alfa Roux), successufelly presented on november 12 a seminar entitled “Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints” inside “TLE” Second Life island at Akamu Cove. The meeting has been praized by the appreciation of a various scientific and not scientific audience.
The seminar about "Cancer, cell cycle and checkpoints" was focused on explaining the connection between DNA damages and failure of cellular molecular pathways.
In normal cell DNA coding sequences are transcribed and translated into
proteins. When DNA is damaged its coding sequences suffer alterations whose results are protein gain of functions or protein loss of functions. When different gains and losses of function accumulate inside the cell it mutates from normal to tumoral.
Several alterations are referred to cell cycle and its related checkpoints. Since cell cycle is a mechanism consisting in stop and go signals if the balance among these signals is lost because of gene mutations and related protein alteration the result of mitosis will be two mutated cells.
As best is our knowledge about molecular mechanism leading to cancer, as best we can find treatment. Investigating on RB2 function in professor Antonio
Giordano's laboratories it has been found that a peptide derived from RB2
may be a good treatment (until now sperimented in mice) to arrest cancer cell growth.
After dr. Cito`s talk, there has been the touching speech of a real cancer patient, who described her daily struggle against this devasting disease with a sense of hope and grateness for organizations committed in scientific research against tumors.
ATTACCHED THE SEMINAR`S SLIDES
Copenhagen International Meeting
Dr. Letizia Cito of Digi S Lab team recently also attended to the meeting “Internet research 9.0: rethinking community, rethinking place” at Copenhagen, Denmark, from 15th to 18th of October 2008.
Different topics were discussed such as the use of Internet and, more specifically the use of Web 2.0. The most interesting talks were centered on Second Science (Science using Second Life platform), eLearning and eHealth. In particular, the last two topics have been analyzed considering relationships between teachers, students, doctors and patients.
During Second Science sessions it was discussed the existence of different areas in Second Life platform aimed to teach various subjects such as Genetics, Meteorology, Environment and Water Pollution. There are different types of scientific islands targeting normal and high specialized audience answering a growing attention of a mixed target. In this meeting, it was shown that a virtual reality platform such as Second Life can produce and improve tools to teach to students in geographically independent environments.
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