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session 7

Title: Biology in Space
type: oral
Description: This session focuses on all aspects of biology and biological systems related to gravity in ground-based and space flight experiments as well as on topics not covered by other sessions of this symposium.
Date: 2012-10-05
Time: 09:00
Room: TS12 (Sala Stromboli, Palacongressi)

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Catharine Conley, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;
Chairman: Dr. Marlene Grenon, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States;
Rapporteur: Prof. Fengyuan Zhuang, Beihang University, China;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Mice Drawer System (MDS): outcomes for first mission and scenarios for a second mission to the International Space Station	10'	confirmed	Dr. Salvatore Pignataro	Italian Space Agency (ASI)	Italy
2		Long-duration Space Flight promotes galectin-3 expression in thyroid gland	10'	confirmed	Prof. Francesco Saverio Ambesi-Impiombato	University of Udine	Italy
3		Microgravity Alters Matrix-Integrin–Kinase Signaling Cascades Resulting in Arrest of the Cell Cycle in Bone Osteoprogenitor Cells	10'	confirmed	Ms. Elizabeth Blaber	University of New South Wales/NASA Ames research Center	Australia
4		Novel Osteocytic Cell Lines to study RANKL and SOST for a International Space Station (ISS) Flight Experiment	10'	confirmed	Mr. Jordan Spatz	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
5		Function and signal transduction in cells of the innate immune system in microgravity – results from coordinated space and parabolic flight experiments	10'	confirmed	Prof. Oliver Ullrich	University of Zurich	Switzerland
6		Neurovestibular adaptation in vertebrate and invertebrate gravi-sensing organs following micro- and hyper-gravity exposure and re-adaptation to 1G.	10'	withdrawn	Dr. Richard Boyle	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
7		Study of Glioblastoma Cancer cells behaviour inside Space Shuttle	10'	no-show	Dr. Chantal Cappelletti	G.A.U.S.S. Srl	Italy
8		MEK - MULTIVARIABLES DEVICE DEVELOPMENT FOR ENZYMES KINETICS EXPERIMENT IN MICROGRAVITY	10'	confirmed	Dr. Alessandro La Neve	Centro Universitário da FEI	Brazil
9		Reversible changes in human bone marrow MMSC gene expression under simulated microgravity	10'	confirmed	Prof. Ludmila Buravkova	Institute for Biomedical Problems	Russian Federation
10		Effects of Simulated Microgravity and Artificial Gravity on Endothelial Cells: Changes in Inflammation and Adhesion Molecule Expression	10'	confirmed	Dr. Marlene Grenon	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	United States
11		Hypergravity effects on proliferation and differentiation of PC12 neuron-like cells	10'	no-show	Ms. Giada Genchi	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	Italy
12		Effects of simulated microgravity on cell cycle in human endothelial cells	10'	confirmed	Dr. Alisa Sokolovskaya	Research Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology / Russian Academy of Medical Sciences	Russian Federation
13		Commercial access to a new Gravitational Biology Facility onboard ISS	Poster	no-show	Mr. Ulrich Kuebler	Airbus DS GmbH	Germany