INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

26/06/2008: Dr. CECILIA ARRAIANO, Professor in Instituto de Technologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal will give a plenary lecture (EMBO YIP LECTURE) entitled:
"Small non coding RNAs"
(http://www.itqb.unl.pt/Research/Biology/Control_of_Gene_Expression/)

27/06/2008: Dr. AARON CIECHANOVER, Laureate of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, Distinguished Research Professor in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel will give a plenary lecture entitled:
"Why our proteins have to die so we shall live or the ubiquitin system - from bench to bedside"
(http://md.technion.ac.il/inner/personnel.php?Lecturer_ID=32) (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2004/ciechanover-cv.html)

28/06/2008: Dr. NEKTARIOS TAVERNARAKIS, Professor/Principal Investigator in Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete, Greece will give a plenary lecture entitled:
"Mitochondrial energy metabolism during diapause and ageing in C. elegans"
(http://www.imbb.forth.gr/worms/)