Dal 16 al 18 settembre si svolgerà a Napoli un meeting internazionale sull’alimentazione dei celiaci. L’evento è patrocinato dalla Regione Campania, dalla Provincia di Napoli, dal Comune di Napoli, dall’Associazione Italiana Celiachia e dalla SIGA
(Società Italiana di Genetica Agraria) con la collaborazione dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici .
Ritengo sia molto interessante per gli argomenti trattati e per lo spessore dei relatori. Quella che segue è una versione quasi definitiva del programma, quindi suscettibile a variazioni.

Sunday 16/09/2007

Arrival
19:00-22:00 Dinner to Royal Hotel
Monday 17/09/2007
9:00 – 9:20 Registration

9:30 – 10:00 Introductory speeches for the participants
Prof. Adriano Giannola
Professor of Economics of Banking, University of Naples “Federico II”
President Istituto Banco di Napoli – Fondazione
Prof. Catello Polito
Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Naples “Federico II”
Director Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “A. Buzzati-Traverso”
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Naples
Sig.ra Teresa D’Amato
President of AIC Campania
America Embassy in Italy
Lectures and Short Communications
Health Section :
Topics: Brief picture of celiac disease
Chairmen: Carolina Ciacci, Luigi Greco (Naples, Italy)
10:00 – 10:15 Carlo Catassi (Ancona, Italy) “Celiac disease in developing countries”
10:15 – 10:30 Norberto Pogna (Roma, Italy) “Variation in noxiousness of different cereal species for celiac patients”
10:30 – 10:45 Riccardo Troncone (Naples, Italy) “Gluten-free diet: problems of compliance and threshold for toxicity”
10:45 – 11:00 Salvatore Auricchio (Naples, Italy) “Mechanisms of gliadin damage in celiac disease”
11:00 – 11:15 Luigi Maiuri (Foggia, Italy) “The conundrum of innate immune responses in Celiac Disease

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break

Food-grade sorghum research :
Topics: Feeding for celiac patients, food grade sorghum agriculture, chemical components of food grade sorghum flour, food grade sorghum flour products
Chairmen: Maria Adele Cartenì, Nicola Caporaso (Naples, Italy)
11:45 – 12:00 Mitchell Tuinstra (Kansas, USA) “Food-Grade Sorghum Varieties and Production Considerations”
12:00 – 12:15 Tilman Schober (Kansas, USA) “Wheat-free food production from
Sorghum”
12:15 – 12:30 Sajid Alavi (Kansas, USA) “Sorghum flour-based pasta and expanded
snackproducts using extrusion processing”
12:30 – 12:45 Fadi Aramouni (Kansas, USA) “Challenges and Rewards that Face Product Developers in Formulating Sorghum Foods”
Keynote
12:45 – 13:15 Carol Fenster (Colorado, USA) “Using Sorghum in Gluten-Free Banking for Celiac Patients”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
Entrepreneurship section :
Topics: Academic spin off, corporate entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, international intellectual capital, venture capital
Chairman: Prof. Vincenzo Maggioni (Naples, Italy)
14:30 – 14:45 Earl Roemer (Kansas, USA) “White grain sorghum: Production To
Consumer”
14:45 – 15:00 Paris Kokorotsikos (Greece) “Science based incubators and early
stage financing: tools for development of knowledge based enterprises”
15:00 – 15:15 Mario De Rosa (Naples, Italy) “The role of Regional Centres of Competence in knowledge transfer from Research to Industry: the experience of BiotekNet on Industrial Biotechnologies”
15:15 – 15:30 Manlio Del Giudice (Naples, Italy) “From academic research to intrapreneurship: scientists born, grow entrepreneurs”
15:30 – 15:45 Davide Dell’Anno (Naples, Italy) “An international perspective of
academic entrepreneurial research”
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
Round table
CHAIRMAN: John Edmondson (Editor Industry and Higher Education, UK)
16:15 – 17:45 Thomas Andersson & Piero Formica (Sweden) “Intellectual Venture Capitalists: the case of concerted entrepreneurship”
19:30 Starting from Hotel Royal to the Social evening event and Dinner in Casertavecchia with Neapolitan Performance
Tuesday 18/09/2007
Free day for excursions, at your own expense