March 11-13, 2005, Palazzo Franchetti
Istituto veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

"Scientists should think about their speciality within the framework of
modern culture to provide not only specific knowledge, but also some
general ideas" (Jacques Monod, 1970).

"At the dawn of the third millennium, scientists claim their right to
intervene in a field, which was once considered to be under the exclusive competence and jurisdiction of philosophers and churchmen: the field of values" (Rita Levi Montalcini, 2002).

SPONSORED BY:
OFFICE IN VENICE REGIONAL BUREAU FOR SCIENCE IN EUROPE
(ROSTE)
ISTITUTO VENETO DI SCIENZE, LETTERE ED ARTI
STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF:
Academia Europaea
International Union of Biological Sciences IUBS
International Society of Molecular Evolution ISME

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Giorgio Bernardi
Chairman, Naples
Alec Boksenberg
Cambridge
Ernesto Carafoli
Padua
Gian Antonio Danieli
Padua
Sandro Franchini
Venice
Giovanni Giacometti
Padua
Ladislav Kovac
Bratislava
Howard Moore
Venice
Pierre Papon
Paris

FRIDAY, MARCH 11TH 2005
09.00 - 10.00 OPENING SESSION
Leopoldo Mazzarolli
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice
Walter Erdelen
UNESCO, Paris
Giorgio Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
Ernesto Carafoli
Università degli Studi, Padua
Jean-Paul Poirier
Academia Europaea, Paris
Motonori Hoshi
International Union of Biological Sciences
Rita Levi-Montalcini
CNR - Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina
Molecolare, Rome
10.00 - 11.00 Chair: Bernardino Fantini
University of Geneva
Christian de Duve
Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels
Life between chance and necessity
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 Chair: Takashi Gojobori
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
Giorgio Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
An ultra-darwinian view of evolution
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.45 Chair: Giorgio Morpurgo
Università degli Studi, Perugia
Emile Zuckerkandl
Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, Palo Alto
Complexity, intelligent design, and nature's cunning
Antoine Danchin
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Is the computer metaphore relevant to describe
living organisms?
15.45 - 17.00 Chair: Gian Antonio Danieli
Università degli Studi, Padua
Pier Luigi Luisi
Università degli Studi di Roma 3, Rome
From the origin of life on Earth to synthetic biology
Douglas Wallace
University of California, Irvine
Ancient origins-modern diseases:
the mitochondrial connection
17.00 - 17.15 Coffee break
17.15 - 18.30 Chair: Vittorio Sgaramella
Parco Tecnologico Padano - CERSA, Lodi
Benno Müller-Hill
University of Cologne
In praise of fundamental biological research
Werner Arber
University of Basle
Practical and philosophical values of scientific knowledge
18.30 - 20.00 TAVOLA ROTONDA (in lingua italiana)
Giorgio Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
Ernesto Carafoli
Università degli Studi, Padua
Giovanni Giacometti
Università degli Studi, Padua
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Università degli Studi, Turin
Vittorio Sgaramella
Parco Tecnologico Padano - CERSA, Lodi
SATURDAY, MARCH 12TH 2005
9.00 - 10.30
Chair: Orio Ciferri
Università degli Studi, Pavia
Daniel Hartl
Harvard University, Cambridge
Reshaping life: the biology and technology of food
Rita Colwell
University of Maryland, College Park
Climate and human health: the cholera paradigm
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Chair: Talal Younès
IUBS, Paris
Motonori Hoshi
Keio University, Yokohama
Individuality and sexuality
Marvalee Wake
University of California, Berkeley
Integrative Biology: an approach to the analysis
of complexity
Chair: Pierre Lasserre
University of Paris VI
Arturo Falaschi
ICGEB, Trieste
Scientific cooperation with the developing world
Gabriel Macaya
University of Costa Rica, San José
Doing science in small national scientific communities
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 - 16.30 Chair: Lucio Luzzatto
Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa
Takashi Gojobori
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
The evolutionary origin of a brain
Alain Prochiantz
CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
To be and not to be an animal
Elkhonon Goldberg
New York University
Human brain and the civilized mind
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 - 18.30 Chair: Howard Moore
UNESCO-ROSTE, Venice
Graziano Fiorito
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
A point of view on behavior and its flexibility
Pierre Gilles de Gennes
Institut Curie, Paris
The nature of memory objects in the brain
Hideaki Koizumi
Advanced Research Laboratory, Saitama
Developing the Brain. An approach towards learning
and educational sciences by functional imaging
SUNDAY, MARCH 13TH 2005
9.00 - 10.30
Chair: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Università degli Studi, Turin
Pierre Papon
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie
Industrielles, Paris
Space, time and matter: scientific challenges
for a new vision of the physical reality
and their cultural dimensions
Alec Boksenberg
Cambridge University
An observer's vision of the universe
John Barrow
Cambridge University
Simplicity and complexity
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 13.00 Chair: Howard Moore
UNESCO - ROSTE, Venice
Ladislav Kovac
Comenius University, Bratislava
Humans transcending biology: epistemology of artifacts
Lucio Luzzatto
Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa
Gene transfer in human cells: medical, ethical and emotional implications
Elliott Sober
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Science, selfishness, and human nature
Chair: Giovanni Giacometti
Università degli Studi, Padua
Pierre Gilles de Gennes
Institut Curie, Paris
The tribulations of inventors
Susan Greenfield
Oxford University
Selling science to society
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 16.10 Chair: Ernesto Carafoli
Università degli Studi, Padua
Alessandro Schiesaro
King's College, London
Poeta creator: poetry creates the world
Richard Ernst
ETH, Zurich
Arts and sciences, fascinating aspects of Tibetan paintings
Arthur I. Miller
University College London
Abstract Art, Abstract Science
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Università degli Studi, Turin
Zero, and nothing else
16.10 - 16.25 TRANSFER TO SAN VIDAL CHURCH
16.25 - 17.00 Jörg Rasche
German Association for Analytical Psychology, Berlin
Music, love and gravitation. Mozart and the physics
of enlightenment
17.00 - 17.15 CONCLUDING REMARKS
Giorgio Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples

Durante il convegno sarà proiettato il filmato
Il divenire animale nel cinema,
di Gian Piero Brunetta e Mirko Melanco,
Prodotto da: MART di Rovereto e DAMS di Padova