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THE
PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
THE 400TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION
OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(1603-2003)
CASINA PIUS
IV, VATICAN GARDENS, 7-11 NOVEMBER 2003
General
Programme
WORKING GROUP ON
'MIND, BRAIN, AND EDUCATION'
THE SESSION
COMMEMORATING THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE PONTIFICAL
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1603-2003)
WORKING GROUP ON
'STEM CELL TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER INNOVATIVE THERAPIES'
Working
Group on: Mind, Brain, and Education (7-8 November 2003)
Honorary President:
Prof. Rita Levi-Montalcini (PAS, Rome)
Coordinators:
Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires)
Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
Prof. Pierre J. Léna (PAS, Paris)
| Friday,
7 November |
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| 8:45
Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires) Introduction |
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MIND, BRAIN AND EDUCATION:
A NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
Chair:
Prof. Antonio M. Battro (PAS, Buenos Aires)
Opening
Session
9:00
- Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
Developing
Brain and Human Skills
9:40
- Prof. Wolf J. Singer (PAS, Frankfurt)
Neurosciences
and Education
10:20 - Dr.
John T. Bruer (McDonnel Foundation, St Louis)
Old
and New Bridges Between the Neurosciences and the Educational Sciences |
| 11:00
Coffee Break |
11:30
- Prof. Paul Ricoeur (Paris)
Subjective
Mind, Objective Brain
12:40
- General Discussion |
| 13:00
Lunch |
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NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND
COGNITION |
Chair:
Prof. Wolf J. Singer (PAS, Frankfurt)
15:00
- Prof. Daniel J. Cardinali (Buenos
Aires)
Chronoeducation
15:40
- Dr. Hideaki Koizumi (Hitachi, Saitama)
Developing
the Brain: an Approach Towards Learning and Educational Sciences by
Functional Imaging
16:20
- Dr. Fiona Doetsch (Harvard)
The
Origin of New Neurons: Stem Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain |
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17:00 - Coffe Break
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17:30
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Prof. Maryanne Wolf (Tufts, Massachusetts)
Neurocognitive
Research in the Diagnosis and Intervention of Developmental Dyslexia
18:10
- Dr.
Robert J. White (PAS, Cleveland)
The
Isolated Brain
18:50 -
General Discussion
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19:15 - Dinner
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Saturday, 8 November
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Neuroeducation
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Chair:
Prof. Pierre J. Léna (PAS, Paris)
9:00
- Dr. Stanislas Dehaene (Inst. National de la Santé, Orsay)
The Brain and Mathematics
9:40
- Prof. Paul van Geert (Groningen)
Dynamical
Models and the Assessment of Individual Learning and Development
10:20
- Prof. Jürgen Mittelstrass (PAS, Konstanz)
Mind,
Brain and Consciousness
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11:00
- Coffee Break
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11:30
- Prof. Michael Posner (Oregon)
Brain
Changes During the Acquisition of High Level Skills
12:10
- Dr. Fernando Vidal (Max-Planck-Institute, Berlin)
The
Modern History of the Mind/Brain
12:50
- General Discussion
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13:00
- Lunch
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Brain
and Language
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Chair:
Prof. Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard)
15:00
- Prof. Laura-Ann Petitto (Darmouth College, Hanover)
Language,
Bimodalism and Special Education
15:40
- Prof. Eraldo Paulesu (Milano-Bicocca)
Language,
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
16:20
- Prof. Usha Goswami (Cambridge, UK)
Reading
and the Brain, Educational and Neurocognitive Studies
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17:00
- Coffee Break
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17:30
- Prof. Yu Wei (Nanjing-SouthEast)
Cultivating
the Emotion Competence of our Children
18:10
- Antonio M. Battro, Stanislas Dehaene, Kurt W. Fischer and Yu Wei
Proposal
for an International Society on Mind, Brain and Education
18:30
- Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer, Juliana Paré (Los Alamos)
Proposal
for a New International Journal
18:50
- General Discussion
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19:15
- Dinner
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The
Session Commemorating
the
400th Anniversary of the Foundation
of
the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1603-2003)
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Sunday, 9 November
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9:30
- Holy Mass celebrated by His Eminence Card. Prof. C.M. Martini,
Church
of St. Stephen of the Abyssinians (Vatican City)
10:45
- Round Table on the History
of the Academy:
Prof.
Carlo Vinti (Perugia)
Federico
Cesi, the First Accademia dei Lincei and the Moral and Methodological
Commitment of the Researcher
Prof.Antonino Zichichi (PAS, Geneva - Bologna)
Galilei, Divine Man
Prof.
Andrea Riccardi (Roma III)
The
Restoration of Pius XI and John Paul II
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11:45
- Coffee Break
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12:00
- Prof. Nicola Cabibbo (President of the Academy, Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
The
Meaning of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Today
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12:45
- Lunch at the Academy
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15:15
- Guided visit of the Vatican Museums (Sistine Chapel, Apollo and Laocoonte)
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Working Group on:
Stem Cell Technology and Other Innovative Therapies
(10-11 November 2003)
Organising Committee: N. Le Douarin (PAS, Paris), T. Boon-Falleur (PAS,
Bruxelles)
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Monday,
10 November
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9:00
- Prof.
Nicole Le Douarin (PAS, Paris)
Introduction
9:30
- Card. Karl Lehmann (Mainz, President of the Bishops’ Conference)
Human
rights and Bioethics
10:30
-
Prof.
Irving Weissmann (Stanford)
Stem
cells: Overview
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11:30
- Coffee break
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12:00
- Prof.
Ronald McKay (Nat. Inst. Neurological Disorder and Stroke, Bethesda)
Comparing
the Properties of Embryonic, Fetal and Adult Stem Cells
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13:00
- Lunch
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14:30
-
Prof.
Azim Surani (Cambridge, UK)
Germ
Cells: the Eternal Link Between Generations
15:30
- Prof. Helen Blau (Stanford)
Repair
of Adult Tissues by Adult Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells
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16:30
- Coffee Breack
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17:00
- Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch (MIT, Cambridge)
Nuclear
Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells
18:00
- Prof. Ann McLaren
(Cambridge, UK), and .…, as leaders of the General Discussion
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Tuesday,
11 November
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9:00
- Prof. Thierry Boon-Falleur (PAS, Bruxelles)
Therapeutic
Vaccination of Cancer Patients
10:00
- Prof. Alain Fischer (INSERM, Paris)
Gene
Transfer in Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Perspectives, Results and Problems
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11:00
- Coffee Break
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11:30
- Prof. François Sigaux (INSERM, Paris)
From
Genes to Therapy
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12:30
- Lunch
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