From Carlo Matteucci to Giuseppe Moruzzi:

two centuries of European Physiology

A satellite of  the 15th Annual Meeting of the
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

 Villa di Corliano, (Pisa)

22-26 June 2010

with a special contribution from
Rita Levi-Montalcini

is now over

RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI'S CONFERENCE ON MORUZZI
PRESENTED IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE CORLIANO MEETING.
THE VIDEO HAS BEEN EDITED AND SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH.

MANY THANKS TO VINCENZO LETTA
FOR HIS NICE EDITING OF THE VIDEO

SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS

 

Club d'histoire des neurosciences de la Société des Neurosciences, Paris.
Galileo Museum, Firenze

International Society for the History of Neurosciences.
Università di Ferrara.

Università di Pavia ­- Sistema Museale d’Ateneo.

Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris.

Université Diderot – Paris.

 

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS:

 

          With regard to accommodation, all arrangements will be made through the management of Villa di Corliano: info@corliano.it tel: +39050818193                    
             Please note that all the digits should be used when dialling)

 

 

Organizing Committee:

Jean- Gaël Barbara, Cesira Batini, Michel Meulders, Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

 

FINAL PROGRAM

                   Tuesday June 22^nd

Villa di Corliano

 

9:30-9:45                    Welcome by the hosts

9:45-10:15                   historical introduction

                                    Alessandro Baldassari: The "Villa of Corliano" between art and history

10:15-11:45                 Opening session: introducing matteucci and moruzzi:

                                                                    

10:15                           Marco Piccolino, Ferrara.

                                    The electrophysiological work of Carlo Matteucci.

 

10:45                           Michel Meulders

                                    Giuseppe Moruzzi: scientist and humanist.

 

11:15                         Coffee break

11:45-12:15                 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Roma.

                                    Giuseppe Moruzzi, a “formidable” scientist and a "formidable” man.

                                   

                                   

12:15                           aperitif and lunch 

 

15:00-16:00                 matteucci and his time                                
 

15:00                           Simone Contardi and Mara Miniati, Firenze: Educating heart and mind: Vincenzo Antinori and the  scientific culture in thee nineteenth century Florence.

 

15:30                           Renato Mazzolini, Trento, Italy: Carlo Matteucci, between France and Italy.

                          

16:00                           Coffee break

 

16:15-18:30                 the beginning and development of electrophysiology                              

 

16:30                            Nicholas J. Wade, Dundee, Stimulating the senses.

 

17:00                            Marco  Bresadola, Ferrara:  Matteucci and the legacy of Luigi  Galvani.

 

17:30                            Gabriel Finkelstein,  Denver: Matteucci and du Bois-Reymond: A bitter rivalry.

 

18:00                            Germana Pareti and Armando De Palma, Torino: A conservative revolution: Julius Bernstein and the “membrane theory”.

 

20:00                            Dinner

Wednesday June 23^rd

Villa di Corliano

 

 

900 - 13:30 am        Neurosciences from nineteenth to twentieth century                               

 

9:30                             Anne Boullerne, From neurophysiology to neuroanatomy: the transition from Claude Bernard to Louis-Antoine Ranvier.

 

10                                Helmut Kettenmann, Berlin: How the concept of glia evolved.

 

10:30                           Paolo Mazzarello, Pavia: The rising and fall of the Golgi’s school.

 

11                                Camillo Di Giulio, Vittore  Verratti  and Samuele Marcora  Chieti, Italy:  Angelo Mosso: A holistic approach to muscular fatigue.

 

11:30                           Coffee break

 

                                    Neurosciences from nineteenth to twentieth century                                    

 

12:00                            Daniele Marasco, Foggia, Italy: The great era of English electrophysiology from Francis Gotch to Hodgkin-Huxley.

 

12:30                            Jean- Gaël Barbara, Paris: The birth of French neurophysiology and torpedo fish research.

 

13:00                            Henri Korn, Paris, France: A gallant controversy about the nature of inhibition : Eccles versus Lloyd.

 

13:30                           lunch

 

 

Afternoon: Excursion to Lucca with visit to Villa Marlia

 

Thursday June 24^th

 Villa di Corliano

 

9:30-12:30                   Perspectives on Neurosciences I                                

 

9:30                             Arnold Starr, Irvine: How early physiological studies of auditory function led to objective measures of hearing in humans.

 

10:00                           Alberto Cangiano, Verona. The neuromuscular junction and the development of neural connections.

 

10:30                           Gerhard Dalenoort and Pieter de Vries, Groningen: The relevance of some historical conceptual problems for present-day theories of mind and brain.

                                   

 

11:00                           Coffee break

 

                                    Perspectives on Neurosciences II                          

 

11:30                           Enrica Santarcangelo, Pisa: From animal to human hypnosis: the role of cognitive traits in the individual "sensori-motor self”.

 

12:00                           Giancarlo Carli, Siena: Historical perspective and modern views on pain physiology: from psychogenic pain to hyperalgesic priming.

 

12:30                             François Clarac, France: The  Laurentides meeting in 1953: The reticular formation as a substratum of  consciousness.

 

 13:00                           Lunch

 

 

 

 

Afternoon,  Visit to the  Certosa of Calci and to the Museum of Natural history of Calci

 

 

Friday June 25^th

  Villa di Corliano

 

9:30-10:30                    The works of Moruzzi, part i                               

                                  
 

9:30                             Marina Bentivoglio, Verona: Sleep at Moruzzi’s times and today.

10:00                           Cesira Batini, Anne Beaumanoir and Suzanne Tyc-Dumont, Paris: The French connection.

 

10:30                          Coffee break                              

 

11:00                            Pierlorenzo Marchiafava, Pisa: 1959-2009: Fifty years of experiments in Via San Zeno.

 

11.30                           Terje Lømo, Oslo: Memories and after-effects of a year (1958-59) as student and resident at Istituto di Fisiologia in Pisa.

 

14:30-1700                  The works of Moruzzi, second part

                                     
 

14:30                            Florin Amzica, Montreal: The Moruzzi and Steriade legacy: from sleep to wakefulness and back.

15.00                            Daniela Musumeci, Pisa: Sleep as an instinct: the last experimental research of Moruzzi.

 

15:30                          Coffee break     

16:00                             Leopoldo Nicotra, Pisa: From Rome to Pisa: building the “Moruzzatore”.

 

16:30                             Brunello Ghelarducci, Pisa: Moruzzi as a teacher and as an advocate and organizer of science in Pisa.

 17:00:30                  

 

20:00                             Gala dinner

 

 

Saturday, June 26^th

 

 

"Istituto di Fisiologia" dell’Universita' di Pisa, via san zeno 33

 

9:00-11:00                   Moruzzi and his institute                                  
 

9:00                               Alberto Zanchetti, Milano: From Parma to Pisa: building up a big physiological Institute.

 

 

9:30                              visit of the institute guided by the present director

Pisa and Moruzzi 

Launch of the book: Giuseppe Moruzzi, Ritratti di uno scienziato, Portraits of a scientist, ETS, Pisa 2010, edited by M. Meulders, M. Piccolino and N. Wade

Chair and Introduction by Giovanni Berlucchi

Michele Zappella: The holiness of the Scientist. Moruzzi in Via San Zeno narrated by Mario Tobino

Pier Francesco Listri: Pisa 1963, walking with a scientist

             

12:30                            Aperitif offered  by the Municipality of Pisa

                                   

 

                                      End of the meeting

 

 

 

The  venue:

The meeting will be held in Villa di Corliano, one of the splendid mansions of Tuscany. It was described by Vincenzo Pitti in 1616 as the “most beautiful palace in the neighbourhood of Pisa”. It is situated within the magnificent scenery of the Monte Pisano (“… monte  per che i Pisan veder Lucca non ponno.” Dante, Inferno, Canto XXIII).  More information concerning the Villa can be found at the following links:

http://www.corliano.it/home.php?lang=en&redirect=http://www.corliano.it/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_di_Corliano

 In addition to the beauty of the Villa and the hospitality of the hosts, the location is particularly apposite for the meeting. Between 1850-1854 it was a temporary residence of Carlo Matteucci, and it was also frequented by Giuseppe Moruzzi in the period of his historical research on Matteucci. During the days of the meeting visits to artistic and historical sites in the region of Pisa and Lucca are planned; these are connected in various ways with Matteucci and Moruzzi.

 

Pisa has an airport and is well connected with many European cities, also through low-cost flights (Easyjet with Paris, many other cities through Ryanair).

Click here to obtain practical direction if arriving by car to the Villa. There is a bus service (run by the Lazzi company) from Pisa airport and in the proximity of Pisa train station to Corliano with buses approximately at every hour. The line is Pisa- Lucca via Ripafratta. The organizers will try if possible to send cars to pick up colleagues arriving to Pisa at both places. Please call the hotel (+39050818193) or Marco Piccolino’s mobile (+393284909380).

To obtain practical information on how to reach the Villa di Corliano by car click here: 

or, if you have a GPS navigation system, write down the address: Via statale abetone 50, San Giuliano Terme, Pisa or  simply "Villa di Corliano" according to the system.

 

Accommodation and practical information

Limited accommodation is available in Villa di Corliano. There are hotels in the close vicinity which will apply the special tariff of 40 EU per person, breakfast included.

 

IMPORTANT
There are only limited places available at these tariffs, reservations should be made as soon as possible,
 

 

For reservation please  address to the management of Villa di  Corliano: info@corliano.it (tel. +39050818193, English spoken).

For any additional information, question or comment, please send an email to Marco Piccolino or Nick Wade at the following addresses:

 

marco.piccolino@yahoo.com

n.j.wade@dundee.ac.uk

 
Registration

There is no registration fee for the conference. However, in order to facilitate catering arrangements, it would be appreciated if non-speakers who intend to attend inform the management at Villa di Corliano beforehand: info@corliano.it