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International  Scientific Workshop, December 17, 2007, Venice, Italy

Foundations of bioelectromagnetics: towards a new rationale for risk assessment and management

•	1st Session: Lectures Chair: Felice Casson1, Lawyer
	9:00 Welcome by the Authorities of the City of Venice and by the Industrial Zone of Venice 9:15 Lectures Evidence of the interaction of weak electromagnetic fields in the band of UHF and biosystems by means of NLRI Clarbruno Vedruccio 2 The replicability of the Zhadin effect and perspectives of application in diagnostics and therapy (also PP presentation) Livio Giuliani 3,4, Settimio Grimaldi 3,5, Antonella Lisi 5, Enrico D’Emilia 6 The organization of water as the basis of the biological organization: the special role of the ELF magnetic fields. Emilio Del Giudice 7 10:00 Question time
•	2nd Session: Basic Interactions of ELF Chair: Morando Soffritti3,8, MD
	10:15 Effects of weak ELF magnetic fields - Interventions Effects on enzyme activity Antonella De Ninno 7,9, Agostina Congiu 10, D. Bernardini 11 ELF induced DNA breaks (also PP presentation) Henry Lai 7,12 ELF induced micronuclear damage in cells Mauro Cristaldi10, Ion Udroiu6, Angelico Bedini6, Livio Giuliani ELF induced stem cell differentation (also PP presentation) Antonella Lisi, Settimio Grimaldi, Livio Giuliani, Enrico D’Emilia and Alessandro Giacomello10,13, 11:00 Question time 11:15 Break
•	3rd Session: Basic Bionteractions due to MWs Chair: Fiorella Belpoggi4,8, Ph.D.
	11:30 Effects of weak electromagnetic magnetic fields - Interventions A thermal noise’s analisys in biological matter Massimo Scalia10, Massimo Sperini10, Fabrizio Guidi10 Effects of weak pulsed electromagnetic fields on gene expression Fiorenzo Marinelli7,14 Nerve cell damages in mammalian brain due to MWs Leif Salford7,15 ELF and oxidative stress: in vivo assessment of its central component superoxide radical C. Georgiou16 Breast cancer diagnosis possibility by means of Vedruccio’s Non-Linear Resonance Interaction Scanner Francesco Carrozza17 13:00 Question time 13:15 Break
•	4rth Session: Effects concerning populations and epidemiology Chair: Louis Slesin, Ph.D.
	14:15 ELF/MW induced effects on populations Altered dynamic of populations due to MWs: the case of rabbits Nesrin Seyhan18 Effects on electrosensitive people (also PP presentation) Anna Zucchero19 915MHz Electromagnetic Fields Effects on Learning and Memory of the Immature Wistar Rats? Zhaojin Cao 20 Perspectives in risk management in Italy: the impact of WiMax and Wifi (PP presentation) Francesco Boella6, Francesco Mozzo6, Francesco Panin4, Livio Giuliani 15:30 Question time 15:45 Break 16:00 Round Table, Chair: Livio Giuliani 18:30 End Organizer Committee Livio Giuliani, Gianluca Palma21 1 Senator of the Italian Republic 2 Commander, Italian Navy, Marconi’s law graduated 3 ICEMS Scientific Secretariat 4 Director of ISPESL Department 5 CNR-INMM, Rome 6 ISPESL 7 ICEMS Steering Committee 8 Fondazione Bernardo Ramazzini, Bologna, Italy 9 ENEA, Frascati 10 Università La Sapienza di Roma – Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Rome 11 Università di Padova 12 University of Washington 13 Università La Sapienza di Roma – Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Rome 14 CNR – IGM, Bologna 15 University of Lund, Neurosurgery 16 University of Patras 17 Hospital Umberto I, Reparto di Oncologia, Lugo di Romagna, Ravenna 18 Gazi University of Ankara 19 MD of the Public Health Authorithy of Venice 20 China NIEHS, Beijing 21 Ente Zona Industriale di Venezia, General Manager