PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS / FINAL PROGRAMME

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE PARTICIPANTS

Dear ELGRA members,

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our Biennial Meeting - the first meeting in the new Millennium - in Banyuls sur mer. Although a stay in Banyuls and it's surroundings is very pleasant at this time of the year I invite you to attend also the sessions outside your own research field. It is one of the aims of ELGRA to encourage a dialogue between scientists of the different disciplines. Banyuls is a small village, thus the chances to meet another participant of the ELGRA meeting in one of the restaurants along the sea shore are very high. Use this possibility and discuss with your colleagues - may be with a good glass of wine from Banyuls. The Organising Committee was very pleased to get so many interesting abstracts from all disciplines. This made it very easy to set together an attractive scientific programme. Furthermore we have invited some key speakers from which we think that their contributions will be of interest to everybody. Representatives of ESA will inform about the future ELIPS programme which will be presented to the Ministerial conference in November 2001 as well as the MAP projects. Other topics of general interest are the European Sounding rocket programme, information on the user support for the ISS utilization and the ESA's student microgravity research programme. During the meeting, the General Assembly of ELGRA will take place. I invite all of you to attend it, although only full members have the right to vote. I would like to express my warmest thanks to the local organizer - Hans Jürg Marthy and his crew - for the work they have done to make this meeting possible. I wish you a good stay in Banyuls.

Marianne Cogoli-Greuter President of ELGRA

Venue
Observatoire Océanologique (Laboratoire Arago)
CNRS / Université P. et M. Curie, 66 650 Banyuls sur mer, France.

FINAL PROGRAM

Tuesday, September 25

14:00 - 17:00 ELGRA Management Committee Meeting.

From 17:00 onwards Registration (Laboratoire Arago, Building B, 1^st floor)
19:00 Welcome Reception (Laboratoire Arago)

Wednesday, September 26

09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
Adresses from:
Dr. Marianne Cogoli-Greuter, President of ELGRA
Maire of Banyuls sur mer
Representative of CNES
Representative of ESA
Director of the Laboratoire Arago
Dr. Hans-Jürg Marthy, Organiser of the ELGRA - 01
Meeting

09:30 - 12:40 Session I: Physical Sciences (Combustion/Marangoni Convection)
Chairpersons: A. Schwabe and A. Viviani

09:30 - 10:00 Invited Lecture:
Combustion synthesis under microgravity conditions
G. Cao

10:00 - Fundamental analysis on flame propaga-tion behavior at lean limit mixtures using microgravity technique
S. Okajima and A. Okajima

Effects of wind and oxygen concentration on a laminar diffusion flame established over a horizontal flat plate in micro-gravity environment
H. Y. Wang, P. Corderio, P. Joulain and J. Torero

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break

Combustion study on solid waste fuels at high temperature environment using microgravity technique.
A. Okajima and S. Okajima

First measurement of gas temperatures based on LIF of formaldehyde.
A. Burkert, J. König and W. Triebel

Simulation of Geophysical Fluid Flows under Microgravity
C. Egbers, P. Chossat and R.Hollerbach

Thermocappilary flow structures in a long floating zone (near the Rayleigh limit) under microgravity
D. Schwabe

Dynamic free-surface deformations due to hydrothermal waves in thermocapillary liquid bridges
H. C. Kuhlmann and Ch. Nienhüser

12:45 Lunch (Restaurant of Laboratoire Arago)

14:15 - 17:25 Session II: Life Sciences (Human Physiology/Cell Biology)
Chairperson(s): F. Strollo and C. Dournon

14:15 - 14:45 Invited Lecture:
Gravity-dependent skeletal muscle plasticity in mammals: From structural phenomena to mechanisms
B. S. Shenkman, I. N. Belozerova and
T. L. Nemirovskaya

14:45 - Changes in leptin, blood pressure and rr interval during passive tilting
F. Strollo, A; Mambro, M. A. Masini, M. Morè, G. Strollo, A. Scano and B. Uva

leptin and sex hormones in men and women during short term hdt
F. Strollo, F. Celotti, P. Magni, A. Mambro, M. Morè, G. Strollo and G. Riondino

Nuclear alterations in cultured glial cells submitted to simulated microgravity
B. Uva, M. A. Masini, G. Tagliafierro and F. Strollo

effect of weightlessness on cytoskeleton architecture and proliferation of human breast cancer cell line MCF-7
J. Vassy, S. Portet, M. Beil, G. Millot, F. Fauvel-Lafeve., A. Karniguian, G. Gasset, T. Irinopoulou, F. Calvo, J. P. Rigaut and D. Schoevaert

16:05 - 16:25 Coffee break

Microgravity induced lesions in lympho-cyte signal transduction: impairement in locomotion involves protein kinase C
A. Sundaresan, D. Risin and N. R. Pellis

Simulated microgravity promotes the differentiation of FLG29.1 cells on the osteoblastic pathway
M. Monici, G. Agati, F. Fusi, A. Cogoli, M. Paglierani and P. A. Bernabei

Gravity dependance of microtubule self-organisation
J. Tabony, N. Glade and J. Demongeot.

17:30 - 19:00 ELGRA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19:30 Reception in Town Hall of Banyuls
Thursday, September 27

09:00 - 13:00 Session III: Life Sciences (Biology/Neurobiology/Developmental Biology/Technology/European Sounding Rocket Program)
Chairpersons: E. Horn and M. Cogoli-Greuter

09:00 - 09:30 Invited Lecture:
Transdifferentiation or the reversal of the differentiated state
V. Schmid

09:30 - Experience from comparative studies on the postembryonic development of gravity related behavior in animals – Consequen-ces for future experiments
E.R. Horn

How gravity affects the development of a Bdelloid Rotifer embryo
U. Fascio, C. Ricci and C. Sotgia

How do ciliates perceive gravity?
R. Bräucker and R. Hemmersbach

gravitational zoology using fish as model systems – perspectives concerning the utilisation of the international space station (iss)
H. Rahmann and R.H. Anken

10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break

Sample preservation, one of the big challenges for the next phase of space research: problems and possible solutions
R. Marco, F. Leria, D. Husson, J. Mateos, A. Villa and F. J. Medina.

The long-term adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to the space environment: design, development and test of experiments and hardware for the I.S.S.
D. Husson, J. M. Medina and R. Marco

From (frozen) cells to (live) cell cultures: Biolab experiments on the ISS
E. Brinckmann

Inertial shear forces in gravitational biology
J. J. W. A. van Loon, E. Folgering, J. P. Veldhuijzen and C. V. C. Bouten

12:30 - 13:00 European Sounding Rocket Program:

Program description and user scenario of Sounding Rockets used for microgravity research
B. Franke and D. Grothe

13:00 Lunch (Restaurant of Laboratoire Arago)

14:30 - 17:40 Session IV: Physical Sciences (Dynamics/Diffusion & Growth)
Chairpersons: L. Liggieri and J.P.B. Vreeburg

14:30 - 15:00 Invited Lecture:
Japanese Recent Progress in Thermo-capillary Flow in Liquid Bridge
H. Azuma

15:00 - The measrument of the quasi steady acceleration on board of the ISS
G. Poletti

Measurement of inertial properties of free-floating bodies on ISS
J. P. B. Vreeburg

Mass-diffusion bubble growth in reduced gravity
M. C. Sneep, R. de Bruijn, H. Th. Lotz, A. C. Michels, C. Panoutsos, T. D. Karapantsios, V. Bontozoglou and M. Kostoglou

Synthesis of InSb semiconductor crystal in short-duration microgravity
T. Okutani, H. Minagawa, H. Nagai, Y. Nakata, M. Sasamori and K. Kamada

16:20 – 16:40 Coffee Break

IGC - Process - Characterization in a mg-environment
M.Meier, R. Ristau and C. Egbers

The fases project: the study of adsorp-tion dynamics and emulsion stability on ISS
L. Liggieri, M. Ferrari, F. Ravera, G. Loglio, R. Miller, D. Clausse, A. Steinchen, J.D. Sylvain and A. Passerone.

Phase Transition in H2 under vibrations
D. Beysens

17:40 -18:00 Activities of the Laboratoire Arago:
Observation, Research, Teaching
G. Boeuf (Director of the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls)

18:00 - 19:30 Poster Presentations

Life Sciences :
1. Magnetic Resonance microscopy for the quantitative analysis of osteoporotic bone
R. Toffanin, A. Accardo, M. Cova and F. Vittur

2. Effectiveness of the Random Positioning Machine (RPM) to provide simulated microgravity for cultured fetal mouse long bones
J. P. Veldhuijzen, Jolanda M.A. de Blieck-Hogervorst and J.J.W.A. van Loon

3. The effect of microgravity on cell functions related to chromosome segregation and oxidative stress
P. Degan, C.F. Cesarone, L. Ottagio, A. Zunino, S. Viaggi, P. Pippia, G. Galleri, M.A. Meloni, S. Bonatti and A. Abbondandolo

4. A project proposal in Space Biology: exposure to microgravity as a powerful tool to study lifetime-long senescence process in an accelerated time-scale
P. Degan

5. Main results of the FERTILE experiment performed onboard the MIR space station and using Pleurodeles waltl, an urodele amphibian
H. Membre, L. Gualandris-Parisot, D. Durand, A. Bautz and C. Dournon

6. Reference values of enzymatic activities in Pleurodeles waltl for future space missions
T. Alekhova, A. Sofin, T. Kobelkova, T. Novozhilova, R. Marco and C. Dournon

7. Effects of microgravity and hyper-gravity on early developmental stages of Xenopus laevis: morphological and functional aspects
A. M Rizzo, F. Rossi, A. Guerra, P. Pippia, M. A.Meloni and B. Berra

8. Growth of fish inner ear otoliths is guided by the gravivector and regulated by the cns
R. H. Anken, M. Beier, E. Edelmann and H. Rahmann

9. Otolith asymmetry and inner ear morpho -logy of motion sick fish: a parabolic aircraft flight study
R. Hilbig, R. H. Anken, G. Sonntag, N. Kretschmer, A. Bäuerle, N. Baumhauer, M. Knappenberger and H. Rahmann

10. A mouse model for the evaluation of neurobehavioural responses to hyper-gravity
D. Santucci, N. Francia, G. Corazzi, L. Aloe and E. Alleva

11. Effects of microgravity and ethylene on cell ultrastructure and mobilization of stOrage metabolites from cotyledons
O. M. Nedukha and Ch. S. Brown

12. Low gravity and enzymatic activities: effect of simulated microgravity on PARP-1 activity in human lymphocytes and in rat hepatocytes
C. F. Cesarone, P. Pippia, M. A. Meloni, G. Galleri, M.G. Camboni, I. Demori, L. Scarabelli, E. Fugassa and A. Cogoli.

Physical Sciences
13. The motive forces of light in advanced thermodynamics of liquids
A. Sukhodolsky

14. A model of oxygen transport as a tool to study the liquid metal surface oxidation
E. Arato, M. Ratto, E. Ricci, R.Novakovic, L. Fiori, D. Giuranno and A. Passerone.

15. Interdiffusion experiment in liquid PdNiP and PdCuNiP under 1g conditions
S. Suzuki, M.-P. Macht, A. Griesche, K.-H. Kraatz and G. Frohberg

Exhibition: Life Sciences User Support
16. Remote access to life sciences experi-ments on the ISS or in ground-based facilities - Demonstration of a user home base
M. Schuber, D. Seibt and P. Esser

Complement to oral presentation:
17. Exhibition of Desktop RPM
R. Huijser

18. The control and power system of the materials sciences laboratory for Destiny.
Kemmerle, P. Rank and U. Brammer

20:00 Banquet
ELGRA Awards (Prof. J. Siekmann and Dr. W. Briegleb)
Honorary Guest Dr. J.J. Favier

Friday, September 28

09:00 - 10:40 Session V: Life Sciences (Plant Biology)
Chairpersons: L.G. Briarty and F. Migliaccio

GravisensitivIty of plant cells: Experimen-tal data and concepts
E. L. Kordyum

Reserve utilisation in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds germinating in microgravity
L.G. Briarty and E.P. Maher

The estimate of gravisensitivity
G. Perbal and D. Driss-Ecole

Gravitational effects on metabolism and gene expression of Arapidopsis thaliana cell cultures
E. Magel, R.-M. Maier, M. Martzivanou, M. Ecke and R. Hampp

The Novel Arabidopsis gene RHA1 is a possible transducer of gravitational signals in plant roots
F. Migliaccio, S. Piconese, M. Fagiano and C. Rosi

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11: 00 -12:30 Session VI: Microgravity Application Program (MAP)/ Biotechnology/ Spin-Offs/ ESA Programmes
Chairpersons: K. Slenzka and D. Karapantsios

11:00 - 11:30 First Experiences and status of ongoing MAP Research Projects
R.A. Binot

11:30 - Tissue Engeering in Space
N. Conza, P. Mainil-Varlet, F. Rieser, J. Kraemer, P. Bittmann, R. Huijser, L. van den Bergh and A. Cogoli

New instruments for gravitational biology and biotechnology in space and on ground
R.H. Huijser et al.

Spin-offs from microgravity research
G. Seibert

12:45 Lunch

14:15 - 15:45 Session VI: continued
Chairperson: E. Brinckmann

14:15 - 14:45 User Support and operations services FOR
ISS Utilisation
BIOLAB as AN Example of a Columbus Payload
M. Schuber et al.

14:45 - Beyond c.e.b.a.s. – baseline data collection for ground based ecotoxicological research and system application to iss
K. Slenzka, M. Duenne, B. Koenig and M. Schirmer

ESA’s Student Microgravity Research Programme
L. Jagger-Mézière and W. Ockels

15:25 - 15:55 The ESA Proposal for a Future Life AND
PHYSICAL Sciences and Applications in Space Programme (ELIPS)
P. Clancy

15:55 Conclusions and Outlook

16:00 Closure of ELGRA - 01 Meeting
Saturday, September 29

Individual Post-congress Tours: For suggestions see Meeting Folder.