Venue location
The congress has two venues: the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology of the University of Torino (DBIOS) and the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences (MRSN).
Main venue
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (University of Torino)
The Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology palace was an ancient baroque monastery built in 1600, with several cloisters and historical frescos. The ancient room of the refectory hosts now the Aula Magna of the Department.
The Department includes numerous research groups that interact and collaborate in the areas of cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, general physiology and plant physiology, developmental biology, genetics, neurobiology, zoology, anthropology, ethology, ecology, microbiology, plant biology and teaching of science.
Structures associated with the Department are of great scientific importance. These include the public botanical garden that is part of the Museum network of Torino, the collections of the Herbarium and the collections of the Museum of Anthropology. The Department also houses a significant collection of fungal germplasm (the Micoteca) one of the few present in Italy. |
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Furthermore, the Department works closely with the Museum of Natural Sciences, which houses major university-owned museum collections, ensuring their use in scientific research. The Department also has two libraries that are a crucial and indispensable tool for research and educational activities, important both for current subscriptions as well as the antique book collections.
Supporting venue
Regional Museum of Natural Sciences (MRSN)
Important notice
We are very sorry to inform all participants that due to an unfortunate incident to the fire prevention system, the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is temporarily closed and will not be available for the Congress. Despite no serious damage occurred, we are sorry to inform you that the access to the collections is currently prohibited for safety reasons.
As a consequence, the poster sessions of ECA2014 will be hosted at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (main congress venue, first floor).
We are very sorry to inform all participants that due to an unfortunate incident to the fire prevention system, the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is temporarily closed and will not be available for the Congress. Despite no serious damage occurred, we are sorry to inform you that the access to the collections is currently prohibited for safety reasons.
As a consequence, the poster sessions of ECA2014 will be hosted at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (main congress venue, first floor).
The Regional Museum of Natural Sciences is located in the very heart of Torino, opposite the main congress venue.The 17th century building was built by famous architect Castellamonte to host the San Giovanni Battista Hospital, which was a leading institution for medical science.
In 1978 the regional administration founded the Museum of Natural Sciences, and entrusted it with the invaluable collections of other University museums. The Museum of Natural Sciences started its own collection by organising research projects and purchasing valuable collections from other institutions. |
The scientific activity of the Museum is organised into 5 sections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, petrography and geology, palaeontology and zoology.
The entomological and zoological collections are of great interest: over 4 million insect specimens in the historical collections (including type material) and one of the most important European ornithological collections (with over 25,000 specimens). Furthermore, the collections include extinct species material like the thylacine, the great auk, the black emu, the Cape Verde giant skink, three coelacanths and the quagga. The Museum has about 1,000 square metres of exhibition area and also a specialized library which counts about 12,000 volumes and 1,250 periodicals. |