Seminars
Scientific Seminars
20/01/2023 – Mihnea Bostina, PhD – Centre for Electron Microscopy, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, New Zealand - Viral capsids: from structure to function
16/03/2023 – Federica Brandizzi, PhD - Michigan State University, Michigan, USA – New connections of the endoplasmic reticulum during growth and stress in plant.
04/04/2023 - Natascia Ventura, PhD - Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostic Heinrich Heine University and the IUF- Leibniz Research, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf (Germany) - Lessons from C. elegans: Mitochondria in neuronal aging and diseases, from evolutionarily conserved mechanisms to therapy.
17/05/2023 – Marco Terreni, PhD - Drug Sciences Department, University of Pavia - Development of glycosylated sub-unit vaccines against tuberculosis.
21/06/2023 – Vinicio Carloni, MD - Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, University of Florence - The multifaced role of chromatin modifier KDM2A in liver cancer.
10/07/2023 - Miram Bravo-Lopéz, PhD - International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH) & Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - Paleogenomic reconstruction of human pathogens in Prehispanic and Colonial Mexico
13/09/2023 - Andrea Guarracino, PhD – Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA; Genomics Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy - Heterologous recombination in the human pangenome.
03/10/2023 - Ignazio Caruana, PhD - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation University Hospital of Würzburg (Germany) - From basic to applied research: development of an immunotherapeutic approach for refractory cancer patients.
14/10/2023 – Smeralda De Fazio, MD - Tiberia Hospital, Roma - Il tumore della mammella: passato, presente e futuro.
21/10/2023 – Gennaro Napolitano, PhD – University of Naples, Federico II; TIGEM Institute - Selective modulation of cell metabolism by mTORC1.
27/11/2023 – Francesco Vallania, PhD - ImmunoLogic, San Francisco, USA - Exploring the epigenetic landscape of the human immune system one cell at a tim.
Third-year students organized the annual workshop entitled “Exploring the future of Science and Innovation” on October 06 2023 with the following speakers:
Nicola Segata - Combining metagenomics and machine learning for microbiome-based precision medicine – University of Trento
Cesare Gargioli - Biomaterials, stem cells and bioprinting, a look at the future – University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Jose Ramón Pineda Martí - Is it possible to enhance cell therapy using materiobiology? Biomaterials as substrate of stem cell cultures - University of Pais Vasco/EHU, Spain
Elisabetta Caselli - The hospital microbiome: implications and innovative strategies to manage it – University of Ferrara
Stefano Canosa - Ethical debates in reproductive medicine – Università di Torino
Luca Parca - Life/work balance of a bioinformatician - ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)
Valeria Gerbino - Neurodegenerative disease research between Italy and the US - Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome
Yannick Fotio - The first molecular mechanism of transition from acute to chronic pain - University of California, USA
Mattia Scandolo - In search of research: what future in academia? ADI - Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca in Italia (Italian PhD association)