This is an archive of previous events before 2023. For the latest events see News and our series of Biochemistry talks.

The PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, thanks to its Faculty Members organises numerous seminars as well as online events to cover a broad range of research, with interventions from prominent national and international speakers.

Each student has unique and frequent possibility to interact with the speakers during the discussion.

LATEST EVENTS

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• September 14th 2015
  Prof. Wei WONG, PhD
  Editor Science Signaling, Editor Science
  “The Editorial Process at Science Signaling and the Science Family of Journals”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• March 25th 2015
  Dr. John RYALS, PhD
  CEO Metabolon Inc USA
  “Surveying the individual metabolome: from inborn errors of metabolism to personalized medicine”
  invited by Prof. M. Federici
• November 6th 2014
  Alfredo NICOSIA, PhD
  Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder Okairos, Roma
  “Okairos: a successful Biotech story. From basic science to a biotech spin-off”
  “Vector-based genetic vaccines: the Ebola story”
  invited by Prof. G. Cesareni
• October 1st 2014
  Prof. Doug R. GREEN, PhD
  Chair of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
  “Balancing Act: How caspases and RIP kinases control development”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• September 11th 2014
  Prof. George A CALIN, MD, PhD
  Dept. of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  “About Chomsky, DNA motifs, non-codingRNAs and cancer patients”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• July 25th 2014
  Prof. Miguel WEIL, PhD
  Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Personalized Medicine , Department of Cell Research and Immunology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
  “New approach in the road towards drug personalized medicine for rare diseases”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• June 30th 2014
  Prof. Gianfranco GILARDI, PhD
  Full Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Life Science and System Biology, University of Torino
  “Structural basis of cytochrome P450 function in cell defense and sexual development”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• May 21st 2014
  Prof. Anne (E) WILLIS, PhD
  Director, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, UK
  “Post-transcriptional control of gene expression following cell stress”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• March 25th 2014
  Dr. Tilmann ACHSEL, PhD
  Senior Scientist, laboratory for the Research of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
  “The various steps of mRNA metabolism, and their role in neurodegeneration”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• March 7th 2014
  Prof. Gabriel RABINOVICH, PhD
  Chief of Immunopathology lab., Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME), Buenos Aires-Argentina
  “ANGIOGENESIS & CANCER:  Galectin-1 regulates VEGFR2”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• December 20th 2013
  Prof. Ruggero DE MARIA, MD
  Scientific Director
• Istituto Regina Elena
  “Strategies for targeting cancer stem cells”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• October 4th 2013
  Prof. Alexej VERKHRATSKY
  Professor of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Life Sciences,  University of Manchester, UK
  “Pathophysiology of astroglia with special emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• October 28th 2013
  Prof. Sharad KUMAR
  Director, Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
  “Molecular Mechanisms Of Cell Fate”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• May 14th 2013
  Dr. Isaac Spencer HARRIS
  Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
  “Looks can be deceiving: the role of antioxidants in cancer”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• February 1st 2013
  Prof Yufang SHI, PhD
  Director of the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Inst. for Biol. Sci of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. School of Medicine
   “Modulation of Immune Responses by Mesenchymal Stem Cells”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• September, 18th 2012
  Francesca MASCIA, PhD
  NCI Center for Cancer Research, Lab. of Cancer Biology and Genetics
  “Epidermal ablation of EGFR impairs skin immuno-homeostasis and epithelial differentiation: implication in the pathogenesis of the rash in patients treated with anti-EGFR drugs”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 13th July 2012
  Prof. Sharad KUMAR
  Director, Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
  “Nedd4 family of ubiquitin ligases in cellular homeostasis and disease”
    invited by Prof. Gerry Melino 
• 20th April 2012
  Jekaterina ĒRENPREISA, MD
  Leading Researcher and head of Laboratory in the Latvian Biomedicine Research and Study Centre, Riga
  “Chromosome instability and senescence as a drive and break for cancer”
  invited by Dr. ssa Patrizia Vernole
• 19th January 2012
  Dott.ssa Anna Maria LENA
  Scientist at Dept. Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Science, Roma
  “ChiP-Seq lecture”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 19th January 2012 Agenzia trapianti Lazio -UTV
  Dr. Armando FELSANI
  Senior scientist at Genomnia srl, Lainate, Milano and
  CNR, Istituto di Biologia Cellulare e Neurobiologia, Roma
  “Next Gen Sequencing: transcriptomics”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 13th December 2011
  Dr. Armando FELSANI
  Senior scientist at Genomnia srl, Lainate, Milano and
  CNR, Istituto di Biologia Cellulare e Neurobiologia, Roma
  “Next Generation Sequencing – tecnologia e applicazioni”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 24th October 2011
  Prof. Sharad KUMAR
  Director, Centre for Cancer Biology SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
  “Caspase-2 function in tumour suppression and oxidative stress regulation”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 24th October 2011
  Prof. Richard KNIGHT
  MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester, UK
  “Neuronal effect of miR-34a”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 27th September 2011
  5th Departmental Scientific Day on Immunology: from life to death
  Chairs: Alessandro Finazzi & Gerry Melino
  Dirk BRENNER, Toronto, CANADA
  “HPK1: A molecular switch between life and death in T cell”
  Anne BRUESTLE, Toronto, CANADA
  “Impaired Th17 differentiation in the absence of MALT1”
  David L. VAUX, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
  “IAPs and smac-mimetics: From caterpillars to clinic”
  David L. VAUX, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
  “Ten rules for the presentation and interpretation of data
  in publications”
• 20th June 2011
  4th Departmental Scientific Day
  Chairs: Alessandro Finazzi & Gerry Melino
• 30th May 2011 Agenzia Regionale del Lazio per i Trapianti
  Prof. Lucio RUSSO
  Professore Ordinario di Calcolo delle Probabilità, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
  “Contributo dei medici allo sviluppo della scienza italiana”
  invited by Prof. Alessandro Finazzi Agrò
• 12th May 2011
  Prof. Arnold J. LEVINE
  Institute for Advanced Study The Simons Center for Systems Biology Princeton
  “The Role of p53, p63 and p73 in Germ Line Genetic Stability”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 25th February 2011
  Prof. Yufang SHI
  Institute of Health Sciences Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
  “Regulation of Immune Responses by Mesenchymal Stem Cells”
  invited byProf. Gerry Melino
• 27th October 2010
  Prof. Thomi BRUNNER
  Biochemical Pharmacology, Dept. of Biology, University of Konstanz
  “The Jun kinase-Bim axis in the amplification of the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway”
  invited by Prof. Gerry Melino
• 22nd October 2010
  3rd Departmental Scientific Day on Frontiers in Experimental MedicineChairs: Pietro Guerrieri & Richard A. Knight
  Douglas R GREEN, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  “Fueling Immunity: Metabolic Reprogramming in Activated T Lymphocytes”
  Alessandro MICHIENZI, Rome, Italy
  “Editing of HIV-1 RNA by the double-stranded RNA deaminase ADAR1 Stimulates Viral Infection”
  Alberto BACCI, Rome, Italy
  “Direct Action of Two Major Antidepressants on a Specific Inhibitory Circuit of the Hippocampus”
  Jessie GUO, New Brunswick, NY, USA
  “Activation of Autophagy in Aggressive Cancers”
  Eileen WHITE, New Brunswick, NY, USA
  “Role of Autophagy in Sustaining Tumor Cell Metabolism”
• 7th June 2010, Agenzia Trapianti Lazio
  2nd Departmental Scientific Day
  Chairs: Alessandro Finazzi & Gerry Melino
• 7th June 2010
  1st Departmental Scientific Day on
  Neurodegeneration
  Chairs: Giuseppe Novelli & Gerry Melino
  Therapeutic targets in disease
  Chairs: Maurizio Paci & Massimo Andreoni