Events

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

10 Oct 2023 – 2.30 pm CET

Aula Fleming – Faculty of Medicine

Professor Afshin Beheshti

Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, USA

Check here to read more.

16 May 2023 – 09.30 am CET

Aula D15 – Faculty of Medicine

Rector’s Award 2023 Seminar on role of collagene in cintrolling pancreatic cancer metabolism

Professor Michael Karin

University of California San Diego

Read more about Prof Karin and his latest work on pancreatic cancer.

20 April 2023 – 15.00 pm CET

Seminar on ADAR enzymes and RNA editing

Valentina Tassinari, PhD

University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

23 March 2023 – 11.30 am CET

A Seminar in mitochondrial disorders

Alessia Angelin, PhD

Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Medicin (USA)

13 September 2022 – 2.00-4.00 pm CET

The continuing quest to understand caspase-2 function as a tumour suppressor

Sharad KumarPhD

University of Adelaide, Australia

Mechanisms controlling cell division and their de-regulation in cancer cells

Pier Paolo D’AvinoPhD

University of Cambridge, UK

16 June 2022 – 9:30 am CET

1st Mini-Symposium on Nanomedicine

Plenary Lecture

Matching the physi-chemical characterizations of nanostructures with their biomedical functions in vitro and in vivo

Xing-Jie Liang – Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Nanoscience (Beijing, P. R. China)

Event Programme

Immunogenic stress and death in cancer therapy

Long-range effects of the intestinal microbiota on cancer immunosurveillance

Prof. Guido Kroemer & Prof. Laurence Zitvogel

Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus (Paris)

Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in cardiac physiology and disease

Nina KaludercicPhD

Neuroscience Institute
National Research Council of Italy (CNR) Padova

Harnessing metabolic dependencies in cancer and inflammation

Simone Cardaci, PhD

San Raffaele Hospital, Milan

Mechanics and regulation of cell division

Pier Paolo D’Avino, PhD

University of Cambridge, UK

Beyond Immune Checkpoints Blockade: Emerging Strategies

Prof. Tak W Mak

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

ECDO/CDDpress Seminar

From COVID-19 to necroptosis:

Cytoplasmic Nucleic Acid Sensing

2nd Italy-China Joint Symposium

Targeting the replication stress to eradicate cancer stem cells

Ilio Vitale, PhD

Oncologic Institute Candiolo, Turin

I Joint Symposium:

Projects form Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD program

COVID-19: Prevenire e Curare

COVID-19: i numeri dicono sempre la verità?

G. Ippolito

INMI L. Spallanzani

Old posts

  • 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