The ICGEB International Seminar Programme constitutes scientific seminars held by international experts on diverse fields of the Life Sciences. Lectures are made available for free to PhD and Postdoc students at ICGEB, and to the scientific community at large.
Each year, approximately 50 seminars are held in Trieste, New Delhi and Cape Town, many of which are also podcast on our YouTube channels. ICGEB was the first academic institute in Italy to launch Podcasts in #OpenSource and constitute a vast learning resource offering free educational content. These are also available under the topic in our playlists.
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Seminars
Stefano PICCOLO
Thursday, 29 October 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYMolecular Biology , University of Padova, ITALYFrom Forces to Forms: the blueprints of malignancy and how to dismantle them
Ali ALAZMANI
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor of Soft Robotics, University of Leeds, UKSoft Robotics at the Interface of Engineering, Mechanobiology and Healthcare
Gobardan DAS
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor, Member, NITI Aayog, INDIAtbc
Katherine R. SABOURIN
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 | 3.00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAAssistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of MedicineUnraveling Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) reactivation and it’s potential relationship with malaria
Julija Hmeljak
Monday, 12 October 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYManaging Editor, The FEBS JournalA Roadmap to Ethical Publishing
Ross CAGAN
Friday, 25 September 2026 | 11.00 am – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYUniversity of Glasgow, UKEmbracing Cancer Complexity: From Drosophila Avatars to the Chemputer
Emma YHNELL
Friday, 25 September 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYReader, School Biosciences, Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences (BLS) Cardiff University, UK Humanising Science: Using Stories, People and Purpose to Strengthen Public Engagement in Science
Luigi PERELLI
Tuesday, 22 September 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAUT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, USAMetabolic Constraints in Kidney Cancer
Francesco PANENI
Friday, 18 September 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDirector, Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC) Head, Cardiometabolic Division University Heart Center Department of Cardiology, Zürich, SWITZERLANDChromatin Remodeling at the Interface of Environment and Cardiometabolic Disease
Florian HLADIK
Friday, 1 September 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Research Professor & Chief, Division of Research Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterGenetic and antiretroviral drug effects on immunity: from HIV prevention to chronic infection
Maurizio PESCE
Wednesday, 26 August 2026 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYMicrobiology TBC Acceleration of biological aging and deterioration of cardiac valves: from classical risk conditions of the high income world, to rheumatic heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa
Sonia Rodríguez Giordano
Tuesday, 28 July 2026 | 2.00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAMicrobiology Department, DEPBIO, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay Biocatalysis: the evolution of searching for or developing novel enzymes
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