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
Mellon KABOLE
Tuesday, 4 November 2025 | 1.00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAAfrica Regional Manager, Minor Use FoundationFrom Niche to Necessary: Supporting Minor Crops for Food Secu
Irene BOZZONI
Friday, 24 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDept. Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin” Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Sapienza, University of Rome, ITALYThe Role of RNA in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapy in ALS
Emrah Eroğlu
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYPResearch Director SABITA, Research Institute for health Sciences and Technologies, Istambul, Türkiyetbc
Jin LI
Wednesday, 8 October 2025 | 11.00 am – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor, Doctoral Supervisor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, President, Fudan University Human Phenome and Future Medicine
Admire DUBE
Tuesday, 7 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAGroup leader of the Infectious Disease Nanomedicine Research Group School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape Nanomedicine and its application in the treatment of tuberculosis
Davor PAVLOVIC
Thursday, 25 September 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor, Editor in Chief for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus, Cardiac Diseases Theme Lead & PGR College Deputy Lead, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham , UK Reproducibility and reporting of negative data in cardiovascular research
Fernando Hercos VALICENTE
Monday, 22 September 2025 | 2.00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYResearcher at Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brasil Biological Control in Brazil: The use of Bio inputs
Leyma Pérez DE HARO
Friday, 12 September 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Ph.D. Senior Scientist at Merrick & Co. Using Embodied AI Agents to Automate Laboratories
Stella SIMIYU
Tuesday, 19 August 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Director Regulatory Affairs CropLife Africa Middle East From Barriers to Bridges: Measuring Progress of the Biopesticides Sector in Africa and the Middle East with the Biological Crop Protection Products Access (BioCOPPA) Index”
Lisa ROTHMANN
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICASenior lecturer, Plant pathology, University of the Free StateA response to Thomas Kempis: “Why do we trouble ourselves with theories about genera and species?”
Digby WARNER
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICACollapsing boundaries in infectious diseases research
Tokameh MAHMOUDI
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 | 10.00 am – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAERASMUS MC, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsMechanisms of HIV-1 latency and how to measure the persistence reservoir
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