The ICGEB International Seminar Programme constitutes scientific seminars held by international experts from our three locations in 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.
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Seminars
Christopher PEARSON
Thursday, 12 October 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Canada Research Chair in Disease-Associated Genome Instability
The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning, Toronto, Ontario, Canadatbc
Liz RYLOTT
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, the Department of Biology at the University of YorkEngineering plants to recover metals from our environment
Folasade Mayowa OLAJUYIGBE
Thursday, 27 September 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA Director, Central Research Laboratory, Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Nigeria and Group Leader, Enzyme and Environmental Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, FUTA, NIGERIABifunctional chimeric enzyme system for improved corncob
Ian THRIPPLETON
Tuesday, 19 September 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of NemdxProtein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: A Paradigm Shift I
Gloria GONZALEZ ASEGUINOLAZA
Friday, 15 September 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Director of Innovation and Transfer at Cima Universidad de Navarra. Researcher of the Gene Therapy and Regulation of Gene Expression Program, Universidad de Navarra, SPAINCRISPR/Cas9 wt and nickase mediated glycolate oxidase disruption is an efficacious and safe treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type I
Megan SHAW
Tuesday, 19 September 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Associate Professor, Dept of Medical Biosciences, University of the Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICADiscovery of Broad-spectrum Antivirals for Respiratory Viruses
Yan GE
Thursday, 14 September 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Principal Investigator, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology China Regional Research Centre: Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, CHINAGenetic risk factors shared by multiple distinct autoimmune diseases
Silvia GIORDANO
Thursday, 7 September 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Department of Oncology, University of Turin, ITALYGastric cancer in the age of targeted agents: identification and validation of novel
therapeutic strategies
Myriam GRUNEWALD
Tuesday, 5 September 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University
Head of the Hadassah Organoid Center, The Hadassah Medical Organization, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, ISRAELAging: Microvascular dysfunction at the driver’s seat
Jemeen SREEDHARAN
Tuesday, 5 September 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Neurologist Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, IoPPN, King’s College London, UKProgress in understanding and treating ALS-FTDs
Fabrizio d’ADDA di FAGAGNA
Monday, 4 September 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY IFOM ETS – The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy; Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR “Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza”, Pavia, ITALYDNA is important, but RNA is too
David R. KATERERE
Tuesday, 29 August 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Pharmaceutical Science – Tshwane University of TechnologyaFrom farm to pharmacy – the role of biotech in building the African cannabis industry
Radhakrishnan MAHALAKSHMI
Thursday, 24 August 2023 | 3:30 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, INDIACorrelating Assembly Mechanisms with Functional Regulation of the Human Mitochondrial Protein Import Channel
Petro TERBLANCHE
Tuesday, 8 August 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA CEO, Afrigen Biologics, South AfricaThe Frontiers of mRNA Technology Development and Transfer in Africa: Let’s Celebrate the Science and the Women Behind it!
Zain UL ABDIN (Ph.D.)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023 | 1:00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Associate Professor, Department of Entomology University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, PAKISTANInsect functional genomics for the development of innovative green plant protection strategies
Giulia RUOZI
Friday, 30 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Opportunity Evaluation Manager, Biotech Team – Global Strategy & Corporate Development – Chiesi FarmaceuticiExternal innovation in Pharma: Opportunity for scientific professionals to create a bridge between science and business
Alessio ZIPPO
Monday, 26 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, ITALYDissecting the contribution of chromatin condensates dysregulation in mendelian disorders: from nuclear mechanics to therapeutic solutions
Giuseppe MARZIO
Friday, 23 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Founder, Chiaro | Strategic Storytelling Mastering Strategic Storytelling: How to Turn Your Science into an Irresistible Story
Massimo ALFANO
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Group Leader Extracellular Microenvironment Unit
Urological Research Institute, DiBit2, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan – ITALY Detect the undetectable: gold nanorods- assisted imaging and thermal treatment of bladder cancer lesions smaller than 1 mm
Nina BONO
Monday, 19 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta” Politecnico di Milan, ITALY Innovative strategies for non-viral gene delivery: from chemistry to mechanobiology
Giovanni BLANDINO
Tuesday, 13 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Head of Translational Oncology Research Unit Translation Research Coordinator CTC IFO/IRE
IRCSS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, ITALY Head and Neck Cancer: an evolving tumor entity
Amos Olalekan ABOLAJI
Monday, 12 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Associate Professor, Drosophila Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, NIGERIA Rescue Action of Selected Natural Products in Chemicals- and Genetic-Induced Drosophila melanogaster Models of Parkinson’s Disease: An ICGEB-Funded Projecty
David ELLIOTT
Thursday, 1 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Newcastle University Biosciences Institut, The International Centre for Life
Central Parkway, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Dissecting how splicing controls development
Sergio PANTANO
Wednesday, 31 May 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Sergio Pantano, Ph. D.
Head of Biomolecular Simulations
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, URUGUAYViruses vs. Computers: What we can get from Whole Virus Simulations
Robert BOWSER
Tuesday, 6 June 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Chief Scientific Officer, Professor and Chair, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology, John and Betty VanDenburgh Chair of Neuromuscular Disease, Barrow Neurological Institute
Dignity Health | St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ , USA Use of ALS Biomarkers in Drug Development and Clinical Trials
Michael BEERS
Tuesday, 9 May 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Robert L. Mayock & David A. Cooper Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , USA Epithelial Cell Dysfunction In Lung Fibrosis: It’s About Proteostasis and Quality Control
Collen MASIMIREMBWA
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA President & CEO: African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST Distinguished Professor: University of the Witwatersrand
Director: Consortium for Genomics and Therapeutics in Africa (CGTA) Pharmacogenomics in Personalized Medicine – from research bench to patient bedside in Africa
Leyma P. De HARO
Wednesday, 3 May 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Assistant Biosafety Officer, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Office of Environment, Health, and Safety
Pasadena, CA, USA Biosecurity in the age of Synthetic Biology with a focus on Biomedical Applications
Katia ZANIER
Thursday, 27 April 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYNuclear signaling and cancer Lab, University of Strasbourg, FRANCE HPV, E2F4 and p53: partners in oncogenic transformation
Lior ZANGI
Thursday, 13 April 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences and a faculty member of the Icahn Genomics Institute, USA SMRTs* way to fix the heart
Alessandra ROSSINI
Thursday, 30 March 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Eurac Research, Group Leader, Institute for Biomedicine, Bolzano, ITALY Set-up and characterization of an iPSC- derived neurocardiac co-culture model
Giorgio SCITA
Friday, 24 March 2023 | 2:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY IFOM | Principal Investigator | Mechanisms of tumor cell migration Lab Professor of General Pathology, Department of Oncology and Haemato- Oncology, University of Milan – IFOM ETS – The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology | Milan, ITALY Tissue fluidification in pathophysiology
Neel Sarovan BHAVESH
Thursday, 23 March 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Group Leader, Transcription RegulationLa, ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA Fascinating mechanism of single-stranded nucleic acid recognition by RNA Recognition Motifs
Ashish SHUKLA
Friday, 17 March 2023 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA Scientist, Division of Virus Research and Therapeutics, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow Do SARS-CoV-2 antibodies enhance dengue virus pathogenesis?
Ashish KUMAR
Thursday, 16 March 2023 | 2:00 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of Health (NIH), USA Structural insights into the mechanism of viral entry into host cells: a co-complex of host receptors and viral proteins
Neil BRUCE
Wednesday, 14 March 2023 | 2:00 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIA CNAP, Director
Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) Department of Biology, University of York, UK Mining marine and terrestrial environments for new enzymes to overcome obstacles in lignocellulose valorisation
John HOLLOWAY
Friday, 3 March 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Associate Vice-President (Interdisciplinary Research)
Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine Southampton General Hospital, UK Exploring the (epi)genome for the origins of allergy and asthma
Danilo NORATA
Wednesday, 1 March 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Professor of Pharmacology, Director Laboratory of Lipoproteins, Immunity and Atherosclerosis, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences “Rodolfo Paoletti”, Coordinator Doctorate School of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Experimental and Clinical, University of Milan, ITALY Immunometabolic reprogramming of T cells in obesity and cardiometabolic disorders
Alisa PHULUKDAREE
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria Gene variants in coronary artery disease – profiling needles in a haystack – to do or not to do?
Noella BIGIRIMANA
Friday, 24 February 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Deputy Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Kimihurura | Kigali | RWANDA Advances in Vaccine Manufacturing and R&D in Rwanda
Maura DANDRI
Friday, 24 February 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Head of Research Group Virus Hepatitis , Universitätsklinikum Hamburg- Eppendorf Center for Internal Medicine, Hamburg, GERMANY Humanized mice as models to study hepatitis B and D viruses in resting and proliferating hepatocytes
Giovanni SORRENTINO
Tuesday, 21 February 2023 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Assistant Professor, Head of Molecular Liver Pathophysiology Unit Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences – University of Trieste, ITALY Modeling complex liver diseases using advanced organotypic cultures
Jennifer A. THOMSON
Friday, 10 February 2023 | 11:00 am – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Emeritus Professor UCT, President OWSDne, Hamburg, GERMANY How OWSD can help women scientists unleash their latent talents
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