International Seminars

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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