The ICGEB International Seminar Programme includes a series of scientific seminars held by eminent international experts in many diverse
Each year, approximately 50 seminars are held in Trieste, many of which are also podcast, and additional seminars are also held in New Delhi and Cape Town. These podcasts are also available on our YouTube and iTunes
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Upcoming Seminars 2019
Yih-Cherng LIOU – Hosted Seminar
Thursday, 21 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control: functions of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins
Aldo FERRARI
Monday, 18 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND Reference-free traction force microscopy
Vincent ANQUETIL
Monday, 4 March 2019 | 12:00 noon ICM – Brain and Spine Institute, Inserm U1127 – UPMC-P6 UMR S1127 , Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FRANCE Gene expression and splicing perturbations in Frontotemporal Dementias and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Brunhilde WIRTH
Friday, 1 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, GERMANY Therapeutic Approaches to Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenges is a Solution
Anton WUTZ – Hosted Seminar
Thursday, 28 February 2019 | 12:00 noon ETH Zurich, Inst. f. Molecular Health Sciences, Zürich, SWITZERLAND Haploid embryonic stem cells as a tool for discovery of new regulators in X inactivation and Hedgehog signaling
Adriano CHIO’
Thursday, 14 February 2019 | 12:00 noon Department of Neuroscience
University of Turin, ITALY Heterogeneity of motor and cognitive phenotypes of ALS: mechanisms and implications
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Cardiovascular
Enrico Ferrazzi
Tuesday, 27 November 2018 | 3:00 pm Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dept. of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, ITALY Maternal cardio-vascular system and clinical phenotypes of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.
Mark Mercola
Thursday, 11 October 2018 | 12:00 noon Professor, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Department of MedicinePalo Alto, CA, USA High Throughput Kinetic Studies of PatientiPSC-Cardiomyocytes to Probe Heart Disease.
Nazareno Paolocci
Tuesday, 9 October 2018 | 12:00 noon Johns Hopkins Heart & Vascular Institute e Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Universita’ di Padova, ITALY Keeping cool, calm, and connected:
How the BDNF/TrkB signal aids the failing heart.
Blanche Shroen
Friday, 25 May 2018 | 12:00 noon Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht University, Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS Non-coding RNAs in heart failure: what more can we expect?
Elisa Di Pasquale
Tuesday, 15 May 2018 | 12:00 noon National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB) – UOS of Milan and Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, ITALY iPSC-based models for cardiac diseases: focus on LMNA- dependent Cardiomyopathy.
Lutz Hein
Friday, 16 March 2018 | 12:00 noonInstitute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, GERMANYDynamics of the epigenome in cardiac myocyte development and disease.
Ajay Shah
Monday, 12 February 2018 | 12:00 noon King’s College London, BHF Chair of Cardiology & James Black Professor of Medicine, Director, King’s BHF Centre of Research Excellence, London, UK NADPH Oxidases and Redox Regulation of Cardiac Remodelling.
Stephane Heymans
Monday, 5 February 2018 | 12:00 noon Professor of Cardiomyopathies, Cardiology, Laboratory for Heart Failure Research, Dep. of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, CARIM, THE NETHERLANDS Inflammation and fibrosis as central drivers of heart failure.
Immunology
Giovanni Piccoli
Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | 3:00 pm Assistant Professor and Assistant TelethonScientist, Dulbecco Telethon Institute,Laboratory of Biology of Synapse, Center for Integrative Biology (CIBIO),University of Trento, ITALY Overexpression of Parkinson’s disease-associated mutationLRRK2 G2019S in mouse induces behavioural deficits andprotein aggregation.
John Christianson
Monday, 29 October 2018 | 12:00 noon Nuffield Dept. of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research CentreUniversity of Oxford, UK Beyond ERAD: emerging roles for ubiquitin ligase complexes of the endoplasmic reticulum.
Thomas Brocker
Wednesday, 17 October 2018 | 12:00 noon LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Biomedizinisches Centrum Institute for ImmunologyPlanegg-Martinsried, GERMANY Plasmacytoid Dendritic cells and cell death detection.
Silvio Bicciato
Thursday, 20 September 2018 | 12:00 noon University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ITALY Integrative analysis of genomics data to investigatetranscriptional programs in cancer cells.
Renato Ostuni
Friday, 29 June 2018 | 12:00 noon San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, ITALY Single-cell dissection of genomic cross-regulatory interplays in macrophages.
Lisa Westerberg
Tuesday, 27 March 2018 | 3:00 pm Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SWEDEN Functional profiling of microbial communities through translational optimization.
Alexis M. Kalergis
Wednesday, 10 January 2018 | 12:00 noon Millennium Institute Immunology and Immunotherapy, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, CHILE Interference with the immunological and neurological synapses as virulence mechanisms of RSV. Implications for vaccine design.
Reto Guler
Thursday, 8 January 2018 | 12:00 noonDivision of Immunology, IDM, University of Cape Town & International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Cape Town Component, SOUTH AFRICAHost transcriptomics of tuberculosis to statins and minor groove binders as host/pathogen-directed drug therapy for tuberculosis.
Molecular genetics
Alberto Auricchio
Wednesday, 24 October 2018 | 3:00 pm Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, TIGEM, Pozzuoli (NA), ITALY AAV gene therapy from bench to bedside.
Anna Cereseto
Wednesday, 24 October 2018 | 2:00 pm Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of Trento, ITALY From user- to genome-friendlyCRISPR/Cas9
David Caramelli
Wednesday, 17 October 2018 | 3:00 pm Head of Department of Biology, (Department of Excellence 2018-2022), Laboratory ofAnthropology, Molecular Anthropology/Paleogenetics Unit, University of Florence, ITALY Advanced in Ancient DNA studies.
Fabio Del Piero
Tuesday, 6 February 2018 | 12:00 noonProfessor of Pathology, Lousiana State University, Dep. of Pathobiological Sciences,Baton Rouge-Louisiana, USAComparative Pathobiology as Diagnostic and Research Tool for Advancements in Animal and Human Health.
RNA Processing
Morgan Marcos
Friday, 16 November 2018 | 12:00 noon MRC Centre for Regenerative MedicineThe University of EdinburghEdinburgh BioQuarter, Edinburgh, UK Role of RNA uridylation in germ inedifferentiation.
Javier F. Caceres
Tuesday, 6 November 2018 | 12:00 noon University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ITALY Integrative analysis of genomics data to investigatetranscriptional programs in cancer cells.
Graciela L. Boccaccio
Monday, 1 October 2018 | 12:00 noon RNA Cell Biology Lab., Instituto LeloirBuenos Aires, ARGENTINA Novel regulators of stress granule’s dynamics.
Philip Van Damme
Wednesday, 11 July 2018 | 12:00 am Laboratory for Neurobiology, Leuven, THE NETHERLANDS Disease mechanisms of TDP-43 associated ALS-FTD.
Ana Eulalio
Monday, 2 July 2018 | 12:00 noon University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL Insights into host – bacterial pathogen interactions: from microRNAs to host stress response.
Maurizo Budini
Tuesday, 26 June 12:00 noon Instituto de Ciencias Odontológicas Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, CHILE Crosstalk between TDP-43 and Chaperone Mediated Autophagy (CMA): what do we know.
Alexander Borodavka
Thursday, 26 April 2018 | 12:00 noon Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, UK These can go up to eleven’: shedding light on the molecular mechanisms of genome segment counting in rotaviruses.
Neurobiology
Vincent ANQUETIL
Monday, 4 March 2019 | 12:00 noon ICM – Brain and Spine Institute, Inserm U1127 – UPMC-P6 UMR S1127 , Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FRANCE Gene expression and splicing perturbations in Frontotemporal Dementias and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Brunhilde WIRTH
Friday, 1 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, GERMANY Therapeutic Approaches to Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenges is a Solution
Adriano CHIO’
Thursday, 14 February 2019 | 12:00 noon Department of Neuroscience
University of Turin, ITALY Heterogeneity of motor and cognitive phenotypes of ALS: mechanisms and implications
Jagannatha Rao
Tuesday, 27 November 2018 | 12:00 noon Director of the Institute of Scientific Researchand Technological Advances – INDICASAT AIP, PANAMA DNA dynamics in neuro degenerative disorders.
Elizabeth Ficher
Monday, 17 September 2018 | 12:00 noon Institutional Research Information Service, London, UK Physiological mouse models of neurodegeneration.
Gorazd Stokin
Friday, 22 June 2018 | 12:00 noon St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno, International Clinical Research Center, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC Axons, transport, Alzheimer’s disease and beyond.
Giorgio F. Gilestro
Wednesday, 18 April 2018 | 12:00 noon Lecturer @ Imperial College London, UK What flies can teach us about sleep?
Douglas Laurents
Friday, 23 March 2018 | 12:00 noonInstituto de Química Física Rocasolano, Madrid, SPAINStudying Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by NMR: Application to ALS-Related Proteins.
Regenerative Medicine and Gene Therapy
Aldo FERRARI
Monday, 18 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND Reference-free traction force microscopy
Józef Dulak
Wednesday, 21 October 2018 | 12:00 noon Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland & Kardio-Med Silesia, Zabrze, POLAND Heme oxygenase-1 and microRNAs in heart and skeletal muscle repair and regeneration.
Michele De Luca
Wednesday, 3 October 2018| 12:00 noon Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari”, Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ITALY Combined cell and gene therapy of Epidermolysis Bullosa shed light on human epidermal stem cells
Heinz Redl
Monday, 21 May 2018 | 12:00 noon Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in the AUVA trauma research center, Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration, Chair TERMIS-EU, Vienna, AUSTRIA Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration – News from ligament, cartilage, bone and neuro area
Claudio Areias Franco
Tuesday, 15 May 2018 | 3:00 pm Vascular Morphogenesis, Istituto de Medicina Molecular, IMM Lisboa, PORTUAGAL Competing interests in vascular morphogenesis.
Matias Zurbriggen
Friday, 22 April 2018 | 12:00 noon Institute of Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, CEPLAS, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GERMANY Optogenetic tools for the control and understanding of cellular processes in animal and plant systems.
Anna Randi
Thursday, 15 March 2018 | 12:00 noon Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK Vascular control of tissue homeostasis:transcriptional and epigenetic pathways.
Fabio Mammano
Monday, 8 January 2018 | 3:00 pm Director, CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology , International Campus “A. Buzzati-Traverso”, Monterotondo (RM), ITALY Hearing impairment and skin diseases associated with connexin 26 mutations: etiopathogenesis and translational opportunities.
Infectious diseases
Lara Manganaro
Friday, 26 October 2018 | 12:00 noon Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare “Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi”, Milan, ITALY IL-15 modulates HIV resistance through SAMHD1 inactivation in CD4+ T cells.
Leo James
Friday, 5 October 2018 | 12:00 noon MRC Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK How HIV uses its capsid to promote infection.
Shashi Kumar
Monday, 2 July 2018 | 3:00 pm International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, INDIA Metabolic Engineering of plant for artemisinin biosynthesis and efficient resilience of whole plant in treatment of rodent malaria.
Virginie Gautier
Tuesday, 12 June 2018 | 12:00 noon UCD Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), School of Medicine, University College Dublin, IRELAND Unlocking HIV latency: Identifying novel targets at the host-virus interface for HIV CURE strategies.
Cancer
Elliott J. Androphy
Friday, 2 November 2018 | 3:00 pm Kampen-Norins Professor, Chair, Department of Dermatology, IndianaUniversity School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA Post-translational modifications of the E2 proteinregulate its activities.
Giorgio Scita
Monday, 8 October 2018 | 12:00 noon IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology &University of Milan, School of Medicine, Department of Oncology and Hemato- Oncology-DIPO, ITALY Unjamming overcomes kinetic and proliferation arrest in terminally differentiated cells and promotes collective motility of carcinoma.
Martin Trepel
Thursday, 6 September 2018 |12:00 noon Center for Oncology, II. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic, Hamburg, GERMANY Targeting cell-type-specific receptors in cancer and normal tissues.
Massimo Tommasino
Monday, 9 July 2018 | 12:00 noon International Agency for Research on Cancer World Health Organization, Lyon, FRANCE Human papillomaviruses and carcinogenesis: well- established and novel models.
Patrick Humbert
Wednesday, 6 June 2018 | 3:00 pm La Trobe University Research Centre for Molecular Cancer Prevention, Dept of Biochemistry and Genetics | La Trobe University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Cell polarity, tissue organisation and the regulation of cancer progression.
Hassan Jumaa
Wednesday, 30 May 2018 | 12:00 noon Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Ulm, GERMANY Cell-Autonomous BCR Signaling in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Mario Rossi
Monday, 9 April 2018 | 12:00 noonInstituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires (IBioBA) – CONICET, Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, Polo Científico Tecnológico Godoy Cruz, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINARole of protein Ubiquitylation in tumor-cell migration and invasion.
Virology
Fabrizio Maggi
Thursday, 11 January 2018 | 12:00 noon Virology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, Building 200/C, Pisa, ITALY TTV story telling: from orphan virus of uncertain significance to immunological surrogate marker.
Anna K. Overby
Thursday, 15 November 2018 | 12:00 noon Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology,Laboratory of Molecular Medicine Sweden(MIMS), Umeå University, SWEDEN Tick-borne encephalitis virus and the antiviral interferon system.
Mirco Vanetti
Thursday, 25 October 2018 | 3:00 pm European Applications manger-Functional Genomics at IDT Mitigating the risk of off-target effects when using CRISPR genome editing.
Nolwenn Jouvenet
Friday, 20 July 12:00 noon Institut Pasteur, Paris, FRANCE Viral Genomics and Vaccination, Flavivirus Pathogenesis Group.
Massimo PIZZATO
Monday, 1 June 2018 | 3:00 pm Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, ITALY The role of SERINC5 in retrovirus infection and immunity
Fabrizio Maggi
Thursday, 11 January 2018 | 12:00 noon Virology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, Building 200/C, Pisa, ITALY TTV story telling: from orphan virus of uncertain significance to immunological surrogate marker.
DNA Repair
Alessandro Vindigni
Wednesday, 2 May 2018 | 3:00 pm Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Mechanisms of replication stress response to chemotherapeutics.
Molecular and cellular biology
Yih-Cherng LIOU – Hosted Seminar
Thursday, 21 March 2019 | 12:00 noon Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control: functions of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins
Anton WUTZ – Hosted Seminar
Thursday, 28 February 2019 | 12:00 noon ETH Zurich, Inst. f. Molecular Health Sciences, Zürich, SWITZERLAND Haploid embryonic stem cells as a tool for discovery of new regulators in X inactivation and Hedgehog signaling
Sebastian Oltean
Friday, 6 July 2018 | 12:00 noon University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK Alternative Splicing in Chronic Kidney Diseases.
Microbiology
Jeremy Thompson
Wednesday, 5 September 2018 | 12:00 noon Cornell University, NY, USA Of viruses and vices. From a familiar generalist to an emerging specialist.
Christine Moissl-Eichinger
Tuesday, 29 May 2018 | 12:00 noon Center for Microbiome Research Medizinische Universität Graz, AUSTRIA Archaea, neglected components of the animal, plant and human microbiome.
Bioinformatics
Kristian Vlahovicek
Tuesday, 13 February 2018 | 12:00 noon Bioinformatics Group, Department of Molecular Biology, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, CROATIA Functional profiling of microbial communities through translational optimization.
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