DELIVERED STUDY PLAN 2021/2022 (35°, 36°, 37° ciclo)
Courses provided as part of the educational activities of the Doctoral School in Biology and Medicine
Molecular (BEMM)
"Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics" per i dottorandi del 1° e 2° anno.
“Single-cell transcriptomics (theory and bioinformatic pipeline)" per i dottorandi del 1° e 2° anno.
“Cellular microscopy and image analysis - Theoretical-practical course”. Per tutti i dottorandi.
“Online tools to study the human genome”. Per tutti i dottorandi.
“Public speaking”. Per tutti i dottorandi.
“Bioinformatics: theory and applications from genomes to drugs”
"Ricerca documentaria specialistica. Skills for a digital world"
“Microscopy Techniques for the Life Sciences”
“Corso teorico-pratico di statistica” per i dottorandi del 1° anno.
“Preparing Artwork for scientific papers”
“Sperimentazione animale”
Seminars of the Institutes of Polo San Lorenzo,
organized by this Ph.D. course in collaboration with IBPM/CNR BBCD/Sapienza e the Ph.D Course GBM (held every two weeks in Aula Tatò - Via dei Sardi 70, 2nd floor).
22/11/2021. Antonino Cassotta (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland) “Clonal selection and immunodominance in the human T cell response to microbial antigens and biologicals”
29/11/2021. Flavie Strappazzon (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma) "Targeting mitophagy as a strategy for therapeutic intervention in diseases"
13/12/2021. Michele Ardolino (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada) “Beyond T cell inhibition: new functions for good ol’ PD-L1”
11/04/2022. Chiara Gabellini (Unità di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa) “From tank to bedside: exploiting the teleost zebrafish for human disease modeling”
02/05/2022. Stefano Mattarocci (CEA, INSERM U1274, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) “Cell's fate and telomeres: the shortest straw sets the rule”
16/05/2022. Giovanni Messina (Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ’’C. Darwin’’ Sapienza Università di Roma) “From Drosophila constitutive heterochromatin to human cell division: a journey aboard the chromatin remodeling complexes train on microtubules tracks”
06/06/2022. Marilena Ciciarello (CNR Institute of Molecular Genetics "Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza", Unit of Bologna) “Investigating the ‘dark side’ of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the leukemic microenvironment”
27/06/2022. Nicla Porciello (Unit of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Regina Elena National Cancer Institute,Rome) “How T-cell activation begins: the allosteric kick-off of the TCR-CD3 complex”
19/09/2022. Yoko Eguchi (Department of Science and Technology on Food Safety, Kindai University, Japan) “Analysis of an acid responding sensor specific to Escherichia coli”
Seminars organized by the BCS Doctorate and held by foreign teachers
25/3/22 Ramonell Marta Morey - Departament de Genetica, Microbiologia i Estadistica, Università de Barcelona, Spain “Developmental Wiring and Adult Plasticity of Neural Circuits”
28/04/2022 Molina Antonio - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES 28/04/2022 Plant immunity triggered by cell wall derived glycans
13/5/2022 Ağca Can Ali - Bingol University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bingol, Turkey ”Apoptosis (programmed cell death) and Bcl-2 Targeting small molecule inhibitors”
30/09/2022 - Ohta Kunimasa - Kyushu University, Japan – “Molecular control of division plane establishment in plants”
PhD students are also encouraged to attend seminars of their interest within the wide range offered by Sapienza and other institutions. The seminars are regularly advertised by e-mail. Here are some of the seminars attended by BCS PhD students:
Seminars organized by the PhD course in Genetics and Molecular Biology
26/11/2021. Alvaro Crevenna (Head of Microscopy Facility Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit EMBL Rome) “Imaging tissue across scales, from ultra-structure to spatial-omics”
10/12/2021. Patrizia Lavia (CNR, IBPM Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology) “Imaging in dynamic mode: real time analysis of living cells”
21/01/2022. Tiziana Santini (Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies) “Imaging methodologies for RNA detection in cultured cells and tissues”
18/02/2022. Neil Humphreys (Head of Gene Editing and Embryology Facility, EMBL, Rome) “Utilising CRISPR to create novel humanized mouse models”
04/03/2022. Julie Martone (Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, of National Council of Research, Rome) “How to unravel the mechanisms of action of lncRNAs”
18/03/2022. Jim Sawitzke (Head of Genetic & Viral Engineering Facility, EMBL, Rome) “The ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’ of viral engineering and an advanced cloning method”
01/04/2022. Logan Moran Mulroney/Camilla Ugolini (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT, Milan) “Detecting modifications from long-read nanopore sequencing”
13/05/2022. Pietro Laneve/Silvia Galfrè (Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology of National Council of Research/ Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin") “Integrating multiple gene editing and single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal the function of complex non-coding loci in motor neuron differentiation”
17/06/2022. Alessandro Vannini (Head of Structural Biology Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan) “Modern integrative structural biology to study structure and function of the eukaryotic genome”
24/06/2022. Maurizio Gatti (Sapienza Univerisity, Rome) “Mechanisms of spindle formation: lessons from Drosophila”
08/07/2022. Cinzia Rinaldo (IBPM-CNR) “Old and new players in mammalian cytokinesis”
22/07/2022. Giovanni Messina (Department of Biology and Biotechnology «Charles Darwin», Sapienza University, Rome) “The moonlighting roles of chromatin remodeling complexes in cell division”
16/09/2022. Luca Proietti (Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Tuscia University, Viterbo) “The unexpected role of Cockayne Syndrome group A and B proteins in the control of cell division”
30/09/2022. Sabine Muller (Department of Biology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) “Molecular control of division plane establishment in plants”
14/10/2022. Susanne Lens (Department of Molecular Cancer Research, UMC Utrecth, Holland) “How to maintain a stable genome”
28/10/2022. Andrea Musacchio (Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany) “Genome inheritance: chromosome, microtubules and their sensitive linkage”
BEMM Ph.D. School SEMINARS
Elena Cattaneo “Il metodo della scienza dentro e fuori il laboratorio”
Elena Cattaneo “Huntington, storia di un gene antico”
Andrea Grignolio “Dalla scuola anatomica torinese di Giuseppe Levi alla esitanza vaccinale: scienza, politica, società”
Andres Ramos “RNA-binding proteins integrate multiple regulatory layers in neuronal development”
Alessandro Doria "Novel insights into the genetic determinants of diabetic complications”
Leandro Castellano "The p53 miRNA interactome and its potential in the cancer clinic"
Matteo Ligorio "Cracking the Pancreatic Cancer Enigma: An Overview of the Ligorio Lab"
Guillermo Velasco "What we have learned from Big Data for autophagy research"
Guido Silvestri "Patogenesi da COVID-19"
SEMINARS EMBL – La Sapienza Lecture
Aula Odeion, Museo della Civiltà Classica, Sapienza Università di Roma
14/10/2022. Andrew Pospisilik, Ph.D (Van Andel Institute, US) "Probabilistic and Epigenetic Underpinnings of Disease"
Numerous other seminars were attended by BCS doctoral students (as evidence of the wide diversification of topics of interest) and are listed in the "Other Seminars 2021-2022" file accessible at the link on the right (“Insights”).
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DELIVERED STUDY PLAN 2022/2023 (36°, 37°, 38° ciclo)
Seminars of the Institutes of Polo San Lorenzo, organized by this Ph.D. course in collaboration with IBPM/CNR BBCD/Sapienza e the Ph.D Course GBM (held every two weeks in Aula Tatò - Via dei Sardi 70, 2nd floor).
30-01-2023 Marco Paggi Unit of Cellular Networks and Molecular Therapeutic Targets IRCCS - Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome “Repurposing the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in the treatment of glioblastoma: a fast track from lab results to clinical trials”
130-2-2023 Livia Perfetto Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “C. Darwin” Sapienza Università di Roma “Network-based approaches to support Systems Medicine”
63-03-2023 ore 12.30 Massimiliano Lucidi, Department of Sciences, Università degli Studi Roma Tre “Super-resolution imaging and optical nanoscopy on bacteria”
20-03-2023 Maurizio Fanciulli, Department of Research, Diagnosis and Innovative Technologies, Traslational Research Area, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Roma, “Enhancer engagement sustains oncogenic transformation and progression of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”
03-04-2023 Francesca Sardina, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari, CNR, Roma “Microtubule network and spastin functions: new therapeutic perspectives for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia”
17-04-2023 Enea Di Domenico, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ''C. Darwin'' Sapienza Università di Roma “Advances in exploring and manipulating the human skin microbiome”
08-05-2023 Emanuele Mauri, Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica "G. Natta",Politecnico di Milano "Hydrogel-based systems for biomedical applications: a leap into promising therapeutic strategies"
22-05-2023 Raymond Kaempfer, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel "HIV co-opts the host antiviral response to enable splicing of its own mRNA"
29-05-2023 Francesco Boccellato, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, UK “Stem-cell driven models to understand epithelial response to infections and cancer initiation”
05-06-2023 Silvia Di Angelantonio, Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Sapienza Università di Roma; Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, IIT@Sapienza, Roma; Caterina Sanchini, Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, IIT@Sapienza, Roma “Microtubule rearrangement as microglia reactivity marker”
19-06-2023 Paul Clarke, Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia “Mitotic cell death: a mechanism to prevent and treat cancer”
12-09-2023 Toshihide Okajima, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan “Neutron crystallography of bacterial copper amine oxidase: Real positions of hydrogen atoms in enzyme”
25-09-2023 Antonio Lazcano, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico “Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life: back to the Miller experiment?”
9-10-2023 Jomon Joseph, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India “Cell biology of Annulate Lamellae – an unexplored organelle"
Seminars organized by the BCS Doctorate and held by foreign teachers
01-03-2023 Martin Stegmann TUM School of Life Sciences, Technische Universität, München, Germany "Coordination of plant growth and stress by endogenous peptides"
03-05-2023 Luisa Currado - Cantaluppi & Partners-Rappresentante professionale presso l’UAMI (Ufficio Marchi e Design comunitario) e l’EUIPO (Ufficio dell’Unione Europea per la Proprietà Intellettuale) “IP for dummies: patent procedure pills”
30-03-2023 Claudio Moser, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento “Grapevine breeding via gene editing”
21-04-2023 Monica De Caroli, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, Lecce "And there was light: a green lantern in the plant cell wall”
13-06-2023 Sara Raggi, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden “Investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating apical hook development in A. thaliana”
13-06-2023 Federica Locci, Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany “Sensing the danger: a confluent view of plant innate immunity”
13-06-2023 Nora Gigli Bisceglia, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands "Exploring the role of cell wall modification and sensing in activating stress responses in plants"
Numerous other seminars were attended by BCS doctoral students (as evidence of the wide diversification of topics of interest) and are listed in the "Other Seminars 2022-2023" file accessible at the link on the right (“Insights”).
DELIVERED STUDY PLAN 2023/24
SEMINARS
Seminars offered during the academic year are indicated in the webpage https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/SEMINARI-BIOLOGIA-CELLULARE-E-DELLO-SVILUPPO_nH3489_IT.aspx
COURSES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED BY THE BEMM SCHOOL 2023-24
21-22/10/2024 ""Microscopia ed analisi di immagini" (6 h)
16-24/10/2024 “BIOINFORMATICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS FROM GENOMES TO DRUGS” 9° Edition (18 h)
1-4/10/2024 "Theoretical-practical course on model systems in biology - module 1: yeast" (8h)
30/9/2024 Symposium of BeMM students
25-26/6/2024 "ATAC-seq course (theory and bioinformatic pipeline)" (8 h)
25-26/6/2024 "Statistics for Biology" (16 h)
24/5/24 “Alternative Career in Science” (4h)
9 and 16/5/2024 "Preparing artwork for scientific papers - getting started in scientific illustration" – 4th edition (8 h)
1/3/2024 ""Scientific writing: fellowships, grants, and articles" (seminar)