Room Serra 1 and 2 - at 2:00 pm
Genetics building (CU022), Sapienza
https://meet.google.com/mcs-rgfs-cku
January 23, 2026
Professors: Presutti (chair), Cacchione, Fanti, Sabatini, Ferrari
Referee Students: Barone, Cortile, Marotta, Quilli
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Samuele Amati: “Moon-rice: cereal crop production for future planetary bases”
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
Elisa Bella: “From Dawn to Dusk: The Rise and Spread of the Greek/Eastern Mediterranean Component in Italy”
February 06, 2026
Professors: Guarguaglini (chair), Dimitri, Laneve, Vernì, ADV
Referee Students: De Nittis, Ferreri, Salvi, Terribili
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Angelo D’angelo: “Decoding RNA Transport and Multi-Omic Dysregulation in FUS-Associated ALS”
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
Federico Dinoi: “Epigenetic control in ALT telomere elongation: dissecting roles of histone variants, lnc RNAs and DNA/RNA secondary structures”
February 13, 2026
Professors: Serino (chair), Raffa, Raimondo, Trombetta, Schiavo
Referee Students: Garraffo, Gualdi, Venezia, Amati
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Daniele Durante: “Unveiling the function of muscle-specific lncRNAs: from cell-autonomous to non-cell-autonomous effects”
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
Claudia Franco: “Identification and characterization of Autism-Related Circular RNAs in murine models”
February 27, 2026
Professors: Dello Ioio (chair), Ballarino, Bozzoni Ciapponi
Referee Students: Guerrini, Piscopo, Bella, D’Angelo
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Sofia Marotta: “Studying molecular mechanisms of immune evasion in Epstein-Barr virus-associated B cell lymphomas”
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
Francesco Quilli: “Decoding Molecular-Level Biological Interactions with Computational Strategies”
March 13, 2026
Professors: Fatica (chair), Giunta, Piacentini, Tartaglia, Soddu
Referee Students: Pistacchia, Simula, Dinoi, Durante
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Nicolò Salvi: “Unveiling the role of circDLC1 in neurodevelopmental disorders”
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
Marta Terribili: “Unveiling the role of autophagy in Myotonic Dystrophy type 2 pathogenesis”
April 10, 2026
Professors: Fanti (chair), Cruciani, Dimitri, Morlando, ADV
Referee Students: Spurio, Gualdi, Franco, Marotta
2.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Marta Venezia: “Inhibition of METTL3 blunts the response of NPM1-muted OCI-AML3 cells to DNA damaging therapy”