Room Serra 1 and 2 - at 2:00 p.m.
Genetics Building (CU022), Sapienza
https://meet.google.com/rqd-ubqm-cgu
07 March 2025
Professors: Dimitri (chair), Laneve, Raimondo, Vernì, Kremer
Referee Students: Mastrangelo, Medici, Ferreri, Garraffo
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Maria Chiara Biagi: “Engineering circular RNAs for efficient protein production”
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Fabio Piscopo: “Unveiling the role of PCIF1 methyltransferase in Triple-
Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)”
28 March 2025
Professors: Ballarino (chair), Raffa, Trombetta, Fanti, Soddu
Referee Students: Menicucci, Riesle, Risi, Gualdi, Guerrini
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Luca Corda: "Genetic and epigenetic changes in the repetitive regions of the human
genome"
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Lucrezia De Santis: "Dissecting the role LINC00504 and LINC00520 in melanoma phenotype switching"
04 April 2025
Professors: Dello Ioio (chair), Guarguaglini, Ciapponi, Giunta, Barilà
Referee Students: Santopietro, Tarullo, Piscopo, Pistacchia
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Elena Di Tommaso: "Understanding the role of CENP-A in modulating responses to DNA damage and R-loops formation in human cancers"
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Federica Cannistrà: "Role of the nuclear envelope in physiological and pathological
conditions”
09 May 2025
Professors: Serino (chair), Cacchione, Vernì, Bozzoni, Ferrari, Kremer
Referee Students: Tesoriere, Vrachnos, Silvestri, Simula
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Alessandro Grazzi: "CyCoNP lncRNA sustains NCAM1 expression by RNA-RNA
direct binding to control human motor neuron specification."
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
MarcoTarullo: "FTO targeting by chemical inhibition as a strategy against chronic myeloid leukemia”
16 May 2025
Professors: Presutti (chair), Cruciani, Ballarino, Tartaglia, Gross
Referee Students: Biagi, Spurio, Barone, Cortile
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Anna Mastrangelo: “Investigation of the mechanisms regulating AurkA nuclear
localization”
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Margherita Medici:“Targeting the RNA-binding protein HuD (ELAVL4)
to control ALS disease"
30 May 2025
Professors: Ciapponi(chair), Fatica, Piacentini, Dimitri, Schiavo
Referee Students: Cannistrà, De Santis, De Nittis, Ferreri
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Giulia Menicucci: "High resolution NGS approach for non invasive
detection of somatic mutations in solid tumors"
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Aileen Julia Riesle: “Epigenetic mechanisms regulating monogenic expression of Olfactory Receptor genes”
06 June 2025
Professors: Raimondo (chair), Dello Ioio, Saggio, Laneve, Soddu
Referee Students: Di Tommaso, Grazzi, Garraffo, Gualdi
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Flavia Risi: "Echoes from the last Green Sahara: whole genome analysis of Fulani, a key population to unveil the evolutionary history of Africa"
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Maria Virginia Santopietro: "Moonlighting roles of chromatin-remodeling
proteins in cell division"
13 June 2025
Professors: Guarguaglini (chair), Raffa, Sabatini, Cacchione, Barilà
Referee Students: Lepri, Mastrangelo, Guerrini, Piscopo
2.00 - 2.25 p.m.
Andrea Lepri:“Unveiling the signaling pathway of light-independent seed
germination"
2.25 - 2.50 p.m.
Giulia Tesoriere: "Role of Vitamin B6 in cancer using Drosophila as a model system".
2.50 - 3.15 p.m.
Dimitrios Miltiadis Vrachnos:“A new theoretical framework to predict phase
separation”