Annual Seminar series
The Programme organizes an annual seminar series with invited speakers.
Seminars A.Y. 2025-2026
January 15, 2026 16:00: Dott. Luca Cirillo (The Institute of Cancer Research)- A journey from the cell cycle to protein homeostasis
January 22, 2026 16:00: Prof. Nils-Göran Larsson, (Karolinska Institutet) -Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- Mechanisms for mtDNA maintenance and relevance for human pathology
January 29, 2026 16:00: Dr. Eirini Maniou (Dublin City University)- Mechanical regulation of nervous system development and disease
February 11, 2026 16:00 Prof. Luc Bertrand (University of Louvain), AMPK and O-GlcNAcylation Signaling at the Nexus of Cardiac Metabolism and Heart Failure
February 16, 2026 16:00 Brian McDonagh, PhD (School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland) - PEROXIREDOXIN 6 IS REQUIRED TO PREVENT FERROPTOSIS INDUCED MITOCHONDRIAL FRAGMENTATION
February 17, 2026 16:00 Prof. Francesco Zonta (XI’AN JIAOTONG LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY) - Structural, computational and quantitative biology Series- Machine Learning Methods in Protein Design and the Renaissance of Computational Biology
February 26, 2026, Lydia Finley, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) -Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series, Identifying and exploiting the links between metabolism and cell state.
February 26, 2022 16:00 Prof. Marc MESNIL (University of Poitiers Directeur of the L CoMeT Laboratory)-
March 12, 2026 16:00 Prof Howy Jacobs (Tampere University, Finland)- Mitochondria - more heat than light
March 18, 2025 16:00 Prof. Rüdiger Rudolf (Mannheim University of Applied Sciences)- Revisiting glioma invasion: new perspectives on cell–cell communication
April 20, 2026 14:30 Prof. Gaia Novarino (ISTA: Institute of Science and Technology Austria)- Crossroads of Cancer, Metabolism, and Immunity- From Cells to Systems: Navigating the Complex Landscape of Autism Spectrum Disorders
May 7, 2026 14:30 Doug Millay (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) TITLE TBD
May 7, 2026 16:00 Davide Sabatini 16:00 (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
May 28, 2026 16:00 Prof. Eduardo Balsa (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
May 29, 2026 16:00 Matteo Caleo Memorial - Prof. Giampietro Schiavo (University College London) - Neurobiology in Health and Disease - Bridging the Brain, Heart, and Muscle- TITLE TBD
June 11, 2026 16:00 Silvia Campello (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
June 15, 2026 16:00 Serena Zacchigna, PhD (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology -ICGEB)- Crossroads of Cancer, Metabolism, and Immunity series TITLE TBD
June 29, 2026 16:00 (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York USA) TITLE TBD
September 17, 2026 16:00 Stirling Churchmann, PhD (Harvard Medical School), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
October 20, 2026 16:00 Edward Avezov, PhD (University of Cambridge)-Neurobiology in Health and Disease - Bridging the Brain, Heart, and Muscle Series -TITLE TBD
October 22, 2026 16:00 Nav Chandel; PhD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
December 17, 2026 16:00 Ralph DeBerardinis, PhD (UT Southwestern Medical Center)-Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- TITLE TBD
Seminars A.Y. 2024-2025
October 24, 2024 16:00: Prof. Gerald S. Shadel, Ph.D. (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science, Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- Mitochondrial Stress Signaling in Disease, Aging and Immunity
October 30, 2024 16:00: Prof. Linda Greensmith (UCL- London- UK)- Development of a novel therapeutic agent in models of ALS: challenges of translational neuroscience
November 7, 2024 14:00 Dr. Malanie Paillard ( INSERM researcher at CarMeN Laboratory)- "JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART DELVING DEEP INTO CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY" series- Cardiac Mitochondrial Ca2+ regulation: players, tools and physiopathological roles
November 15, 2024 16:00 Prof. Dr. Achim Paululat (Head of the Department of Zoology & Developmental Biology at the University of Osnabrück -Germany) -"JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART DELVING DEEP INTO CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY" series- Heart failure in flies and humans: A Drosophila model for human cardiomyopathies
February 7, 2025 16:00 Prof. José Antonio Enríquez Domínguez (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; CIBER de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Madrid, Spain.)-"JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART DELVING DEEP INTO CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY" series- OXPHOS structural heterogeneity in healthy heart mitochondria
March 7, 2025, Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD 16:00 Prof. Laura Zelarayán (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Göttingen), "JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART DELVING DEEP INTO CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY" series- CRISPRa & Gene Regulation in the Heart
March 20, 2025 16:00 Prof. Laura Formentini (NIH)Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series - SUBSTRATE-DEPENDENT REGULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL EFFICIENCY: A NEW METABOLON
February 26, 2025 16:00 Prof. Rüdiger Rudolf (Mannheim University of Applied Sciences) SYMPATHETIC INPUT AT THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION
April 9, 2025 16:00 Dr. Dario Bonanomi (IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute), Neurovascular crosstalk in nerve repair and degeneration
April 14, 2025 16:00 Prof. Helen Blau (Stanford University School of Medicine), Targeting a gerozyme to improve muscle regeneration and function in aging
April 17, 2025 Jean Emmanuel Sarry (INSERM, Cancer Research Center of Toulouse) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
May 7, 2025 16:00 Prof. Manuela Basso (Università degli Studi di Trento) Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs): Key to Understanding the Molecular Logic of Protein Networks
May 14, 2025 14:30 Prof. Gareth Miles (Universitu of St. Andrews) Astrocytes of the spinal cord in health and disease: stars of the show or inadvertent showstoppers?”
May 22, 2025 16:00 Prof. Daniela Carnevale (Università Sapienza di Roma)"JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART DELVING DEEP INTO CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY" series- Neural circuits controlling the immune responses involved in cardiovascular disease
May 29, 2025 16:00 Prof. Sandra Trifunovic (CECAD Cologne) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series Mitochondrial stress signals and unexpected cellular adaptations
June 6, 2025 16:00 Prof. Yan Burelle (University of Ottawa) Mitochondrial Quality Control in Muscle Stem Cells: A Determinant of Fate Decision and Tissue Repair Capacity
July 1, 2025 Matteo Caleo Memorial - Michela Fagiolini (Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) From Sensory Circuits to Clinical Insights: Translational Approaches to Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
July 17, 2025 16:00Dr. Rueben Shaw (Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center - Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TITLE TBD
September 16, 2025 12:00 Prof. Nigel W. Bunnet (University of Calgary), Platforms for the Signaling Train to Pain: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
September 25, 2025 16:00 Prof. Sofia Ahola (Univeristy of Birmingham) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series TRIAD IN THE INNER MEMBRANE: OMA1, OPA1, AND YME1L ORCHESTRATING MITOCHONDRIAL PHYSIOLOGY
December 12, 2025 16:00 Aleksandra Filipovska (University of Western Australia)-Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series Imaging and engineering organelles in 3 dimensions
Seminars A.Y. 2023-2024
October 26, 2023 16:00: Dr Maria Mittelbrunn (Severo Ochoa Research Center, Madrid, Spain), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- T cell metabolism at the crossroad between inflammation and aging
November 23rd, 2023 16:00: Prof. Isha Jain (University of California, San Francisco, USA) Turning the Oxygen and Vitamin Dials
February 24, 2024 16:00: Prof. Vincenzo Nigro (Università degli Studi di Napoli), Diagnosticare lo sconosciuto
February 24, 2024 17:00: Prof. Francesco Saverio Tedesco (University College London) Il malato in provetta
March 28, 2024 17:00: Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – Regulation of ageing by mitochondria-associated mRNA storage and degradation
April 18, 2024 16:00: Dr. Alessia Indrieri (Telethon Institute of Genetics Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – Exploring microRNA Modulation as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for Neurodegenerative Disorders Associated with Mitochondrial Dysfunction
May 9, 2024 17:00: Prof. Albert La Spada (University of California, Irvine) - Novel molecular mechanisms of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 and ALS neurodegeneration
May 23, 2024 16:00: Eija Pirinen (Biomedicine and Internal Medicine Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series -In vitro model of human subcutaneous adipocyte spheroids for studying mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondria activating compounds
June 12, 2024 16:00 Prof. Silvestro Micera (The BioRobotics Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Center, and Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering Neuro-X Institute, School of Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)-Implantable and wearable systems to restore and augment neural functions
June 20, 2024 16:00: Dr. Sara Sigismund (Istituto Europeo Oncologico) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- Regulation of growth factor signalling via membrane contact sites
July 11, 2024 16:00: Prof. Ed Chouchani (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- Mechanisms of metabolite regulation of protein function
September 19, 2024 16:00: Dr. Laura Greaves (Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series- Mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer – passive bystanders or active participants?
September 30, 2024 16:00: Prof. Leonid Margolis (Tbilisi Ilia State University, Georgia), - Extracellular vesicles - main mediators of cell-cell communications: More data than knowledge; Prof. Ron Kopito (Stanford University) - How the tiny, obscure, ubiquitin-like protein UFM1 orchestrates protein homeostasis
