PhD Annual Seminar series
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), title TBD
May 23, 2024 16:00: Eija Pirinen (Biomedicine and Internal Medicine Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
June 20, 2024 16:00: Dr. Sara Sigismund (Istituto Europeo Oncologico) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
July 11, 2024 16:00: Prof. Ed Chouchani (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
September 19, 2024 16:00: Dr. Laura Greaves (Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
October 17, 2024 16:00: Dr. Gerald Shadel (San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging), Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
October 30, 2024 16:00: Prof. Linda Greensmith (UCL- London- UK), Title TBD
November 21, 2024 16:00: Prof. Ralph DeBerardinis (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
December 12, 2024 16:00: Prof. Fabiana Perocchi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich - Department of Biochemistry) Padua Mitochondria Lecture Series – title TBD
Seminars A.Y. 2022-2023
October 4, 2022, 17:00: Dott.ssa Cristina Ugalde (Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras -CIBERER), Structural heterogeneity of the human respiratory chain
January 27, 2023 16:00 Prof. Thomas Langer (Max Planck Institute for Biology and Aging), Proteolytic programming of mitochondria in ageing and diseases
February 2, 2023 16:00: Prof. Leonid B. Margolis (Head of the Section of Intercellular Interactions - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD) The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Extracellular vesicles and viruses: Close relatives or mortal enemies?
February 10, 2023 14:00: Nika Danial, Atan Gross, Navdeep Chandel, Jared Rutter, Luca Pellegrini, Gyorgy Hajnoczky - Minisymposium Mitochondria in Health and disease
February 15, 2023 16:00: Dr. Rémi Mounier (Centre de Génétique et de Physiologie Moléculaires et Cellulaires-Université Claude Bernard- Lyon, France), Extracellular vesicles and viruses: Close relatives or mortal enemies
February 22, 2023 14:00: Dr. Arduino Arduini (Iperboreal Pharma Srl), Coupling glycolysis with Krebs cycle inhibits peritoneal fibrosis
February 23, 2023 16:00: Dr. Albert Quintana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Padova Lecture Series 2023- A pathogen from within: Cellular antiviral responses as a mechanism for neuropathology in mitochondrial disease
March 7, 2023 16:00: Prof. Marianna Patrauchan (Istituto di icrobiologia della Oklahoma University), A Novel Calcium Sensor EfhP Responds to ROS and Controls Iron Uptake in a Human Pathogen P. aeruginosa
March 9, 2023 17:00: Dott. Giuseppe Fiermonte 9 Marzo (University of Bari), Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 2 (UCP2): a master regulator of cell metabolic reprogramming
March 22, 2023 15:00: Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster (Neurobiology and Genetics, Biocentre, Julius-Maximilians University of Wurzburg, Germany), Synchronisation Between Menstrual Cycles and the Luminance and Gravimetric Cycles of the Moon
March 23, 2023 17:00, Prof. Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge, UK), The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Why does mitochondrial dysfunction target specific cell types?
April 20, 2023: Derek Narendra (NINDS-NIH, Bethesda, USA), The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Curbing mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration: lessons from neurogenetics
April 17, 2023 15:00: Prof. Angelo D’Alessandro (Director of the Metabolomics Core of the School of Medicine; Director of the Mass Spectrometry Cancer Center Shared Resource - University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus), Small molecules, big data and something in between: High-throughput Metabolomics, towards Personalized Transfusion Medicine
May 3, 2023 16:30: Dr. Roberto Feuda (Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology-University of Leicester, UK) The origin and evolution of monoaminergic neurons
May 5, 2023: Nuno Raimundo (Penn State College of Medicine), The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Organelle networks: a mitochondria-centric perspective
July 6, 2023 16:00: Alessandro Prigione (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf), The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Pluripotent stem cells and brain organoids for mitochondrial disease research
May 24, 2023 14:30: Prof. Andreas Daiber (Department/Division: Center for Cardiology - Cardiology 1, Institution: University Medical Center Mainz) Nitric oxide and superoxide – the Yin and Yang of the cardiovascular system
June 7, 2023 17:00: Prof. Michela Matteoli (CNR Institute of Neuroscience and Humanitas Research Hospital), How the immune system affects the synapse
June 16, 2023 12:00: Dr Elena Monti (Post Doctoral Research Scholar at Helen Blau's Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stanford, USA) Targeting 15-PGDH to promote muscle rejuvenation
June 22, 2023 16:00: Prof. David Bishop (Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Australia), Divergent whole-muscle and fibre-type-specific mitochondrial remodelling to different exercise intensities in humans
June 26, 2023 16:30: Prof. Pietro Faccioli (“G. Occhialini“ Department of Physics ,University Milan-Bicocca and INFN Milan) and Prof. Emiliano Biasini (Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare, Computazionale e Integrata CIBIO, Università di Trento), Functional, pathogenic, and pharmacological roles of protein folding intermediates
July 10, 2023, 10:30: Prof. Helen Miranda (State University of Londrina in Brazil), Development of a new human in vitro model to study neuromuscular diseases
September 28th, 2023 16:00: Dr. Matteo Bergami (CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany), The Padova Lecture Series 2023- Mitochondrial dynamics in neuronal plasticity
October 27, 2023: Dr. Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (University of Cambridge) Metabolic control of myeloid cell function in chronic central nervous system inflammation
Seminars A.Y. 2021-2022
October 27, 2022 17:00: Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti, University of Cambridge
"Metabolic control of myeloid cell function in chronic central nervous system inflammation" flyer TBD
- December 9, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Eija Pirinen, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland, Nicotinamide riboside improves muscle mitochondrial biogenesis, satellite cell differentiation and gut microbiota composition in BMI-discordant twins Download
- December 16, 2021, 17:00: Dott. Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, "Staying in touch: Systematic identification of contact site tethers and residents uncovers molecular machinery for a contact between mitochondria and the nucleus in yeast" Download
- February 24, 2022 17:00: Dott.ssa Nicoletta Pedemonte, U.O.C. Genetica Medica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini "The hunt for new therapies for Cystic Fibrosis" Download
- March 10, 2022 17:00 Dr. Michal Minczuk, MRC-MBU, UK,Mitochondrial genome engineering in vivo" Download
- March 17, 2022 17:00: Prof. Julien Prudent, University of Cambridge MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Mitochondrial membrane remodelling and mtDNA dynamics Download
- April 1, 2022 13:30: Prof. Antonio Zorzano, IRB barcellona, Mitochondrial dynamics: a key influencer of cell inflammation Download
- May 5, 2022 17:00: Dr. Paolo Gallipoli, Cancer Research UK Barts Centre, "Mannose metabolism links sugar and fatty acid metabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and is a novel therapeutic vulnerability" Download
- May 19, 2022 17:00: Giampietro Schiavo, UCL Department of Neuromuscular Disease "Therapeutic approaches for hereditary peripheral neuropathy and motor neuron disease" Download
- May 25, 2022 11:30am James Sleigh, University College of London, "Restoring axonal transport as a therapeutic strategy in genetic peripheral neuropathy" Download
- May 26, 2022 17:00: Dr. Marten Szibor, Jena University Hospital, Germany "Oxygen availability modulates respiratory plasticity in the heart through assembly and disassembly of mitochondrial F1Fo ATPase" Download
- June 16, 2022 17:00: Prof. Anthony Moore, University of Sussex, UK , "The role of the alternative oxidase in human health security and the restoration of mitochondrial function." Download
- June 20, 2022 16:30: Prof. Douglas Wallace, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, "A Mitochondrial Etiology of Common Diseases" Download
- June 30, 2022 17:00: Prof. Alexis Jourdain, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, "Functional Genomics Approaches to Mitochondrial Function" Download
- July 19, 2022 17:00: Dr. Laura Gasparini Scientific Director - Tau Pathobiology Area Leader @ AbbVie, "Unravelling Tau pathobiology to inform drug discovery of disease modifying approaches for Alzheimer disease" Download
- July 25, 2022 16:00 Prof. Michael S. Cohen,Department of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry-Oregon Health & Science University, "Chemistry-based strategies for investigating NAD+ signaling and protein ADP-ribosylation" Download
- September 29, 2022 17:00: Dr. Paolo Gallipoli, Cancer Research UK Barts Centre, "Mannose metabolism links sugar and fatty acid metabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and is a novel therapeutic vulnerability" Download
- October 4, 2022 17:00: Dott.ssa Cristina Ugalde, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid-Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), "Structural heterogeneity of the human respiratory chain" Download
Seminars A.Y. 2020-2021
- October 16, 2020, 12:00 pm: Dania Vecchia, IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, "Temporal Sharpening of Sensory Responses by Layer 5 in the Mouse Primary Somatosensory Cortex" Download
- October 21, 2020, 16:00: Wieland B. Huttner, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden, Germany, "Neural stem cells, human-specific genes, and neocortex expansion in development and human evolution" Download
- December 9, 2020, 17:00: Letizia Mariotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,"A genetically identified class of premotor neurons coding for head movements in the Superior Colliculus" Download
- February 3, 2021, 17:00: L. Federico Rossi, PhD, Research Associate, CortexLab, University College London, UK, "Spatial connectivity matches direction selectivity in visual cortex" Download
- February 24, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Thomas Simmen, University of Alberta, Canada,"ROS Control of ER-Mitochondria Tethering and Ca2+ Flux" Download
- March 18, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Abigail Mackey, University of Copenhagen, "Key Components of Human Myofibre Denervation and Neuromuscular Junction Stability are Modulated by Age and Exercise" Download
- March 25, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Harm Kampinga, University of Groningen, Netherlands, "Protein quality control and chaperones" Download
- April 15, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Maurício Krause, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, "The role of Heat Shock proteins in disease and exercise" Download
- April 22, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Erika Fernandez Vizarra, University of Glasgow, "Respiratory chain supercomplexes in human mitochondria" Download
- April 29, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Alex Toker, Harvard Medical School, "Discovery, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targeting of the PI3-Kinase/AKT Pathway in Cancer" Download
- May 6, 2021, 16:00: Prof. Andrea Mattevi, University of Pavia, "Structure and mechanisms of ROS generation in NADPH oxidases" Download
- May 6, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Karl-Heinz Krause, Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva Switzerland "NADPH oxidase NOX2 in the brain: from neuroregeneration to brain aging" Download
- May 13, 2021, 12:00: Prof. Elena Rugarli, Univeristy of Cologne, "CLUH and the post-transcriptional control of mitochondrial function" Download
- May 27, 2021, 13:00: Prof. Julio Cárdenas Matus, University of Chile, Title "Role of InsP3R-calcium signal in migration and invasion of cancer cells; new perspectives" Download
- June 24, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Stefano Pluchino, Univeristy of Cambridge, "Regenerative Neuroimmunology: a stem cell perspective" Download
- September 16, 2021, 17:00: Prof. Dr Edward Chouchani, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Title "Mechanisms of metabolite regulation over health and disease" Download
Seminars A.Y. 2019-2020
The following seminars have been held in Complesso Vallisneri before the COVID-19 pandemic:
- November 6. 2019: Pascale Cossart–InstitutPasteur, Paris, France
- November 27, 2019: Fred Bradke–German NeurodegenerativeDiseases Center, Bonn, Germany
- November 13, 2019: Dario Alessi–MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee, UK
- December 18, 2019: Ana Mª Cuervo–Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
- February 20, 2020: Giuseppe Filomeni- Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"; Danish Cancer Society Research Center of Copenaghen
Due to limitations imposed by the pandemic, the PhD School has organized a series of seminars via Zoom ("Webinars"), see the list below and come back often for updates!
- May 15, 2020, 4:30 PM: Giampietro Schiavo, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, "The role of axonal transport in neurodegenerative diseases"
- Juny 22, 2020, 5:00 PM: Enrico Zampese, Laboratory of D. James Surmeier, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, "Calcium, bioenergetics and oxidant stress in SNc DAergic neurons"
- July 6, 2020, 4:30 PM: Fabiana Perocchi, Helmholtz Zentrum München, "Functional Genomics of Mitochondrial Physiology and Pathophysiology”
- September, date and hour will follow: Aldebaran Hofer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, “cAMP signaling in the cilio”
- September 4, 2020, 4:30 pm: Marco Sciacovelli, MRC Cancer Unit, Hutchison MRC Research Centre, University of Cambridge, "The metabolic landscape of renal cancer progression"
Seminars A.Y. 2017-2018
Seminar series A.Y. 2017-18
- October 9, 2017 - Martinvalet Download
- October 16, 2017 - Shin Download
- October 31, 2017 - Bonanomi Download
- November 29, 2017 - Szewczyk Download
- January 31, 2018 - Di Fiore Download
- February 8, 2018 - Terenzio Download
- May 25, 2018 - Silvestri, Pancino Download
- June 14, 2018 - Dikic Download
- June 20, 2018 - Nowikovsky Download
Seminars A.Y. 2016-2017
- Seminar Series A.Y. 2016-2017 Download
- November 23, 2016 - Feiguin Download
- Jannuary 23, 2017 - Myomeeting Download
- February 6, 2017 - Corda-Luini Download
- February 24, 2017 - Franke Download
- March 3, 2017 - Tomasetto Download
- May 8, 2017 - Tonini Download
- May 9, 2017 - Piantadosi Download
- May 15, 2017 - Gastaldello Download
- May 19, 2017 - Cirelli Download
- May 25, 2017 - Verkhratsky Download
- June 19, 2017 - Drenjancevic Download
- June 20, 2017 - Guttridge- Gregorevic Download
- July 3, 2017 - Maffei Download
- July 4, 2017 - Cecconi Download
- July 10, 2017 - Csapo Download
- July 19, 2017 - Finn Download
- September 21, 2017 - Vargas Download
Seminars A.Y. 2015-2016
- October 5, 2015 - Lanzavecchia Download
- March 1, 2016 - Bucci Download
- March 2, 2016 - Pievani Download
- March 3, 2016 - Casini Download
- March 17, 2016 - Bartesaghi-Cancedda Download
- April 12, 2016 - Mochly Rosen Download
- May 31, 2016 - Zerial Download
- July 1, 2016 - b-ASiCs symposium1 Download
- November 26, 2016 - Sartori Download