PhD Day Dept. of Life Sciences

PhD Day Dept. of Life Sciences, UniSi

September 27, 2023, Polo Scientifico San Miniato (aula 14) – Siena

Program

9 Registration

9.30 Opening session:

• Prof. Simona Maccherini – Coordinator PhD programme in Life Sciences
• Prof. Andrea Garulli – Delegate for PhD courses
• Prof. Tatiana Baldari - “John Laird Telford” PhD Award

10-11.20: Session 1: Cell Biology, Physiopathology and Pharmacology

10-10.20 Francesca Papi - Development of murine B cell platform for the isolation and characterization of mAbs against bacterial antigens

10.20-10.40 Miriana Di Stefano - Big data analysis and artificial intelligence in hit identification and target fishing for neurodegenerative diseases

10.40-11 Luca Cerri - Olive leaf extract for corneal wound healing

11-11.20 Dalia Corbo - New insights on IntraFlagellar Transport (IFT): IFT-membrane interaction and IFT turnaround

11.20-11.50 Coffee break

11.50-13.10: Session 2: Biodiversity, Conservation and environment quality

11.50-12.10 Lorenzo Lazzeri - Interspecific relationships in a mammal community in a Mediterranean area

12.10-12.30 Sara Parri - Water conservation strategy and physio-molecular responses of three Italian olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars under drought stress

12.30-12.50 Mehriban Jafarova - Monitoring the deposition of airborne microplastics with moss

12.50-13.10 Sara Boschi - Molecular tools to study historic and recent pathways of entry and spread for the invasive Japanese beetle and development of control
strategy

13.10-14.20 Light lunch

14.20-16: Session 3: Cell Biology, Physiopathology and Pharmacology

14.20-14.40 Chiara Goracci - Study of lung fibrogenesis in vivo e vitro model

14.40-15 Paolo Cantaloni - Evaluation of Monkeypox- and Vaccinia virus-neutralizing antibodies in human serum samples after vaccination and natural infection

15-15.20 Elettra Fallani - Public health impact of influenza vaccination in Italy: barriers, benefits and interventions in the field of prevention

15.20-15.40 Gioia Boncompagni - Leukemic cell- secreted interleukin-9 suppresses cytotoxic T cell- mediated killing in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

15.40-16 Ludovica Ancarani - Profiling of the serological response to Gonococcus in healthy subjects receiving 4CmenB vaccine (ONLINE)

16-16.30 Plenary Lecture: Prof. DUCCIO ROCCHINI: "Spectral entropy: the holy grail of remote sensing for estimating diversity from space” Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna ONLINE

16.30-17.10 Poster session (Dottorandi XXXVII ciclo)

Biodiversity, Environment quality and Nature conservation

Cell Biology, Physiopatology and Pharmacology

17.10-17.30 Conclusive remarks, Awards

For more info contact:

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