BtBsDay - Giornata del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze

In programma:
- 54 posters
- 15 interventi orali
- 4 graphical abstracts
- 2 video “Three Minute Thesis”
- Tavola rotonda
“The future of science, Multi-Omics and Nanotechnology”
Invited speaker:
-Stephan Beck – Personal Genome Project UK, University College London.
“Connecting dots for (Epi)Genomic Medicine”
-Guglielmo Lanzani – Center Coordinator - Nanomaterials for Energy and Lifescience, Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
“Organic nanoactuators for cell optostimulation”
Saluti istituzionali – Giovanna Iannantuoni, Magnifica Rettrice dell’Università di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB).
Invited speakers:
-Nicole Soranzo, FMedSci, EMBO. Senior Group leader in Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), Professor of Human Genetics, University of Cambridge. Joint Head of Centre of Genomics, Human Technopole
-Ivano Eberini, Professor of Biochemistry (UNIMI) and Scientific Communication through new media (UNIMIB / UNIMI), member of the Communication Commission of the Italian (SITOX) and European Toxicology Societies (EUROTOX)
Invited speaker:
-Mauro Ferrari – Executive Vice President, University of
St Thomas, Houston Texas. President Designate, European Research Council.
“My 28 years of failures (trying to cure metastatic cancer)”
Invited speakers:
-Bruce Beutler, Nobel prize for Medicine, Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense and holder of the “Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research”, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
“Using forward genetics to study immunity in mice”
-Hans V. Westerhoff, SysBA (Systems Biology Amsterdam), Molecular Cell Physiology, VU University Amsterdam
“Eppur si muove: molecular biology does throw dice, with multifactorial disease and ageing ensuing”
Invited speakers:
-Duccio Cavalieri, University of Florence
“The mycobiota and the gut brain axis. How fungi and yeast communicate with central nervous system”
-Sara Calcagnini, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”
“Ricerca e Innovazione Responsabili (RRI) e Public Engagement: la collaborazione tra ricercatori e musei”
Invited speakers:
-Verena Siewers, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
“Synthetic biology tools in yeast metabolic engineering”
-Roberto Burioni, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, autore del libro “Il vaccino non è un’opinione”
“I vaccini: la scienza e le bugie”
Invited speakers:
-William F. Martin – University of Düsseldorf
“Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes”
-Raffaello Cortina – Fondatore di Raffaello Cortina Editore
“Come nasce un libro”
Invited speaker:
-Nadia Ranzani – Biology and Biotechnology Department – University of Pavia
“The molecular genetics of colorectal cancer: a growing complexity”
Invited speakers:
-Telmo Pievani, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Padova, Italy
“Scienza e Democrazia: le Analogie e le Differenze”
-Giovanni Sannia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
“Frontiers in Chemistry: laccases as a solution for the green chemistry demand of our future”
Invited speaker:
-Gerd B. Muller, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna.
“Novelty in Limb Development”