Tuesday, 17 February, 2026, 9:15 am - 6:00 pm, Sironi room (U4-08)

9.15 – Opening and institutional greetings

Session I - Chair: TBA

9.30 - Taverna Gabriele, Inhibition of the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway Impairs PIKK Maturation and Induces a BRCAness-Like Phenotype in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

9.45 - Molteni Linda, Different Lenses, Same Target: NMR Spectroscopy and Other Biophysical Tools for the Comprehensive Characterization of Prenylflavonoids Anti-Amyloidogenicity.

10.00 - Banfi Andrea, Harnessing Mirror-Image Peptides: Nanoparticle Vectors for Nucleic Acid Delivery in Cancer Treatment.

10.15 - Moukham Hind, A natural modulator of the PKA and AMPK signaling regulates lipid metabolism in a steatosis model.

10.30 / 11.15 - Coffee Break and POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session

Session II - Chairs:TBA

11.15 - Maniezzi Claudia, Cellular consequences of non-ablative radiotherapy, a novel approach to ventricular tachycardias.

11.30 - Ghisleni Giulia, The university campus microbiome: ecological drivers of skin–gut–environment microbial interactions.

11.45 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michela Matteoli, Director of the Neuroscience Program at Humanitas Clinical Institute and Full Professor of Pharmacology at Humanitas University. "How the Immune System Shapes Brain Function".

12.45 / 13.30 – Lunch break and POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session

13.30 / 14.30 – POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session

Session III - Chairs: TBA

14.30 - Arici Martina, HCN4 misregulation affects the early differentiation process of mouse embryonic stem cells.

14.45 - Fasano Andrea, Electrochemical and computational methods as a combined approach to study redox enzymes.

15.00 - Grandi Laura Clara, From Cells to Circuits: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities in 3Rs-Aligned Modeling of Sleep Disorders.

15.15 - Lapi Francesco, Spatial Flux Balance analysis reveals Warburg heterogeneity in renal tumors and lactate-consuming niches in colorectal cancer.

15.30 - Eugeni Alessandra, How Light-Controlled FUS Aggregation Can Help Model ALS/FTD.

15.45 - Celant Anna, IL-22BP expression by a specialized cDC2 subset shapes anti-tumor immunity in the colonic microenvironment.

16.00 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Antonella De Matteis, Principal Investigator and Program Coordinator, Cell Biology and Disease Mechanisms Program (TIGEM - Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine). Full Professor of Biology at the University of Naples "Federico II".

17.00 - Awards Ceremony

17.15 - Sponsors' Award

Francesca Granucci, Mattia Pelizzola, Sara Fumagalli, Evelyn Ochoa, Maura Brioschi, Giulia Ghisleni, Jessica Frigerio, Martina Fabiano and Reinaldo Alvarez

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