Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze BtBs
BtBsDay2018 - Kick off meeting
The department of excellence project - Kick off meeting
21 novembre 2018, aula Luisella Sironi (U4-08)
PROGRAMMA
9.00 – Marina Lotti and Luca de Gioia. Introduction: "General structure of Department Project"
9.30 - Marco Vanoni: "The department of excellence project: aims, strategy and opportunity"
10.00-10.50 - Hans V. Westerhoff, SysBA (Systems Biology Amsterdam), Molecular Cell Physiology, VU University Amsterdam. "Eppur si muove: molecule biology does throw dice, with multifactorial disease and ageing ensuing"
10.50 - coffee break
11.20- 12.10 - Matteo Moretti, Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, via Galeazzi, 4, 20161 Milan, Italy. “Advancing in vitro culture systems by engineering 3D human vascularized models"
12.10 - My excellent project: presentation of PhD and Post Doc projects funded by the department project 4 students (2 phD e 2 Post doc): 5 minutes each
Erika Casari “Synthetic cytotoxicity to target DNA repair in cancer”
12.30 - Competition: "Find the title"
13.00 - Lunch and poster session
14.30 –15.30 Education and training commission. "The educational activities of the project of excellence".
15.30 – 16.20 Adriana Albini, Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. "Pharmacological prevention of complex diseases and the role of food and diet-derived compounds"
16.30 - Bruce Beutler, “Using forward genetics to study immunity in mice”, 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
17.30 – Amazing aperitif...with surprise
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BtBsDay2016
Giornata del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze 2016
2 dicembre 2016 - aula Sironi (U4-08)
PROGRAMMA
08:45 - Registration and Welcome coffee
09:15 - Welcome: Luca De Gioia, Direttore del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze dell’Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca.
Chairs: Francesca Martani and Andrea Galimberti
09:30 - Verena Siewers, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. “Synthetic biology tools in yeast metabolic engineering”
10:20 - Stefania Brocca, BtBs-UNIMIB – macroarea: Industrial and Synthetic Biotechnology, “Proteins on the verge of a structural breakdown”
10:40 - Coffee break and poster session
11:30 - Maria Pia Longhese, BtBs-UNIMIB – macroarea: Genetic and molecular mechanisms in cellular biology and pathology: implications for human disease. “Conditional synthetic lethality in cancer treatment”
11:50 - Cristina Airoldi, BtBs-UNIMIB – macroarea: Systems Biology. “NMR spectroscopy in molecular recognition and metabolomics studies: a versatile tool for Systems Biology and bio-molecular system characterization”
12:10 - Marcella Rocchetti, BtBs-UNIMIB – macroarea: Target identification and drug development. “Cardiac cell physiology: from animal to human models toward precision medecine”
13:00 - Lunch break and Poster session
Chairs: Antonia Bruno and Carlotta Ronchi
14:00 - Roberto Burioni, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, autore del libro “Il vaccino non è un’opinione”, “I vaccini: la scienza e le bugie”
14:50 - Rita Grandori, BtBs-UNIMIB – macroarea: Nanobiotechnologies for preclinical studies. “A structural point of view in nanobiotechnologies”
Selected abstracts
15:10 - Eleonora Torre, BtBs-UNIMIB. “Arrhythmogenic mechanisms of long-QT syndrome CALM1-F142L mutation in patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CM)”
15:20 - Chiara Magoni, BtBs-UNIMIB. “Coffee pulp waste as a source of antioxidants: a new opportunity for developing countries economy”
15:30 - Marzia Di Filippo, BtBs-UNIMIB. “A Systems Biology strategy to tackle cancer cell metabolism”
15:40 - Poster prize and Closing Words
16:00 - Aperitif
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BtBsDay2015
Giornata del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze 2015
15 dicembre 2015 - aula Sironi (U4-08)
PROGRAMMA
08:45 - Registration and Welcome coffee
09:15 - Welcome: Cristina Messa, Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca.
Luca De Gioia, Direttore del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, dell’Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca.
Chairs: Anna Sandionigi and Carlo Santambrogio
09:30 - Livia Pomodoro – President Milan Center for Food Law and Policy
10:15 - William F. Martin – University of Düsseldorf, “Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes”
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Paolo Galli, Macroarea: Biodiversity, marine science, and food research. BtBs-UNIMIB. “Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Environment and Human Geography, the case study of Magoodhoo Island-Maldives”
12:00 - Paola Branduardi, Macroarea: Industrial and synthetic biotechnology. BtBs-UNIMIB. “Industrial and Synthetic Biotechnology: our experience in Industrial Processes”
12:30 - Paola Coccetti, Macroarea: Systems biology. BtBs-UNIMIB. ”Driving cell cycle and cell growth through metabolism: the role of the energy sensor Snf1/AMPK”
13:00 - Ferdinando Chiaradonna, Macroarea: Systems biology. BtBs-UNIMIB. ”Molecular links between metabolic stress and cell death: sweetness to survive”
Lunch break and Poster session
Chairs: Sara Mercurio and Isaura Font
14:30 - Raffaello Cortina – Fondatore di Raffaello Cortina Editore, “Come nasce un libro”
15:15 - Silvia Barabino, Macroarea: Genetic and molecular mechanisms in cellular biology and pathology: implications for human disease. BtBs-UNIMIB. “Functional Genomic Approaches to Unravel the Mechanisms of Neuron Cell Death in Neurodegeneration”
15:45 - Davide Prosperi, Macroarea: Nanobiotechnologies for preclinical studies. BtBs-UNIMIB. “Nanometronomic chemotherapy: A nanodrug story at NanoBioLab”.
16:15 - Francesco Peri, Macroarea: Target identification and drug development. BtBs- UNIMIB. “Recent achievements in the Medicinal Chemistry, Physiology and Pharmacology macroarea: from molecules to biological targets and functions”
Selected abstracts
16:45 - Svetlana Avvakumova, BtBs-UNIMIB. “Gold Nanocages Decorated with Neuropeptide Y-derived Peptides for Efficient Prostate Cancer Cell Targeting and Photothermal Therapy”
16:55 - Elena Vacchi, BtBs-UNIMIB. “Human Neural Stem Cells transplantation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis model”
17:05 - Erika Ponzini, BtBs-UNIMIB. “Polygalactomannans: Analytical studies and biotechnological applications”
17:15 - Poster prize and Closing Words
17:30 - Aperitif
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BtBsDay2014
Giornata del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze 2014
2 dicembre 2014 - aula Sironi (U4-08)
PROGRAMMA
09:00 - REGISTRATION
09:30 - OPENING: Marina Lotti - BtBs Department Director
Chairs: Cristina Fugazza, Diego Bonetti
09:45 - Guglielmina Nadia Ranzani – Biology and Biotechnology Department – University of Pavia “The molecular genetics of colorectal cancer: a growing complexity”
10:30 - Maurizio Casiraghi – Macroarea: Biodiversity, marine science, and food research “Influential passengers: monitoring invasive species through High Throughput DNA Sequencing during EXPO2015”
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Luca De Gioia – Macroarea: Industrial and synthetic biotechnology “Molecular design and synthetic biology”
12:00 - Marco Vanoni – Macroarea: Systems biology ”An integrated multi-scale approach to the study of cell growth, cell cycle and metabolism in yeast”
12:30 - Silvia Nicolis – Macroarea: Genetic and molecular mechanisms in cellular biology and pathology: implications for human disease "Genome-wide perspectives on the molecular functions of the Sox2 transcription factor in brain-derived neural stem cells: a role in genome architecture?"
13:00 Lunch break and Poster session
Chairs: Carlo Santambrogio, Sara Mercurio
15:00 - Francesco Nicotra – Macroarea: Nanobiotechnologies for preclinical studies “Nanobiotechnology in BtBs”
15:30 - Antonio Zaza – Macroarea: Target identification and drug development “Molecular and cellular mechanisms for clinical problems. The case of cardiac arrhythmias”
Selected abstracts
16:00 - Lorenzo Gesuita – “Could the trascription factor Sox2 have a role in arealization of the neocortex?”
16:10 - Sara Bottes – “Characterization of the role of the transcription factor Sox2 in cerebellum development by means of conditional knock out.”
16:20 - Massimo Labra – “BtBs for EXPO”
16:40 Poster prize and Closing Round Table: S. Doglia, P. Fantucci, G. Lucchini, A. Zullini
17:10 Aperitif
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BtBsDay2025

Giornata del Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze 2025
Tuesday, 18 February, 2025, 9:15 am - 5:00 pm, Sironi room (U4-08)
PROGRAM
9.15 – Opening and institutional greetings
Session I - Chair: Giulia Tomaino and Giulia Stucchi
9.30 - Cestariolo Ludovica, An In Silico Study Unveiling the Biophysical Mechanisms of Cardiac Myocyte Membrane Potential Modulation by a Membrane-Targeted Photoswitch. (abstract)
9.45 - Colombo Beatrice, Deciphering Urban Adaptation: Multi-omics insights from Italian pollinators. (abstract)
10.00 - Ferri Sara, Phenotypic characterization of the tumor microenvironment in patients with colitis-associated cancer using multiplexing immunofluorescence. (abstract)
10.15 - Grandi Laura Clara, The orexins modulate dopaminergic neurons. Implication for narcolepsy with cataplexy (?!) (abstract)
10.30 / 11.15 - Coffee Break and POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session
Session II - Chairs: Alice Armanni and Hind Moukham
11.15 - Lapi Francesco, Multi-omics data analysis to characterize metabolic shifts during embryo development. (abstract)
11.30 - Maniezzi Claudia, Functional effects of Empagliflozin in the arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy caused by a mutation in plakophilin-2. (abstract)
11.45 - Misitano Francesca, Modulation of Ca2+ handling by combinatorial administration of Istaroxime and Levosimendan in mouse ventricular cardiomyocytes. (abstract)
12.00 - Molteni Linda, Exploiting the combination of NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry for the metabolic profiling of solid matrices. (abstract)
12.15 - Persico Francesca, Machine learning model for the prediction of redox potential of Iron-Sulfur clusters. (abstract)
12.30 / 13.30 – Lunch break and POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session
13.30 / 14.30 – POSTER & GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Session
Session III - Chairs: Maria Rita Chelazzi and Tommaso Sassi
14.30 - Pinco Paola, BiomeHEAT: A Microbiome-Modulating therapy to reactivate Cytotoxicity in ICI not-responding CRC patients. (abstract)
14.45 - Romerio Alessio, Developing New Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Modulators As Innovative And Inexpensive Vaccine Adjuvants. (abstract)
15.00 - Shaik Mohammed Monsoor, Characterization and Biological Insights into PET Micro- and Nanoplastics Prepared via Hydrolysis and Glycolysis. (abstract)
15.15 - Senatore Vittorio, "Ethylene glycol metabolism in the oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula toruloides". (abstract)
15.30 - invited speaker: Legnini Ivano, Research Group Leader at Human Technopole. "Spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression: from description to perturbation and back". (abstract)
16.30 - Award Ceremony
17.00 - Aperitif
PREMIAZIONE BtBsDay 2025
Vittorio Senatore (ST13 abstract): PREMIO alla miglior PRESENTAZIONE ORALE.
Giacomo Ducci (P26 abstract): PREMIO al miglior POSTER presentato dagli assegnisti e borsisti.
Anna Cascio (P11 abstract): PREMIO al miglior POSTER presentato dagli studenti di dottorato di ricerca.
Carlotta Frigo (P30 abstract): PREMIO al miglior POSTER presentato dagli studenti di tesi magistrale.
Valentina Verduci (GA08 abstract): PREMIO al miglior GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT.
Organizing Committee BtBsDay 2025
Francesca Granucci, Mattia Pelizzola, Virginia Brancato, Metello Enzo Innocenti, Giulia Tomaino, Alice Armanni, Maura Brioschi, Hind Moukham, Laura Grandi, Davide Maggioni and Reinaldo Alvarez
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BtBs seminario - Breaking the limits in understanding glycan recognition by NMR
Di Mise Annarita, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physiology

Keywords
Calcium signaling, cAMP signaling, Cardiovascular Physiology.
DiMise's Lab – #DiMiseLab_BtBs
last update: October 2024