Registration

Welcome by

Chiara TONELLI - FISV President
Daniela MAPELLI - Rector University of Padua

Keynote Lecture “Riccardo Cortese”

Marino ZERIAL (Human Technopole Director)
Role of forces in membrane dynamics and liver tissue morphogenesis

Symposium 1: Pangenomics

Vincenza COLONNA (IGB-CNR and University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
Human pangenome and genetic diagnosis

Luigi VEZZULLI (University of Genoa)
Pangenomics and metagenomics applied to the study of marine pathogen ecology in the global ocean

Coffee break

Symposium 1: Pangenomics

Leonardo SALVIATI (University of Padua)
Human pangenome and genetic diagnosis

Michele MORGANTE (University of Udine)
Transposable elements and the plant pan genomes, 17 years later

FISV for Young Researchers (Aula I. Nievo)

Marino ZERIAL (Human Technopole Director)

Massimo DELLEDONNE University of Verona

PNRR Round Table (Aula Magna)

Matteo LORITO (University of Naples Federico II)
Agritech Centre

Rosario RIZZUTO (University of Padua)
RNA Centre

Massimo LABRA ( University of Milan - Bicocca)
Biodiversity Centre

Aperitivo and dinner at Caffè Pedrocchi

Parallel Symposium 2: Epigenetics and postgenomic mechanisms in physiology and pathology

Salvatore OLIVIERO (University of Turin)
DNA methylation restricts neural fate in embryonic stem cells

Stefania GRIMAUDO (University of Palermo)
Genetic and epigenetic contribution to Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) development and progression

Fabio COPPEDÈ (University of Pisa)
Epigenetics in medical genetics

Lorenzo CHIARIOTTI (University of Naples Federico II)
Epigenetics in brain tumors

Parallel Symposium 3: Food security and safety: breaking the yield/quality trade-off

Silvio SALVI (University of Bologna)
In search of the genetic basis of crop production and sustainability

Marco TREVISAN (Catholic University Piacenza)
Is the use of pesticides safe for the environment and humans?

David COLLINGE (University of Copenhagen)
Contrasting biotechnological approaches for sustainable plant disease control

Stefania IAMMETTI (University of Milan)
The biochemist’s viewpoint: molecular basis of food quality

Coffee break

Symposium 4: CRISPR technologies and applications

Anna CERESETO (University of Trento)
Expanding the genome editing toolbox through the identification and evolution of novel RNA guided nucleases

Vittoria BRAMBILLA (University of Milan)
Genome editing in crops: a journey that encompasses more than just science

Angelo LOMBARDO (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and SR-Tiget)
Programming gene expression by targeted epigenetic editing

Lunch

FISV Lecture “Tullio Pozzan”

Rino Rappuoli (Biotechnopole Foundation Siena)
Microbes for a sustainable planet

Symposium 5: Immunity in human and plants

Alberto MANTOVANI (Humanitas University)
Molecular pathways linking innate immunity, inflammation and cancer

Sergio ABRIGNANI (University of Milan and National Institute of Molecular Genetics “Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi”)
Functional interrogation of intratumoral T lymphocytes

Thorsten NURNBERGER (University of Tubingen)
Pattern recognition receptors in plant immunity – evolution and function

Coffee break

Mini-Symposia

Environmental, Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Genetics, Epigenetics and Chromosome Biology
Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology

Poster Presentation (Building Fiore di Botta)

Current trends in Biotechnology
Food and Nutrition
Health and Disease

Parallel Symposium 6: Plant communication in response to environmental stress

Guido GROSSMANN (University of Heinrich-Heine Düsseldorf)
Chit-Chat underground: deciphering communication in roots and the rhizosphere

Christian MEYER (University Paris-Saclay)
The Target of Rapamycin kinase in plants: a central communicaTOR in nutrient and growth signaling

Pierdomenico PERATA (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
miRNAs as Plant-to-Plant Signaling Molecules

Francesca CARDINALE (University of Turin)
Plant hormones as mediators of systemic communication under stress: the strigolactone case study

Parallel Symposium 7: Exploring the dark genome in development, disease and therapeutic frontiers

Miguel BRANCO (The London School of Medicine and Dentistry)
Regulation of placental gene expression by endogenous retroviruses

Beatrice BODEGA (University of Milan and National Institute of Molecular Genetics “Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi”)
Retrotransposable Elements dynamics regulate human T cell biology

Johan JAKOBSSON (University of Lund)
Transposable elements and neurological disorders

Raffaella TONINI (Italian Institute of Technology)
Modulation of LINE1 (L1) lncRNAs in adaptive behavioral control

Coffee break

Mini-Symposia

Current trends in Biotechnology
Food and Nutrition
Health and Disease

Poster Presentation (Building Fiore di Botta)

Environmental, Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Genetics, Epigenetics and Chromosome Biology
Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology

Lunch

Symposium 8: RNA biology and medicine

Yiliang DING (John Innes Centre, Norwich)
RNA structure, an important regulator in living cells

Rosario RIZZUTO (University of Padua)
RNA molecules for modulating mitochondrial function and inflammation

Mauro GIACCA (Kings College London and University of Trieste)
RNA therapies for cardiac regeneration and gene editing

Poster Competition Awards

Closing Remarks