Area of Interest: Red Biotech

Type: Debate/ Open Doors

Join the Discovery Lab 2.0 in beautiful Naples!

The researchers of the Instituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini (IBB) and of the Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale (IEOS) of the CNR meet students and citizen, to promote scientific knowledge. Seminars, visit to institutes and debates are scheduled.

Program Day 1 (24.09.2018):

  • 9:00 welcome and IBB and IEOS presentation
  • 9:45 Monica Fedele (IEOS)
    • From mice to men: a round trip
  • 10:30 Flavia Squeglia (IBB)
    • Bacteria, the allies of biotechnology in drug development
  • 11:15- 11:45 Break
  • 11:45 Alessia Ruggiero (IBB)
    • Novel frontiers to build up intelligent proteins
  • 12:00 Mario Savastano (IBB)
    • Your body becomes like a password

Program Day 2 (25.09.2018):

  • 9:00 welcome and IBB and IEOS presentation
  • 9:45 Rossella Valentino (IEOS)
    • Environment and food: impact of chemical pollutants on human healt
  • 10:25 Marcello Mancini (IBB)
    • The future of ultrasound imaging
  • 11:25- 12:00 Break
  • 12:00 Tiziana De Cristofaro (IEOS)
    • Personalized medicine: from basic research to molecular therapy
  • 12:40 Alessandra Pelagalli (Università degli Studi di Napoli –Federico II)
    • Biological materials: a translational approach for regenerative medicine
  • 13:20 Annachiara Sarnella (IBB)
    • How the microenviroment modulates tumor behavior

Program Day 3 (26.09.2018)

  • 9:00 welcome and IBB and IEOS presentation
  • 9:45 Paola Mirra (IEOS)
    • Food that shapes you: how diet can change your “epigenome”
  • 10:30 Mario Galgani (IEOS)
    • The Immune System: searching for our own defences, and more
  • 11:10- 11:45 Break
  • 11:45 Adriano Tramontano (IBB)
    • Software architectures for Quality of Life Variation evaluation
  • 12:45 Annamaria Kisslinger (IEOS)
    • The sound of cells

Program Day 4 (27.09.2018)

  • 9:00 welcome and IBB and IEOS presentation
  • 9:45 Anna Di Fiore (IBB)
    • The proteins these unknown
  • 10:25 Vincenzo Alterio (IBB)
    • Click: let’s take a picture of proteins by X-ray crystallography
  • 11:10- 11:40 Break
  • 11:40 Katia D’Ambrosio (IBB)
    • Protein structure-based drug design
  • 12:20 Andrea Caporale (IBB)
    • Peptide application in medical and diagnostic field
  • 13:00 Nello Cerrato (IEOS)
    • Personalized medicine in cancer: where are we today?

Program Day 5 (28.09.2018)

  • 9:00 welcome and IBB and IEOS presentation
  • 9:45 Bill Hill (IBB)
    • The role of stem cells in cancer friends or enemies?
  • 10:30 Maria Agnese Pirozzi (IBB)
    • “Brain Imaging. What if we could print a brain?”
  • 11:20- 12:00 Break
  • 12:00 Mariarosaria Panico (IBB)
    • Radioisotopes in the Development of Human Activities
  • 12:40 Anna Nardelli (IBB)
    • Radiopharmaceuticals: what are they? What do they do?

Address:

CNR Edificio di biotecnologie

Via Tommaso de Amicis 95

Napoli, Italia

Organisers: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini (IBB) e l’istituto per l’endocrinologia e  l’oncologia (IEOS)

For more information, reach out to:

a.kisslinger@ieos.cnr.it

antonella.zanetti@ibb.cnr.it