External Seminars@IGM-Jeremy Borniger
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, at 3 pm (CET),
Dr. Jeremy C. Borniger
Assistant Professor at Cold spring Harbour Laboratory (US)
will be presenting a seminar titled:“Neuronal circuit basis for glucocorticoid circadian rhythm disruption in breast cancer”To join the seminar, please use the following Teams link:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDQxNWQyZjUtNzNkNS00NGJlLThlMTMtYzVjMWJjNTVmN2Q5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2234c64e9f-d27f-4edd-a1f0-1397f0c84f94%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221503aa2f-fb68-4453-8463-7eedfff33201%22%7d
Sara Tavella CNR DSB Prize
CNR-IGM, Istituto di Genetica Molecolare “Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza” is proud to announce that Sara Tavella was awarded with the DSB 2023 Scientific Prize for the research topic entitled: “Molecular, cellular, immunological and epidemiological aspects of the #SARS-#CoV2 #infection”.
Genome Integrity Webinar series
A virtual forum organized by GiiN
Winter Spring 2024 – Seminars Calendar:
From 5 to 6PM Rome, ZOOM link: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403
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Telomeres as a target of a potential innovative therapy for the 10-15% of intractable tumors
A possible therapeutic solution for treating ALT tumors has been identified in the IFOM laboratories, which include for example glioblastoma and osteosarcoma and against which chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not very effective. It is a therapy based on Antisense Oligonucleotides that acts on RNAs that promote the longevity of cancer cells of this type of tumor. The study, recently published in Nature Communications, was supported by the AIRC Foundation.
Ilaria Rosso, Corey Jones-Weinert, Francesca Rossiello, Matteo Cabrini, Silvia Brambillasca, Leonel Munoz-Sagredo, Zeno Lavagnino, Emanuele Martini, Enzo Tedone, Massimiliano Garre’, Julio Aguado, Dario Parazzoli, Marina Mione, Jerry W. Shay, Ciro Mercurio & Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) cells viability is dependent on C-rich telomeric RNAs
Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 4;14(1):7086. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42831-0
IGM former student seminar – Giulia Monticone
Tuesday, November 21th, 2023
Aula “A.Falaschi” IGM LLCS di Pavia
Time 15:00
Giulia Monticone
Louisiana Cancer Research Center at LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans (US)
It’s time to wake up: awakening protective immunity with adenosine-based immunotherapy
Maria Michela Pallotta: new researcher at IGM
It is a pleasure to welcome Maria Michela Pallotta to our team at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CNR in Pavia. Maria Michela joins us as a researcher in the PNRR call “One Health Basic and Translational Research Actions addressing Unmet Needs on Emerging Infectious Diseases,” with a focus on the topic “Emerging Infectious Diseases,” under the guidance of Dr. Giovanni Maga.
Maria Michela completed a doctorate at the University of Naples Federico II, studying the neurotoxic and genotoxic effects of the exposure to the organophosphate pesticide Chlorpyrifos.
In recent years, she has continued her research activity at the ITB CNR in Pisa, focusing on the role of cohesin in tumor pathologies and rare diseases.
In 2023, Maria Michela obtained a prestigious ITB-CNR Seed Grant as Principal Investigator, with a promising project entitled “Cohesin Mutations and Wnt Agonism: A New Therapeutical Approach for Cancer.”
We are excited to welcome her to our research community and look forward to seeing what innovative contributions she will bring to our institute. Welcome, Maria Michela!
IGM former student seminar – Cristina Belgiovine
Tuesday 10 OTTOBRE 2023
Aula “A.Falaschi” IGM LLCS di Pavia
Time 14:30
Cristina Belgiovine
Università di Pavia – Policlinico San Matteo Pavia Fondazione IRCCS
Role of immune response in tumor and prosthetic microenvironment
FIS call: Dr. DANA BRANZEI awarded an advanced grant in the ERC Life Sciences sector
With the publication of the rankings on 31 July, the evaluation procedure for the projects of the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research, FIS 2021, was concluded. The FIS call aims to support fundamental research projects at national level, similar to those funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Thanks to a budget of 50 million euro, 25 Advanced Grants were funded for amounts up to one and a half million euro each, intended for established Principal Investigators, and 22 Starting Grants for amounts up to one million euro each, intended for Principal Junior Investigators, who have not obtained their doctorate for more than 10 years.
In total 47 projects out of 1912 presented with a success rate of 2.5%.
Dr. DANA BRANZEI (Institute of Molecular Genetics Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Pavia) was awarded an advanced grant in the ERC Life Sciences sector with the project entitled: Replication-associated cohesion and recombination.
Dr. Branzei, born in Romania, after obtaining her degree and doctorate in Japan, moved to Italy where in 2008 she became PI at IFOM in Milan. She has won numerous international grants including an ERC Starting Grant (2009-2014) and an ERC consolidator (2016-2021) thanks to which she obtained the position of first CNR researcher in 2019. Since 2022 she is CNR Research Director and she is an EMBO member. She obtained prestigious international awards. Her scientific interests mainly concern: 1) understanding the origins of chromosomal instability in eukaryotic cells following replicative stress and 2) how genome replication is coupled to the spatial organization of DNA in the cell nucleus. She has published 91 papers on prestigious international journals including only 3 Nature communications, 1 Science, 1 PNAS and 2 Genes and Development in the last 3 years.