Attività formative

Attività formative

 

L'offerta formativa del dottorato è ampia e diversificata. Gli eventi formativi si svolgono nell'Aula Seminari al I piano della Torre biologica, in lingua inglese (in casi specifici, potranno essere tenuti su piattaforme informatiche come ZOOM o MS Teams).

 

I dottorandi devono acquisire 180 CFU in tre anni (in media 60 CFU/anno, 1 CFU/25 ore attività), così suddivisi:

 

ATTIVITÀ

CREDITI

ATTESTAZIONE

CFU da conseguire nei 3 anni

Attività in laboratorio

40 CFU/anno

Relazione annuale e attestati bimestrali dei Dottorandi

120

Periodi di ricerca all'estero

3 CFU/mese

Attestati mensili  del dottorando

40

Data Club, seminari e lezioni di inglese

1 CFU ogni 3 eventi

Relazione annuale

 

Cicli di lezioni tematiche

3 CFU per ogni ciclo

Rilevazione presenza

 

Partecipazione a PhD Day, conferenze, giornate di studio, workshop e congressi

3 CFU per ogni evento

Attestato di partecipazione

 

Preparazione e Discussione tesi

20 CFU

Verbale riunione finale

20

TOTALE

 

 

180

 

 

PhD Day

Con cadenza annuale, i dottorandi del 2 e del 3 anno di corso presentano ai loro colleghi ed ai componenti del Dipartimento i risultati del progetto di ricerca. La partecipazione è da ritenersi obbligatoria.

 

Corsi tematici 

Si tratta di corsi, in lingua inglese, su specifici temi di interesse per il corso di Dottorato tenuti da ricercatori/docenti del Dipartimento o altre istituzioni. La partecipazione è da ritenersi obbligatoria.

 

Lezioni di ospiti

Ricercatori di prestigiose istituzioni di ricerca nazionali o internazionali presentano in circa 60 minuti uno specifico argomento di interesse per le tematiche scientifiche proprie del corso. La partecipazione è da ritenersi obbligatoria.

 

Seminari

I dottorandi partecipano ai seminari organizzati dal Dipartimento ed eventualmente ad altri seminari organizzati nell'area metropolitana pertinenti al loro percorso formativo.

 

 

 

Di seguito il calendario delle prossime attività didattiche:

2026/2027

English language (B level)

Lecturer

Date

Site

CLA (centro linguistico ateneo)

March-May 2026 (20 lectures)

Ms Teams

CLA (centro linguistico ateneo)

March-May 2027 (20 lectures)

Ms Teams


 

Guest Speakers Lectures/Advanced courses/Seminars

Topic

Lecturer

Date

Title

Precision medicine

Vittorio Maglione,

IRCCS Neuromed

10.2.26

Malattia di Huntington: studio dei meccanismi molecolari e sviluppo di potenziali strategie terapeutiche

Precision medicine

Diego Medina,

Tigem, Napoli

13.2.26

Illuminating A Cure: Bridging High-Content Imaging And In Vivo Models To Accelerate Therapies For Lysosomal Storage Diseases

Genome regulation

Danilo Swann Matassa

MMBM

19.2.26

The two-faced role of Syndesmos: riboregulation of the DNA damage response

Molecular pathogenesis

Lucio Pastore, MMBM

26.2.26

Antigen-presenting platforms for cancer immunotherapy: sleeping with the enemy

Precision medicine

Rocky Strollo

Università San Raffaele, Milano

5.3.26

Oxidized Insulin, potential diagnostic and therapeutic target

Precision medicine

Massimiliano Caiazzo MMBM

13.3.26

Synthetic drug delivery systems for brain targeted therapies

Molecular oncology

Michela Grosso,

MMBM

10.3.26

GATA-1 from normal hematopoiesis to myeloid leukemia

Molecular pathogenesis

Stefano Casola

IFOM, Milano

26.3.26

Antigen receptor diversification in the pathogenesis of aggressive B cell lymphomas: a new perspective

Genome regulation

Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna

IFOM, Milano

14.4.26

The biology of telomeres in aging and cancer

Genome regulation

Joaquin Espinosa

University of Colorado Anschutz

17.4.26

Down syndrome

Genome regulation

Andrea Maria Chiariello

Dip. Fisica

21.4.26

Physical principles of genome re-structuring in healthy and pathogenic genomes

Molecular pathogenesis

M.Fiammetta Romano

MMBM

28.4.26

FKBP5 isoforms shape immune pathways driving tumor tolerance in a humanized FKBP5 mouse model

Genome regulation

Mattia Conte

Dip. Fisica

7.5.26

Bridging physics and genetics to decode structure and function of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer

Molecular oncology

Carmine Carbone

Un. La Sapienza

21.5.26

Epithelial plasma biomarkers of pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN) malignant progression: evidence from a multimodal approach

Molecular pathogenesis

D. Salvatore

Dip. Sanità Pubblica

26.5.26

To be defined

Molecular pathogenesis

Luca Lignitto

CNRS Montpellier

9.6.26

Proteolytic control of iron and redox homeostasis

Genome regulation

Roberto Bellelli

Queen's Mary University, London

15.6.26

The genetic and biochemical basis of human leading strand synthesis

Genome regulation

Brendan Lee

Oct. 2026

To be defined

Medical biotechnologies

R Rappuoli

Nov. 3, 2026

Dec. 2, 2026

Dec. 4, 2026

Engineering Immunity through Synthetic Biology

Molecular medicine and medical biotechnologies

Students cycle 40

Nov. 2026

PhD Day: Progress reports

Medical biotechnologies

F Romano, L. Marrone

Dec. 2026

Microenvironment: Immunobiology and Experimental Methods

Soft skills

D Terracciano

March 2027

Academic entrepreneurship

Medical biotechnologies

A. Fiorenzano

April 2027

Stem Cells and Organoids: From Biology to Applications

Soft skills

To be defined

May 2027

Research proposal writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calendari degli anni precedenti:

2024

Guest Speakers Lectures/Advanced courses

Host/Organizer

Lecturer

Date

Title

Site

Brochure

L. Palazzo/ D. Grieco

Vincenzo D'Angiolella, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Genetics and Cancer

 

May 20th, 15:00 (CET)

Targeted protein degradation in cancer (PROTACs and molecular glues)

ZOOM

LINK

M. Santoro

Roberto Vona (Dip. di economia, management, istituzioni) & Daniela Terracciano (Dip di scienze mediche traslazionali) Federico II

July 8th 15:00 (CET)

Dall'ideazione al trasferimento tecnologico: Imprenditorialità accademica, Start-up e Spin-off universitari

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

M. Santoro

Neil Q McDonald, The Francis Crick Institute, London (UK)

September 23th 15:00 (CET)

Kinase-driven control mechanisms for cell polarity

ZOOM

LINK

A Feliciello

Eduard Stefan, University of Innsbruck, Austria

October 14th, 15:00 (CET)

Kinases in motion: impact of protein and small molecule interactions on kinase conformations

ZOOM

LINK

M. Santoro

Roberto Bellelli, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London (UK)

November 4th, 15:00 (CET)

Defective DNA Repair in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

ZOOM

LINK

R.M. Melillo

Antonio Di Cristofano Albert Einstein College of Medicine

November 11th,

15:00 (CET)

Harnessing metabolic dependencies for synthetic lethal therapeutic approaches

ZOOM

LINK

V. E. Avvedimento

Mariarosaria De Rosa,

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, USA

December 18th,

15:00 (CET)

 

ZOOM

LINK

 

 

2025

 

Guest Speakers Lectures/Advanced courses

Host/Organizer

Lecturer

Date

Title

Site

Brochure

A. Feliciello

Manuela Zaccolo University of Oxford, UK

January 14th,

15:00 (CET)

Signalling at the nanoscale: cAMP compartmentation controls hormonal specificity

ZOOM

LINK

M. Caterino

Marianna Caterino, Michele Costanzo, Armando Cevenini

January 20th, 21st, 22th 15:00 (CET)

Proteomic and metabolomic signatures for Systems Biology

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

F. Carlomagno

Joseph D. Mancias, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (USA)

February 20th,

15:00 (CET)

Molecular basis of pancreatic cancer

ZOOM

LINK

M. Santoro

Sabino De Placido, Dip di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II

February 24th

15:00 (CET)

Trials clinici ed etica della sperimentazione sull'uomo

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

F. Carlomagno

Sara Redaelli, Laura Galbiati, AIRC Campus

March 3rd,

15:00 (CET)

Scienza, Editoria e Finanziamenti: un viaggio dal laboratorio alla ricerca di fondi

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

S. Paladino

S. Paladino, P. Maiuri D. Sarnataro, DMMBM, Federico II

March 10th - 11th, 15:00 (CET)

Fluorescence imaging techniques to get insights into the molecular mechanisms of human diseases

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

S. Romano

Felix Hausch, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Apr 7th,

15:00 (CET)

Large-scale photocrosslinking for the structural and functional characterization of protein complexes in mammalian cells

ZOOM

LINK

Doctorate

Cycle 37°, Dissertations discussion

Apr 16th

 

Aula Magna

LINK

G Matarese

See the program

May 27th, 9:00 am

Immunity

and Organ Dysfunction

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

M Santoro

Giorgia Federico

June 30th, July 10th

Ferroptosis: "Dye another way"

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

 

2025 (continued)

 

 

Guest Speakers Lectures/Advanced courses

Topic

Host

Lecturer

Date

Title

Site

Brochure

Genome function

M. Santoro

Marco De Martino,

DMMBM, Federico II

September

15, 17, 18, 15:00

Multifaceted role of lncRNAs in cancer

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

Metabolism regulation

F. Carlomagno

Jessalyn Ubbelacker,

Harvard Med School

September 26, 15.00

Inducing lipid oxidation in lymph nodes to inhibit cancer metastasis

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

Medical biotechnologies

F. Carlomagno

Stefano Rivella,

Children Hospital Philadelphia

October 13, 15.00

Targeting hematopoietic stem cells for the cure of classical hematological disorders

ZOOM

LINK

Genome function

L. Chiariotti

Lorenzo Chiariotti

Mariella Cuomo

Rosa Della Monica,

DMMBM, Federico II

October 30, 15:00

October 31, 15:00

Epigenomics in health and disease

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

Medical biotechnologies

L. Pastore

Lorella Tripodi

DMMBM, Federico II

November 3, 15:00

Active immunotherapy: oncolytic viruses, antitumor vaccines and efficacy modulators

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

Lucio Pastore

DMMBM, Federico II

November 10, 15:00

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

Vincenzo Cerullo

DMMBM, Federico II

November 24, 15:00

ZOOM

Nicola Zambrano

DMMBM, Federico II

December 1st, 15:00

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

Medical biotechnologies

M. Caiazzo

Cristina Pagano

DMMBM, Federico II

December 5, 15:00

Application of nanotechnology in treatment of Brain Cancer

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

M. Caiazzo

DMMBM, Federico II

December 10, 15:00

Brain delivery systems

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

P.M.P. van Bergen

Utrecht University,

December 12, 15:00

Application of nanobodies in molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

2026

 

Guest Speakers Lectures/Advanced courses

Topic

Host/Organizer

Lecturer

Date

Title

Site

Brochure

 

Doctorate

PhD Day

January 16th, 9:00-17:00

Presentations of the Cycle 38th students

Aula seminari DMMBM, I piano Torre

LINK

Molecular pathogenesis

S. Romano

Yichuan Xiao

University Shanghai

February 2nd

14:00

Microbiota-shaped neutrophil senescence drives sexual dimorphism in cancer

ZOOM

LINK

 

Doctorate

PhD Cycle 38°

February 16th

Dissertations discussion

Aula Magna, Medical School

LINK