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Riunione Gruppo Nutrizione e Ambiente (Catania, 11-12 giugno 2026)

The meeting of the “Nutrition and Environment” Group, organized by the University of Catania, will provide an important opportunity for scientific discussion on topics related to nutrition, environment, and human health.

The scientific program, currently under development, will include oral communications and poster presentations, as well as a Special Round Table focused on “Smoking, Nutrition and Metabolic Health”.

 Free registration

 Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2026

The Nutrition and Environment Group, together with its sponsors, will support the participation of young SIB members through the awarding of prizes and travel grants.

Further details on the scientific program, participation procedures, and organizational updates are available on the official conference website:

https://www.biochimicanutrizione.it/

Contact: info@biochimicanutrizione.it

School of Nanomedicine VII Ed. - April 20 - 22, 2026
Per gli aggiornamenti sul programma scientifico e ogni altra utile informazione  consultare il sito web della Scuola all'indirizzo: https://www.ba.ic.cnr.it/nanomedicine2026/
La scadenza per l’iscrizione agevolata (early registration) e per la sottomissione degli abstract è fissata per il 20 marzo 2026.
 

For updates on the scientific program and any other relevant information, please visit the School’s website at:
https://www.ba.ic.cnr.it/nanomedicine2026/

The deadline for early registration and abstract submission is March 20, 2026.

 
1° SIB Young Meeting 25 - 27 March 2026

Apertura delle iscrizioni per il primo SIB Young Meeting, che si terrà ad Abano Terme (PD) dal 25 al 27 marzo 2026.

Sono disponibili al momento soltanto 62 posti. Effettuare l’iscrizione il prima possibile e comunque entro e non oltre il 31 gennaio.

Grazie al supporto di SIB e FEBS, sono inoltre disponibili 30 borse di studio del valore di 100 € ciascuna, riservate ai soci SIB.

Tutte le informazioni sul programma, le modalità di iscrizione e la richiesta delle borse sono disponibili al seguente link:

https://sites.google.com/view/sibyoungmeeting2026

 

 

Registration is now open for the first SIB Young Meeting, which will take place in Abano Terme (PD), Italy, from March 25 to 27, 2026.

Only 62 places are currently available. Participants are encouraged to register as soon as possible and no later than January 31, 2026.

Thanks to the support of SIB and FEBS, 30 travel grants worth €100 each are available for SIB members.

All information on the scientific program, registration procedures, and grant applications is available at the following link:
https://sites.google.com/view/sibyoungmeeting2026

FISV Course for Young Researchers, “Epigenetics: Advanced Technologies” - 16-17 February 2026

“Epigenetica: tecnologie avanzate” – Lunedì 16 e martedì 17 febbraio presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano (Via Festa del Perdono, 7 – Aula 208) o alternativamente online.

Il corso - promosso da FISV Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita a sostegno delle nuove generazioni di ricercatori - intende fornire una visione approfondita delle principali metodologie utilizzate per lo studio dell’epigenoma. In particolare, il programma (vedasi allegato) è concepito per supportare i giovani ricercatori nella progettazione e nell’interpretazione di studi epigenetici complessi, favorendo al contempo un utilizzo consapevole delle tecnologie e delle piattaforme specializzate disponibili in Italia e a livello internazionale e un confronto diretto con esperti di primo piano nel panorama nazionale.

 

“Epigenetics: Advanced Technologies”Monday, February 16 and Tuesday, February 17, at the University of Milan (Via Festa del Perdono 7 – Room 208) or alternatively online.

The course – promoted by FISV (Italian Federation of Life Sciences) in support of the new generation of researchers – aims to provide an in-depth overview of the main methodologies used in the study of the epigenome.
In particular, the program (see attached file) is designed to support early-career researchers in the design and interpretation of complex epigenetic studies, while also promoting a conscious and informed use of advanced technologies and specialized platforms available in Italy and internationally, as well as direct interaction with leading experts at the national level.

SOFT SKILLS - Workshop Archeosmart - 9/10 April 2026 in person University of Ferrara and 18 April 2026 remotely

All information about the program and registration fees can be found at the following link: 

https://www.archeosmart.it/formazione/v-edizione-workshop-dal-dato-alla-pubblicazione-r-e-gestione-database

ABCD and SIBBM National Ph.D. Meeting - Ferrara 5 -7 February 2026

ABCD and SIBBM are organizing the joint PhD Meeting 2026, which will be held in Ferrara from 5 to 7 February 2026.

This event is designed for PhD candidates and early-career researchers interested in cellular, molecular, and biomedical biology. The program will feature keynote lectures, selected oral presentations, and numerous opportunities for interaction between students and research groups.

Registration will be open from 11 November to 19 December 2025, with an extension until 12 January 2026.
All information is available on the website: National Ph.D. Meeting 2026 :: Welcome.

Organizing Committee
Professor Sirio Dupont – University of Padua
Professor Massimo Bonora – University of Ferrara
Professor Giovanni Capranico – University of Bologna
Professor Nicoletta Landsberger – University of Milan

PhD Student Committee
Francesca Begnozzi – University of Ferrara
Michalis Mouratidis – University of Padua
Alessandra Palazzi – University of Naples
Monica Procacci – University of Bologna

Welcome day for PhD students - 17 December h 18.00

 Welcome day for PhD students, organized by the Italian Association of PhD Candidates and PhD Holders (ADI)

Workshop “The Advanced Crystallographic Software for Structural Analysis” - Siena, December 10 to 12, 2025

The workshop “The Advanced Crystallographic Software for Structural Analysis” will be held at the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Siena.

During the three days, the program will include lectures, practical exercises, and discussions focused on the advanced use of major crystallographic software. Experts in the field, including a representative from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), will take part in the event.

SOFT SKILLS - ADI Event - Writing research papers with the support of LLMs - 20/21 November 2025

The initiative is aimed primarily at PhD candidates, recent PhD graduates, and early-career researchers, but it is open to the entire university community. The program combines key principles of academic writing and presenting in English with innovative content on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)—including DeepSeek, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—as tools to support writing and research, outlining their advantages, strategies for effective use, and major limitations.
The sessions will provide practical tools for prompt engineering (such as negative prompting and meta-prompting) and critical thinking, useful both for effective drafting and for an informed evaluation of the outputs produced by generative language models.

Location: Polo Didattico Mattioli, Aula Carlini
 

Schedule:

  • 20 November, 16:00–18:00: Writing Skills, and the Pros and Cons of LLMs
  • 21 November, 11:00–13:00: Using LLMs to Co-create Titles, Abstracts, Introductions, and Discussions

 The event is part of the soft-skills training program for PhD students and carries 1 ECTS credit, also valid for PhD candidates enrolled at universities other than UniSI.
Activities will take place mainly in person, with the possibility of online participation for those unable to attend on site, upon justified request.

Registration is required (free of charge):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjxYNHmtQh9D4u1hJYHjym5QGcPK8bh3UxrhoKg3ypLtpqKg/viewform

Online participation will be granted only to those who submit a motivated request to siena@dottorato.it, until places are filled. The access link will be provided exclusively to eligible participants.

BiBiM2.0 students Day - October 20 2025
The BiBiM2.0 Students Day will take place in Siena on October 20, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. In this case, in-person attendance is mandatory. Only those who will be abroad during that period will be excused.
Further details about both events will follow later
Matricola Day - 7 ottobre 2025 dalle ore 10 alle ore 13.00 nel Cortile del Palazzo del Rettorato a Siena

 

Il 7 ottobre 2025 dalle ore 10 alle ore 13.00 nel Cortile del Palazzo del Rettorato a Siena l'Ateneo dà il benvenuto alle/i nuove/i studentesse/i con la partecipazione del Rettore, delle studentesse e degli studenti tutor, del personale dell'Ufficio Orientamento e di altri Uffici dell'Ateneo, del Comune di Siena, del DSU, del CUS, dell'Accademia Musicale Chigiana e di tutte le istituzioni culturali, sportive e le realtà cittadine con cui le matricole hanno relazione. 

Facendo conoscenza con queste figure, le matricole sapranno a chi rivolgersi in caso di necessità, per poter risolvere problematiche sia di ordine pratico-burocratico che di carattere didattico durante il loro percorso di studi.

BiBiM2.0 teaching day - September 19 2025
 This year's Teaching Day will take place in Siena on September 19, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The attendance at the event is mandatory. Remote participation will be allowed, but in-person attendance is strongly recommended.
The program is available in the attached flyer
 
Annual meeting of PhD students in Biochemical Disciplines "A. Castellani" - June 3-7

The 35th National Meeting "Alessandro Castellani" of PhD Students in Biochemical Disciplines will take place from Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th June 2025.
Attached is the first "save the date" announcement. Further details will be available on the website

  • Deadline extension: 35a Riunione Nazionale "A. Castellani", dei Dottorandi di Ricerca in Discipline Biochimiche

 Le iscrizioni alla 35a Riunione dei Dottorandi di Ricerca in Discipline Biochimiche, che si terrà a Brallo di Pregola dal 3 al 7 giugno 2025, rimarranno aperte fino a martedì 20 maggio.

Further information available http://www.unipv.it/bralweb

Emory@UNISI Summer School, 27th May-4th July 2025
The DBCF will host the Emory@UNISI Summer School, which this year reaches its 20th edition.
The school’s program includes seminars open to DBCF PhD students and recognized as part of the doctoral training activities.
The program of the School is available at the following link:
https://www.dbcf.unisi.it/en/research/cooperation/emoryunisi-2025
"Scegli il Pegaso che fa per te!"_second edition_ May 14th 2025_10:30 a.m.

On May 14th, 2025 at 10:30 AM, the second edition of "Scegli il Pegaso che fa per te!" will be held in the Aula Magna Storica of our University.
The event is organized by the Presidency of the Tuscany Region and the Giovanisì Office, with the support of the Regional Department for Education, Vocational Training, University and Research, in collaboration with the University of Florence, the University of Pisa, the University of Siena, and the University for Foreigners of Siena.

The event is dedicated to presenting the activities of the Pegaso Regional PhD Programs.
The first part of the event will feature talks and reflections on PhD offerings at both the regional and national levels.
The second part will showcase research projects by PhD students and graduates involved in the Pegaso Programs.

BiBiM will participate in the event, represented by Prof. trabalzini and two of your colleagues, who will share their research experiences.

 

 Full program can be found at the following link: https://www.unisi.it/unisilife/eventi/scopri-il-pegaso-che-fa-te

Post-Graduate Course on PROTEIN QUALITY CONTROL, Siena, Italy, June 24-27, 2025.

Post-Graduate Course on PROTEIN QUALITY CONTROL, Siena, Italy, June 24-27, 2025 

European Pain School - 7-13 June 2025 - Certosa di Pontignano (SI)
European Pain School®
at the University of Siena
Siena, Italy • 7-13 June 2025
Applications for the upcoming edition of the European Pain School (EPS 2025) are open.

The European Pain School will be held in Pontignano, near Siena, Italy, next 7-13 June 2025. With a faculty of leading experts in the field, the European Pain School provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary training to younger scientists. The central theme this year is: “Cancer Pain”. Now in its 22nd cycle, the School has become a landmark in the area of Pain Research. Young scientists worldwide, at the Ph.D. or postdoctoral levels, in all fields of pain science and pain medicine are encouraged to apply.

The confirmed faculty comprises:
Anna Maria Aloisi, Siena, Italy
Ofrit Bar-Bachar, Ramat Yishai, Israel
Carlo V. Bellieni, Siena, Italy
Giancarlo Carli, Siena, Italy
Luana Colloca, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lesley Colvin, Dundee, United Kingdom
Francesco De Logu, Florence, Italy
Pierangelo Geppetti, Florence, Italy
Marzia Malcangio, London, United Kingdom
Sebastiano Mercadante, Palermo, Italy
Daniela Salvemini, St. Louis, MO, USA
Peter Reeh, Erlangen, Germany
Brian L. Schmidt, New York, NY, USA
Camilla Svensson, Stockholm, Sweden
Irina Vetter, Brisbane, Australia

Applications are open exclusively through the website until 14 February 2025. Attendance is limited to 30 participants; priority will be given mostly on the basis of scientific background. The EPS 2025 is endorsed and supported by the University of Siena.

You are kindly invited to visit the School's website at EuropeanPainSchool.eu for more details on topics and additional information. A Call for Applications poster can be downloaded directly from the website. 

Congress "Protein Misfolding and aggregation in disease" on 12-14 February 2025.
 Congress "Protein Misfolding and aggregation in disease" (https://sites.unimi.it/stericagno/conferenza/)  will be held in Mantova on 12-14 February 2025. 
Registration is free. The program will include poster sessions and oral slots derived from the abstracts.
Deadline for Abstract and registration: 15 December 2024
Registration information can be found at the following link:
Scienza in Azione: Mercoledì con i Giovani - Mercoledì 26 marzo 2025

Data e orario
Segnate in agenda: mercoledì 26 marzo 2025, dalle 16:30 alle 17:30.

 Collegamento Zoom
Partecipa da ovunque ti trovi! Ecco il link per unirti a noi su Zoom:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/86022582182?pwd=LQaZBVQmyvdh12daII7lLwG6Lt3HDv.1

ID riunione: 860 2258 2182   Codice d’accesso: 573879

Presentazioni di questa sessione
In questa occasione, avremo il piacere di ascoltare le ricerche dei nostri giovani colleghi:

  • Alice Cattivelli

“Gut microbial metabolites of phenolic compounds and colon cancer prevention”

  • Costanza Cicchi
    “Multifunctional properties of food-derived bioactive peptides: focus on anti-inflammatory activity and intestinal barrier integrity”
  • Daniel Di Risola

“Use of olive oil polyphenols to counteract neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases”

 

PhD Day 2024 Friday, September 13, 2024 - University of Florence.- Reminder and instructions

The PhD Day 2024 will take place at the University of Florence the next September 13, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (see attached program).
Please remind to inform Prof. Trabalzini as soon as possible if you cannot attend and have not yet sent the justification, so that we can better organize the event.
All PhD students, including those who will not be able to participate, must upload the pdf file of the poster, no later than September 6, 2024, in the Dropbox folder at the link below:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/IeaS2yxQt6R3eE91WHFK

The poster, in 70x100 format, must be affixed at the beginning of the event and you will be required to remain in front of your poster for the entire duration of the poster sessions.

PhD Day 2024 Friday, September 13, 2024 - University of Florence.

PhD Day 2024 will occur on Friday, September 13, 2024, at the University of Florence.

The attendance at the event is mandatory. It is an essential requirement for admission to the following year or, for the 37th cycle PhD student, for admission to the final examination.

Please  inform Prof. Trabalzini as soon as possible if you cannot attend in the case you are engaged in a period abroad or for other justified reasons.
The program will be  available as soon as possible, along with additional instructions for poster preparation.