The 12th PhD Day in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences will take place on 22 and 23 February 2026 in room 14 of the San Miniato Campus. Oral presentations will be organised according to the cycle to which they belong.
Doctoral students in the 38th cycle will have 20 minutes, those in the 39th cycle 10 minutes, and those in the 40th cycle 5 minutes, including discussion.
We will also have the pleasure of attending two 60-minute plenary lectures by Prof. Michael Decker of the University of Würzburg (D), Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, and Prof. Andrea Pucci of the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa.
Attendance is mandatory for all PhD students, including those in the 41th cycle, and is strongly recommended to members of the Academic Board, if compatible with the service.
Monday 23 February
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Chair Professor Stefania Butini |
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Speaker |
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09:10 |
COSTANTINI Sara |
Food traceability and valorization of bioactive molecules for advanced delivery system |
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09:30 |
FATTORI Giacomo |
Valorization of agrifood systems through geographical traceability, by-products recovery and novel fortified foods |
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09:50 |
TARDIOLO Nicola |
Leveraging SL-based strategy with novel peptides and peptidomimetics as PPI disruptors of RAD52 oligomerisation |
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10:10 |
ZAMBARDINO Demetra |
New approaches to the modulation of Hedgehog signalling pathway with small molecules and bioconjugates |
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10:30 |
ANGIOLINI Lorenzo |
Rational design and data-driven strategies to optimize bioconjugation processes in antibody-drug conjugates |
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10:50 |
ARONNE Rossella |
A Semi-Automated Mixed-Solvent Molecular Dynamics (MixMD) Pipeline for probe-to-hit bacterial G-quadruplex drug discovery |
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11:10-11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair Dr. Lorenzo Zani |
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11:45-12:45 |
Professor Andrea Pucci, Università di Pisa |
Polymers with aggregation-induced emission: a land of opportunities |
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13:00-14:30 |
Pausa pranzo Lunch time |
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Chair Professor Steven Arthur Loiselle |
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14:30 |
FAVA Marianna |
Target-based design and synthesis of novel inhibitors of enzymes playing key roles in antimicrobial |
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14:50 |
PACE Alessandra |
Novel Organic Dyes for Photoanode Sensitization: Synthesis, Characterization, and Integration into Photoelectrochemical Cells for H2 evolution |
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15:10 |
CASTELLO Carolina |
Electrocatalysis for energy production and storage |
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15:30 |
NOWAK Ylenia |
Organic D‑π‑A Molecules as Sensitizers for Photoelectrochemical Cells and NADH Regeneration |
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15:35 |
VIGNI Ginevra |
Valorisation of primary and/or secondary agricultural products |
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15:40 |
EL KOUISSI Radia |
Eco-design of materials and processes for eco-efficient IPV devices |
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15:45 |
RICCIARDELLA Giovanni |
Toward innovative anticancer therapies: modulation of tumour cells and microenvironment with unconventional ADCs or novel Platinum(II)-NHC complexes |
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16:05 |
CUTARELLA Luigi |
Use of computational modeling tools for the design and development of anti‐bacterial agents |
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16:25 |
Conclusion of the day |
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Tuesday 24 February
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Chair Professor Claudia Mugnaini |
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Time |
Speaker |
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09:10 |
POLVANI Alessio |
From sensor challenges to environmental insights: nutrients, metals, and community tools |
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09:30 |
CORALLO Alessia Agata |
New CB2 receptor dualsteric ligands for the treatment of multiple sclerosis |
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09:35 |
LUCCHESI Leonardo |
Versatility evaluation of dibromopyridazinedione rebridging agent on monoclonal antibodies in clinical use |
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09:40 |
MANENTI Gabriele |
Light-modulable AChE inhibition through aurone-based molecular photoswitches |
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09:45 |
MOREIRA EYER CABRAL Sabrina |
Photoswitchable Combretastatin Analogues Based on a 3-Benzylideneindolin-2-one Scaffold |
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09:50 |
MAVROMATIDOU Ilektra |
Synthesis and assembly of stimuli-responsive amphiphiles for targeted diagnostics and drug delivery |
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10:10-11:10 |
Professor Michael Decker Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (D) |
Recent advances in photopharmacology: spatiotemporal control over G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) funtion |
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11:10-11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair Professor Maurizio Taddei |
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11:50 |
LIU Xinyu R |
Machine Learning and Citizen Science for Catchment-Scale Water-Quality Assessment |
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12:00 |
RUGGIRELLO Maria R |
Expanding Antibody-Drug Conjugates beyond oncology: a proof of concept for Tuberculosis |
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12:10 |
VENDITTI Jacopo R |
Morita-Baylis-Hillman Adducts as versatile tools in pharmaceutical research |
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12:30 |
ROSENDA JULIANI COSTA Ivanna GR |
Fundamental Photochemistry: An RMS-CASPT2 Mapping of Excited-State Topology |
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12:40-14:30 |
Pausa pranzo/ Lunch time |
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Chair Professor Daniele Padula |
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14:30 |
SALVI MatteoR |
Development of Sustainable and Selective Synthetic Strategies in Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry: A Journey from Lab Scale to Process Chemistry |
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14:50 |
GABBRICCI Giulia |
Insights into the structure and self-assembly kinetics of solid lipid based nanoparticles |
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15:00 |
GONZALEZ MONROY Michelle Andrea |
Eco-design and overall sustainability of green hydrogen production |
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15:10 |
LAMI Matteo |
Exploring the role of substituents on 2-benzylindeneindan-1-one in the design of photomodulable ache inibitors |
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15:20 |
LAZZARINI Irene |
Deracemizations of Olefines by Peptidic Photosensitizers |
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15:30 |
CAVAGLIONI Alessandro |
Geographical traceability of wine: impact of winemaking treatments on metal and isotopic profiles |
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15:50 |
PINESCHI Mirko |
Novel Trypanothione reductase inhibitors: Progress and prospects |
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16:00 |
BOLDRINI Matteo |
Design and Optimization of Iron-Based hard/soft Magnetic Nanocomposites for Permanent Magnets |
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16:05 |
CIMINO Viviana |
Hydrogel support lignin based for indoor cultivation |
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16:10 |
CONTENA Stefano |
Harvesting of solar energy by spiropyran/merocyanine photoacidic structures". |
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16:15 |
FIABANE Martina |
Ligandability study on the TET22 G-quadruplex from Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
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16:20 |
MESSANO Nicolò |
Computational investigation of benzaldehyde inhibitors of ALDH1A3 |
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16:25 |
VEGLIANTI Simone |
Enhancing emitters quantum efficiency exploiting singlet-triplet inversion |
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16:30 |
Concluding remarks |
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R On-line presentation