The ICGEB International Seminar Programme constitutes scientific seminars held by international experts on diverse fields of the Life Sciences. Lectures are made available for free to PhD and Postdoc students at ICGEB, and to the scientific community at large.
Each year, approximately 50 seminars are held in Trieste, New Delhi and Cape Town, many of which are also podcast on our YouTube channels. ICGEB was the first academic institute in Italy to launch Podcasts in #OpenSource and constitute a vast learning resource offering free educational content.
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Seminars
Florian Anton WEINBERGER
Friday, 19 December 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYGroup Leader Research Group “Management Ecology of Marine Macrophytes” | Topic 6, Kiel, GERMANY Cardiac Repair Mechanisms – Insights from Opto – and Chemogenetic Approaches
Elise BELAIDI
Thursday, 13 November 2025 | 1.00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYInstitut des sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Lyon
Institut NeuroMyoGène (INMG), Physiopathologie et Génétique du Neurone et du Muscle (PGNM), CNRS 5261 – INSERM U1315 – UCBL1, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Lyon, FRANCE tbc
Remi MOUNIER
Thursday, 13 November 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDR2 HDR CNRS, Institut NeuroMyogène, Lyon, FRANCE tbc
Irene BOZZONI
Friday, 24 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDept. Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin” Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Sapienza, University of Rome, ITALYThe Role of RNA in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapy in ALS
Emrah Eroğlu
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYPResearch Director SABITA, Research Institute for health Sciences and Technologies, Istambul, Türkiyetbc
Jin LI
Wednesday, 8 October 2025 | 11.00 am – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor, Doctoral Supervisor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, President, Fudan University Human Phenome and Future Medicine
Admire DUBE
Tuesday, 7 October 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAGroup leader of the Infectious Disease Nanomedicine Research Group
School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape Nanomedicine and its application in the treatment of tuberculosis
Davor PAVLOVIC
Thursday, 25 September 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor, Editor in Chief for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus, Cardiac Diseases Theme Lead & PGR College Deputy Lead, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham , UK Reproducibility and reporting of
negative data in cardiovascular
research
Fernando Hercos VALICENTE
Monday, 22 September 2025 | 2.00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYResearcher at Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brasil Biological Control in Brazil: The use of Bio inputs
Leyma Pérez DE HARO
Friday, 12 September 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALY Ph.D. Senior Scientist at Merrick & Co. Using Embodied AI Agents to Automate Laboratories
Stella SIMIYU
Tuesday, 19 August 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Director Regulatory Affairs CropLife Africa Middle East From Barriers to Bridges: Measuring Progress
of the Biopesticides Sector in Africa and the
Middle East with the Biological Crop Protection
Products Access (BioCOPPA) Index”
Lisa ROTHMANN
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICASenior lecturer, Plant pathology, University of the Free StateA response to Thomas Kempis: “Why do we trouble ourselves with theories about genera and species?”
Digby WARNER
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), University of
Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICACollapsing boundaries in infectious diseases research
Tokameh MAHMOUDI
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 | 10.00 am – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAERASMUS MC, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsMechanisms of HIV-1 latency and how to measure the persistence reservoir
Kamila KOCHAN
Thursday, 10 July 2025 | 9.00 am – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYLecturer, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Monash College City Campus AUSTRALIAVibrational Spectroscopy as a Next-Generation Phenotypic Probing Tool for AMR. Unlocking Fundamental Insights and Driving Rapid Diagnostics
Jorge J. CASAL
Tuesday, 8 July 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, South AfricaFacultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Fundación Instituto Leloir, ARGENTINAHow plants sense their world to overcome stress
Martin NICHOLSON
Friday, 4 July 2025 | 12.00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYWorld Health OrganizationThe WHO-MPP mRNA Technology Transfer Programme: Strengthening health security and pandemic preparedness in LMICs
Poliana Mendes de SOUZA
Thursday, 19 June 2025 | 1.00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor, Arba Minch University (AMU), ETHIOPIAReimagining Food: From Indigeneous Crops to Advanced Additives
Addis Fekadu ANDETA
Thursday, 19 June 2025 | 1.00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor, Arba Minch University (AMU), ETHIOPIAReimagining Food: From Indigeneous Crops to Advanced Additives
Evelyn GITAU
Thursday, 29 May 2025 | 1.30 pm – ICGEB South AfricaThe Science for Africa Foundation>Science for Africa, by Africa: Advancing Homegrown Innovation for a Resilient Continent
Jairam LINGAPPA
Wednesday, 15 May 2025 | 4:00 pm – ICGEB South AfricaProfessor, Department of Pediatrics, Associate Director for Translational Research, International Clinical Research Center University of Washington, USA>CD101: A regulator of innate immune
responses with relevance to HIV and
other pathogens
Yair REISNER
Tuesday, 15 May 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDepartment of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA>Lung stem cell transplantation for pulmonary fibrosis
César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento
Tuesday, 15 May 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDiscovery, characterization and design of novel plastic-degrading enzymes>Discovery, characterization and design of novel plastic-degrading enzymes
Andrew FEINBERG
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, South AfricaBloomberg Distinguished Professor – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA>Non-Mendelian inheritance in hybrid mice
Michael LADOMERY
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYSchool of Applied Sciences; College of Health, Science and Society; University of the West of England, Bristol, UK>TARGETING PROSTATE CANCER CELLS
THROUGH SPLICING – TWO CASE STUDIES
Davide ROSSI
Monday, 7 April 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona, SWITZERLAND>Liquid biopsy of Hodgkin lymphoma
Giulio AGNETTI
Thursday, 3 April 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDepartment of Biomedical and Nueuromotor Sciences – University of Bologna, ITALY>Contribution of Desmin Cytoskeleton Pathobiology to Heart Failure Development
Assal SELMA
Wednesday, 2 April 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYUniversity of Trieste, OGS, ICTP, Trieste, ITALY>Exergy analysis and exergy cost analysis of metabolic network
Mariana VARGAS-CABALLERO
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYAssociate Professor of Neuroscience University of Southampton UK>Studying neural signal integration with normal and dysfunctional ion channels
Mariona GRAUPERA
Thursday, 20 March 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYEndothelial Pathobiology and Microenvironment Group, Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona, Catalonia, SPAIN>Behaviours of cancer-associated mutations in vascular malformations
Ullas KOLTHUR-SEETHARAM
Monday, 17 March 2025 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIADirector, BRIC – Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (BRIC-CDFD)>Coordination Physiological plasticity & memory encoded by chromatin & mitochondria: From fundamental discoveries to national missions
Michael SIXT
Friday, 7 March 2025 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYInstitute of Science and Technology – IST Austria>Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells
Luca MARCONATO
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICASenior Software Developer @ EMBL (Genome Biology Unit, Oliver Stegle lab), GERMANY>Addressing interoperability barriers in spatial omics
Guido PAPA
Friday, 7 February 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYIInnate Immunity Group, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK>RING-Bait technology as a novel system to degrade pathological protein aggregates
Francesco DE SANCTIS
Friday, 24 January 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYIDepartment of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, ITALYi>Warming up immunologically “cold” tumors by combination therapies
Alessio GUGLIELMI
Friday, 17 January 2025 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYItalian National Police – Forensic Science Service, ITALYThe CSI effect
Jo PARISH
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor of Tumour Virology Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer University of Birmingham, Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medicine and Healthtbc
Stephan SANDERS
Tuesday, 6 December 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYInstitute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, UKProgressing from genes to biology to
therapy for rare genetic disorders
Helder NAKAYA
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | 2:00 pm – ICGEB Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICAProfessor at the University of São Paulo, Senior researcher at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Adjunct professor of the Department of Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine, USAAI-Powered Approaches in Spatial Transcriptomics and Medicine
Marino ZERIAL
Friday, 22 November 2024 | 3:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDirector, Human Technophile, Milan, ITALY Role of mechanics from endosome
function to liver disease
Manuel MAYR
Thursday, 21 November 2024 | 4:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor of Cardiovascular Proteomics, Imperial College London, London, UK Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Proteomics: From Tissue Discovery to Plasma Validation)
Mauro PISTELLO
Tuesday, 14 November 2024 | 2:00 pm – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDirector Virology Unit Pisa University Hospital & Director Retrovirus Center, Department of Translational Research, University of Pisa, ITALY Exploring Host-Directed Antiviral Therapies: Insights from the GENESIS Study on Emerging and Orphan Viruses
Shivani GARG
Tuesday, 14 November 2024 | 11:00 am – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIAProject Manager at Lanzatech, USA Gas fermentation adventures along the Acetyl-CoA Superhighway
Priya YADAV
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYPhD Fellow, ICGEB New Delhi Component, INDIA Delineation of Molecular mechanism of Purine Metabolic Regulation in E. coli Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT)
Patrizia LONGONE
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYMolecular Neurobiology Unit, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, ITALY Patient-Derived Fibroblasts Model Aspects of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Karuppiah KANNAN
Monday, 21 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB New Delhi, INDIAChief Development Officer Wells Therapeutics Inc, Boston, MA USA Discovery and Development of Mivavotinib
Nicholas CHIORAZZI
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYProfessor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, USA CLECL1-expressing, recently born chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells: A small but dangerous fraction of the leukemic clone
Piero CARNINCI
Friday, 11 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYHead of Genomics Research Centre- Human Technopole, Milano, (ITALY) & Team Leader of Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, JAPAN Genome regulation by long
non-coding RNAs
Maximiliano J. JIMENEZ- DALMARONI
Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYBiochemistry Research Institute of La Plata (INIBIOLP) Faculty of Medicine, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA CDH26: a novel cadherin involved in development and diseases
Chris RINKE
Tuesday, 1 October 2024 | 12:00 noon – ICGEB Trieste, ITALYDepartment of Microbiology | The University of Innsbruck, AUSTRIA Superworms – a model system for plastic biodegradation
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