Symposium on: Molecular and Cellular Resilience of Cerebral Cortex Development, Evolution, and Disease
We are happy to invite you to the Symposium with Prof. Andrè Sousa, from Department of Neuroscience - University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA), and Prof. Ying Zhu, from the Institutes of Brain Science - Fudan University - Shanghai (China), organized on June 11, 2024 at 10.30. After the seminar, the speakers will be available for a question-time with the audience, in particular with students and early career researchers.
Dissecting Schizophrenia with patient-specific human induced pluripotent stem cells
The study of human brain development and related alterations remains a great challenge. Indeed, in vitro models have revealed their potential to mimic and recapitulate human brain neurodevelopment and affections. In this Ph.D. Thesis, the induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) platform was used to investigate the molecular basis of schizophrenia (SCZ) disorder from a neurodevelopmental point of view by analyzing a cohort of SCZ patients characterized by sleep spindle alterations as an endophenotype. The objective was to elucidate the molecular bases that interrelate the sleep endophenotype and alterations in hiPSCs derived from SCZ patients, drug-naïve, and at the first episode of psychosis. This in vitro approach facilitated analysis of the neural population directly involved in the clinical phenotype, contributing to a deep understanding of complex psychiatric disorders such as SCZ.
CONTEST FOTOGRAFICO: Bio-versity 2024
La Commissione per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile di Ateneo (CoSA) organizza un concorso fotografico rivolto alla comunità studentesca del nostro ateneo in occasione della settimana in cui si celebra la Giornata Mondiale della Biodiversità (20-26 maggio).Dialogues on Ethology and Behavioural Ecology
Within the seminar series of the DIALOGUES ON ETHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY, our fourth 2024 speaker will be Dr. Marta Skowron Volponi of the Laboratory of Insect Evolutionary Biology and Ecology - Faculty of Biology - University of Białystok (PL). On monday the 27th 2024 at 15:30, Dr. Marta Skowron Volponi will be talking about “Outsmarting the predator: behavioural and acoustic mimicry in clearwing moths."
The seminar will be both online on the Teams platform (at the links provided) and in presence in Room SR C, at the San Rossore complex in via Risorgimento, Pisa.
Dialogues on Ethology and Behavioural Ecology
We are happy to invite you to the seminar of Pietro D’Amelio, from Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, organized this coming Monday 29st at 15.30 within our Ethology Unit’s seminar cycle “Dialogues on Ethology and Behavioural Ecology“.
Dr. D’Amelio will present his work on “Researching ultimate and less ultimate causes of monogamy and cooperation, the case of sociable weavers” (LINK for online connection)
The seminar will be both online on the Teams platform (at the links provided) and in presence in Room SR C, at the San Rossore complex in via Risorgimento, Pisa.