The series of seminars of the Ethology unit "Dialogues on ethology and Behavioural Ecology" is starting again!

We are happy to invite you to the seminar of  Katherine Majewski, from Kyoto University, organized this coming Monday 24^st at 15.30.
Dr. Katherine Majewski will present his work on Iconic Invasives: Impacts of introduced raccoon dogs on two UNESCO protected islands in Japan (Teams)

Students from the Research Doctorate in Biology will present and discuss their projects during the "PhD days January 2025"

• PhD (I year) Project presentation: January 28, 2025 - Polo Didattico San Rossore 1938, AULA SRB, from 2:00 pm
• PhD (I year) Project presentation: January 29, 2025 - Polo Didattico San Rossore 1938, AULA SRB, from 2:00 to 3:40 pm
• PhD (III year) Research Project presentation: January 29, 2025 - Polo Didattico San Rossore 1938, AULA SRB, from 3:40 pm

 Full program of PhD days January 28-29 2025

Monday, December 16, 2024, the Students of the III year of the PON Research Doctorate in Biology will take their final exam. The venue is Centro Congressi "Le Benedettine" (Lungarno Sidney Sonnino, 18), room BEN A. The detailed program is available at this link.

Spinal cord injury (SCI) represents an extremely invalidating condition and effective treatments are lacking, due to the complex pathophysiology. This PhD thesis aimed to validate a combinatorial therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries based on neural stem cell transplant and nanomedicine tools, promoting axonal growth of neural stem cells used for transplantation by magnetic nano-pulling technology. The latter is based on loading cells with magnetic nanoparticles and after the application of an external magnetic field it is possible to induce forces (mechanical stimulation) on cells and manipulate their growth. Different model systems were optimized for the validation, such as organotypic slices and cortico-spinal assembloids. In the end, the project aimed also to translate to in vivo models the magnetic nano-pulling technology through the design of magnetic device for mice with the help of engineering tools like 3D printing.