SIBBM 2025 :: Programme

12:20-13:30	Light lunch and registration
13:30-13:40	Welcome address
Session I - 3D Genome organization CHAIRS: Matthieu Boulard (EMBL) and Caterina Missero (University of Naples Federico II)
13:40-14:10	Mario Nicodemi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Chromatin 3D architecture: mechanisms and functions
14:10-14:40	Francesco Amaldi Lecture Argyris Papantonis (University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany) Senescent cells cluster CTCF on nuclear speckles to sustain their splicing program
14:40-15:10	2 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
15:10-15:40	Coffee break
15:40-16:10	EMBL Lecture Magda Bienko (Human Technopole, Italy) Cell type-specific intronic RNAs shape genome architecture during neuronal lineage specification
16:10-16:40	2 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
16:40-18:00	Poster Session I

Session II - Synthetic biology and Stem Cell-Based Models (Joint Session with Association of Cell Biology and Differentiation-ABCD) CHAIRS: Graziano Martello (University of Padua) and Gabriella Minchiotti (IGB-CNR)
9:00-9:30	Ivano Legnini (Human Technopole, Italy) Spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression: from description to perturbation and back
9:30-10:00	2 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
10:00-10:30	Sheref S. Mansy (University of Trento, Italy) Towards metabolically active, evolving protocells
10:30-12:00	Poster Session II and coffee break
12:00-12:30	Jamie Hackett (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Italy) Programming the epigenome to dissect chromatin function
12:30-13:00	2 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
13:00-14:00	Lunch
Session III - Emerging Technologies in Integrative Omics, Spatial Transcriptomics, and Artificial Intelligence CHAIRS: Giuseppe Merla (University of Naples Federico II), Graziano Pesole (University of Bari)
14:00-14:30	Raffaele Calogero (University of Turin, Italy) Essential strategies for mastering single-cell and spatial RNA-seq analysis
14:30-15:00	Davide Cacchiarelli (University of Naples Federico II, TIGEM, Italy) Leveraging microfluidics and multi-omics to efficiently engineer human reprogramming-to-organoids
15:00-16:00	4 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30	Symposium: Science and Society
17:30-18:30	SIBBM members’ general assembly
19:30	Social dinner

Session IV - Gene Expression and Translational Control from Biology to Therapy CHAIRS: Andrea Ditadi (San Raffaele Telethon Institute) and Nicoletta Potenza (University of Campania L. Vanvitelli)
9:00-9:30	Kim De Keersmaecker (KU Leuven, Belgium) How ribosomal protein mutations translate cancer
9:30-10:00	Anders H. Lund (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Tuning the ribosome in health and disease
10:00-10:30	2 Talks selected from submitted abstracts (15 min each)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	Selected Talk from submitted abstracts
11:15-11:45	Michela Denti (University of Trento, Italy) Therapeutic Modulation of RNA splicing for the treatment of 4R tauopathies
11:45-12:15	Andrea Mattevi (University of Pavia, Italy) Targeting metabolons and redox signalling
12:15-12:45	Riccardo Cortese Lecture Alberto Auricchio (University of Naples Federico II, TIGEM, Italy) ExpEditing AAV gene therapy
12:45-13:00	Prizes and wrap-up

Preliminary Programme