Workshop

Advances in Pharmaceutical and Biomolecular Sciences @ UniTO

edition 2019

The PhD students of the XXXII cycles presents the results of their 3-year research projects

Time	PhD student	Project title	Sector
8.45-9.00		Opening remarks
9.00- 9.30	Stefano Acquadro	Isolation and characterization of plant extracts of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food interest by bioassay guided studies	Health (pharma)/Food
9.30-10.00	Federica Bessone	Design and development of novel nanoformulation-based delivery systems for the prevention and the treatment of challenging pathological conditions	Health (pharma)
10.00-10.30	Davide Bonanni	Computational strategies for structure-based lead optimization and analysis of SAR transfer	Health (pharma)
10.30-11.00	Cristina Campobenedetto	Identification of new products with biostimulant action and evaluation of their effects on plant growth and development by using genomic and metabolomic approaches	Agri/Bio
11.00-11.20		coffee break
11.10-11.40	Federico Capuana	Design and testing of novel in vivo imaging probes for SPCCT and MRI	Health (diagnostics)
11.50-12.20	Federica Galati	Structural and functional characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Suf machinery	Health (biochemistry)
12.20-12.50	Xinyu Ge	Process development for the adsorption/desorption of pharmaceuticals and other organic pollutants from industrial wastewater	Sustainability
12.50-13.20	Giorgio Grillo	Design of non-conventional chemical processes for biomass valorization	Sustainability
13.20-14.30		Lunch
14.30-15.00	Monirul Islam	Plant magnetoreception: ionomics and lipidomics of plant responses to reduced magnetic fields	Agri/Bio
15.00-15.30	Francesca La Cava	Improving the diagnostic efficacy in pathological models with novel high relaxivity gadolinium chelates	Health (diagnostics)
15.30-16.00	Maria Jesus Moran Plata	Combining ultrasound and microwaves in chemical processes	Sustainbility
16.00-16.30	Stefano Nebbia	Effect of thermal processing on food protein digestibility and allergenicity	Food
16.30-16.50		coffee break
16.50-17.20	Marta Cialié Rosso	Advanced analytical approaches for “omic” investigations of high quality food matrices of vegetable origin	Food
17.20-17.50	Ana Luisa Soutelo Maria	Ultrasound-assisted C=C bond activation	Sustainability
17.50-18.20	Ivano Vigliante	Molecular and chemical fingerprinting of high oleic sunflower hybrids. A systems biology approach	Food
18.20-18.30		Conclusion remarks