HT External Seminar Series
The Human Technopole External Seminar Series features leading scientists from around the world giving a talk on campus. These researchers work in various fields, including genomics, neurogenomics, structural biology, computational biology, health data science, biophysical modelling, and molecular cell biology.
Seminars are open to the external community and promote interdisciplinary exchange, aligning with the Institute’s mission to explore the emergent properties of complex biological systems to study human physiology and its pathological dysfunctions.
Time: from 16.00 to 17.00 CET
Location: HT Auditorium, Milan
To participate, registration is required via the dedicated forms that will be made available.
Calendar
- 12 September 2024 – James Briscoe (The Francis Crick Institute)
- 7 November 2024 – Julia Mahamid (EMBL)
- 3 April 2025 – Kai Simons (MPI-CBG)
- 15 May 2025 – Julie Theriot (University of Washington)
- 5 June 2025 – Soumya Raychaudhuri (Harvard Medical School)
- 12 June 2025 – Elena Conti (MPI of Biochemistry)
- 2 October 2025 – Francesca Peri (University of Zurich)
- 6 November 2025 – Erin Schuman (MPI for Brain Research)
- 13 November 2025 – Yifan Cheng (UCSF)
12 September 2024 – James Briscoe
The Dynamics of Spinal Cord Development
James Briscoe is a principal group leader. He obtained a BSc in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick, UK. Following his PhD research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, he undertook postdoctoral training at Columbia University, New York, USA. In 2000 he moved to the Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) to establish his own research group and in 2001 he was elected an EMBO Young Investigator. He was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal in 2008 and elected to EMBO in 2009. In 2018 he became Editor in Chief of Development, a journal published by the Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit scientific publisher. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.
His research interests include the molecular and cellular mechanisms of graded signalling by morphogens and the role of transcriptional networks in the specification of cell fate. To address these questions his lab uses a range of experimental and computational techniques with model systems that include mouse and chick embryos and embryonic stem cells.
Visit James Briscoe’s Lab page
HT host: Ivano Legnini
7 November 2024 – Julia Mahamid
Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology
Julia Mahamid studied biology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and obtained her PhD in structural chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot in 2010. After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, in 2017 she moved to a group leader position at EMBL in Heidelberg. She is the recipient of the Ernst Ruska Prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy, the EMBO Gold Medal, the Kate Bárány Award of the Biophysical Society, and ERC Starting and Synergy Grants. She is an EMBO Member.
Visit Julia Mahamid’s Lab page
HT host: Gaia Pigino