The Biophysics Society of Milan is hosting a cross-discipline interview to showcase the nuances of the scientific communication field and inspire students who may be considering it as a career.

The conversation will investigate questions like:

What are the responsibilities of disseminators of scientific discovery to the public?

From the pandemic to climate change, how can we effectively communicate scientific processes in a fast-paced media cycle?

Join our discussion and Q&A session!

This hybrid event is open to all of Milan’s students and faculty interested. Come in person to UPDATE: Biologia B8 or follow online (Zoom details below).

Entra nella riunione in Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89856528676?pwd=M0loWGplMWJKdExscm9tMlVsenJJQT09

ID riunione: 898 5652 8676

Passcode: 493140

For the last event of the Milano student chapter Biophysical week Giuliano Zanchetta from the Complex Fluids & Molecular Biophysics Group at UniMi will give a seminar titled “DNA liquid crystals: back to the origin of life”.

DNA liquid crystals: back to the origin of life. Here you can read the abstract of the talk:

''I will describe the serendipitous discovery of the spontaneous self-assembly and phase separation of complementary DNA and RNA oligomers - down to single nucleotides - from complex mixtures, mediated by their partial ordering into liquid crystalline domains [1,2,3,4]. Moreover, the alignment of stacked aggregates of paired nucleotides can provide a template for their chemical ligation, boosting the formation of longer polymers, which on turn stabilize liquid crystalline ordering and partitioning in a sort of autocatalytic mechanism [5,6]. This set of observations may suggest a pathway for the prebiotic emergence of molecular selection and, ultimately, of linear genetic polymers with sequence-directed assembly. I will then discuss some of the experiments currently under way to test such hypothesis, on prebiotically plausible chemical moieties and complexation with peptides [7].''

[1] Nakata et al. Science 318, 1276 (2007)

[2] Zanchetta et al. PNAS 105, 1111 (2008)

[3] Bellini et al. PNAS 109, 1110 (2012)

[4] Smith et al. PNAS 115, E7658 (2018)

[5] Fraccia et al. Nature Comm. 6, 1 (2015)

[6] Todisco et al. ACS Nano 12, 9750 (2018)

[7] Fraccia & Zanchetta COCIS 56, 101500 (2021)

The seminar will be held in in room B7 of the UniMi Bioscience department and will be streamed on Zoom.

Find the week's complete events timetable here.

Hatice Holuigue, Università degli Studi di Milano

Silvia Goldini, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Ugur Cetiner, Harvard Medical School

Marco Buscaglia, Università degli Studi di Milano

Within the Milano student chapter Biophysical week, researchers of academia and industry will give short talks and answer your questions about the path that led them to choose biophysics for their daily job. Online only on Zoom.

Find the week's complete events timetable here.

A refreshment is offered by the Milano BPS Chapter at the UniMi botanical garden (via Camillo Golgi, 18, Milan). Please register with this form to help us in the organization!

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As part of the Milano student chapter Biophysical week, Jeremy Gunawardena from Harvard medical school will give a seminar titled: “Using graph theory to understand the conceptual basis of biological systems”.

The seminar will be held in hybrid mode in room B7 of the UniMi Bioscience department and on Zoom.

Find the week's complete events timetable here.

International week devoted to the spread of Biophysics, with talks and seminars. "Milano BPS chapter" will host seminars and events, with speakers both from academia and from industry for this occasion.

Find the flier with the complete week's events timetable here!