The new Volta Students Union (VSU) Committee (Comitato Alunni in EDiSU vocabulary) will be elected on Tuesday 19th of October.
A poster listing the candidates and summarising the procedure is available here.
In the afternoon of Monday 18th October at 6.00 pm the candidates will introduce themselves to a General Students Assembly in the College Lecture Theatre and will discuss with members of the College their ideas and plans for College development. Actual voting will take place on Tuesday 19th from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm. The list of students entitled to vote and the ballot boxes will be located at the porter's desk. Undergraduate students will elect three undergraduate representatives, postgraduate students will elect three postgraduate representatives. Each student votes a one representative. The list of candidates is provided below as well.
Undergraduates
N Loizzo, Medicine yr 2,
A Scarpellini, Medicine yr 2,
EA Perli, Mathematics yr 2,
F Zambrini, Medicine yr 2.
Postgraduates
OD Adeniyi, Environmental Science, yr 2 (PhD),
A Barone, Physical Education, yr 1 (MSc),
A Caiulo, Computer Science, yr 2 (MSc),
P Catarsi, Bioengineering yr 3 (PhD),
MA Codrea, Physics, yr 2 (MSc)
Students representation and contribution to College life and development are taken in the highest regard at Volta and all College members are strongly invited to participate in the election and cast their vote.
Giancarlo Forte of the International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne’s University, Brno, Czech Republic and University of Turku, Finland will give a talk at 5.00 pm on the 18th of October on Understanding cell-matrix interaction and mechanosensing to counteract diseases. The talk will be available online at the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduGhqz0pGdNm1rjHhecNtpkxJnqu_RrM
The seminar poster that can be downloaded here. Further information about the seminar including the abstract and a biographical sketch of the speaker can be found at this page. All College students are invited to attend, especially undergraduates and postgraduates reading Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine and PhD students engaged in research projects in the biomedical area.
Image: immunofluorescent staining of microtubules (red) and actin (green).
On the 15th of October Roger Leng of the University of Alberta, Canada will give a talk at 5.00 pm on The p53 Pathway in Cancer and Potential Therapeutic Applications. The talk will be available online at the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvd-6rqDsiHdLi_lePKKy1lhKBQW7VY8DB
The product of the p53 gene is a transcription factor with crucial tumour suppressor functions. Mutations in the p53 gene occur very frequently in human cancers and contribute to tumour onset and/or progression. The seminar will discuss research the role of p53 in cancer and new approaches to restore p53 activity in cells that have lost it.
The seminar poster that can be downloaded here. Further details, including a seminar abstract and a biographical sketch of the speaker are available at this page. All College students are invited to attend, especially undergraduates and posgraduates reading Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine and PhD students incolved in life science projects.
Image: immunofluorescent staining of human cells for p53 (green) and actin (red).
On the 13th of October Luca Vangelista of the University of Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan will give a talk at 5.00 pm on CCR5: a Crossroad for Infection and Inflammation. The talk will be available online at the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88600327505?pwd=TDZLYlBoYTgzcmNIMXI3UlZ5dy94Zz09
The CCR5 receptor plays a key role in the entrance of HIV in target cells. HIV is the virus causing the Acquired Immuno Deficienty Syndrome (AIDS), a disease that has killed over 36 million people from 1981 to 2020. The seminar will discuss research on CCR5 in the context of the HIV infection as well as other roles of this receptor in inflammation.
The seminar poster that can be downloaded here. Further details, including a seminar abstract and a biographical sketch of the speaker are available at this page. All College students are invited to attend, especially undergraduates and posgraduates reading Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine and PhD students incolved in life science projects.
Image: an electron micrograph of the HIV virus (courtesy of H Gelderblom, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin).
October 2021