Following celebrations for Leonardo in 2019, and those for Raphael in 2020, the Italian Embassy in Washington, the diplomatic-consular network and Italian Cultural Institutes in the United States commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the “Sommo Poeta” (“Supreme Poet”) with a rich program including over 60...
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Giulia Grancini will speak at the UN in the context of the “6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The Prof. Giulia Grancini of the Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, head of the PVsquared2 team and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HYNANO project, has been invited by the UN to speak at the “6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science”, organized by the Royal...
Discovery of a ventilation system inside heart cells
An interdisciplinary approach involving the National Institute of Optics of the CNR, the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy, the Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine of the University of Freiburg and the Center for Electron Microscopy at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA) has made possible the discovery of a new system of...
Stars Grants 2021
Through the call for proposals STARS Grants 2021, the University of Padova financially supports individual research projects, without any predetermined priority, for the duration of two years. Candidates may apply in one of the 27 scientific research areas corresponding to the three ERC research domains: PE – Physical Sciences and...
Decomposing fecundity and evaluating demographic influence of multiple broods in a migratory bird
Relevance of breeding season fecundity as a driver of population dynamics has been highlighted by many studies. Despite that, knowledge about how brood type specific (i.e. first, second or replacement) fecundity affects demography of multiple-brooded species is limited. In fact, estimation of brood type specific fecundity is often challenging due...
For the first time in the world cardiologists in Turin exploit Artificial Intelligence to define post heart attack strategy
The extraordinary result of research coordinated by the University Cardiology Department of the Molinette Hospital of the Città della Salute of Turin (directed by Professor Gaetano Maria De Ferrari), together with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Torino and the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace of the Politecnico...
On the Gran Sasso massif to test instruments for the 2021 Italian Arctic campaign
In December 2020, the installation of instruments that will be used at the North Pole began on the Campo Pericoli plain in Abruzzo by the researchers Vittorio Pasquali and Edoardo Calizza from Sapienza University, and Fabio Leccese and Marco Cagnetti from Roma Tre University. The instruments have been installed in...
Molecular signature of ALS discovered
A new study carried out by Sapienza Universitá di Roma in collaboration with the Istituto Pasteur-Italia and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) laboratory has identified potential markers of the progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: small molecules of non-coding RNA, the microRNAs. The study has just been published in Cell Death...
JMintheUS Webinar: Transatlantic Relations After the Trump Administration
The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence would like to share this upcoming webinar organized by the European Union Studies Center, Graduate Center, the City University of New York. This event is part of the Jean Monnet in the US series, bringing together the network of EU-funded Universities in the...
EIC-EIT: working closer together for Europe’s innovators
The European Commission has announced today the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to reinforce their cooperation to support the best European entrepreneurs. This will enable innovators, innovative SMEs and start-ups, higher education institutions and...