Modern trends in molecular biology and biotechnology III

The aim of the course is to communicate state of art knowledge in the filed of molecular genetics, molecular biology and biotechnology. Students interact with an international panel of scientist expert in different disciplines at ICGEB or at UNG.

To improve student critic attitude, a series of Journal Clubs is proposed. PhD students study, understand and discuss selected literature. Journal clubs are distributed throughout the year, and are chaired by a different group leaders.

Student can propose a seminar wish list to the PhD organizer committee for consideration and selection.
Student can also propose to a journal club, and present a scientific article related to his/her own interest.

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• Seminars in different fields of molecular biology, molecular genetics, biomedicine and biotechnology given by invited international speakers top quality experts in the field.
• Journal Clubs activities.
• Active participation in a scientific cultural and research community

Students of the third year actively participate to seminars having a deeper understanding of in molecular genetics, biology ad biotechnology. Students learn ways of interactive and critic scientific discussion with scientists. It is expected that students critically interact during seminars with questions and discussion. Students are self propose Journal club activities to reinforce communication and discussion of a published literature.

Selected literature related to scientific seminars and Journal Clubs.

Active attendance to proposed activities. 100%

Distinguished invited speakers and scientists in molecular biology and biotechology at the University of Nova Gorica and ICGEB.

Alessandro Marcello is Associate Professor in the field of molecular biology at the University of Nova Gorica.

Selected Bibliography:
1. Licastro D, Rajasekharan S, Dal Monego S, Segat L, D'Agaro P, Marcello A. 2020. Isolation and Full-Length Genome Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Cases in Northern Italy. J Virol. 94(11):e00543-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00543-20
2. Carletti T, Zakaria MK, Faoro V, Reale L, Kazungu Y, Licastro D, Marcello A. 2019. Viral priming of cell intrinsic innate antiviral signaling by the unfolded protein response. Nat Commun. 10(1):3889. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11663-2.
3. Sarracino A, Gharu L, Kula A, Pasternak AO, Avettand-Fenoel V, Rouzioux C, Bardina M, De Wit S, Benkirane M, Berkhout B, Van Lint C, Marcello A. 2018 Posttranscriptional regulation of HIV-1 gene expression during replication and reactivation from latency by nuclear matrix protein MATR3. MBio. 13;9(6).
4. Zakaria MK, Carletti T, Marcello A. 2018. Cellular Targets for the Treatment of Flavivirus Infections. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 8:398. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00398.
5. Çevik RE, Cesarec M, Filipe A, Licastro D, McLauchlan J and Marcello A. 2017. Hepatitis C virus NS5A targets the nucleosome assembly protein NAP1L1 to control the innate cellular response, J Virol. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00880-17