Mattias Buergel - Edizione critica e commentate dell’Esposizione del Simbolo degli apostoli di Domenico Cavalca

Mattias Buergel comes from Germany. He studied Romance Philology at Cologne, did his PhD in italianistica at Bonn, Florence and Paris (thesis on Italian cinema). He has worked as a research assistant at Cologne University where he has been teaching classes and doing research on Medieval literature for several years.
He is working now at the University of Padova on a critical and commented edition of the Esposizione del Simbolo degli apostoli di Domenico Cavalca OP (ca 1280 – 1341) considering for the first time the complete manuscript tradition of the treatise. The edition will be realized according to neo-lachmannian criteria.

e-mail: mattias.buergel@unipd.it

  Joy Chakraborty - Inhibition of Parkin-opposing Deubiquitination Enzyme USP14 as a therapeutic approach to enhance clearance of misfolded proteins in PD

Joy Chakraborty comes from India. He has been working in the field of  molecular neuroscience and behavioral physiology for the last eight years. His special interest is monitoring mitochondrial involvement in progressive neuro-motor disorders, employing cellular and animal models. He completed his PhD from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.
He will be investigating the dose and time dependent effects of the deubiquitination enzyme inhibitors on ubiquitination levels of the mitochondrial dynamics related proteins and the consecutive effect on mitochondrial clearance and health, both in vivo and in vitro.  The final goal is to evaluate the therapeutic aspect of these inhibitors against progressive neuronal degeneration in Parkinson’s disease.

email: joe4u_agt@yahoo.co.in

  Cristina Zomeño - Understanding the relevant factors to assess rabbit welfare under experimental and commercial conditions

Cristina Zomeño comes from Spain.
She obtained her PhD degree in 2013 by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), which combined meat quality and genetics areas in rabbits. Then, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) in Girona (Spain), carrying out research on pig carcass and meat quality.
Cristina is developing the project within the Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science under the supervision of Dr. Angela Trocino. The main aims are to define the best housing conditions for group rearing of rabbits and to identify the most suitable indicators for evaluating animal welfare.

e-mail: cristina.zomenosegado@unipd.it

  Stefano Caneva - Practicalities of Hellenistic Ruler Cults (PHRC-DATA)

Stefano Caneva is Italian, he completed his PhD in Ancient History at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici at San Marino (2011). He was Research fellow at the University of Leuven (2010-2011). After a post-doc at the Université de Liège (2011-2013), he was research fellow at the Academia Belgica in Rome (3 months in 2014) and a collaborator of Wikimedia Belgium, Wikimedia Italia and Europeana.
He is working now at the University of Padova with a project combining a historical study in the fields of cultural, religious and social history of the Hellenistic period with the development of a digital humanities research output: an open linked database of geo-located epigraphic and archaeological sources and active maps.
E-mail contact: ste.caneva@gmail.com

  Mercedes Pérez Vidal - Art and liturgy of Dominican nuns in Veneto through their liturgical books during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern era

Mercedes is from Spain. She did her PhD degree in Art History at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2013. She was Postdoc researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and assistant lecturer at the University of Oviedo and at the National University of Distance Education in Spain. She is co-founder and vice-president of the Society of Interdisciplinary Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women (SEIFMAR)
She is working now at the University of Padova. Her Study of Late Medieval and Early Modern female monastic art in relation to liturgy, specifically in the case of Dominican nunneries in Veneto, is following an integrating approach. It is well known and explored in other territories but so far has had little impact on the historiography of Northern Italy.
E-mail contact: mercedespvidal@gmail.com / mercedes.pvidal@unipd.it
Website of the Society of Interdisciplinary Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women (SEIFMAR) : http://websefimar.wix.com/seifmar

RadioBue interview to Mercedes Pérez Vidal

  Roberto Ciuni - The Dynamics of Testimonial Belief (DYTEBEL)

Roberto is conducting his research at the FISPPA Department (Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology).

  Claude Marion - Generation of finite groups

Claude is conducting his research at the Department of Mathematics.

RadioBue interview to Claude

  Seyyed Fakhrabadi Mir Masoud: Tunable Self-Assembly, Reactivity and Switching of molecular Magnets (TSARSMAG)

Sayyed is conducting his research at the Depatment of Chemistry.

  Fedora Babić - Mathematical modelling and network rewiring of the stress-response sigE regulatory network in Mycobacterium smegmatis (STRESSNet)

Fedora Babić comes from Croatia. She graduated in Pharmacy in 2007 and received her PhD in Molecular Biology from Zagreb University in 2011. She was PhD fellow in EU FP6 project between Zagreb University and ICGEB Trieste. Her research interests include antibiotic resistance and quorum sensing pathogen-host signalling interactions. Her project STRESSNet (“Mathematical modelling and network rewiring of the stress-response sigE regulatory network in Mycobacterium smegmatis”) is focused on the dynamics of a stress response network in Mycobacteria, developing a multidisciplinary program in which outputs of mathematical modelling and microfluidic high-throughput experiments will be integrated to reveal the effects of network rewiring on drug sensitivity and bistable responses to stress. She is working under the supervision of Prof. MANGANELLI Riccardo of the Department of Department of Molecular Medicine.
email: fedora.babic@unipd.it

Website of the project: http://www.medicinamolecolare.unipd.it/mycolab - http://www.bioera.dii.unipd.it/

  Giulia Zanini - Lives with (No) Children. Exploring Italian Trajectories of Childless Selves (Li(N)C)

Giulia Zanini comes from Italy. She took her PhD degree in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute with a research on infertility, donor conception and cross border reproductive care. Her post-doctoral research has focused on assisted reproductive technologies, religion, reproductive policies and mobilities in and across Mediterranean countries. Her project Li(N)C. (Lives with (No) Children. Exploring Italian Trajectories of Childless Selves) aims at exploring the emergence of childless subjectivities as to allow a more dynamic and complex understanding of life expectations, values, feeling and practices of contemporary experiences of childlessness in the Italian context. She is working under the supervision of Dr. TANTURRI Maria Letizia of the Department of Statistical Sciences.
email: giulia.zanini@unipd.it or giulia.zanini@eui.eu

Website of the project: http://www.stat.unipd.it/fare-ricerca/LiNC