Welcome

The main theme of this year's SIBBM Seminars is

Emerging Arenas in Molecular Biology:
from basic mechanisms to personalized medicine

The meeting will be held in Trento, from 11 to 13 June 2014, at the Lettere e Filosofia site, that offers a state-of-the-art auditorium and ample spaces.

Confirmed invited speakers include:

• Stefano Biffo, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
• Tiziana Bonaldi, IEO Milan, Italy
• Irene Bozzoni, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy [EMBO Member]
• Maria Carmo-Fonseca, University of Lisbon, Portugal [EMBO Member]
• Francesca Ciccarelli, King’s College London, UK
• Michele Garfinkel, EMBO
• Mauro Giacca, ICGEB Trieste, Italy
• Fulvio Mavilio, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy & Genethon, Evry, France [EMBO Member]
• Gunter Meister, Universität Regensburg, Germany
• Roberto Sitia, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy [EMBO Member]
• Natalia Soshnikova, IMB, Mainz, Germany
• Giulio Superti-Furga, CEMM, Vienna, Austria [EMBO member]
• Marino Zerial, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany [EMBO Member]

The SIBBM Seminars gather every year up to 200 participants and, since their start in 2004, have become one of the most successful scientific events in Italy. The meeting offers an exciting opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students to talk about their work and experiences. Nearly 50% of the talks will be selected from participants' submitted abstracts.

A highlight of the SIBBM Seminars are the "Chiara D'Onofrio" awards, the most prestigious prize in Biomedical Sciences in Italy, awarded to both a senior scientist as well as to the best oral presentation by a young scientist.