SIBBM 2026 :: Programme

13:00-14:00	Light lunch and registration
14:00-14:15	Welcome address
Session I - Gene response to cell sensing (Joint Session with Association of Cell Biology and Differentiation-ABCD) CHAIRS: Simona Paladino (University of Naples) and Elvira Parrotta (Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro)
14:15-14:45	Stefano Piccolo (University of Padua, Italy) TBD
14:45-15:15	Alessandro Prigione (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany) TBD
15:15-15:45	Elena Taverna (Human Technopole, Milano, Italy) TBD
15:45-16:15	*Talks selected from abstracts*
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-17:15	*Talks selected from abstracts*
17:15-17:30	Companies’ corner
17:30-19:30	AperiPoster Session I (odd numbers)

Session II - RNA-based Regulation and Plasticity CHAIRS: Monica Ballarino (Sapienza University of Rome) and Francesco Nicassio (IIT, Milan)
9:00-9:30	Sandra Blanco (CIC-IBMCC, University of Salamanca, Spain) Targeting RNA methylases in cancer therapy: a novel approach to revolutionize treatment
9:30-10:00	Maite Huarte (CIMA - Universidad de Navarra, Spain) Control of genomic stability by noncoding RNA
10:00-10:30	Luca Pandolfini (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy) From genome to brain: decoding nervous system development through functional multi-omics
10:30-11:00	*Talks selected from abstracts*
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:45	*Talks selected from abstracts*
12:45-13:00	Companies’ corner
13:00-14:00	Lunch
Session III - Biologics as therapeutics CHAIRS: Mirko Pinotti (University of Ferrara) and Vittoria Raffa (University of Pisa)
14:00-14:30	Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy) Advanced genetic engineering of hematopoiesis as therapeutic
14:30-15:00	Stefano Gustincich (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy) SINEUPs as a new class of lncRNAs enhancing translation
15:00-15:30	Cosima Tatiana Baldari (University of Siena, Italy) Supramolecular attack particles (SMAPs): a new weapon of the CTL killing arsenal that can be tailored for cancer cell targeting
15:30-16:00	*Talks selected from abstracts*
16:00-16:30	TBD (GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena, Italy)
16:30-18:30	AperiPoster Session II (even numbers)
19:30	Social dinner

Session IV - Cutting edges in DNA replication CHAIRS: Marco Muzi Falcone (University of Milan), Francesca Pisani (IBBC - CNR, Naples)
9:00-10:00	SIBBM members’ general assembly
10:00-10:30	Roberto Bellelli (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK) TBD
10:30-11:00	Julian Sale (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK) TBD
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:30	*Talks selected from abstracts*
12:30-13:00	Aga Gambus (University of Birmingham, UK) TBD
13:00-13:15	Prizes and wrap-up