COURSES 2025/2026

The didactic programme consists in two courses that are compulsory for 1st and 2nd year PhD students. Taking a final test is necessary for the acquisition of the training credits (1 TC= 5 hours). 
All lessons of the courses will be held  in English and held in person.
Off-site students will be guaranteed the opportunity to attend online classes on the Microsofy Teams platform. 
Please check this page frequently for updates.

I YEAR – XLI Cycle (8 TCs)
Course in "Experimental techniques: practical and theoretical aspects"

9 January 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 2-Biomedical Didactic Centre (ex-Saiwa), Corso Gastaldi 29.
Prof. Ernesto Fedele (DIFAR-UniGe)
“Intracerebral microdialysis: techniques and applications”

16 January 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 5 - Didactic Centre “Alberti”, Building 6, Via L.B. Alberti 4
Prof. Bruno Pietro Burlando (DIFAR-UniGe)
“Disease conceptualization based on nolinear system dynamics involving a new method for therapeutic target discovery”

23 January 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 5 - Didactic Centre “Alberti”, Building 6, Via L.B. Alberti 4
Prof. Barbara Marengo (DIMES-UniGe)
“Selection and propagation of cancer stem cells: from theory to clinical practice”

30 January 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 5 - Didactic Centre “Alberti”, Building 6, Via L.B. Alberti 4
Prof. Enrico Millo (DIMES-UniGe)
“Chemical synthesis of peptides and proteins”

06 February 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 2 - Didactic Centre “Alberti”, Building 6, Via L.B. Alberti 4
Prof. Marco Nardini (University of Milan)
“Integrated structural biology on transcription factors”

13 February 2026 – 14:00-17:00 
Prof. Simona Candiani (DISTAV-UniGe)
“Genome Annotation and Phylogenetic Analysis”

20 February 2026 – 14:00-17:00 - Room 5 - Didactic Centre “Alberti”, Building 6, Via L.B. Alberti 4
Dr. Francesco Piacente (DIMES-UniGe)
“Recombinant proteins production: theory, practical approaches and tips & tricks” 

27 February 2026 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available 
Prof. Maurizio Bruschi (DIMES-UniGe)
“From the diagnostic laboratory to personalized medicine: tips and tricks of the proteomic approach for the identification of new biomarkers”

06 March 2026 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available
Dr. Andrea Benzi (DIMES-UniGe)
“Approaches to study metabolism in in vivo and ex vivo animal models”

20 March 2026 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available
Dr. Francesco Piacente (DIMES-UniGe)
“How to modulate protein expression in eukaryotic cells and whole organisms”

27 March 2025 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available
Dr. Alessandro Maccione (Chief Scientific Officer e Co-founder 3Brain IT SRL, Genoa)
“Extracellular Electrophysiology Techniques for In-Vitro Drug Screening: Overview, Application Cases, and Future Perspectives”

10 April 2026 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available
Prof. Chiara Cervetto (DIFAR-UniGe)
“Superfused synaptosomes and gliosomes to study neuro- and gliotransmission in the CNS”

17 April 2026 – 14:00-17:00 Classroom not yet available
Dr. Silvia Scaglione (Senior researcher CNR-IEIIT and Chief Research Officer React4life, Genoa)
“Building Human Biology Complexity: 3D Tissue Models, and Organ-on-Chip Platforms”

11 September 2026 – 14:30-16:00 Final test – Microsoft Teams online platform.
The final test is a multiple-choice quiz on the topics of all the lessons and is necessary for the acquisition of the TCs.

To take the final exam and obtain credits, 70% attendance is required.

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II YEAR – XL Cycle (5 TCs)
Course in “Design Of Experiment (DOE) and Multivariate analysis (MVA)”

Prof. Cristina Malegori (DIFAR – UniGe)
All lessons will be held from 14:30 to 17:30 - Room C DIFAR, Building 10, Viale Benedetto XV, 3

29 January 2026 – Introduction to univariate analysis
05 February 2026 – Gauss z, Student’s t-test and their application in statistical analysis
12 February 2026 – Fisher’s F and ANOVA 
19 February 2026 – Introduction to multivariate analysis
26 February 2026 – Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
05 March 2026 – Introduction to experimental design and notes on multiple linear regression (MLR)
12 March 2026 – Factorial Designs
19 March 2026 – Quadratic Designs and optimization
26 March/23 April 2026 – 14:30 Final test. 

The final test is a multiple-choice quiz on the topics of all the lessons and is necessary for the acquisition of the TCs. 

For the lessons, you need to download the CAT software from: http://gruppochemiometria.it/index.php/software and install it following exactly the instructions of the file “instructions.txt” or watching the tutorial video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVIUJAhMVR0a59m3BG_dR0A.

For Mac, a Windows emulator is required.