Training and Research

PhD Programme Courses/classes - 2024/2025

This page shows the PhD course's training activities for the academic year 2024/2025. Further activities will be added during the year. Please check regularly for updates!

Instructions for teachers: lesson management

Metabolic engineering to increase biomass/biomolecules productivity: from fundamental science to industrial applications

Credits: 3

Language: inglese

Teacher:  Federico Perozeni, Matteo Ballottari

Mid-Infrared spectroscopy and micro-spectroscopy: physical principles and applications in biotechnological research

Credits: 2

Language: English/Italian

Teacher:  Francesca Monti

Signaling peptides and their application in agriculture and pharmacology

Credits: 3

Language: English

Teacher:  Tiziana Pandolfini

Sostenibilità negli ecosistemi terrestri e negli agroecosistemi

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Matteo Dainese, Annalisa Polverari

In vitro cell cultivation: from health to food. Part 1: Introduction to the Advanced Aspects of the Proposed Topic

Credits: 1

Language: INGLESE

Teacher:  Flavia Guzzo, Daniele Guardavaccaro

In vitro cell cultivation: from health to food. Part 2: advanced research and application of in vitro cell cultures (stem cell culture, organoids, cultivated meats)

Credits: 2

Language: english

Teacher:  Flavia Guzzo

Scienza partecipativa: dalla bioprospezione ad altro

Credits: 2

Language: English

Teacher:  Matteo Dainese, Linda Avesani

New genetics’ toolbox for sustainable agriculture and human health-part 1: Introduction to the Advanced Aspects of the Proposed Topic

Credits: 1

Language: Inglese

Teacher:  Sara Zenoni

New genetics’ toolbox for sustainable agriculture and human health-part 2: examples of applications

Credits: 2,5

Language: Inglese

Teacher:  Sara Zenoni, Andrea Vettori

New genetics’ toolbox for sustainable agriculture and human health-part 3: proteomic phenotyping

Credits: 2

Language: inglese

Teacher:  Daniela Cecconi

Credits

2

Language

inglese

Class attendance

Free Choice

Location

VERONA

Learning objectives

The course aims to guide students to understand both the various applications of CRISPR-Cas technology in proteomics and the uses of proteomics in different fields to confirm gene mutations and monitor the impact of gene editing on the total proteome. Additionally, the hands-on practical lesson aims to guide students with the ability to use the main bioinformatics tools, which allow the interpretation of proteomic datasets to identify the phenotypic effects of CRISPR-Cas9 editing.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Basic concepts of proteomic analysis.

Program

Theoretical learning course:
• Applications CRISPR-Cas to proteomics for: studying protein-protein interactions, analysing protein-chromatin interactions and generation of cellular models
• Proteomics applied for confirming gene mutation by CRISPR-Cas9 at the protein level and quantification of the target product
• Proteomics applied for monitoring of changes in the total proteome, thus exploring the overall impact of gene editing on the protein expression
• Functionality-based bioinformatics to enable interpretation of large-scale proteomics data providing biologically meaningful results about the phenotypic effects of CRISPR-Cas9 editing.

Practical learning course “Hands-on lesson”:
• Practical bioinformatics lesson using the main web-based bioinformatics tools (e.g., Cytoscape, WebGestalt, PANTHER, DAVID, STRING) to analyse the effect of CRISPR-Cas9 editing on the proteomic phenotype. In particular, Gene Ontology enrichment analysis of the differentially expressed proteins, Functional enrichment analysis to detect dysregulated pathways and Protein-protein interaction network analysis will be performed.

Didactic methods

Frontal lectures

Learning assessment procedures

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Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Assessment

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Scheduled Lessons

When Classroom Teacher topics
Friday 26 September 2025
10:30 - 12:30
Duration: 2:00 AM
Ca' Vignal - Piramide - Verde [2 - 0] Daniela Cecconi CRISPR-Cas & Proteomics (Theoretical part)
Friday 26 September 2025
14:30 - 16:30
Duration: 2:00 AM
Ca' Vignal 3 - T.02 [02 - T] Daniela Cecconi CRISPR-Cas & Proteomics (Practical "Hands-on" part)

PhD school courses/classes - 2024/2025

Please note: Additional information will be added during the year. Currently missing information is labelled as “TBD” (i.e. To Be Determined).

1. PhD students must obtain a specified number of CFUs each year by attending teaching activities offered by the PhD School.
First and second year students must obtain 8 CFUs. Teaching activities ex DM 226/2021 provide 5 CFUs; free choice activities provide 3 CFUs.
Third year students must obtain 4 CFUs. Teaching activities ex DM 226/2021 provide 2 CFUs; free choice activities provide 2 CFUs.
More information regarding CFUs is found in the Handbook for PhD Students: https://www.univr.it/phd-vademecum

2. Registering for the courses is not required unless explicitly indicated; please consult the course information to verify whether registration is required or not. When registration is actually required, instructions will be sent well in advance. No confirmation e-mail will be sent after signing up. Please do not enquiry: if you entered the requested information, then registration was silently successful.

3. When Zoom links are not explicitly indicated, courses are delivered in presence only.

4. All information we have is published here. Please do not enquiry for missing information or Zoom links: if the information you need is not there, then it means that we don't have it yet. As soon as we get new information, we will promptly publish it on this page.

Summary of training activities

Teaching Activities ex DM 226/2021: Linguistic Activities

Teaching Activities ex DM 226/2021: Research management and Enhancement

Teaching Activities ex DM 226/2021: Statistics and Computer Sciences

Teaching Activities: Free choice

PhD students

PhD students present in the:

Angheben Luca

symbol email luca.angheben@univr.it

Citterio Giulia

symbol email giulia.citterio@univr.it

Fuso Giovanni

symbol email giovanni.fuso@univr.it

Gatto Gloria

symbol email gloria.gatto@univr.it

Peli Marika

symbol email marika.peli@univr.it

Piccoli Emma

symbol email emma.piccoli@univr.it

Thomas Elgueda Mario Humberto Joaquín

symbol email mariohumbertojoaquin.thomaselgueda@univr.it

Timis Aurelia Iuliana

symbol email aureliaiuliana.timis@univr.it

Villa Davide

symbol email davide.villa@univr.it

Zhang Huiying

symbol email huiying.zhang@univr.it
Course lessons
PhD Schools lessons

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Guidelines for PhD students

Below you will find the files that contain the Guidelines for PhD students and rules for the acquisition of ECTS credits (in Italian: "CFU") for the Academic Year 2024/2025.

Documents

Title Info File
File octet-stream Dottorandi: linee guida generali octet-stream, it, 15 KB, 03/10/24
File octet-stream PhD students: general guidelines octet-stream, en, 57 KB, 03/10/24