Evento

Graziella Persico Lecture: Making the mouse blastocyst

Il 03/03/2014 ore 10.30 - 13.00

Aula Conferenze CNR
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 Napoli

5th Graziella Persico Lecture

Seminario di Janet Rossant, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

and PhD Travel award assignment

The “Graziella Persico” Lecture series in Human Genetics is mainly addressed to young scientists to promote their learning about the most recent progress of the research in the genetic field. It will also serve to all of Graziella’s many friends and colleagues to have a chance, once a year, to think of her and to underscore the values that she believed in.

The initiative includes the awarding to a PhD student of a travel grant for the participation to a European scientific meeting.

This project is supported by the following scientific Institutions: IGB"ABT" CNR, Tigem – Telethon Institute, Naples -  Università Federico II, Naples

Graziella Persico (1950-2007) was an extraordinary woman and a superb scientist. She was also included in the “Top Italian Scientist” list. She has made outstanding contributions to science, ranging from human genetics to cancer biology. Such are the cloning of G6PD, the first gene identified on the human X chromosome, and the discoveries of Cripto and PlGF, extracellular factors active in normal body development as well as in disease.
She was also an impressive manager and organizer, being capable of initiating one of the largest projects on isolated populations in Italy.

Graziella Persico trained many scientists. She was unforgiving in the adherence to rigorous scientific criteria but, at the same time, she was capable of transmitting a profound sense of human empathy.

Organizzato da:
IGB-CNR
Tigem - Telethon Institute, Naples - Università Federico II, Naples

Referente organizzativo:
Marina Ciullo
CNR - Istituto di genetica e biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso"
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 Napoli
marina.ciullo@igb.cnr.it

Modalità di accesso: ingresso libero

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