Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences

Below is the list of events organised by the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences

FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

• Research Laboratories - Platelets: unity is strength!
  

  Contact person: Isabella Russo
  Setting up of banquet with printed (posters) and computer-based (power point presentation on laptop) dissemination material on the physiological role of platelets in haemostasis and the pathological role of platelets in thrombosis.
  17:00-23:59
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  

• Research Workshops - Tasting Chromatography
  17:00-23:59
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  
• Research Workshops - Ask the Virologists!
  17:00-23:59
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  
• Video Presentation - Screening of the docufilm "Giulio Bizzozero and the city of science
  

  Contact person: Claudia Bocca; Riccardo Autelli; Stefania Pizzimenti; Giuliana Muzio
  The docu-fiction "Giulio Bizzozero and the City of Science" will accompany the audience to discover an important historical period for the University of Turin, during which Turin's scientific university pole or "City of Science" was founded.
  5:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.
  Rector's Palace - Via Po, 17 - Turin (TO)
  Principi d'Acaja Hall
  
  

• Research Laboratories - Put on the visor and tell me what you feel
  

  Contact person: Luca Ostacoli
  17:00-23:59
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  

• Play Area - Gut bacteria and the brain: a link that starts at the table
  

  Contact person: Marinella Clerico; Alessandro Maglione; Simona Rolla; Rachele Rosso
  Play to raise children's awareness of different types of diet and what this means for the
  intestinal microbiota.
  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P1
  
  

• Play Area - Heart Patrol: no heart is too broken for a brave puppy!
  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P1
  
  
• Play Area - The complex and wonderful world of fats
  

  Contact person: Gabriella Testa
  How much do you know about fats? Come and play with us to learn more about their role in our organism and to identify them in different foods.
  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P1
  
  

• Scientific cafés - Pharmacology: female but not female
  

  Contact person: Silvia De Francia
  Scientific coffee with the topic Gender Pharmacology
  20:00-21:00
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Coffee Area C2
  
  

• Play Area - Become a builder of... cells!
  

  Contact person: Erica Novo; Riccardo Autelli; Claudia Bocca; Stefania Pizzimenti; Giuliana Muzio; Francesca Protopapa
  Observe them under the microscope, draw them with markers and then create your own models! Copying the drawings of the great scientist Giulio Bizzozero, children will be able to reproduce muscle and nerve cells with coloured clay.
  8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P3
  
  

• Play area - Photograph your DNA
  

  Contact person: Antonella Roetto; Stefano Comità
  Explaining in a simple and clear way the variability of DNA at the basis of genetic diseases but also of biodiversity. DNA will be extracted from the saliva of volunteers, their initials will be drawn and it will be possible to photograph them as a souvenir.
  8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P3
  
  

• Play Area - The Medicine of the Future
  

  Contact person: Marco Lo Iacono; Jessica Petiti; Aurora Schiavon
  Explaining through play the basics of precision medicine
  8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P3

SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

• Research Workshops - IMPAVID: a technological patch for the heart
  10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  
• Research Workshops - Drugs, phytopharmaceuticals and food: actions and interactions
  10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
• Research Workshops - Let's train to be a doctor
  

  Contact person: Federico Abate Daga
  Presentation of the didactic activity of the Advanced Medical Simulation Centre (MEDSIM San Luigi Centre) through simulative activities based on learning and practising basic laparoscopic surgical skills for recovery and health protection.
  10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  
  

• Play Area - The complex and wonderful world of fats
  

  Contact person: Gabriella Testa
  How much do you know about fats? Come and play with us to learn more about their role in our organism and to identify them in different foods.
  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  Musei Reali - Giardini Reali Piazzetta Reale, 1 - Turin (TO)
  Play Area P1

→ See the event programme ←

Virtual journey through the human anatomy

30 September 2022, Turin
1 October 2022, Turin

Science Concert - Stellar Tales

30 September 2022, Turin

Watch an excerpt from the concert

Life-saving techniques

30 September 2022, Turin
1 October 2022, Turin

Laboratory experiments

30 September 2022, Turin
1 October 2022, Turin

Visiting the Medicine and Surgery Campus in English

30 September 2022, Turin
1 October 2022, Turin

→ Check out the programme of the 2021 edition ←

D.S.C.B Let's Simply Have Fun With Biology

24 and 25 September 2021, Turin

Sharper: Glimpses into Research

(All videos are in Italian)

Pathology - Who discovered platelets

Contact person: Stefania Pizzimenti

• #1 Introduction
• #2 Borgo San Salvario and the Citadel of Science
• #3 Internal Pathology
• #4 Bizzozero's Life
• #5 Bizzozero's Scientific Discoveries
• #6 Bizzozero's Teaching Tables
• #7 Bizzozero: The Chromium Cytometer

Cellular Biology

Contact person: Barbara Pergolizzi

• From Dictyostelium to man. Simple models to understand complex ones

Applied Biology

Contact person: Andrea Perrelli

• The Blot Song

Haematology - The magical journey of the Sanguinin family

Contact person: Antonella Roetto

• #1 Introduction
• #2 Platelets
• #3 The Chromosomes
• #4 The DNA
• #5 The Proteins

Nephrology and dialysis

Contact person: Savino Sciascia

• #1 Ward organisation
• #2 Dialysis
• #3 Organ Transplantation
• #4 Home Dialysis
• #5 IT IS NOT A DREAM

Press review

• Presentation Press Conference, 25 November 2020;
• TGR Piemonte interview, 27 November 2020;
• Podcast The Researchers' Goals: 17 researchers for the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

→ View the programme of the 2019 Edition ←

The GENE-IAL properties of DNA

Contact person: Antonella Roetto

Period: 27 September 2019, Turin

DNA alone is not enough: there is a close correlation between an organism's genetic heritage and its external environment (dietary habits, smoking, climate, pollution) .

DNA is not just a record of information but holds enormous potential and is capable of ensuring its own preservation, correction and transmission to subsequent generations.

DNA never 'sleeps'. Its genes are constantly being switched on and off. Each of us at all times has a number of active genes that may be common to other people, but also specific to our metabolism or state of mind.

Those who are very active often risk injury! DNA also suffers damage, which is called mutations.

We are used to associating DNA mutations with diseases, but this is not always true. Our DNA, for example, has an incredibly high number of mutations every day, which nobody notices because there is an efficient system of error correction in the DNA thanks to... the DNA itself!

Mutation also means evolution. If we have evolved from our ancestral progenitors, it is thanks to DNA mutations!

Mutation finally means diversity in the good sense of the word, i.e. the possibility for every living being, precisely because of its diversity, to be an integral and enriching part of a common biological system. Each of us is a unique being, but we all have a common basis: the DNA of the entire world population is 99.9 per cent the same.

The Microscopic World

Contact person: Rachele Francese, Andrea Civra, Irene Arduino.

Through experiments, games and quizzes we learn how microorganisms invisible to our eyes are made and what their role is.

Press review

• Turin, the (successful) challenge of two women: 'We are the ones who organise the Researchers' Night', la Repubblica Turin, 14 September 2019;
• The European Researchers' Night invades Turin, Ansa Piemonte, 24 September 2019;
• Success for the Researchers' Night: in 18 thousand to discover the secrets of science, Unitonews, 30 September 2019.