News
News from the lab
Diede Houbaert defended her PhD thesis on “should I stay or should I go?”: autophagy in lymphatic Endothelial cell biology , lymph node dynamics and Anti tumor immune responses with great success. Congratulations Dr Houbaert!
Read the press release on our article on how PERK promotes lipid transfers between the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria (J Cell Biology)
Patrizia was co-organizer of the VIB Conference "Recent insights into Immuno-Oncology" in Leuven - read more
Blanca Felipe-Abrio received a postdoctoral fellowship from FWO for her work on the role of PERK in T cells and antitumor immunity. Congrats!
Together with Gabriele Bergers and Colinda Scheele, Patrizia Agostinis obtained an FWO EOS research project grant (in collaboration with University of Liège and UCL) on "Unravelling the molecular programs that control the de novo formation of high endothelial venules"
Nicole Ruffo successfully defended her PhD thesis (June 30,2021) "Linking the Unfolded Protein Response to the pro-inflammatory trait induced by Immunogenic Cell Death"
Patrizia was nominated as honorary member of the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, one of the most prestigious Italian Academies
Mónica Vara Pérez successfully defended her PhD thesis "BNIP3 in Melanoma: sitting on the Iron Throne" (February 25, 2021)
Our work on ferritinophagy in melanoma by Monica Vara-Perez (EMBO J, 2021) was selected for the FWO- sponsored program “Science Figured Out”, to record a professional video to explain the main finding of this melanoma research to a non-scientific public.
Patrizia was nominated to receive the International Death Cell Society (ICDS) Outstanding Achievement Award in 2020.
Patrizia was co-organizer of the EACR Conference 2020 ‘A matter of Life and Death; Mechanisms, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities’, Bergamo, Italy
Patrizia joined the VIB Center for Cancer Biology as Group Leader
Together with Gabriele Bergers, Patrizia was co-organizer of the 'Women in Science' conference in Leuven (Belgium)
Patrizia was co-organizer of the EMBO workshop on Phagocytosis ’From the ER to the plasma membrane and beyond: molecular mediators of immunogenic cancer cell death', Ghent, Belgium
Patrizia was organizer of the 25th Euroconference on ‘Cell Death and Immunity’; from molecules to translational medicine’, Leuven, Belgium
Patrizia was invited to give a lecture at the Nobel Conference "The Cell Cycle and Cell Death in Disease", at the Nobel Forum - Karolinska Institutet (June 8-11, 2021)
Patrizia was elected an Honorary Member of the European Academy for Tumor Immuology (EATI) in 2016 - info
Patrizia was nominated as Honorary Member of AcademiaNet, Leading Women in Science
Lectures
Future lectures
Future lectures
2022
10 - 14 October: Cold Spring Harbour Asia Meeting on 'Iron, Reactive Oxygen Specoes and Ferroptosis in Life, Death & Disease', Awaji, Japan
2023
30 March: GIGA Institute Liège
15-17 May: ICDS Meeting, South Africa
Past lectures
Past lectures
2022
27 Sep: ECDO Meeting, Bonn, Germany
27 Jun-1Jul: EMBO Workshop "Integrating the molecular, mechanistic and physiological diversity of autophagy", Eger, Hungary
16-17Jun: VIB Conference “Recent insights into ImmunoOncology”, Leuven, Belgium - co-organizer
2021
22-24 Nov: 3rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF AICC: INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON CANCER METABOLISM” Torino, Italy (virtual)
2-8 Jul: 45th FEBS Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia°(virtual)
7-10 Jun: ICDS meeting, Johannesburg, South Africa (virtual)
18-20 May: 2nd International HCSC Symposium On Translational Cancer Research Madrid, Spain (virtual)
26-27 Mar: “Virtually Dead Episode III: Inflammation and Cell Death”(virtual)
12 Feb: UK Autophagy Network (Virtual)
2020
30-31 Oct: MMAD Molecular Mechanisms of Autophagy in Diseases Conference, Saint-Petersburg (Russia) (virtual)
12-14 Feb: EACR Conference ‘"A matter of Life and Death; Mechanisms, Models and Therapeutic Opportunities", Bergamo, Italy