Wednesday – July 3rd 2019
14:00 - 14:45 Registration
14:45 - 15:00 Welcome and Opening
15:00 - 15:45 Dermot Diamond - Dublin City University - The Internet of (Biochemical) Things: Disruptive Concepts based on Fundamental Advances in Materials Science and 3D Fabrication Technologies
15:45 - 16:00 Jeannette J. Lucejko - DCCI UniPi - Archaeological waterlogged wood: chemical changes induced by burial environment and conservation treatment
16:00 - 16:30 Alessio Massironi - DSCM UniPi - Design, preparation and characterization of ulvan polysaccharide-based nanostructures for biomedical, food and cosmetic applications
16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 - 17:45 Maarten Altelaar - Utrecht University - MS-based proteomics profiling of kinome-wide activation states and extracellular vesicles
17:45 - 18:15 Federica Guarra - DSCM UniPi - Group 11 Metal N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Perspective Anticancer Compounds
18:15 - 18:30 Elisa Guazzelli - DCCI UniPi - Self-assembly of amphiphilic random copolymers: From single-chain folding to submicron-length scale particles
Thursday – July 4th 2019
9:15 - 10:00 Gianluca Farinola - Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro - Functional materials from photosynthetic microorganisms
10:00 - 10:30 Hilda Gomez Bernal - DSCM UniPi - Biomass catalytic conversion to alkyl levulinates under the principles of green chemistry
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Isabella De Bari - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA - Trisaia) - Biofuels and bio-based products from sustainable feedstocks
11:45 - 12:00 Francesco Ferlin - UniPg - Toward Sustainable C-H Activation Methodologies Using Safer Solvents Heterogeneous Catalysis and Flow Technology
12:00 - 12:15 Stefano Becherini - UniPi - Levulinate Ionic Liquids as suitable media for the dissolution and levulination of cellulose
12:15 - 13:00 Frederik Wurm - Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung - Function and Beauty – Transforming Biopolymer Motifs into Synthetic Functional Materials
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:15 Olivier Maury - École Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Lanthanide luminescent bioprobes: from two-photon microscopy imaging to dynamic phototherapy
15:15 - 15:45 Alice De Palo - DSCM UniPi - Synthesis and characterization of ruthenium(II) and iridium(III) complexes as potential catalysts for water oxidation
15:45 - 16:00 Andrea Menichetti - UniPi - Novel Synthetic Approaches to Unusual Biologically Relevant Heterobicyclic Scaffolds
16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 17:00 Franc Meyer - University of Göttingen - Bioinspired Small Molecule Activation at Highly Preorganized Bimetallic Complexes
17:00 - 17:30 Niccolò Bartalucci - DSCM UniPi - Exploiting the Potentiality of High Valent Transition Metal Halides in Organic Synthesis
17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION + Happy Hour
Friday – July 5th 2019
9:15 - 10:00 David Casanova - University of the Basque Country Donostia International Physics Center - Singlet fission: theory and modeling
10:00 - 10:30 Alessio Gabbani - DSCM UniPi - Magneto-optical and chiro-optical properties in plasmonic nanomaterials
10:30 - 10:45 Francesco Zinna - DCCI UniPi - Chiral functionalized fluorescent macrocycles as a scaffold for remarkable chiroptical properties
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:00 Edina Rosta - King's College London Department of Chemistry - Mg-Dependent Catalytic Mechanism of Phosphate Cleavage Reactions
12:00 - 12:30 Lorenzo Arrico - DSCM UniPi - Circularly polarized luminescence of Ln3+ complexes: strategies and applications
12:30 - 13:00 Giulio Bresciani - DSCM UniPi - Activation reactions of CO2 under mild conditions
13:00 - 13:15 Closing Ceremony and Poster Awards