Name: Summer School per ShanghaiTech
Start: 2016-08-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-09-06T22:30:00+02:00
Location: Venice and Asiago

A life detector in the newborn brain (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Autophagy: elimination of dysfunctional cell components (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Biochemistry and Biophysics of communication between cells (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Body and Technology: continuity or discontinuity? (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Charles Kuen Kao and the invention of optical fibers (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Cocaine: from dependence to addiction, from optogenetics to rTMS (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Comets in space: from Giotto to Rosetta (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Comets: from ancient China to modern Astrophysics (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Complexity: how to deal with it: Examples from plasmas in space and laboratory (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Cook like an Italian mum: learn how to cook the Italian way. Students will learn how to cook typical Italian dishes -‐ final competition with jury to evaluate their work. (in session "Welcome to Italy")

Engineering stem cell potential (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Exploring cellular Calcium homeostasis with recombinant probes (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Flashes of music history in the Venetian Republic – Part I (in session "Art and General Culture")

Flashes of music history in the Venetian Republic – Part II (in session "Art and General Culture")

Flashes of music history in the Venetian Republic – Part III (in session "Art and General Culture")

From single cells and single columns to cortical networks (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

From the Chinese Supernova of 1054 AD (Crab Nebula) to Dark Energy (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

From the laboratory bench to the management of research (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Galileo: scientist, artist, writer and theologian (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Gamma-rays and gravitational waves: the last frontier of Astronomy (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

History of Veneto: from middle-ages onward (in session "Art and General Culture")

Homo technologicus comes of age: an ongoing revolution (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Host-‐pathogen interaction: the paradigmatic case of Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastroduodenal pathologies with particular reference to China (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Host-‐pathogen interaction: the story of tetanus and its toxin (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

How Chinese may survive Italy and still enjoy it - Part I (in session "Welcome to Italy")

How Chinese may survive Italy and still enjoy it - Part II (in session "Welcome to Italy")

Inflation and particle physics (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Keeping mitochondria in shape, a matter of life and death (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Mechanisms and significance of apoptotic cell death (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Mirror cognition (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Molecular control of cancer stemness and metastasis (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Natural-‐Artificial: continuity or discontinuity? (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

On the evolution of humankind: the branching tree of the genus Homo (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Optogenetics: a tool to investigate heart functions (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Origin and evolution of the universe: what the scientific method can and cannot say (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

Palladio's architecture (in session "Art and General Culture")

Scientific frauds and errors: the dark side of Science (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Statistical Physics: from starlings’ flocks to eco-network (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

The "Stato da Terra" and the "Civilization" of Venetian Villas (in session "Art and General Culture")

The discovery of blood circulation at the University of Padova (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

The end of genetics? (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

The evolutionary choice of cellular signals: why calcium? (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

The quest for Higgs' boson (in session "Physics and Astronomy")

The University of Padova: a story of science and freedom (in session "Art and General Culture")

The ‘three hearts’ of the Most Serene Republic of Venice – Part I (in session "Art and General Culture")

The ‘three hearts’ of the Most Serene Republic of Venice – Part II (in session "Art and General Culture")

Transcriptional landscape of the Genome (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Venetian glass art and science (in session "Art and General Culture")

Venetian Villas 15th-18th century: architecture fresco and stucco decoration, gardens (in session "Art and General Culture")

Venice. History and Intellectual History (in session "Art and General Culture")

Visual perception and colour illusion (in session "Biology, genetics and physiology")

Welcome by prof. Ernesto Carafoli, Director of the Summer School (in session "Welcome to Italy")

Welcome by prof. Jiang MianHeng, President of ShanghaiTech (in session "Welcome to Italy")

Welcome by prof. Rosario Rizzuto, Rector of the University of Padova (in session "Welcome to Italy")

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