ISSSB-International Summer School on Systems Biology
The Systems Biology approach to discover marine life:
from a big eye to a microscopic picture
10-14 October 2022
Biological systems are complex networks of biological entities such as organs, tissues, cells, organelles, macromolecular complexes, regulatory pathways and at macro scale individuals.
Oceans represent a perfect example of a biological system made of a huge numeber of interconnected biodiverse systems both as species and as niches. Understanding how their connections results in its health and equilibrium require a wide approach looking at it from all the possible angles.
Systems biology aims to provide a comprehensive view of the biological systems using an interdisciplinary integrated approaches from different scientific areas and technological, experimental and informatic skills.
Based on this holistic view, the aim of the school is to provide participants basic and advanced knowledge on Biodiversity, Ecological interactions, Evolutionary Genomics and Omic disciplines, to be used as an integrated approach applied to oceans for EcoEvoDevo studies and Biotech Applications.
Organizers
An heterogeneous group of collaborative colleagues from different SZN departments with complementary expertises.
Dr. Valeria Di Dato
Researcher, Eco-sustainable Marine Biotechnology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli
Valeria Di Dato, is a biologist with a cellular and molecular biology and pathology training. She applied her molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry trainee on the study of gene expression regulation in different topics going from cephalopods learning and memory, to thyroid developmental gene network, drug of abuse relation to dopamine receptors, fasting related metabolism, primary tumor and /metastatic environments and marine microalgae secondary metabolites production. By coupling omics and experimental approaches she is now dedicating her research efforts on the study of secondary metabolite's roles in the ecology and physiology of marine microalgae with the ultimate goal to translate that information to biotech application.
Dr. Salvatore D'Aniello
Senior Researcher, Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Salvatore D’Aniello is interested in the evolution of metazoan genome’s architecture and the acquisition of genomic and functional innovations that allowed the enormous increase of the Nervous System complexity. The main research field is the Evolutionary and Development Biology (EvoDevo), employing embryos and larvae from several animal species, as amphioxus, sea urchins, ascidians, and fish. His main scientific achievements are related to our understanding of the evolution of Nitric Oxide (NO) signaling in animals.
Dr. Ylenia Carotenuto
Researcher, Integrative Marine Ecology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Ylenia Carotenuto interests focus on the effects of algal info-chemicals on planktonic prey-predator interactions and ecosystem functioning. In particular, she is interested in studying the impact of secondary metabolites produced by diatoms (oxylipins), on grazing, reproduction, development and gene expression of copepods, and on the role of oxylipins in copepod population dynamics. Her research activity involves multiple approaches spanning from measurements of copepod life-history parameters (i.e. ingestion rates, egg production and viability, larval survivorship), to quantitative gene expression analysis and Next Generation Sequencing of transcriptomes, in copepods exposed to different experimental conditions. Her research activity also involves analysis of in situ copepod reproduction and population dynamics, during typical phytoplankton blooms.