PhD Day 2025
On the 1st of October 2025, the fourth edition of MERLNs PhD Day will take place. We are very excited to announce the programme for the day.
Please see find a selection pictures of the event here.
Programme
8:00 - 8:30 | Registration
8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome and introduction by MERLNs Scientific Director Lorenzo Moroni
8.45 – 10.27 | Session 1 : Cell biology and cell therapy
Chairs: Virginia Cora, João Ribeiro
8:45 – 9:15 | Keynote Speaker - Elena Della Bella
"In vitro osteogenesis of human mesenchymal stromal cells: contribution of glucocorticoids and role of miRNA"
9:15 – 9:27 | Niels van Ingen
9:27 – 9:39 | Madina Sangen
9:39 – 9:51 | Sveva Fagiolino
9:51 – 10:03 | Lotte Smeets
10:03 – 10:15 | Margot Warin
10:15 – 10:27 | Filippo Bonelli
10:30 - 10:40 | Rapidfire Session 1
Speakers : Zhengdong Gao, Beatrice Francesca Massel, Tim ten Brink, Hongjuan Weng, Yue Wang
10:40 - 11:10 | Poster session + Coffee break
11:10 - 12:10 | Session 2 : Organ-on-chip and microfluidics
Chairs: Jonathan Briones, Esra Güben Kaçmaz
11:10 – 11:22 | Anna Peeters
11:22 – 11:34 | Elisabetta Avizzano
11:34 – 11:46 | Marie Loly
11:50 - 12:00 | Rapidfire Session 2
Speakers : Cristian Balducci, João Ribeiro, Krithi Vishnu Balaji, Aleksandra Predeina, Yağmur Doğay, Annemarie de Vries
12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
12:10 – 12:20 | Sponsor session: Miltenyi
12:20 – 12:30 | Sponsor session: Sarstedt
12:30 – 12:35 | Sponsor session: PHC
12:35 – 12:40 | Sponsor session: Vizgen
12:40 – 12:45 | Sponsor session: Promega
12:45 – 14:00 | Poster session
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 : Biofabrication and biomaterials
Chairs: Pierpaolo Fucile, David Dimech
14:00 – 14:30 | Keynote Speaker - Sebastien Callens
"Engineering structure in orthopaedic tissues"
14:30 – 14:42 | Niccolò Bianco
14:42 – 14:54 | Maria Kalogeropoulou
14:54 – 15:06 | Vivek Cherian David
15:06 – 15:18 | Sophia Dalfino
15:18 – 15:30 | Fatma Cayir Gunes
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 | Session 4 : In vitro and in silico models
Chairs: Leyla Noroozbabaee, Qiang Wang
16:00 – 16:12 | Matilde Marradi
16:12 – 16:24 | Alix Lemaitre
16:24 – 16:36 | Leila Ashtar
16:36 – 16:48 | Maria Papageorgiou
16:48 – 17:00 | Maryam Parvizifard
17:15 - 18:00 | Closing ceremony
18:00 – 19:00 | Borrel