The Italian Scientific Community in Canada (CSIC)- section of Quebec -, in partnership with the Italian Embassy, and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, organizes an evening of Scientific dissemination and meeting with the public to celebrate the “Day of Italian Research in the World“. The event will take place on May 3rd at the Italian Institute of Culture of Montreal )1200 Avenue du Docteur-Penfield, Montreal) from 6pm to 8pm. The program provides for presentations in English of a descriptive nature:
- Energy and Society: What Kind of Energy for the Future of Humanity (Prof. Federico Rosei, INRS);
- Personalized medicine for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Prof. Stefano Stifani, McGill University;
- Gender inequalities in academia and research (Prof. Chiara Piazzesi, UQAM)
The presentations will be preceded by three short speeches by Italian PhD students or working with Italian professors:
- Martina D’Antoni (McGill) – Exploring the role of the cerebellum in the context of Fragile-X Syndrome;
- Stefania Sciara (INRS) – Everyday-life quantum computers: dream or reality?
- Guillaume Latour (Université du Québec à Montréal) – Gendering in tennis: what is coaches’ role in implementing a masculine and a feminine way of playing?
The CSIC will illustrate the activity planned for the second quarter of 2018. Refreshments will be offered to all participants..
Federico Rosei has held the Canada Research Chair (Junior) in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials between 2003 and 2013. He is Professor and Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Université du Québec, Varennes (QC) Canada. Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage and since May 2016 he also holds the Canada Research Chair (Senior) in Nanostructured Materials. He received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively.
Dr. Stefano Stifani is a James McGill Professor in the Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Anatomy & Cell Biology at McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Dr. Stifani serves as Associate Director of Research at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University and is an elected member of the McGill University Senate. Dr. Stifani is the Secretary-General of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, and he currently acts as Scientific Officer of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Developmental Biology Committee.
Chiara Piazzesi, PhD, is professor of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research field spans from the sociology of intimacy to sociological theory, the study of new media, gender studies and social philosophy. Among her most recent publications: Vers une sociologie de l’intimité (Paris, Hermann 2017); Nietzsche (Roma, Carocci 2015); issue 46, 2014 of Sociologie et sociétés on Formes d’intimité et couples amoureux.
Martina D’Antoni was born in Sicily, Italy, where she completed her BSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Palermo. During her undergraduate studies she spent a year of Erasmus exchange at the University of Greenwich (London, UK), where she expanded her practical laboratory knowledge. She then did a MSc in Neuroscience at University College London (UK), where she stayed for another year working as a Research Assistant. She studied ion channel molecular physiology and their role in regulating excitability and firing properties of hippocampal neurons, by using patch-clamp electrophysiology in combination with selective pharmacology. Martina moved to Montreal in January 2017, when she joined the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University. She is currently a PhD student at the Bellini Life Science Complex, studying the role of glutamate receptors in the cerebellar circuitry and how their function is affected in the context of Fragile-X Syndrome.
Stefania Sciara is currently a PhD student at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes (QC), where she started her doctorate in February 2016. She is a theoretical physicist, who completed her undergraduate studies at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, where she got her Master degree cum laude in Physics in October 2015. She focused her academic education on quantum mechanics, and she is now dedicating her doctorate to quantum optics, especially investigating complex states of photons (quantized states of light) from both theoretical and experimental points of view. The overall goal of her research is to exploit quantum optics to develop technologies that are based on quantum mechanics and that could be made accessible to every-day life.
Guillaume Latour was born in Montreal. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in history at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). During his undergraduate studies he was also a tennis coach, working almost full time which he started doing right after he finished his undergraduate studies. In total, he coached for 8 years, 4 years while he was studying and 4 years full time. After his stint in tennis, he went back to UQAM this time to earn a Master’s degree in Sociology under the supervision of Chiara Piazzesi. He is currently a PhD student in sociology, under the supervision of Chiara Piazzesi (Sociology, UQAM, Montreal) and Charlene Weaving (Human Kinetics, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia) and is working on tennis coaches’ role in the gendering of athletes. More specifically, he focuses on coaches’ role in the implementation of a masculine and a feminine way of playing tennis.
“Every year, on the 15th of April – the date of Leonardo Da Vinci’s birth -, the Ministry of Education, University and Research, in collaboration with MAECI and the Ministry of Health, promote the Italian Research Day in the World, that aims to promote the value of Italian scientific and technological research conducted in Italy and abroad”
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