11 June 2025
8.00 Registration
Welcome and Opening of the Congress
9.15 Welcome by Prof. Alceo Macchioni, Director of the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia
9.25 Welcome by Prof. Gaetano Martino, Director of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia
9.35 Welcome by Prof. Emidio Albertini, Coordinator of PhD Course in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science and Biotechnology, University of Perugia
9.45 Welcome by Prof. Manuela Rebora, Coordinator of PhD Course in Biological and Natural Sciences, University of Perugia
10.00 Damia Barcelo - Emerging contaminants and microplastics: risks and challenges for water quality and food under water scarcity.
Department of Chemistry, and Physics, University of Almeria, Spain
10.30Monia Renzi - The role of ecotoxicological analysis to support environmental protection, human health, and production chains.
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, University of Trieste, Italy
11.00-11.30 BREAK
11.30Riccardo Guarino - Land use change and loss of biodiversity
Dipartimento STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Italy
12.00Simona Bonelli - Decline of butterflies and other pollinators and the challenge of the 2030 European target
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, University of Torino, Italy
12.30-15.30LUNCH
15.30Priscilla Farina - Centuries of botanicals in arthropod pest control, but something is still missing
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Italy
16.00Ivan Marchesini - Modelling and forecasting landslides occurrence at regional/national scale
CNR, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Perugia, Italy
16.30Enrico Brugnoli - Climate change and the carbon cycle: implications for agriculture and forest ecosystems
CNR, Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri - IRET, Porano (TR), Italy
17.00Ingrid Garbus - Non-coding RNAs in Environmental Stress Responses
CERZOS/CONICET, Argentina
12 June 2025
9.00 Luis Pardo - Role of ion channels in cancer
Oncophysiology Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, City Campus, Göttingen, Germany
9.30Elvio Lepri - Animals as sentinels for environmental health: the role of veterinary oncology
Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, University of Perugia, Italy
10.00Cristian Gallo - Leveraging satellite data and machine learning for agricultural and environmental insights
CONICET Argentina
10.30Andrea Rosati - Artificial Intelligence in Livestock Farming
European Federation of Animal Science – EAAP, Rome, Italy
11.00-11.30 BREAK
11.30Sara Zenoni -Genome editing confers disease resistance in grapevine for a healthier agriculture
Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Italy
12.00Marco Verani -Wastewater reuse: balancing sustainability and human health risks
Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Virology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy
12.30-15.30LUNCH
Tavola rotonda
Produzione e sostenibilità ambientale: un binomio compatibile?
Massimiliano Trevisan, moderatore
Costanza Spera, Assessore alle politiche sociali del Comune di Perugia
David Grohmann, Assessore all'Ambiente e Rigenerazione Urbana del Comune di Perugia
Matteo Minelli, Birrificio Flea
Valentina Dugo, Consorzio AVO, Umbria biodiversity
Margherita Tiradritti Aboca S.p.A.
Gabriele Cruciani, Delegato terza missione Università di Perugia
Andrea Sisti, Presidente autorità Umbra Rifiuti e Idrico (AURI)