Programme
Integrating cutting-edge research on the human genome, microbiome, and environmental factors to build a resilient framework for a healthier future and a sustainable planet.
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2026
13:30 – 14:00 | Welcome and registration of participants
14:00 – 14:10 | INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS
Simona Tondelli — Deputy Rector
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
14:10 – 15:40 | Session I: Mapping the Multifaceted Exposome
Session Chair: Tullia Gallina Toschi — Unibo, DISTAL
14:15 – 14:40 | OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE — Remote connection
Cathrine Thomsen — Department Director at the Department of Food Safety at NIPH
The chemical exposome and relevance for public health
14:45 – 15:10 | EUROPEAN CLUSTERS — from the ENLIGHTENme to the eMOTIONAL CITIES project
Bruno Miranda — University of Lisbon
From Brain to City: How Environmental Neuroscience is Shaping Healthier Urban Futures
15:15 – 15:40 | EUROPEAN CLUSTERS — from the TRIGGER to the CATALYSE project
Francesca de’ Donato — Department of Epidemiology ASL Roma 1, Italy
Promoting health through climate change adaptation and mitigation actions, results from the Catalyse project
15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break & Networking
16:15 – 17:10 | FOCUS ON THE EUROPEAN PROJECT: ORCHESTRA — Bologna Unit
16: 15 – 16:20 | Introduction: Maddalena Giannella — Unibo, DIMEC
16:20 – 16:35 | Alessandro Mattiaccio — IRCCS Pol. S. Orsola
Covid19: looking into the nuclear genome
16:35 – 16:50 | Alessia Fiorentino — IRCCS ISNB
Covid19: looking into the mitochondrial genome
16:50 – 17:05 | Silvia Turroni — Unibo, FABIT
Covid 19: looking into the microbiome
17:10 – 17:40 | FLASH TALKS SESSION
Igniting the research engine: leveraging the molecular basis for sustainable solutions within the Horizon Europe 2027 challenge
Session Chair: Claudia Zanna — Unibo, DIBINEM
17:15 – 17:21 | Francesca Maffei et al. — Unibo, QUVI
Multi-methodology approach to assess the impact of the interplay between climate change and the exposome on human health
17:21 – 17:27 | Matilde Tura et al. — Unibo, DISTAL
Can climate-driven changes in food systems influence the human exposome and the related health outcomes?
17:27 – 17:33 | Stefania D'Adamo — Unibo, DIBINEM
Looking at the Exposome beyond gene expression
17:33 – 17:39 | Francesco Scalone — Unibo, STAT
Integrating Climate Exposures and Demographic Microdata: A Long-Term Perspective on the Human Exposome
17:39 – 17:45 | Cristiana Caliceti — Unibo, DIBINEM
Biomarkers and biosensing technologies for monitoring climate-driven alterations of the human nutritional exposome
18:00 – 19:00 | Welcome Cocktail & Networking — Palazzo Hercolani
| THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2026
09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome and registration of participants
09:30 – 11:15 | Session II: Solutions for a Healthy Planet – Bioeconomy and Oncology
Session Chair: Francesca Agostini — Unibo, PSI
09:35 – 10:00 | BIOECONOMY
Davide Viaggi — Unibo, DISTAL
Bioeconomy: from meta-sector to systemic societal transformation
10:05 – 11.15 | THE EXPOSOME IN ONCOLOGY
Session Chair: Maria Abbondanza Pantaleo — Unibo, DIMEC
10:10 - 10:40| Gianluca Severi — Inserm Research Director, Gustave
Roussy, France and University of Florence
The concept of exposome and its role in cancer and other major chronic
diseases
10:45 – 11:15 | Giulio Ferrero — University of Turin
Fecal miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers of environmental exposure
and colorectal cancer
11:30 – 12:15 | Late Morning Coffee Break
12:20 – 13:00 | FINAL ROUND TABLE
Moderator: Valerio Carelli — Director of the AHP Center, Unibo, DIBINEM
Exposome: Integrating Bioeconomy, Society, and Health. Interdisciplinary synthesis and perspectives for Horizon Europe 2027
13:00 | CLOSING REMARKS
Valerio Carelli — Director of the AHP Center, Unibo, DIBINEM