November 05 – DMEM Seminar: Shedding new light on G protein-coupled receptors: from membrane nanodomains to intracrine signalling with Davide Calebiro

November 5 at 4:00 PM

The seminar will take place at the Aula Magna of the LITA building (Via Cervi, 93 – Segrate).

Prof. Davide Calebiro is Chair of Molecular Endocrinology, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, and Head of the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science (MSS) at the University of Birmingham. He is also Co-Director of the Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE), a joint interdisciplinary research centre of the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.

Davide studied Medicine in Milan and Stockholm and obtained a PhD in Molecular Medicine and a Clinical Specialisation in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease from the University of Milan. Between 2009 and 2017, he was a Group Leader at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Rudolf Virchow Center of the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Using single-molecule microscopy and other innovative approaches, Davide’s team has revealed several important mechanisms that allow GPCRs to produce efficient and specific biological responses with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. Davide’s work has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PLoS Biology, PNAS, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, attracting several prizes and awards. He has served on multiple panels and committees, including the ENDO Annual Meeting Steering Committee and the MRC Molecular & Cellular Medicine Board.