Università degli Studi di Trento
Last Update: March 04, 2020
University Professors in Experimental Biology (BIO/13)
PROFESSOR
POSITION
AIBG
QUATTRONE Alessandro – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PO
AIBG Member
CONTI Luciano – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PA
AIBG Member
CUSANELLI Emilio – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PA
AIBG Member
DENTI Michela Alessandra – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PA
AIBG Member
MIONE Maria Caterina – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PO
AIBG Member
BASSO Manuela – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PA
AIBG Member
D’AGOSTINO Vito Giuseppe – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
PA
AIBG Member
PO (Professore Ordinario / Full professor)
PA (Professore Associato / Associate Professor)
RTI (Ricercatore a Tempo Indeterminato / Assistant Professor)
RTD-A (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Junior / Fixed-term Junior Assistant Professor)
RTD-B (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Senior / Fixed-term Senior Assistant Professor)
Fellows in Experimental Biology (BIO/13)
FELLOW
POSITION
AIBG
ASSUNCAO CARREIRA Ágata Sofia – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
A
CORSI Jessica – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
D
FABBIANO Fabrizio – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
D
GURRIERI Elena – Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology – CIBIO
D
A (Assegnista di Ricerca / Post-Doctoral Fellow)
D (Dottorando / PhD Student)
B (Borsista / Fellow)
T (Tutor)
Research
Laboratory of Transcriptional Neurobiology
Manuela BASSO
Angela Bonadiman
Deborah Ferrara
Alice Migazzi
Research Themes
- TRANSCRIPTIONAL NEUROBIOLOGY
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) as meditor of (mis)communication in neurodegenerative diseases. Study of the molecular mechanisms leading to toxic loading of protein cargos in EVs and validation in human samples (biofluids).
Keywords: Extracellular vesicles, motor neuron, glia, biomarkers, patient profiling
Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer Genomics
Fulvio CHIACCHIERA
D’Ambrosio Alessandro (PhD student)
Research Themes
- STEM CELLS AND CANCER GENOMICS
Stem cells and cancer epigenetics.
Keywords: epigenetics, cancer, stem cells, polycomb, SWI/SNF, transcription, cell identity
Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology
Luciano CONTI
Research Themes
- STEM CELL BIOLOGY
Mechanisms of stem cells differentiation into defined neuronal populations. Relevant stem cell-based models of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases to study molecular bases of these diseases and for development of new potential therapeutics.
Keywords: stem cells, neurons, neural stem cells, hiPSCs, neurodevelopment, disease modelling, neurodevelopmental diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, schizophrenia
Laboratory of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Emilio CUSANELLI
Katarina Jurikova (postdoc)
Nicole Bettin (PhD student)
Research Themes
- CELL BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
Roles of the telomeric long noncoding RNA TERRA in telomere biology and genome stability
Keywords: Telomere, noncoding RNA, TERRA, Telomerase, Cancer, live cell imaging
Laboratory of Biotechnology and Nanomedicine
Vito Giuseppe D’AGOSTINO
Jessica Corsi (PhD student)
Fabrizio Fabbiano (PhD student)
Elena Gurrieri (PhD student)
Research Themes
- BIOTECHNOLOGY AND NANOMEDICINE
Extracellular vesicles as potential mechanism of disease spreading in oncological as well as neurodegenerative disorders. RNA and proteins as biomarkers from liquid biopsies using ultrasensitive detection methods.
Keywords: Extracellular vesicles, Nickel-Based Isolation (NBI), RNA, droplet PCR, alpha technology, liquid biopsy.
Laboratory of RNA Biology and Biotechnology
Michela A. DENTI
Ilaria Brentari (PhD student)
Research Themes
- RNA BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
microRNAs as gene regulators and their involvement in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and heart diseases. Circulating microRNAs as disease biomarkers. RNA Therapeutics: siRNAs, chimeric RNAs and AONs for the cure of neurodegenerative and retinal diseases.
Keywords: microRNAs, RNA splicing, RNA therapeutics, exon skipping, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, biomarkers
Laboratory of Cell Division
Luca FAVA
Giovanni Magnani
Alessia Mattivi
Matteo Burigotto (PhD student)
Iva Georgieva Dzhilyanova
Research Themes
- CELL DIVISION
Mechanisms safeguarding the mitotic fidelity in human somatic cells and stress signalling pathways activated upon mitotic errors.
Keywords: Cell Division, Cytokinesis Failure, Chromosome Missegregation, Apoptosis, Centrosome, PIDDosome
Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Biology
Maria Caterina MIONE
Research Themes
- EXPERIMENTAL CANCER BIOLOGY
Cancer cell biology using zebrafish models of melanoma, glioblastoma, myeloid leukemia.
Keywords: Telomere maintenance, ALT, tumor associated inflammation, uveal melanoma, xeno-transplantation, extracellular vesicles in cancer, DNA/RNA sensing pathway, cancer metabolism
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Ophthalmology
Lucia POGGI
Research Themes
- MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR OPHTHALMOLOGY
Mechanisms of asymmetrical/asymmetrical cell divisions and cell differentiation during ocular tissue’s development. Cell biology and in vivo imaging of the regenerative zebrafish retina as model for human eye diseases.
Keywords: Asymmetric cell division, retina, Müller glial cells, ocular stem cells, Zebrafish, regeneration
Laboratory of Translational Genomics
Alessandro QUATTRONE
Chiara Ambrosini, PhD student
Veronica Bonazza, postdoctoral fellow
Francesca Broso, PhD student
Simona Cocchi, PhD student
Sara Longhi, postdoctoral fellow
Giulia Montuori, PhD student
Michela Notarangelo, PhD student
Gianluca Ricci, postdoctoral fellow
Denise Sighel, PhD student
Alessia Soldano, postdoctoral fellow
Research Themes
- TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS
Our work ranges from systems-level analysis of translation networks to their mechanistic dissection in mammalian cells, and to the causative role of their derangement in cancer and neurodegeneration
Keywords: translatome, epitranscriptome, motorneuron diseases, neuroblastoma
Laboratory of Brain Disorders and Cancer
Luca TIBERI
Aiello Giuseppe (PhD student)
Anderle Marica (PhD student)
Ballabio Claudio (PhD student)
Research Themes
- LABORATORY OF BRAIN DISORDERS AND CANCER
Our research focuses on using human organoids to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying cancer development. More importantly, the creation of a specific cancer organoids could be useful to model cancer taking into consideration its molecular stratification.
Keywords: Organoids, Brain Cancer, Patient-specific
Teaching
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