Florence, Tuscany, Italy
My working experience in these fields started by attending Prof. Salvetti's Lab. at the University of Rome La Sapienza during the studies for Biotechnology MD, where I investigated the role of EBV and miR in Multiple Sclerosis through molecular biology approaches. After my MD in Medical Biotechnology in March 2015, I shifted my interests toward Bioinformatics to gain multidisciplinary skills. During my Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD course (joint PhD program of University of Florence, Pisa and Siena), I collaborated on research projects based on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology approaches. These projects were focused on studying cancer microenvironment and cancer metabolism through transcriptomic analyses and by metabolic mathematical models. In 2017, I spent six months in Prof. Palsson Lab. of the Bioengineering Department of UCSD. At UCSD I collaborated in the development of the algorithm and toolbox for Matlab that is presented in the paper "Functional pathways for metabolic network-based expression analysis: the MetPath algorithm", submitted for publication. Finally, applying the skills acquired during these years in data analysis and in Systems Biology, including the toolbox developed at UCSD, I completed my PhD thesis "Tumor Microenvironment: Bioinformatics and System Biology Approaches" in November 2018, under the tuition of Dr. M. Ramazzotti's group at the University of Florence.
PostDoc at Department of Information Engineering University of Florence Florence Italy
I completed my PhD thesis "Tumor Microenvironment: Bioinformatics and System Biology Approaches" in November 2018, under the tuition of M. Ramazzotti's group at the University of Florence.
I spent six months in Palsson Laboratory of the Bioengineering Department of UCSD. During my stay at UCSD I collaborated in the development of the algorithm and toolbox for Matlab that is presented in the paper "Functional pathways formetabolic network-based expression analysis: the MetPath algorithm", submitted for publication.