Postdoctoral Researcher, Roma

Doctorate in Spain, 2019

Born in Rome in 1993, is a "la Caixa" research fellow at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, where she works as a PhD student in Molecular Biology, with a focus on RNA modifications.  She obtains her Bachelor degree in 2015 at Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the detection of microRNAs in serum as biomarkers of colo-rectal cancer. In the same University, she obtains her Master Degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology with a thesis on RNA methylation in leukemia. During her master, she organizes a short stay as visiting student in the Epitranscriptomics lab at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), where she works on RNA methylation in yeast. In 2018 she joins the lab of Eva Maria Novoa at CRG for an internship in Bioinformatics. She obtained her PhD in the same lab with a thesis on the detection and functional characterization of RNA modifications in neurons, involving both experimental and computational experience.  Besides having worked on RNA research for the last five years, she is also passionate of science dissemination and she has experience in informal education, bioinformatics course teaching and science dissemination.