8/03 - 1/08 : In this period I work in the Fishell as a Ph.D. student. I was involved in the study of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway in telencephalic stem cells maintenance, in perinatal and adult mice. In particular I focused in understanding whether Hh is required for establishing the subventricular (SVZ) stem cell niche and/or maintaining neurogenesis in this germinal center throughout adulthood. The title of my thesis was: "Analysis of the requirement for Hedgehog signaling in perinatal and adult SVZ stem cell niche within the mouse telencephalon".
Previous Training
10/01-7/02 - Junior research fellow in molecular and cell biology in the Laboratories of the Department of Experimental Oncology at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. Here I studied the function of candidate kinase proteins involved in cancer, previously selected by expression analysis in matched normal and tumor tissue array by In Situ Hybridization.
9/96-7/01 - Degree obtained in Medical Biotechnology at "Università Statale di Milano", Italy. Thesis title: "Identification of new genes involved in acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia pathogenesis, using macro-arrays".
Here I was involved in the identification of new genes involved in acute lymphoblastic leukemia pathogenesis, I analyzed the differential expression of several unknown genes selected from a human c-DNA library of thymus.
