Department of Neurosciences "Rita Levi Montalcini"

Research topics

During my years as first a biotechnology student and later a neurobiology student at Sapienza University of Rome, I started working in prof. Andrea Mele's Lab of psychobiology and psychopharmacology. This first experience helped me falling in love with the neurobiology of memory and I had the opportunity to learn a lot of experimental techniques and to develop with prof. Arianna Rinaldi, two projects for my bachelor and master thesis. From Sapienza University, I moved to Santa Lucia Foundation, in Rome, where I worked on an animal model of autism restricted to female gender: the AMBRA mouse. Thanks to Prof. Martine Ammassari and Doctor Annabella Pignataro I learned how to characterize a pathological animal model and I improved my skills in the lab, this drove me to look for a PhD program in which I would have offered my skills but also increase them, so now I'm in Turin University. My research activity is mainly studying memories of threatening events on the rat model, taking advance of behavioral, pharmacological and molecular approaches. I'm learning new techniques especially to visualize single neurons activity at the molecular level and I'm really enjoying the experience.

26-29/09/2019 I attended the annual SINS meeting in Perugia presenting a poster titled "Cellular mechanism of time-dependent fear generalization"

11-12/12/2019 I attended the course "Neuroscience of Social Behavior" by prof. Olga Dal Monte

19/02/2020 I attended the event "DATA REPORT 2020 Cycle XXXIV - end of 1st year"

25-26/02/2020 I accomplished the online course on health and safety while working.

10/04/2020 I attended the webinar "Corticofugal feedback circuits in the mouse vomeronasal system" by Livio Oboti from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

14/04/2020 I attended the online course "Introduction to ImageJ/Fiji" by Marta Gai from Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC)

15/04/2020 I attended the webinar "Neuron-glia metabolic coupling: relevance for plasticity and neuroprotection" by Pierre Magistretti from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

20/04/2020 I attended the webinar "Introduction to hypotesis testing" by Serena Martire from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

22/04/2020 I attended the webinar "Supporting healthy ageing with information and communication technology and artificial intelligence" by professor Alessandro Vercelli from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO) and Neuroscience Department "Rita Levi Montalcini" UniTo

24/04/2020 I attended the webinar "Brain oxysterols in Alzheimer’s disease: could they contribute to neuronal damage by inducing astrocyte reactivity?" by Erica Staurenghi from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

27-28/04/2020 I attended the online convention "La percezione pubblica della scienza: i giovani ricercatori di fronte a temi scientifici di forte interesse pubblico, politico e mediatico" organized by University of Milan

04/05/2020 I attended the webinar "Correlation and linear regression" by Serena Martire from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

06/05/2020 I attended the webinar "Alcoholism and the insular cortex: insights from neuroimaging" by Angelo Bifone from Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO)

28/05/2020 I attended at Antonia Gurgone's PhD final dissertation.

28-29/05/2020 I attended the online convention "Covid-19: come si insegue e sconfigge un virus" organized by University of Milan