Bicocca Università degli studi di Milano
Last Update: September 17, 2019
University Professors in Experimental Biology (BIO/13)
PROFESSOR
POSITION
AIBG
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
Cristiana Barone – Dip. di Medicina e Chirurgia
A
Riccardo Gamberale – Dip. di Medicina e Chirurgia
D
Filipa Timoteo Ferreira – Dip. di Medicina e Chirurgia
D
Elisa Gnodi– Dip. di Medicina e Chirurgia
D
Manuela Vitulo– Dip. di Medicina e Chirurgia
D
A (Assegnista di Ricerca / Post-Doctoral Fellow)
D (Dottorando / PhD Student)
B (Borsista / Fellow)
T (Tutor)
Research
Research Group 1
Romina Combi
Research Themes
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying sleep disorders and neurodegeneration: the role of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and HPA axis molecules.
Keywords: sleep disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, HPA axis, nAChRs.
Research Group 2
Silvia Brunelli
Filipa Timoteo Ferreira
Riccardo Gamberale
Research Themes
- Molecular and cellular players in physiological and pathological muscle regeneration: crosstalk between muscle, endothelial progenitors and macrophages.
Keywords: Endothelial progenitors, innate immunity, fibrodysplasia ossificans Progressiva, fibrosi, muscle regeneration.
Research Group 3
Donatella Barisani
Research Themes
- Effect of food nanoparticles on the pathogenesis of celiac disease; long non-coding RNA expression in the intestine.
Keywords: nanoparticles; lncRNAs; gene expression; celiac disease.
Research Group 4
Daniela Ferrari
Angelo Vescovi
Research Themes
- Human Neural Stem Cells (hNSCs) therapies applied to neurodegenerative diseases: disease modeling with iPS-derived hNSCs, safety and efficacy studies in in vivo models and clinical trials.
Keywords: human neural stem cells, stem cells, neurodegenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Research Group 5
Luca Mologni
Research Themes
- Analysis of drug resistance mechanisms in cancer.
Keywords: tyrosine kinase; lymphoma; non-small cell lung cancer; targeted therapy; drug resistance.
Research Group 6
Emanuele Azzoni
Raffaella Meneveri
Cristina D’Orlando (Technician)
Cristiana Barone
Research Themes
- Developmental biology of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
- In vivo modeling of pediatric leukemias
Keywords: mouse, hematopoiesis, embryo, leukemia, hematopoietic stem cells, erythro-myeloid progenitors
Research Group 7
Cristina D’Orlando (Technician)
Raffaella Meneveri
Research Themes
- Post-genomic approaches to decipher the pathogenesis of Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD).
Keywords: Muscle cells, FSHD, hematopoiesis, embryo, acute myeloid leukemia, cell of origin, transcriptomics.
Teaching
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