Education
2003: Pharmacy Degree (110 cum laude), Carlo Bo Urbino University.
2008: PhD in "Mechanisms of cell regulation: morpho-functional and evolutionary features", University of Urbino. Thesis: “Cellular and subcellular localization of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger protein isoforms, NCX1, NCX2, and NCX3 in cerebral cortex and hippocampus of adult rat ”
2009-2020 Research Fellowships (Human Anatomy, BIO 16), Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Carlo Bo Urbino University
2017: National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Human Anatomy (05/H1)
Teaching activity
2011-2019: integrative teaching charge of Human Anatomy in the School of Sport, Health and Physical Exercise, of Urbino University.
2017-2021: Adjunct professor of Human Anatomy in the First cycle degree programme in Nursing, Ravenna Campus, Bologna University
2019-2021: Adjunct professor of Human Anatomy in the First cycle degree programme in Nursing, Rimini Campus, Bologna University
2019-2021: Adjunct professor of Anatomy of Movement and Anthropometry in the School of Sport, Health and Physical Exercise, Urbino University.
2020: Lecturer in the PhD Course in Biomolecular and Health Sciences, Urbino University
Membership, Scientific Societies
She is member of the Italian Societies of Anatomy and Histology (SIAI), of Histochemistry (SII), of Microscopical Sciences (SISM), of Myology (IIM) and of European Microscopy Society (EMS).
Travel Grants and Fellowships
- BEST POSTER PRIZE, 48th Symposium of Society for Histochemistry 2006, Stresa, Italy.
- SISM prize and EMS travel grant: 9th Multinational Congress on Microscopy MCM 2009 svoltosi a Graz (Austria)
- Travel grant: Microscopy Conference MC2013, Regensburg,Germany
- SISM prize and EMS travel grant: 12th Multinational Congress on Microscopy 2015, Eger, Ungary
- SISM prize: 13th Multinational Congress on Microscopy MCM2017, Rovigno,Croatia
- Mention : 71th Congress of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, Taormina 2017, Italy
- Travel award: 38° Congress SII, 2019, Ancona, Italy
- SISM prize and EMS travel grant: 14th Multinational Congress on Microscopy MCM2019, Belgrado, Serbian.
Editorial collaborations
Lead guest editor of the Special Issue on “Oxidative stress modulation in skeletal muscle disorders: role of nutrition” in the Journal of Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2019, Q1.
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Nutrition and Regulation of Muscle Protein Synthesis” , Nutrients, 2022-2023, Q1
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on "Involvement of Oxidative Stress Signalling Pathways in Cell Death", Biomolecules, Q1
Topic Editor of Biomolecules, Q1
She is part of Editorial Board of "Nutrients", Q1
Congress activities
Member of the Organizing Commitee of different workshops and meeting, in 2003 of the workshop "Cell surface: from molecules to shape", in 2006 of the Workshop "Skeletal muscle fiber: morpho-functional features and technical approaches" in 2011 of the “10th Multinational Congress on Microscopy”, in June 2012 of XXII Annual Meeting of Ultratructural Pathology and in December 2012 of the Workshop “Confocal Microscopy in the Study of Cytoskeleton” Urbino University.
Member of the Scientif Commetee of the 74th National Congress of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, 2021, Bologna , Italy
She attended different courses, workshops and national and international meetings as author and invited speaker.
Scientific Activity
Cell death is the most important topic of her research, and she studies it in a number of cell systems, with multiple morphological,biochemical and molecular approaches.
Author of 151 scientific publications among which 53 full papers on peer-reviewed journals
