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Melbourne, Australia

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia is one of the world’s leading cancer research, education and treatment centres globally and is Australia’s only public hospital solely dedicated to people affected by cancer. I am responsible for:● Management and execution of scientific projects investigating the immunological response of T cells in metastatic melanoma● Leading a 20-people interdisciplinary effort to collect and analyse fresh tissue melanoma samples, coordinating nurses, support staff (Melanoma Research Victoria), surgeons, pathologists, bioinformaticians and researchers● Collaborating nationally with lead scientist in the field● Writing research papers (co-author of 2 methods book chapters on mass cytometry and single cells RNA sequencing coming out soon in Springer Nature’s “Melanoma-Methods and protocols”, 1 first-author manuscript in preparation for Cancer Cell Biology, co-author of 2 manuscripts under review )● Supervision of a fulltime research assistant and students: an honours student and an undergraduate summer student for 2020, 9 weeks-international student from Nanjin University as part of the InSPIRE program (2019). ● Writing of NHMRC and Cancer Council Victoria grant proposals (2 in 2019, 2 in 2020)● Oral presentation of scientific research findings at 5 internal meetings and 2 national conferences, consumer advocates and philantropists● Experimental skills: Phenotypic characterization and immune function of human T cells via flow and mass cytometry; sterile cell culture; sample preparation for single cell RNA and TCR sequencing● Data analysis of the experiments using statistical software for biologist (GraphPad Prism)● Targeted RNA sequencing analysis (Nanostring)

Parkville, Melbourne, Australia

Goals I have achieved:● 7 original peer-reviewed publications in top immunology journals, 4 of which as first author. ● One of the publications revealed the under investigated role of the nose in fighting influenza infection and it was advertised in the media by 5 newspaper articles● I conducted two radio interviews regarding one of the scientific articles we published.● I won two best oral presentation awards at national immunological conferences.● two grants: one Early Career Grant from the University of Melbourne and a Early Career Researcher collaborative grant by the School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, in collaboration with other 2 postdoctoral sciences (10K AUD) in 2018. ● a travel grant from the philanthropic CASS foundation to participate to an international conference in Texas.I am responsible for:● Organization and planning of scientific experiments for several research projects investigating immunological response to influenza infection, mainly development and functionality of CD8 cytotoxic T cells● Data analysis of the experiments, using flow cytometry software FlowJo and statistical software for biologist (GraphPad Prism)● Presentation of scientific research findings at internal meetings, national and international scientific conferences● Writing of grant proposals● Co-supervision of a national and an international master student and an international PhD student (6 mo), teaching appropriate laboratory techniques and practise● Execution of scientific experiments, using in vivo animal model for influenza infection, immunological assays (T cells function), virology techniques, sterile cell culture and human samples (CD8 T cells function). ● Performing and analysing TCR sequencing.

The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

I investigated the link between diet, obesity and allergy. The work got published in 2016 in PlosOne and it was showcased in the Central Clinical School blog. http://ccsmonash.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/thinking-outside-box-pays-dividends-for.htmlI co-supervised an international honours student.

Stockholm, Sweden

I continued the projects initiated during my PhD, publishing two of them.I have taught immunological techniques to PhD students and fellow postdocs.

Stockholm

PhD student in Immunology, at division of Medical Inflammation Research.I was responsible for different projects investigating the role of reactive oxidative species in chronic inflammation, as autoimmune diseases and cancer, and during bacterial infections. I worked on understand the central role of a cell population and its production of reactive oxygen species. I published 4 papers.I was responsible for the implementation and development of several research projects, which included designing and conducting experiments, analysing the raw data, presenting the data to my peers in forms of oral presentations and written papers.I've become very skilled in immunological techniques, in particular flow cytometry (oxidative burst assay, intracellular and extracellular protein detection), antigen presentation assay, beads-based cell sorting.Molecular biology techniques, as western blots, PCR, cloning.I've attended several post graduate courses covering scientific communication and redox balance.

PhD student at Medical Inflammation Research laboratory in Lund University.I was responsible for the implementation and development of several research projects, including designing and conducting experiments, analysing the raw data, presenting the data to my peers in forms of oral presentations and written papers. My research was focused on understudying the development of autoimmune diseases using animal models, mainly rheumatoid Arthritis and multiple sclerosis.I have attended several postgraduate courses, including statistics and ethics, and supervised undergraduate students in practical classes.

Master Degree Student in Immunology laboratory at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Speciality: basic immunological research on dendritic cells and their functionsIn vivo and in vitro immunological techniques: breeding, screening and use of transgenic mouse strains, cell culture, flow cytometry,Biotechnological techniques: cloning

Phd, Immunology

Activities and Societies: Medical students unionI was responsible for the implementation and development of several research projects. I.

Phd Student, Immunology

Activities and Societies: Sydskanska nationI started my PhD at Lund University at the division of Medical Inflammation Research. I've.

M.Sc., Industrial Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: University courses in cell biology, immunology, organic chemistry, bioinformatics.

Maturitá Scientifica, Scientific Subjects