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DBC News is a monthly publication that seeks to inform first and foremost faculty members, researchers and students. It also reaches out to a wider community - Department of Computational Biology partners, visiting faculty and friends.
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Alongside the Department's website it is a complementary means of keeping abreast of the Department's rich and diversified scientific activities - visiting faculty, exceptional conferences, publications, awards, appointments, calls for papers and research, ...
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The whole DBC extends the warmest of welcomes to new members.
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I am a physicist deeply fascinated by the study of complex biological systems.
I did my Master's degree in Physics of complex systems (University of Turin), where I had the opportunity to contribute to different projects, from E.coli's growth to gene expression networks in cancer cells.
After my Master, I did a computational biology internship (LCQB, Sorbonne University) to work on a genome-scale analysis of horizontal gene insertion in E.coli.
During my PhD (LBPA, Ens-Paris Saclay), I started to do experiments by myself. In particular, I developed a microfluidic setup to characterise a fundamental E.coli cell cycle oscillator. To combine these experiments with advanced computational approaches, I joined a laboratory of Statistical Physics (SPCG, IFOM-Milan) for the whole last year of my PhD.
This work has fueled my passion for innovative research tools. In these years, I also worked as a freelancer consultant for a start-up that promotes collaboration between laboratories by identifying the best communities of designers and users for innovative research tools.
In January, I was supposed to join Alma Dal Co's group as a postdoc to work on an innovative project to study insulin-secreting organoid formation to improve the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
I shared many interests with Alma and looked forward to working with her and her beautiful group. Even if, unfortunately, this is not happening anymore, her positivity, curiosity and passion for science (and life) will inspire me forever.
Recently, I had the great opportunity to join Sven Bergmann's group to work on the same project. Combining experiments with mathematical modelling, we aim to understand how the properties of the cells can be modulated to increase the functionality of these insulin-secreting organoids.
In my free time, I love being in nature and enjoying activities such as rock climbing, snowboarding, rowing and surfing. I also have a boating license, which I mostly use to explore beautiful unknown places.
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