VENERDÌ 29 AGOSTO ORE 18:30
Al Festival “Recap & Synthesis” verrà a trovarci la Professoressa Emanuale Torelli che farà una presentazione dal titolo “The fascinating world of nanobiotechnology: recent advances and future perspective”
Un’occasione rara, da sfruttare, per capire molto su queste nuove tecnologie.
La professoressa Torelli ha una lunga esperienza di laboratorio e di insegnamento (sotto una parte del suo curriculum dal quale si può dedurre i campi di studio e su cosa verterà la presentazione).
Anche se la presentazione sarà in inglese, bisogna approfittare di questa occasione, se non altro per rinverdire questa lingua che è il mezzo principe di diffusione delle scienze.
Cosa fa Emanuela Torelli
My research expertise is at the interface between nano-biotechnology, synthetic biology and computer science. My research activities are based at the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystem (ICOS2) wet lab, where I collaborate extensively with computer scientists. In a multidisciplinary perspective, I’m deeply intrigue in exploring nucleic acids origami nanostructures tailored to specific applications, from biosensing to in vivo self-assembly and delivery of therapeutic messenger RNA (development of novel cargo packaging systems). Since recently, I’m also focused on the fascinating creation of novel green-by-design DNA data storage systems (storing information using DNA).
Background
Emanuela Torelli received her PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Udine, Italy. From 2009 to 2015 she was research assistant, scientist, student tutor and exam committee member at the University of Udine, Italy, where she received the onorary fellow in ‘Mycology’ and ‘Food protection against microorganisms’. She has taught laboratory-project courses and seminars in different topics, and she received the national academic qualification as associate professor from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
Having collaborated extensively with academics of different Departments, she believe in the importance of thinking beyond narrow academic disciplines and she is drawn to the multidisciplinary approach to research. She is an experienced researcher in the field of biotechnology and synthetic biology, and her recent research is mainly focused on DNA/RNA assembly and nanobiology.
In October 2014 she was visiting scientist at SMILEs Lab, Kaust, Saudi Arabia. In 2015 she obtained a research fellowship at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Then, she was Senior Research Associate and Transitional Fellow (NanoBio Technology) at the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems group (ICOS2) wet lab, Newcastle University. Currently, she is Module Leader and Lecturer.
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