Charlotte Kilstrup-Nielsen (Associate Professor)
Contact: c.kilstrup-nielsen@uninsubria.it
Web page: Charlotte Kilstrup-Nielsen
Tel.: +39-0331339430
Fax: +39-0331339459
Laura Rusconi (Post-doctoral fellow) got her Master degree in Pharmacy in 2003 at University of Milan. After a short period in a pharmaceutical company (NicOx Research Institute) she switched to basic research working in Prof. Valtorta’s lab at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan. She did her PhD-studies in Neurobiology at University of Insubria under the supervision of Prof. Landsberger. She has always been interested in studying the neurobiology of diseases and she is currently carrying on a project aimed at identifying novel molecules with therapeutic potential for CDKL5 disorder exploiting a platform of neuronal primary cultures. She has recently been awarded a prize from the Loulou Foundation for her studies on CDKL5 disorder.
Marco Tramarin is a Postdoctoral fellow in Kilstrup-Nielsen’s lab. He obtained his M.Sc. in Biology Applied to Biomedical Research at the University of Insubria in 2013. He spent a year at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan (Italy) where he worked as graduate fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Flavia Valtorta. Early in 2014 he joined Kilstrup-Nielsen’s Lab as PhD student where he received his PhD in Experimental and Translational Medicine in 2017. The goal of his research is to identify the molecular basis of CDKL5-associated synaptic defects to design drug-targeted pharmacological interventions.
Isabella Barbiero is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Kilstrup-Nielsen’s lab. She devoted most of her scientific training to the study of Rett syndrome and CDKL5-disorder. She won the Francesco de Luca international prize for her Master thesis and joined the PhD program in Neurobiology at the University of Insubria in 2013. Currently, she is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms that alter microtubule dynamics in the absence of CDKL5 adopting pharmacological approaches in order to ameliorate CDKL5-related cytoskeleton defects.
Barbara Leva is a PhD student in Kilstrup-Nielsen’s Lab. She received her Master degree in 2014 at the University of Insubria. During her Master and Bachelor internship, in the laboratory of Prof. S. Banfi, she studied Photodynamic Therapies with particular focus on the chemical synthesis and characterization of cationic BODIPYs and in the assessment of their anti-bacterial activity against two bacterial model strains. She is doing her PhD studies in close collaboration with Prof. N. Landsberger at the San Raffaele Institute, Milan. The focus of her project is to identify the molecular role of specific post-translational modifications of MeCP2 that may be involved in the pathogenesis of Rett syndrome.
Diana Peroni is a PhD student in Prof. Kilstrup-Nielsen’s lab. She obtained her Master degree in Biology Applied to Biomedical Research at the University of Insubria in 2015. During her Master internship, carried out in Prof. Fasano’s lab at University of Insubria and in Dr. Bonifati’s lab at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, she studied the role of FBXO7 in Parkinson’s disease and the involvement of its structural domains in the determination of its interactome. After the Master degree, she joined again for few months Dr. Bonifati’s lab where she completed her work on the FBXO7 protein. In 2015 she started her PhD in Experimental and Translation Medicine in Prof. Kilstrup-Nielsen’s lab where she investigates the morphological and cytoskeletal alterations of primary hippocampal Cdkl5-null neurons and the possibility of rescuing such defect through pharmacological interventions.
Paolo Siniscalchi Master student of Biomedical Sciences