People
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Veronica Krenn (ITA)
Principal Investigator
E-mail: veronica.krenn@unimib.it
Veronica graduated cum Laude in Industrial Biotechnologies at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the University of Milan, working on molecular mechanisms of cell division under the supervision of Andrea Musacchio. For her Postdoc, she joined the laboratory of Jürgen Knoblich at IMBA in Vienna, where she started to work on human brain organoids and applied them to the study of genetic and infection-based neurodevelopmental diseases.
In 2022, she joined the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca as Principal Investigator, after being awarded with the Early Career Fellowship promoted by the Human Technopole.
Anna Cascio (ITA)
DIMET PhD candidate
E-mail: a.cascio6@campus.unimib.it
Anna graduated summa cum laude in Biology applied to Research in Biomedicine at the University of Milan. She previously focused on the study of neuroinflammation using in vitro models of neurodegeneration. She is now developing new strategies to engineer brain organoids to study the contribution of microglia to the ethiology of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Sara Barilà (ITA)
DIMET PhD Candidate
E-mail: s.barila1@campus.unimib.it
Sara graduated summa cum laude in Biology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. In her PhD project, she is investigating the contribution of genetic variants to the ethiology of neurodevelopmental disorders using human stem cells-derived organoid models.
Paolo Vaccari (ITA)
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: p.vaccari@campus.unimib.it
Paolo is an undergraduated student in Biotechnology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is exploring microglia gene expression profiles and dynamics both in vivo and in vitro.
Sara Ferro (ITA)
Research Assistant
E-mail: sara.ferro@unimib.it
Sara graduated in Biology at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
She is broadening her skills in neurobiology with pluripotent stem cell cultures, 2D and 3D neural stem cell-derived models
Deniz Yavru (TUR)
Visiting Fellow
E-mail: deniz.yavru@studenti.unimi.it
Deniz graduated in Quantitative Biology at the University of Milan.
She is broadening her skills by appliying CRISPR technologies to human neurodevelopment, using pluripotent stem cell cultures and brain organoid models
Alumni
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Chiara Riccardi (ITA) | Postgrad fellow & Master Student- Biology UNIMIB, 2023-2024
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​​Eray Korkmaz (TUR) | Trainee, 2024
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Simon Volker (FRA) | Trainee, 2024
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Aidana Kutzhanova (KAZ) | Trainee, 2024
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Agustina Ranieri (ITA) | Master Student- UNIBO, 2023-2024
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Elisabetta De Gasperi (ITA) | Master Student- Biology UNIMIB, 2023-2024