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Thesis defense on December 21st, 2023
Commission: prof. Manuela Basso (president), prof. Pascal Borry, prof. Lotte Krabbenborg, dr. Carlo Calmasini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Katharina Tschigg	36	Ethical, Legal and Social/Societal Implications (ELSI) of Recall-by-Genotype (RbG) approaches in the Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol (CHRIS) study on genetic risk factors of Parkinson’s disease (PD)	dr. Deborah Mascalzoni prof. Michela Alessandra Denti	----

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Katharina Tschigg

Ethical, Legal and Social/Societal Implications (ELSI) of Recall-by-Genotype (RbG) approaches in the Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol (CHRIS) study on genetic risk factors of Parkinson’s disease (PD)

dr. Deborah Mascalzoni

prof. Michela Alessandra Denti

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Thesis defense on December 21st, 2023
Commission: prof. Lorenzo Montanaro (president), prof. Alessandro Quattrone, dr. Gianluca Cestra

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Deborah Donzel	36	Investigating the Role of SMN in Ribosome Heterogeneity	dr. Gabriella Viero	----

Thesis defense on December 4th, 2023
Commission: prof. Giovanni Piccoli (president), dr. Stefano Cavalieri, dr. Anna Mondino

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Silvia Tamburini	36	Development of an OMV-based prophylactic vaccine against HPV: a Pan-HPV vaccine for cancer prevention	prof. Guido Grandi	----

Thesis defense on November 8th, 2023
Commission: prof. Erik Dassi (president), prof. Raffaele Adolfo Calogero, dr. Romina D’Aurizio, Cesare Furlanello (CEO)

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giuseppe Fiorentino	34	Multi-omics integration for biomarker discovery and unsupervised subject clusterization. A novel computational method	prof. Enrico Domenici, Luca Marchetti	----

Thesis defense on October 11th, 2023
Commission: Michael Assfalg, Emiliano Biasini, Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
		Prebiotic photoreduction and polymerization of cysteinyl peptides	prof.

Thesis defense on July 27th, 2023
Commission: prof. Omry Koren (president), prof. Danilo Ercolini, prof. Alberto Inga

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Leonard Dubois	35	Phylogenetic and functional characterization of human microbiome intra-species diversity and tracking of early-life transmission	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on July 26th, 2023
Commission: prof. Marta Biagioli (president), prof. Marco Milanese, dr. Orazio Fortunato

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Fabrizio Fabbiano	35	Recombinant DDX58 associates with SOD1 protein and selective miRNA changes in secreted EVs	prof. Vito Giuseppe D'Agostino	----

Thesis defense on July 26th, 2023
Commission: dr. Emanuele Buratti (president), dr. Stephanie Duguez, prof. Manuela Basso

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Jessica Corsi	35	Interfering with hnRNPA2B1: ExoRNA interaction to challenge the quality of secreted extracellular vesicles	prof. Vito Giuseppe D'Agostino	Medical Information Specialist Jr, Sanofi

Thesis defense on July 25th, 2023
Commission: prof. Emiliano Biasini (president), dr. Michael Whalen, prof. Alessandro Angelini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Federica Casiraghi	34	Assembly and disassembly of artificial cells	prof. Martin M. Hanczyc	----

Thesis defense on July 24th, 2023
Commission: prof. Fulvio Chiacchiera (president), dr. Marcel Kool, prof. Massimo Zollo

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Chiara Lago	35	TPatient-derived and xenograft-derived organoids for characterization, drugs testing and biobanking of pediatric brain tumors	prof. Luca Tiberi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on July 21st, 2023
Commission: prof. Emilio Cusanelli (president), prof. Snezhka Oliferenko, prof. Cristina Mazzoni

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Teresa Vanzo	35	The role of TMS1 in S. cerevisiae	prof. Massimo Pizzato	Laboratory Manager at Prebiomics srl

Thesis defense on July 20th, 2023
Commission: Prof. Maria Caterina Mione (president), dr. Miguel Godinho Ferreira, Prof. Grazia Daniela Raffa

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nicole Bettin	35	Telomeric localization of the TElomeric Repeat-containing RNA TERRA impairs telomerase activity in human cancer cells	prof. Emilio Cusanelli	---

Thesis defense on July 19th, 2023
Commission: prof. Alessandro Provenzani (president), prof. Steffi Lehmann, dr. Elda Tagliabue

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Elena Gurrieri	35	CD81-guided cell-secreted EV sub-populations for targeted anticancer strategies	prof. Vito Giuseppe D'Agostino	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on May 29th, 2023
Commission: prof. Fulvio Chiacchiera (president), prof. Laura Conti, prof. Pier-Luigi Lollini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Lorenzo Croia	35	Analysis and optimization immune responses elicited by Outer Membrane Vesiclesy	prof. Guido Grandi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on April 26th, 2023
Commission: prof. Luca Fava (president), dr. Miquéias Lopes-Pacheco, dr. Nicoletta Pedemonte, dr. Antonio Casini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Irene Carrozzo	35	Reverting the F508del-CFTR defect in Cystic Fibrosis with CRISPR-Cas technology	prof. Anna Cereseto dr. Daniele Arosio	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy - Fond. Fibrosi Cistica

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Irene Carrozzo

Reverting the F508del-CFTR defect in Cystic Fibrosis with CRISPR-Cas technology

prof. Anna Cereseto

dr. Daniele Arosio

Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy - Fond. Fibrosi Cistica

Thesis defense on April 20th, 2023
Commission: prof. Yari Ciribilli (president), prof. Giannino Del Sal, dr. Valentina Audrito, prof. Georg Feldmann

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Agata Sofia Assunçao Carreira	34	Deciphering mechanism of resistance to FK866 in cancer cells	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on April 19th, 2023
Commission: dr. Martina Seiffert (president), prof. Silvia Deaglio, dr. Alessandra Bisio, dr. Gabriella Viero

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alice Bonato	35	Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based murine models to study the impact of NF-kB pathway mutations on chronic lymphocytic leukemia growth, survival and resistance to treatment	prof. Serena Zacchigna dr. Dimitar Efremov	----

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Alice Bonato

Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based murine models to study the impact of NF-kB pathway mutations on chronic lymphocytic leukemia growth, survival and resistance to treatment

prof. Serena Zacchigna

dr. Dimitar Efremov

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Thesis defense on March 3rd, 2023
Commission: prof. Anna Cereseto (president), prof. Gabriele Matteo D'Uva, dr. Daniele Arosio

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Antonio Mura	35	Molecular mechanism of Fam3c cardioprotective activity	prof. Serena Zacchigna dr. Mauro Giacca	----

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Antonio Mura

Molecular mechanism of Fam3c cardioprotective activity

prof. Serena Zacchigna

dr. Mauro Giacca

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Thesis defense on February 28th, 2023
Commission: prof. Benoit Deprez (president), prof. Ines Mancini, prof. Norbert Sewald

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Assoni	35	Design, synthesis, and preliminary biological evaluation of novel small molecules modulating the HuR RNA-binding protein and other therapeutically relevant targets in immuno-oncology	prof. Alessandro Provenzani prof. Pierfausto Seneci	Researcher at Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Giulia Assoni

Design, synthesis, and preliminary biological evaluation of novel small molecules modulating the HuR RNA-binding protein and other therapeutically relevant targets in immuno-oncology

prof. Alessandro Provenzani

prof. Pierfausto Seneci

Researcher at Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Thesis defense on February 24th, 2023
Commission: prof. Alessandro Provenzani (president), prof. Marina Maria Boido, dr. Mauro Dalla Serra, prof. Matthew Taliaferro

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Federica Maniscalco	35	Commonalities between SMA and ALS: investigation of ribosome heterogeneity and translational defects	dr. Gabriella Viero	----

Thesis defense on January 30th, 2023
Commission: prof. Marta Biagioli (president), prof. Carl Brunius, prof. Monique Breteler

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Pontali	34	Obesity and Health in the CHRIS Study	prof. Fulvio Mattivi dr. Francisco Domingues	Researcher at EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

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Giulia Pontali

Obesity and Health in the CHRIS Study

prof. Fulvio Mattivi

dr. Francisco Domingues

Researcher at EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

Thesis defense on January 30th, 2023
Commission: prof. Emilio Cusanelli (president), prof. Paolo Maiuri, dr. Sara Wickstrom

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Sarah D'Anunzio	34	Role of chromatin condensates in tuning nuclear mechano-sensing in Kabuki Syndrome	prof. Alessio Zippo	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on January 23rd, 2023
Commission: dr. Patrick T. Harrison (president), prof. Luca Fava, prof. Alessandra Recchia

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alessandro Umbach	34	CRISPR-Cas strategies for the correction of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and Cystic Fibrosis mutations	prof. Anna Cereseto	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on January 23rd, 2023
Commission: dr. Toma Tebaldi (president), dr. Vincenza Conteduca, prof. Ekta Khurana, prof. Nickolas Papadopoulos

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Francesco Orlando	34	Unleashing the potential of liquid biopsy: allele-informed evaluation of plasma samples for cancer patients management	prof. Francesca Demichelis	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Gian Marco Franceschini	34	The DNA methylation landscape of metestatic prostate cancer: from characterization to liquid biopsy applications	prof. Francesca Demichelis	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on January 23rd, 2023
Commission: prof. Andrea Lunardi (president), dr. Vincenza Conteduca, dr. Fabrizio D'Adda di Fagagna

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Fracassi	34	CRISPR/Cas9 screening and in silico investigations nominate low-frequency alternations in DNA repair genes as biomarkers for castration-resistant prostate cancers	prof. Francesca Demichelis	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on January 20th, 2023
Commission: prof. Thomas Vaccari (president), prof. Yari Ciribilli, prof. Tor Erik Rusten

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Francesca Destefanis	34	Myc influences glutamine metabolism to induce autophagy in tumorigenesis	prof. Paola Bellosta	---

Thesis defense on January 20th, 2023
Commission: dr. Patrick Blader (president), prof. Maria Caterina Mione, dr. Ivan Conte

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Maria Elena Castellini	34	Investigating the role of the proteoglycan IMPG2 in retinal development and function, by generation of knockout zebrafish models	prof. Simona Casarosa	---

Thesis defense on January 17th, 2023
Commission: prof. Michele Morari (president), prof. Paola Bellosta, dr. Fabrizia Claudia Guarnieri

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Frapporti	34	Lysosome orchestrates autophagy and integrated stress response: new insights from Sephin1	prof. Giovanni Piccoli	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on January 13th, 2023
Commission: prof. Marc Guell (president), prof. Martin M. Hanczyc, dr. Giovanni Maga

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Davide Aiello	34	CRISPR-based approach enables targeted random nucleotide diversification in mammalian cells	prof. Anna Cereseto dr. Daniele Arosio	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

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Davide Aiello

CRISPR-based approach enables targeted random nucleotide diversification in mammalian cells

prof. Anna Cereseto

dr. Daniele Arosio

Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 14th, 2022
Commission: prof. Stefano Augusto Maria Biressi (president), dr. Mattia Volta, prof. Elisa Greggio

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Martina Sevegnani	35	The role of Parkin R274W in genetic forms of Parkinson's disease	prof. Giovanni Piccoli	Innovation Specialist R&D at IMMAGINA BioTechnology srl, Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 27th, 2022
Commission: prof. Anabelle Decottignies (president), dr. Yari Ciribilli, prof. Torben Heick Jensen

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Valeria Savoca	34	Unravelling TERRA regulation by the interplay of two mechanism: RALY interaction and telomere-specific polyadenylation	prof. Emilio Cusanelli	Product specialist at Tecnosan, Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 26th, 2022
Commission: prof. Martin M. Hanczyc (president), prof. Paul Rimmer, prof. Michael Assfalg

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Daniele Rossetto	34	Emergence, survival and selection of metal-binding peptides in the prebiotic environment	prof. Sheref S. Mansy	---

Thesis defense on October 26th, 2022
Commission: prof. Emiliano Biasini (president), prof. Mariapina D'Onofrio, prof. Joseph Moran, dr. Michael Bernard Whalen

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Luca Valer	34	Histidine-ligated inron-sulfur proteins& peptides	prof. Sheref S. Mansy	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 24th, 2022
Commission: prof. Graziano Guella (president), dr. Stefano Brizzolara, prof. Gianni Galaverna

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Adriana Teresa Ceci	34	Measuring the nutritional quality of local plant based Euregio foods	prof. Fulvio Mattivi dr. Peter Robatscher	Postdoctoral research fellow at University of Bozen, Italy

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Adriana Teresa Ceci

Measuring the nutritional quality of local plant based Euregio foods

prof. Fulvio Mattivi

dr. Peter Robatscher

Postdoctoral research fellow at University of Bozen, Italy

Thesis defense on October 18th, 2022
Commission: prof. Enrico Domenici (president), dr. Tommaso Mazza, dr. Paolo Martini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Samuel Valentini	34	Computational analysis of effects and interactionsamong human variants in complex diseases	prof. Alessandro Romanel	Bioinformatic software developer at STALICLA, Spain

Thesis defense on October 18th, 2022
Commission: prof. Emilio Cusanelli (president), dr. Gabriella Viero, dr. Bence György, dr. Deniz Dalkara

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Kalina Aleksandra Badowska	34	Allele specific genome editing for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa	prof. Anna Cereseto dr. Antonio Casini	Researcher at ALIA Therapeutics, Trento, Italy

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Kalina Aleksandra Badowska

Allele specific genome editing for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa

prof. Anna Cereseto

dr. Antonio Casini

Researcher at ALIA Therapeutics, Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 13th, 2022
Commission: dr. Luca Marchetti (president), dr. Sofia Forslund, prof. Paul O'Toole, dr. Martin Schaefer

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Paolo Manghi	34	Large-scale meta-analytic approaches for systematic and reproducible associations between the human microbiome and host's conditions	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on July 1st, 2022
Commission: dr. Erik Dassi (president), prof. Barbara Di Camillo, prof. Andrea Sboner

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nicole Bussola	34	AI for omics and imagingmodels in precision medicine and toxicology	dr. Cesare Furlanello	Data scientist at Orobix, Bergamo, Italy

Thesis defense on April 28th, 2022
Commission: prof. Fulvio Chiacchiera (president), prof. Luciano Conti, prof. Gaia Novarino, dr. Piero Carninci

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Michele Arnoldi	34	CHD mutations in autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy: alterations of epigenetic landscape and new approaches for therapeutic development	prof. Marta Biagioli	Technical support and product specialist at IMMAGINA BioTechnology srl, Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on April 21st, 2022
Commission: prof. Marta Biagioli (president), dr. Gabriella Viero, dr. Myriam Gorospe, dr. Cei Abreu Goodger

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Linda Masante	33	The missing rings of neurodevelopment: circRNAs in brain wiring	prof. Marie-Laure Baudet	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on April 21st, 2022
Commission: prof. Mariangela Bonizzoni (president), dr. Pietro Franceschi, prof. Rachel Warnock

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nicola Zadra	33	Genome-scaled molecular clock studies of invasive mosquitoes and other organisms of societal relevance	prof. Nicola Segata prof. Omar Rota Stabelli	---

Thesis defense on April 20th, 2022
Commission: prof. Bert Blaauw (president), prof. Marta Biagioli, prof. Addolorata Pisconti

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Francesca Florio	33	Insight into the role of complement C1/WNT axis in dystrophic muscles	prof. Stefano Augusto Maria Biressi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on April 12th, 2022
Commission: prof. Luca Fava (president), prof. Alberto Inga, dr. Marcello Maresca, dr. Stefano Stella

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Michele Demozzi	33	Identification of novel active Cas9 orthologs from metagenomic data	prof. Anna Cereseto	Scientific Consultant at Flagship Pioneering – Cambridge – USA

Thesis defense on April 11th, 2022
Commission: dr. Erik Dassi (president), dr. Claudio Donati, prof. Ami Bhatt

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nicolai M. Karcher	34	Metagenomics-based strain-resolved bacterial genomics and transmission dynamics of the human microbiome	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral Scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Thesis defense on April 6th, 2022
Commission: prof. Vito Giuseppe D'Agostino (president), prof. Nicola D'Amelio, dr. Mariapina D'Onofrio

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Caterina Ciani	33	Characterization of a new putative Elav-like binding protein in acinetobacter baumannii	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at SISSA,Trieste, Italy

Thesis defense on February 28th 2022
Commission: prof. Emilio Cusanelli (president), prof. Thomas Brunner, prof. Andreas Villunger

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Iva Dzhilyanova	34	Investigation of supernumerary centrosomes accumulation and Caspase-2 activation in human cell lines	prof. Luca Fava	---

Thesis defense on February 25th 2022
Commission: prof. Fulvio Mattivi (president), prof. Orietta Massidda, dr. Chris Gill, prof. Arjan Narbad

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Gaudioso	34	Achieving health promoting gut microbiome modulation through sustainable, nutritious and healthy foods	prof. Nicola Segata dr. Francesca Fava	Medical Affair Manager at Dr Schär, Italy

Thesis defense on February 21st 2022
Commission: prof. Vito Giuseppe D'Agostino (president), prof. Emiliano Biasini, dr. Sebastiano Pasqualato, prof. Stefan Knapp

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Marta Stefania Semrau	34	Structural characterization of PTG and PTG/PP1 protein complex	prof. Graziano Lolli dr. Paola Storici	Research collaborator at Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy

Thesis defense on January 27th, 2022
Commission: prof. Fulvio Chiacchiera (president), prof. Andrea Lunardi, prof. Rasmus Siersbæk, dr. Paola Scaffidi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Daniela Michelatti	33	Oncogenic enhancer reprogramming in triple negative breast cancer tumour progression	prof. Alessio Zippo	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 22nd, 2021
Commission: prof. Maria Caterina Mione (president), prof. Olivier Jousson, prof. Betty Diamond, prof. Peter Lamprecht

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alvise Berti	34	Autoreactive B cells in ANCA-associated vasculitis	prof. Guido Grandi	Dirigente medico unità operativa reumatologia, APSS Trento, Italy RTD-B at CISMed, University of Trento, Italy

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Alvise Berti

Autoreactive B cells in ANCA-associated vasculitis

prof. Guido Grandi

Dirigente medico unità operativa reumatologia, APSS Trento, Italy

RTD-B at CISMed, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 22nd, 2021
Commission: prof.Anna Cereseto (president), prof. Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, prof. Mirko Pinotti

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Michela Lisjak	34	Development of a gene targeting strategy for liver metabolic diseases using the CRISPR-CAS9 platform	prof. Serena Zacchigna dr. Andres Muro	Regulatory affairs trainee at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Thesis defense on December 21st, 2021
Commission: prof. Graziano Guella (president), dr. Pietro Franceschi, dr. Pierre-Hugues Stefanuto

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Penghan Zhang	34	Application of GCxGC-MS in VOC analysis of fermented beverages	dr. Urska Vrhovsek	----

Thesis defense on December 17th, 2021
Commission: prof. Lorenzo Montanaro (president), prof. Alberto Inga, dr. Toma Tebaldi

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Chiara Ambrosini	33	Translational modulation through CRISPR-CAS mediated genome editing	prof. Alessandro Quattrone	Technician at Piattaforma Nazionale di Editing Genomico e Modelli di Malattia, Human Technopole, Italy

Thesis defense on December 16th, 2021
Commission: dr. Yari Ciribilli (president), dr. Fulvio Chiacchiera, prof. Michael M. Shen

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Dario De Felice	34	Retinoic acid is required for prostate luminal lineage differentiation and epithelial integrity via FOXA1 expression	prof. Andrea Lunardi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on November 29th, 2021
Commission: prof. Massimo Pizzato (president), prof. Emiliano Biasini, prof. Daniele Sblattero, prof. Federico Forneris

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Riccardo Corbellari	34	Format engineering and in vivo validation of novel antibody-fusion proteins for cancer therapy	prof. Guido Grandi dr. Roberto De Luca	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Lisa Nadal	34	Isolation and validation of novel monoclonal antibodies targeting the tumor microenvironment for the selective delivery of cytokines payloads	prof. Guido Grandi dr. Roberto De Luca	Junior project manager at Philochem AG, Svizzera

Thesis defense on November 4th, 2021
Commission: prof. Michael Malim (president), prof. Guido Grandi, prof. Ariberto Fassati

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Cinzia Bertelli	33	Antiviral activity and retroviral counteraction of SERINC genes	prof. Massimo Pizzato	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 22nd, 2021
Commission: prof. Simona Casarosa (president), prof. Matthias Carl, prof. Giulio Cossu, prof. Peter Zammit

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Michela Libergoli	33	CD90 marks satellite cells into two subpopulations with distinct dynamics of activation and proliferation	prof. Stefano Augusto Maria Biressi	Research collaborator at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 22nd, 2021
Commission: prof. Elena Ziviani (president), prof. Giovanni Piccoli, prof. Marta Biagioli, prof. Paul Fisher

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Maria Paulina Castelo Rueda	33	The role of mitochondria in reduced penetrance in heterozygous parkin mutations	prof. Simona Casarosa dr. Andrew Hicks	---

Thesis defense on October 15th, 2021
Commission: prof. Maurizio Casiraghi (president), dr. Erik Dassi, prof. Till Strowing

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Kun Huang	33	Evolutionary analysis of the human microbiome using ancient metagenomic samples	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral research fellow at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

Thesis defense on October 11th, 2021

Commission: prof. Alberto Inga (president), prof. Luca Tiberi, prof. Mario Capasso, dr. Loredana Amoroso

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Francesca Broso	33	Alpha adrenergic receptors as new targets for neuroblastoma	prof. Alessandro Quattrone	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on July 12th, 2021
Commission: prof. Anna Cereseto (president), prof. Jan Lammerding, dr. Vincent Segers

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Giulio Ciucci	33	Engineered hart tissue to investigate the role of mechanical loading and injury in cardiomyocite proliferation	prof. Serena Zacchigna dr. Francesco Loffredo	Postdoctoral research fellow at ICGEB Trieste, Italy

Thesis defense on July 2nd, 2021
Commission: dr. Yari Ciribilli (president), dr. Monica Bettencourt-Dias, prof. Andrew Jon Holland

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Matteo Burigotto	33	Mechanism of centrosome-dependent PIDDosome activation	prof. Luca Fava	Postdoctoral research fellow at Carlton Lab, King's College London and Francis Crick Institute, UK

Thesis defense on June 24th, 2021
Commission: prof. Emiliano Biasini (president), prof. Marco Gaspari, dr. Marco Pistocchi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Elisa Demattè	33	Microbial enzymes for hair removal: an integrated biotechnological approach for application in the leather tanning industry	prof. Olivier Jousson	Researcher at Biodermol Ambiente, Italy

Thesis defense on June 23rd, 2021
Commission: dr. Graziano Lolli (president), prof. Alessandro Laio, dr. Byron Caughey

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Simona Cocchi	33	Targeting the LIN28B/LET-7 axis by small molecules in neuroblastoma	prof. Alessandro Quattrone	Biologa Nutrizionista, Italy

Thesis defense on June 16th, 2021
Commission: dr. Graziano Lolli (president), prof. Alessandro Laio, dr. Byron Caughey

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giovanni Spagnolli	33	Folding, misfolding and therapeutics in prion diseases	prof. Emiliano Biasini	Head of science at Sybilla Biotech s.r.l., Italy

Thesis defense on March 30th, 2021
Commission: dr. Alessandro Romanel (president), prof. Thomas Rattei, prof. Alice Carolyn McHardy

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Francesco Beghini	33	Large-scale microbial genomics for strain-level metagenomic analysis	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral associate at Human Nature Lab, Yale Institute for Network Science, USA

Thesis defense on Novermber 3rd, 2020

Commission: dr. Vito Giuseppe D’Agostino (president), dr. Paola Briata, prof. Eric Shoubridge

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Bartolomeo Bosco	32	Exploring DHX30, an RNA helicase that coordinates cytoplasmic translation and mitochondrial function contributing to cancer cell survival	prof. Alberto Inga	Research Collaborator at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Thesis defense on October 27th, 2020
Commission: prof. Orietta Massidda (president), prof. Federica Cavallo, prof. Roberto Gambari

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Samine Jessica Isaac	32	Investigating antigen delivery and presentation of OMVbased cancer vaccines	prof. Guido Grandi	Senior Scientist - Drug Discovery Outsourcing at BenevolentAI, UK

Thesis defense on October 19th, 2020
Commission: prof. Luca Tiberi (president), prof. Francesca Aguilo, prof. Alessandro Fatica, dr. Matthias Soller

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Mariachiara Micaelli	32	Identification and validation of small molecules targeting the YTH domain	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Giulia Montuori	32	The m6A RNA modification sustains neuroblastoma tumour aggressiveness	prof. Alessandro Quattrone	Postdoctoral Researcher at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Thesis defense on October 15th, 2020
Commission: prof. Luciano Conti (president), prof. Adriano Chiò, prof. Eugenio Fava

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nausicaa Valentina Licata	32	Identification of new pathways modulating C9orf72-derived DPRs expression	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Daniele Pollini	32	Pleiotropic effect of MATR3 in pluripotent stem cells	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 13th, 2020
Commission: prof. Massimo Pizzato (president), prof. Manimozhiyan Arumugam, prof. Alessio Mengoni

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Moreno Zolfo	32	Metagenomics-based discovery of unknown bacteriophages In the human microbiome	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral research fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology

Thesis defense on July 6th, 2020
Commission: prof. Maria Caterina Mione (president), prof. Anna Cereseto, prof. Zeger Debyser, prof. Bertrand Kleizen, dr. Annarita Miccio, prof. Catherine Verfaillie

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giulia Maule	32	Harnessing CRISPR technology for the treatment of cystic fibrosis	prof. Anna Cereseto	Postdoctoral research fellow at CNR - Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on June 12th, 2020
Commission: prof. Alberto Inga (president), dr. Meritxell Huch, prof. Stefano Piccolo

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Veronica Foletto	32	Evasion of Tak1-p38α/ β-Stat1/2 non-canonical Activin A signalling leads to aberrant mouse prostate epithelial cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo	prof. Andrea Lunardi	Scientific Secretary at Pezcoller Foundation

Thesis defense on May 28th, 2020
Commission: prof. Alberto Inga (president), dr. Gianpiero Di Leva, prof. Rosario Maria Sanchez Martin

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Simone Detassis	32	microRNAs as biomarkers: case study and technology development	prof. Michela Alessandra Denti	Researcher at OPTOI

Thesis defense on May 26th, 2020
Commission: prof. Paolo Macchi (president), prof. Anna Maria Cimini, prof. Miguel Oliveira

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alessandra Speccher	32	Tissue engineering approaches for brain injury applications	prof. Simona Casarosa	---

Thesis defense on May 22nd, 2020
Commission: prof. Luca Fava (president), prof. Dario Bonanomi, prof. Luca Magnani

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Marica Anderle	32	Human Cerebellar Organoids as an in vitro 3D model of Group 3 Medulloblastoma	prof. Luca Tiberi	Senior Investigator, at Ichnos Sciences Biotherapeutics SA, Switzerland
Claudio Ballabio	32	Establishment and analysis of patientspecific Group 3 Medulloblastoma mouse models	prof. Luca Tiberi	Postdoc in the Cancer-Neuroscience laboratory The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Thesis defense on May 22nd, 2020
Commission: prof. Luca Fava (president), prof. Bassem Hassan, prof. Stefan Pfister

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giuseppe Aiello	32	Truncated BRPF1 cooperates with smoothened to promote adult Shh Medulloblastoma	prof. Luca Tiberi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 20th, 2019
Commission: prof. Leon De Windt (president), prof. Michela Alessandra Denti, prof. Jozef Dulak

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Ilaria Secco	32	Development of a genetic method to visualize cardiomyocyte renewal in vivo	dr. Serena Zacchigna	Postdoctoral research associate at King's College London, UK

Thesis defense on December 19th, 2019
Commission: prof. Giuseppe Legname (president), dr. Graziano Lolli, prof. Ina Vorberg

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Silvia Biggi	32	Tackling Prion Replication and Toxicity by Targeting the Cellular Prion Protein with Different Pharmacological Strategies	prof. Emiliano Biasini	Researcher at Neuro-Zone srl, Italy

Thesis defense on December 6th, 2019
Commission: dr. Matthias Carl (president), dr. Martin Distel, dr. Yi Feng

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Francesca Precazzini	32	Zebrafish models of uveal and cutaneous melanoma for preclinical studies	prof. Maria Caterina Mione	Biotechnologist at Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, Italy

Thesis defense on October 30th, 2019
Commission: prof. Olivier Jousson (president), dr. Maria Carmen Collado Amores, dr. Marco Fondi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Serena Manara	31	Strain-level(meta)genomic profiling of bacteria from hospital pathogens to non-human primate commensals	prof. Nicola Segata	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 28th, 2019
Commission: prof. Andreas Villunger (president), prof. Jean-Jacques Diaz, dr. Luca Fava

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Dario Rizzotto	31	Beyond transcription: p53-dependent cell death response mediated by DHX30	prof. Alberto Inga	Researcher at CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Thesis defense on October 25th, 2019
Commission: prof. Paolo Macchi (president), prof. Alexandra Durr, prof. Carlo Rinaldi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alice Migazzi	31	Analysis of the role of arginine methylation in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease	dr. Manuela Basso	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 24th, 2019
Commission: prof. Emiliano Biasini (president), dr. Ashwin Woodhoo, dr. Manuel Diaz-Munoz

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Isabelle Bonomo	31	Identification and characterization of small molecules inhibiting the RNA Binding protein HuR	prof. Alessandro Provenzani	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 23rd, 2019
Commission: prof. Lorraine O'Driscoll (president), prof. Giuliana Pelicci, dr. Manuela Basso

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Michela Notarangelo	31	Development of a method to isolate extracellular vesicles for liquid biopsies	prof. Alessandro Quattrone	Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Medicine, USA

Thesis defense on October 21st, 2019
Commission: prof. Martin M. Hanczyc (president), dr. Mariapina D'Onofrio, dr. Stefano Benini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Omer Duhan Toparlak	31	Mimics of protocellular and extant life	prof. Sheref S. Mansy	Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, USA

Thesis defense on October 14th, 2019
Commission: prof. Esther Baena Chaparro (president), prof. Alberto Inga, prof. Massimo Loda, prof. Tiziana Bonaldi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Blerta Stringa	31	The effect of germline variants on the genesis of early somatic events in cancer	prof. Francesca Demichelis	Postdoctoral Researcher Associate at Washington University in St. Louis
Marco Lorenzoni	31	Pro-tumorigenic role of ETS-related gene (ERG) in pre-cancerous prostate lesions	prof. Andrea Lunardi	---

Thesis defense on October 14th, 2019
Commission: prof. Guido Grandi (president), prof. Leonardo Trombelli, dr. Jan Derks

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Paolo Ghensi	31	Biological and microbiological properties of dental implants and their relation with peri-implant diseases	prof. Nicola Segata	CEO di PreBiomics

Thesis defense on May 30th, 2019
Commission: prof. Roberto Gambari (president), prof. Massimo Pizzato, prof. Paolo Landini


Ilaria Zanella	31	Construction and Characterization of proteome minimized OMVs from E. coli and their exploitation in infection disease and cancer vaccines	prof. Guido Grandi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on May 29th, 2019
Commission: prof. Paolo Macchi (president), prof. Robert Hindges, prof. Michela Alessandra Denti


Eloina Corradi	31	Precursor miRNAs are locally processed to regulate growth cone steering	prof. Marie-Laure Baudet	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on May 8th, 2019
Commission: prof. Jurgen Dittmer (president), prof. Iraida Skvortsova, prof. Andrea Lunardi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Laura Pezzè	31	Impact of ETV7 on chemoresistance and cancer stem cell-like plasticity in breast cancer	dr. Yari Ciribilli	Researcher at Alia Therapeutics srl

Thesis defense on December 19th, 2018
Commission: prof. Allen P. Liu (president), dr. Graziano Lolli, dr. Federico Carosio

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Cecilia Ada Maestri	31	Cellulose-based BioNanoMaterials: Structure and Properties	Prof. Marina Scarpa	Lincotek Medical
Noel Yeh Martin	29	Cellular mimics within lipid vesicles and in thermal out-of-equilibrium chambers	prof. Sheref S. Mansy	Postdoctoral research fellow at LMU (Munich)

Thesis defense on December 19th, 2018
Commission: prof. Antonella Motta (president), prof. Takashi Ikegami, dr. Graziano Lolli

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Silvia Holler	30	Droplet based synthetic biology: chemotaxis and interface with biology	prof. Martin M. Hanczyc	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on October 18th, 2018
Commission: prof. Valeria Marigo (president), prof. Noel Buckley, prof. Michela Alessandra Denti, prof. Daniela Tropea

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Jacopo Zasso	30	Identification of REST-Regulated molecular circuitries and targets exploitable for hGSCs-targeted therapies	Prof. Luciano Conti	Senior Technician at Human Technopole, Italy
Xuwen Zhang	30	Characterization of retinal defects in Engrailed-2 Knockout (En2-/-) Mice, a model for Autism Spectrum Disorders	prof. Simona Casarosa

Thesis defense on October 15th, 2018
Commission: prof. Emiliano Biasini (president), prof. Zofia Chrzanowska-Lightowlers, prof. Pietro Luigi Poliani, Prof. Luca Cardelli, dr. Lucia Marucci

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Cansu Uluseker	30	A systems and synthetic biology framework for regulatory systems	prof. Martin M. Hanczyc	Postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering in University of Stavanger
Denise Sighel	30	Inhibition of mitochondrial translation as a novel strategy to eradicate glioblastoma stem cells	prof. Ines Mancini	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on June 18th, 2018
Commission: prof. Graziano Martello (president), prof. Udai Pandey, prof. Diane Merry, dr. Emiliano Biasini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Diana Piol	30	Physiological and pathological role of Serine96 phosphorylation in the regulation of androgen receptor	prof. Maria Pennuto	Post-doctoral Scientist at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium

Thesis defense on May 21st, 2018
Commission: prof. Marie-Laure Baudet (president), prof. Carlos Dotti, prof. Juan Josè Garrido, dr. Manuela Basso

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Bouchra Khalaf	30	Beyond the nuclear pore complex, Nup358 clusters at the axon. Initial segment of cultured neurons	prof. Paolo Macchi	---

Thesis defense on May 8th, 2018
Commission: prof. Martin M. Hanczyc (president), prof. Federica Cavallo, dr. Oscar Burrone, dr. Claudia Andreini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Giuliano Berloffa	30	Cell-free expression systems for the construction of artificial cells	prof. Sheref S. Mansy	Postdoctoral research fellow at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Michele Tomasi	30	Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a platform for personalized cancer vaccines	prof. Guido Grandi	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 19th, 2017
Commission: prof. Gilles Prevost (president), prof. Francesca Demichelis, prof. Andrè Gerber, dr. Angelo Valleriani, prof. Silvia Zucchelli

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Primoz Knap	29	Host lncRNAs recognize invading bacteria and aid against infection by associating with polysomes	drs. Mauro Dalla Serra and Gabriella Viero (CNR-IBF)	Researcher at Geneplanet
Fabio Lauria	29	Understanding the organization and functional control of polysomes by integrated approaches	dr. Gabriella Viero (CNR-IBF)	Researcher at CNR-IBF Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on December 15th, 2017
Commission: prof. Livia Leoni (president), prof. Marco Fragai, prof. Massimo Pizzato, dr. Matthew Powner, dr. Lutz Wiehlmann

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Claudia Bonfio	29	Prebiotic Synthesis of Redox-Active Iron-Sulfur Clusters	prof. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO)	Post-doctoral Research Fellow at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Silvia D'Arcangelo	29	Persistence and adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis airway	prof. Olivier Jousson (CIBIO)	Research Scientist at Public Health England, UK

Thesis defense on December 11th, 2017
Commission: prof. Andrea Lunardi (president), dr. Dimitris Kontoyiannis, prof. Maria Caterina Mione, prof. Georg Stoecklin

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Luisa Ganfini	29	Studies of the synergistic protective activity of cancer antigens associated to engineered bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles	prof. Guido Grandi (CIBIO)	Scientist at VisMederi srl
Preet Lal	29	Characterization of Small Molecules inhibiting the RNA Binding Protein HuR	prof. Alessandro Provenzani (CIBIO)	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (Missouri)

Thesis defense on October 3rd, 2017
Commission: prof. Massimo Mallardo (president), dr. Emanuele Buratti, prof. Michela A. Denti, dr. Martin Dutertre

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Nicola Cornella	29	Characterization of the hnRNP RALY in RNA transcription and metabolism	prof. Paolo Macchi (CIBIO)	Researcher at Sandoz Industrial Products S.p.A., Rovereto, Italy
Valentina Potrich	29	Twist of messenger Fate: novel mechanisms for TDP43 in modulating mRNA decay and alternative polyadenylation	prof. Alessandro Quattrone (CIBIO)	Researcher at LB LYOpharm srl, Bolzano, Italy

Thesis defense on September 29th, 2017
Commission: dr. Andrea Lunardi (president), dr. Licio Collavin, dr. Stefano Indraccolo, dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Federica Alessandrini	29	ETV7 can trigger breast cancer chemoresistance	dr. Yari Ciribilli (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Nicola Andrea Casiraghi	29	Quantitative analyses to study tumour clones dynamics and tumour eterogeneity	prof. Francesca Demichelis (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on September 25th, 2017
Commission: prof. Roberta Bongiovanni (president), dr. Marco De Fazio, dr. Martin M. Hanczyc, prof. Luca Primo

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Gaia Cecilia Santini	25	Purification and detection of cancer-related miRNAs in microdevices	dr. Cecilia Pederzolli (Bruno Kessler Foundation)

Thesis defense on May 30th, 2017
Commission: prof. Enrico Domenici (president), dr. Carlotta De Filippo, prof. Alessio Mengoni

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Alessandro Zandonà	29	Predictive networks for multi meta-omics data integration	dr. Cesare Furlanello (Bruno Kessler Foundation)	Postdoctoral research fellow at SYSBIOBIG, University of Padova

Thesis defense on March 17th, 2017
Commission: prof. Grant Churchill (president), prof. Santina Bruzzone, prof. Alberto Inga, dr. Angelo Lombardo, dr. Claudio Mussolino

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Natthakan Thongon	28	Molecular mechanisms and insights into the NAMPT inhibitor (FK866) resistance in cancers	prof. Alessandro Provenzani (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Antonio Casini	27	Better safe than sorry: new CRISPR/Cas9 tools for improved genome engineering	prof. Anna Cereseto (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on March 6th, 2017
Commission: prof. Paolo Macchi (president), dr. Aldo Ferrari, dr. Andrew Lin, prof. Michele Mazzanti, prof. Donal O' Carroll

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Daniele Arosio	29	Imaging Chloride Homeostasis in Neurons	dr. Mauro Dalla Serra (CNR-IBF)	Researcher at CNR-IBF Trento, Italy
Archana Iyer	28	Mechanisms of brain wiring by axonal miRNAs: miR-181 and miR-182	dr. Marie-Laure Baudet (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research at Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Thesis defense on March 3rd, 2017
Commission: prof. Pierre-Alain Monnard (president), prof. Massimo Pizzato, dr. Birgit Wiltschi, prof. Donato Zipeto

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Dario Cecchi	28	Molecular communication between artificial cells	prof. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO)	Researcher at Explora Biotech, Mestre, Italy
Stephen J. D. Findlay-Wilson	28	Development of a fluorescent imaging model for the analysis of HIV-1 capsid uncoating	prof. Anna Cereseto (CIBIO)	Researcher at Public Health England (PHE), Porton Down, UK

Thesis defense on February 23rd, 2017
Commission: prof. Fulvio Mattivi (president); dr. Angelo Fontana, prof. Matej Orešič, dr. Alessandro Muzzi, dr. Lorenza Putignani

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current Position
Ruggero Ferrazza	29	New Analytical Methodologies at the Frontier of Cellular Lipidomics	prof. Graziano Guella (dep. of Physics)	Researcher at E-Pharma Trento S.p.A., Italy
Francesco Strati	29	The microbiota-gut-brain-axis: characterization of the gut microbiota in neurological disorders	dr. Claudio Donati (Edmund Mach Foundation)	Postdoctoral research fellow at Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Thesis defense on June 29th, 2016.
Commission: prof. Mauro Giacca (president); prof. Anna Cereseto, prof. Antonio Musarò, dr. Yasuhiro Takeuchi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Laura Avogaro	27	Investigation of the Structural and Molecular Substrate of Atrial Fibrillation	prof. Michela A. Denti (CIBIO) prof. Flavia Ravelli (dep. of Physics)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
Emilia Cristiana Cuccurullo	28	Discovery and characterization of novel "Nef-like" infectivity factors	prof. Massimo Pizzato (CIBIO)	Postdoctoral research fellow at UCSD, San Diego, USA

Thesis defense on June 23rd, 2016.
Commission: prof. Guido Grandi (president); prof. Antonella Furini, prof. Carlo Massimo Pozzi, prof. Livio Trainotti

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Shiliang Hu	28	Phylogeny and chloroplast evolution in Brassicaceae	dr. Claudio Varotto (Edmund Mach Foundation)	Postdoctoral fellow in Tongji Medical college (TJMC), Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), Wuhan HuBei, China
Yu Wei	28	Identification and functional characterization of microRNA regulatory elements in Brassicaceae	dr. Claudio Varotto (Edmund Mach Foundation)

Thesis defense on June 23rd, 2016.
Commission: prof. Guido Grandi (president); prof. Antonella Furini, prof. Carlo Massimo Pozzi, prof. Livio Trainotti, prof. Jan Roelof van der Meer

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Phuoc Toan Hong	28	Acquisition and exclusion of pathogenicity island 1 (PAPI-1) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	prof. Olivier Jousson (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral scientist at Plant and Food Research, Hamilton, New Zealand

Thesis defense on May 30th, 2016.
Commission: prof. Olivier Jousson (president); Prof. Lucilia H. Ataide Saraiva, dr. Enrico Baruffini, dr. Paola Campomenosi, dr. Gilberto Fronza

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Vasundhara Sharma	28	Cis and Trans, p53 and NFkB rules of Transactivation	prof. Alberto Inga (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral research fellow at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa Florida, USA

Thesis defense on March 8th, 2016.

Commission: prof. Vincent Noireaux (president); prof. Silvia Deaglio, prof. Alberto Inga, prof. Jean-François Peyron

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Fabio Chizzolini	27	The relationship between genotype and phenotype in cell-free transcription-translation reactions	prof. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral research fellow at University of California, Irvine, USA
Chiara Zucal	27	Molecular Effects of The Nampt Inhibitor Fk866 on Leukemia Cells	prof. Alessandro Provenzani (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral research fellow at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

Thesis defense on March 3rd, 2016.
Commission: prof. Oliver T. Fackler (president); prof. Francesca Demichelis, prof. Tamás Korcsmáros, prof. Thanh Phuong Nguyen, prof. Bruno Verhasselt

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Annachiara Rosa	28	The cellular and molecular basis of the Nef requirement for HIV-1 infectivity	prof. Massimo Pizzato (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral research fellow at Francis Crick Institute, Londra, UK
Tenzin Nyima	27	Modulation of murine intestinal gene expression by dietary fat: spatial variation and saturation effect	dr. Marco Scotti (GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel)	Postdoctoral research fellow at Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University Hospital Tübingen, -Tubingen, Germany

Thesis defense on June 18th, 2015.

Commission: dr. Massimo Pizzato (president); dr. Daniela Galimberti, prof. Mirko Pinotti, prof. Andrew Webster

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Niccolò Bacchi	26	Antisense-mediated splicing correction approaches for retinal dystrophies and dysfunctions	prof. Michela A. Denti (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Business Development Office, Fondazione Telethon, Milan, Italy
Francesca Fontana	26	Mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation of genes involved in FTDP-17	prof. Michela A. Denti (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Kavitha Siva	26	RNA-mediated therapeutic approaches for frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP 17)	prof. Michela A. Denti (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Senior Lecturer at Spectrum Institute for Science and Technology, Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka

Thesis defense on June 17th, 2015.
Commission: prof. Graziano Guella (president); prof. Sandra Citterio, prof. Aaron Fait, prof. Paolo Pesaresi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Manoj S. Ghaste	27	Comprehensive Mapping of Volatile Organic Compounds in Fruits	dr. Fulvio Mattivi (Edmund Mach Foundation)	Postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Luca Narduzzi	27	A comparative analysis of the metabolomes of different berry tissues between Vitis vinifera and wild American Vitis species, supported by a computer-assisted identification strategy	dr. Fulvio Mattivi (Edmund Mach Foundation)	Researcher at Edmund Mach Foundation, Italy
Bo Wang	27	Functional analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Class I TCP genes AtTCP7 and its roles in plant development	dr. Claudio Varotto (Edmund Mach Foundation)	Experiment Department Manager at Tianjin Lakeside Powergene Science Development Co. Ltd., China

Thesis defense on June 11th, 2015.
Commission: prof. Paolo Macchi (president); prof. Ludwig Aigner, dr. Jean Christhophe Bourdon, dr. Mariapina D'Onofrio, dr. Jennifer Ong

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Angela Bozza	27	Alginate-based hydrogels for central nervous system tissue rigeneration	prof. Simona Casarosa (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Roberta Lentini	26	Integrating artificial with natural cells	prof. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Sara Zaccara	27	Translation control mechanisms within the p53 network	prof. Alberto Inga (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral associate in Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, NYC, USA

Thesis defense on February 17th, 2015.
Commission: prof. Enrico Tongiorgi (president); prof. Luciano Conti, prof. Pierre-Alain Monnard, prof. Pier Giorgio Righetti

Student

Cycle

Thesis Title

Thesis Supervisor

Current position

Micaela

De Santis

Bacterial lipoproteins: sorting mechanisms and biotechnological applications

prof. Olivier Jousson (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at PHRI, Newark, NJ, USA

Laura Martini

Cellular mimics that sense and respond to external stimuli

prof. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Giulia Zunino

Forebrain GABAergic interneuron connectivity and BDNF signaling deficits in Engrailed-2 knockout (En2-/-) mice, a mouse model for autism spectrum disorder

dr. Yuri Bozzi (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, USA

Thesis defense on June 18th, 2014.
Commission: dr. Livia Visai (president); dr. Manuela Gomes, dr. Sheref S. Mansy, dr. Roberta Seraglia, dr. Aleš Svatoš

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Yonghui Dong	26	Mass spectrometry imaging: looking fruits at molecular level	dr. Fulvio Mattivi (Edmund Mach Foundation)
Wei Sun	26	Silk fibroin-based hydrogel scaffolds for brain tissue engineering	prof. Alessandro Quattrone (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Thesis defense on June 18th, 2014.
Commission: prof. Ines Mancini (president), prof. Sabrina Dallavalle, dr. Gordon McDougall, dr. Cristina Scaccini

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Mattia Gasperotti	26	Fruit polyphenols and their fate after ingestion in a mammalian system	dr. Fulvio Mattivi (Edmund Mach Foundation)
Yang Yu	26	Lipidomics in cell Biology	prof. Graziano Guella (Department of Physics, University of Trento)

Thesis defense on April 2nd, 2014.
Commission: dr. Davide Melisi (president); dr. Giovanni Blandino, dr. Francesca Demichelis, prof. Louise Showe, dr. Kislon Voitchovsky

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Ilaria Castiglioni	26	Development of drug screening assays for identification of new molecules against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	dr. Alessandro Provenzani (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Michele Filosi	26	Network medicine approach on Next Generation Sequencing data	dr. Cesare Furlanello (Fondazione Bruno Kessler -FBK, Trento)
Lorenza Marocchi	25	Surface functionalizations towards nucleic acid purification: a nanoscale study	dr. Cecilia Pederzolli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler -FBK, Trento)

Thesis defense on November 26th, 2013.
Commission: prof. Marina De Bernard (president); dr. Ian Marc Bonapace, prof. Anna Cereseto, dr. Marjetka Podobnik

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Massimiliano Clamer	25	Understanding gene expression with a pore forming toxin: systems biology meets a single molecule application	Prof. Alessandro Quattrone (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Marta Tarter	25	Loss of HuB as a cause of progenitor cell cycle deregulation and differentiation suppression in glioblastoma	Prof. Alessandro Quattrone (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Thesis defense on November 26th, 2013.
Commission: prof. Jacqueline Trotter (president); prof. Alberto Inga, dr. Andreas Nocker, dr. Jean-Jacques Pernelle

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor	Current position
Albertomaria Moro	25	Characterization of the RNA-binding protein RALY, a new member of the hnRNP proteins	Prof. Paolo Macchi (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Research Associate at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, Newy York (USA)
Sabrina Tamburini	25	Molecular and cellular effects of supercritical carbon dioxide on some important foodborne pathogens	Prof. Olivier Jousson (CIBIO, University of Trento)	Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (USA)

Thesis defense on April 23rd, 2013.
Commission: prof. Galina Selivanova (president); dr. Michael Assfalg, prof. Tali Haran, prof. Paolo Macchi, prof. Alessandro Tossi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Mattia Lion	25	Interaction between p53 and estradiol pathways in transcriptional responses to chemotherapeutics	Prof. Alberto Inga (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Marta Marchioretto	25	Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins and Perforin: similar pore-forming mechanisms in pathogenic attack and human immune defense	Dr. Mauro Dalla Serra (IBF-CNR)
Paola Torre	25	Genetically encoded division machinery for cell-free synthetic biology	Dr. Sheref S. Mansy (CIBIO, University of Trento)

Thesis defense on December 13th, 2012.
Commission: Prof. Erik Pedersen (president); Prof. Támás Turanyi , Prof. Paolo Macchi

Student	Cycle	Thesis Title	Thesis Supervisor
Bajpai Archana	25	In silico modeling of cell polarity establishment and cell division initiation regulation networks of fission yeast cells	Dr. Attila Csikasz-Nagy (COSBI)
Dassi Erik	25	Mapping of post-transcriptional regulatory networks by means of mechanistic and high-throughput data	Prof. Alessandro Quattrone (CIBIO, University of Trento)
Defant Andrea	25	Design, Chemical Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Potential New Antiviral Agents	Prof. Ines Mancini (Dep. of Physics, University of Trento)
Muppirisetty SreeHarish	25	Ex-vivo and in-silico study of p53 Transactivation Dynamics in Budding Yeast	Dr. Attila Csikasz-Nagy (Cosbi)

Thesis defense on May 22nd, 2020