My postdoctoral fellowship in single-cell genomics of disease is funded by Crohn’s Colitis Foundation which aims to generate single-cell transcriptomic data from intestinal biopsies from more than a hundred IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) patients. The ultimate goal of my work is to understand the biological basis of IBD risk and progression. To study transcriptional changes of IBD at the single-cell resolution I am working on algorithms that help to identify disease-relevant cell types in a robust and reproducible manner. My Ph.D. in Life and Biomaterial Sciences at the Institute of Applied Mathematics was fully devoted to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data and assessment of existing methods for single-cell data analysis.
My timeline
Started Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Completed PhD in Life and Biomaterial sciences at Second University of Naples, Italy
Research period abroad, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds
Research period abroad, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. Started PhD at Institute for Applied Mathematics, Naples, Italy
Started Fixed Term Research Contract, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Mathematics and Computer Science Unit, Paris, France
Graduated with Joint Master Degree in Applied Mathematics, University of L'Aquila / Gdansk University of Technology