SARA CASSANDRO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXIX
email: sara.cassandro@uniroma1.it
building: Medicina Molecolare




supervisor: Prof. Agnese Po
advisor: Prof. Elisabetta Ferretti

Research: Generation and characterization of patient derived gliomas 3D models

- POSITION: Network Oncology and Precision Medicine PhD student

- WORK EXPERIENCE:
07/03/2022 – 31/12/2022 University Tutor: tutoring activity for the students of the Neuroscience Master course of the University of Trieste

- EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
01/10/2021 – 19/10/2023
International Master's Degree in Neuroscience, Università di Trieste (final grade: 109/110)

01/10/2022 – 30/06/2023 Interniship at the Biomedicine department of the University of Barcelona financed by the 22-23 Erasmus Traineeship funds of the University of Trieste.

01/10/2017 - 17/12/2020
Bachelor Degree in Biology, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (final grade: 110/110L)

2012 – 2017
Scientific High School Diploma, liceo statale Terenzio Mamiani (RM)

2016
Cambridge English ESOL Certificate, Advanced University of Cambridge ESOL
Examination

- SKILLS
Primary cultures and in vitro maintenance of 2D and 3D cell lines
Cellular differentiation
Transfection of cell lines
Calcium Imaging of cell cultures
Immunofluorescence
Immunohistochemistry
Extraction of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) and proteins
Western blot assay
cDNA synthesis
Real time qPCR

- RESEARCH PROJECTS
PDOs project: Culture, maintenance and characterization of PDOs (patient derived organoids) of adult glioblastomas and pediatric low grade gliomas.

MTC network project: Analysis of the response to the inhibition of miRs relevant for the transition from T0N0 to T0N1 of MTC cell cultures



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