NAME: Virginia Porzio
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 29/03/2000, Rome
TELEPHONE NUMBER: +39 0649918266
E-MAIL: virginia.porzio@uniroma1.it
WORK ADDRESS: PhD student at Department of Molecular Medicine, “La Sapienza university of Rome (RM), Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Roma
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Laura Ottini
CO-SUPERVISOR: Dr. Valentina Silvestri
PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
February 2022 - October 2023: Internship at Department of Molecular Medicine, “La Sapienza” university of Rome (RM). Focus of the research: “Expression analysis of circulating microRNAs for the identification of clinically relevant biomarkers for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”.
March- June 2023: CIVIS programme “Technical Innovations-Application to Immuno-Oncology”. May 2023 1-week internship at Géraldine Guasch laboratory (Platform 3D-Hub-Organoids), “La Sapienza” University of Rome – Aix Marseille University (AMU).
CAREER:
October 2023: Master's degree at Medical Biotechnologies, Department of Molecular Medicine at “La Sapienza” university of Rome (RM)
October 2021: Three-year degree at Biological Science, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” at “La Sapienza” university of Rome (RM)
SKILLS:
- Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, miRNA) extraction from blood, saliva and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples;
- Agarose gel electrophoresis;
- PCR and PCR Real-Time (TaqMan e SYBR green);
- Sanger sequencing;
- High-throughput sequencing (Pyrosequencing/Illumina platform/Ion Torrent);
- Main cell biology techniques;
- Bioinformatics and biostatistics skills: in silico analysis; sequencing analysis software, use of online databases; knowledge of R software; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Congress communication:
1- Valentina Silvestri, Virginia Valentini, Agostino Bucalo, Giulia Conti, Mina Karimi, Virginia Porzio, Laura Ottini. The multi-omics based immune landscape of BRCA1/2-positive and -negative male breast tumors. SIPMET congress, Parma (Italy) 22-23 September 2023.
2- Valentina Silvestri, Virginia Valentini, Agostino Bucalo, Giulia Conti, Mina Karimi, Virginia Porzio, Laura Ottini. The multi-omics based immune landscape of BRCA1/2-positive and -negative male breast tumors.BRCA 2023: Moving into the Mainstream, Montreal 2-5 May 2023.
3- Valentina Silvestri, Virginia Valentini, Agostino Bucalo, Giulia Conti, Mina Karimi, Virginia Porzio, Laura Ottini. The multi-omics based immune landscape of BRCA1/2-positive and -negative male breast tumors. EACR-AACR-SIC- Immune response & DNA Repair, Florence 15-17 March 2023.