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Lab News 2023
TRIPLE GRADUATIONS!!!
An intense October 2023 in the Giunta Lab: Triple congratulations + triple (and more) celebrations of our fantastic students: Alessia Spurio (M.Sc. Genetics & Molecular Biology with 110/110 Summa Cum Laude), Luigi Fanelli (B.Sc. Biotechnologies with 110/110 Summa Cum Laude) and Sai Chittoor Swaroop (B.Sc. Bioinformatics with 100) - and their impressive thesis work which is soon to be out ... Stay tuned!
HARMIT MALIK TALKS AT EMBL & UNIVERSITY OF ROME SAPIENZA
So awesome to have the outstanding Harmit Malik coming all the way from the West Coast to Rome Sapienza for a fantastic seminar in partnership with the EMBL Rome, bringing phenomenal international speakers to talk, visit and enjoy the food of the Eternal City. The Giunta Lab was absolutely galvanized by his presence & inspiration - thank you Harmit! It is really the case to say .. when in Rome! 🍝
Our favorite astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, who brough space into our daily lives and shared her passion with our kids, receives a Ph.D. Honoris Causa from the University of Rome Sapienza. So proud to be there to see it and hear her inspiring speech. What a great day!
Simona WINS 'NEW GENERATION WOMEN' INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
ASTROSAM SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI AT SAPIENZA 🚀🛰️👩🏻🚀
Simona & Emilia at London Calling 2023 oxford nanopore conference
Simona gave a talk on an impressively long stage at the London Calling conference on Genomics organized by Oxford Nanopore Technology, and together with Ph.D. student Emilia Volpe in the lab who presented a poster, shared our recent advances in completing a de novo diploid human genome assembly T2T and how this new reference will change the way we look at multi-omics analyses. Stay tuned for more...
Giunta lab celebrations as simona is awarded special prize from university
The Magnifica Rettrice Prof. Antonella Polimeno, Sapienza University of Rome first female leader, celebrated the University faculty and students that distinguished themselves due to sport or other prestigious achievements. Simona got a special spize together with other ERC grant winners from the past two calls.
Simona sull'Espresso
Exerpt from the article on Repubblica
SIMONA GIUNTA. Il GiuntaLab, il laboratorio che dirige, studia il ruolo dell'instabilità genomica nelle malattie degenerative come cancro e invecchiamento. È rientrata in Italia nel 2020 dopo quasi vent'anni all'estero, grazie anche al premio Rita Levi Montalcini "Rientro dei Cervelli" del MUR. Ora è professoressa associata di Genetica umana a Sapienza Università di Roma e di recente ha ottenuto dall'European Research Council (ERC) un milione e mezzo di euro per continuare la ricerca avviata nel 2021 sui cromosomi, in particolare sul centromero umano. Questi fondi offriranno la possibilità di compiere passi decisivi nel campo delle scienze biomediche, acquisendo una conoscenza sempre più approfondita del centromero umano, includendo i processi di mutagenesi, danno e riparazione del Dna. «L’obiettivo del progetto è capire quanto sia significativa la variabilità nel Dna tra persone diverse, per migliorare la possibilità di intervenire in maniera mirata e personalizzata su queste regioni genomiche».
Lab News 2022
WHAT A WEEK 🧬🌟🌟 At our Dept. BBCD Sapienza!
Full immersion into the centromere world with two outstanding speakers:
Andrea Musacchio & Yael Nechemia-Arbely
26-28 October 2022
MARTINA MONCIOTTI graduates from her BSc in Bioinformatics
24 October 2022
Sapienza University of Rome
Martina did her undergraduate thesis working on the latest reference genome CHM13.
Giunta Lab con le Azelee per la Ricerca AIRC 💐
Buona Festa della Mamma 2022
LAB'S MASTER STUDENT LUCA CORDA GRADUATES SUMMA CUM LAUDE
23 March 2022
Sapienza University of Rome
110 & Lode for Luca graduating with a Master Thesis on "Computational Approaches to study human DNA repeats" in the Giunta Lab
GIUNTA LAB awarded PON Ph.D. STUDENT EMILIA VOLPE
1 Jan 2022
Sapienza University of Rome
Emilia Volpe joined as a Ph.D Student in Prof. Simona Giunta’s Lab, at "Sapienza" University, Rome, involved in the Green project ECO-EVO-DEVO co-funded by:
& Dante Labs S.r.l.
Lab News 2021
SIMONA IN EMBL-ROME SEMINARS 2021 "chROMAtin"
3 Dec 2021
Simona's visit and talk for ChROMAtin at the EMBL in Rome
"Protecting our genome: mechanisms to maintain centromere repeats stability in human cells"
PH.D. STUDENT ELISA BALZANO INTERVIEWS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MARIO CAPECCHI
1 Dec 2021
Roma - Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Il Premio Nobel Mario Capecchi in Conversazione con il regista Roberto Faenza e le ricercatrici Elisa Balzano & Marta Marzullo
simona in Giorni della ricerca airc 2021
11 November 2021
Live interview of three AIRC scientists, including our very own Simona Giunta on the AIRC - Fondazione per la Ricerca sul Cancro Page https://www.facebook.com/AIRC.it
Watch the interview here!
Watch the interview here!
ELENA DI TOMMASO GRADUATES SUMMA CUM LAUDE
20 October 2021
Sapienza University of Rome
110 & Lode for Elena graduating with a Master Thesis Genomic Instability Analysis of Common Fragile Sites.
simona featured in airc blog
22 June 2021
AIRC journalist interviews for "IN VIAGGIO CON LA RICERCA" about life in the lab and beyond.