Marta Lucchetta

I graduated in Bioinformatics at the University of Rome in May 2017. I carried out my Master thesis at the Computational Biology Laboratory in 2016-2017 where I am currently working as a Research Assistant. During my Master studies, I have been awarded an Erasmus Traineeship and a KBVU pre-graduate fellowship to support my research.

The aim of my Master project was to identify some genomic signatures that can be used to discriminate two lung cancer types. I also had the opportunity to improve my programming skills, with main emphasis on programming in R and Bioconductor packages.

My work as Research Assistant is mainly focusing on analyses of RNA-Seq data, pathway-enrichment approaches with

particular attention to the data deposited in The Cancer Genome Atlas. I am interested in understanding gene-microRNA relationships in the context of (de)regulation of nitrosylation and redox modification of cysteines, as well genomic profiling of breast cancer and melanoma samples.