SHORT CV

1.     PERSONAL DATA AND WORKING ADDRESS

 

·      Language skills: Italian (mother language), English (excellent), Spanish (excellent), German (basic level)

-   e-mail: roberta.benetti [at] uniud.it

- Phone: 0432 494372

·      Working Address

 Department of Medicine - University of Udine, P.le Kolbe,4 33100 Udine, Italy

 

2.     POSITIONS:

 

·      1 Decembre 2022- now

-       University of Udine, Associate Professor (Applied Biology, BIO/13), Department of Medicine

Research Topic: Epigenetics and Ovarian Cancer; stemness-factors and non-coding RNAs

·      21 December 2007-30 november 2022: 

-    University of Udine, Assistant Professor, Department DAME (Department of Medicine).

-     Head of an independent research group 

Research Topic: Epigenetics and Ovarian Cancer; stemness-factors and non-coding RNAs 

-       From 01.01.2008 – 28.11.2020: Group leader Laboratorio Nazionale CIB, Trieste, Italy

Research focus: Non-coding RNA and cancer

·      January 2005-18 December 2007: 

Centro Nacional de Investigationes Oncologicas (CNIO), Madrid (Director: Prof.  Maria A. Blasco)

Staff Scientist, Telomeres and Telomerase Group

Research topic: telomeres, epigenetic, cancer and aging.

·      January 2002- December 2004: 

AIRC (Italian Association for Cancer Research) post-doctoral fellowship at the Laboratorio Nazionale CIB, Trieste, Italy.

Director: Prof. Claudio Schneider

Research topic: p53 and beta-catenin pathways

 

3.     ACADEMIC EDUCATION

10/12/2001

PhD degree with laude in Molecular Genetics and Biotecnology, thesis title “Gas2 and hGTSE-1: two different proteins regulating p53 levels and function”

1997-2001

SISSA/ISAS (International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy) PhD course in Molecular Genetics.

Research Topic: pathways regulating susceptibility to p53-dependent apoptosis; cancer

23/07/1997: Degree cum laude in Biological Sciences (B.Sc/M.Sc) at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Trieste, Italy.