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.