PHD STUDENT

Chiara Invernizzi

CHIARA INVERNIZZI

Graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Milan Bicocca, she took a Master degree in Biology applied to biomedical research at the University of Milan.

University of Milano – Bicocca
U8 Building – 1st floor – Room 1034
Via Cadore, 48
20900 – Monza (MB)
Italy

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Born in 1998, she graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Milan Bicocca in 2020 and she took a Master’s degree in Biology applied to biomedical research at the University of Milan in 2023, with a thesis about synaptic localization of α-synuclein in epileptic and parkinsonian mouse brain with Prof. Alida Amadeo and Prof. Graziella Cappelletti.
She spent 4 months in Germany at the University of Göttingen working in Prof. Tiago Outeiro’s Neurodegeneration laboratory. She got a scholarship for research in June 2023 at the University of Milan Bicocca, working on a project about chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity pathologic mechanisms in Experimental Neurology Unit group in Monza. Now she is a Neuroscience PhD student working on this project.

SKILLS
– Histological techniques (immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry)
– Confocal microscopy
– Primary neuronal cultures
– Basic in vitro techniques

RESEARCH INTERESTS
– Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy
– Synaptic role of α-synuclein