Personale docente

Date and place of birth: 07 September 1987; Parma, Italy

Nationality: Italy

Languages: Italian, English (U.S.)

e-mail: marco.morselli@unipr.it

Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

University of Parma

Parco Area delle Scienze, 23/a,

43124 Parma (PR), Italia

EDUCATION

June 2017

Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dissertation: “5-methylcytosine: from deposition to detection of the 5th base in mammalian genomes”

Advisors: Matteo Pellegrini; Steven E. Jacobsen

November 2011

Molecular Biotechnology - Master of Science
110/110 cum laude
University of Parma, Parma, Italia

Dissertation – Experimental Thesis (Sept. 2010 - Sept 2011)
DNA methylation in Tuber melanosporum: a symbiotic filamentous fungus with a genome rich in transposable elements
Advisors: Barbara Montanini; Simone Ottonello

October 2009

Biotechnology - Bachelor of Science
110/110 cum laude

Dissertation – Experimental Thesis (March 2009 - Sept. 2009)

Validation of genome-wide protein-protein interactions using yeast two-hybrid technology in the symbiotic ascomycetes Tuber melanosporum

Advisors: Barbara Montanini; Simone Ottonello

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2021 - present: Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A)

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

University of Parma

2017 – 2021: Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA, USA

Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology & Institute for Genomics and Proteomics

Development of methods to detect DNA methylation levels in biological fluids (blood, plasma, saliva, stool, CSF…) for disease prediction using Next Generation Sequencing and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing.

P.I: Matteo Pellegrini

Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences – The Collaboratory:

  ∙  Instructor: Workshop Introduction to Library Preparation for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)

  ∙  Co-Instructor: Using NGS Analysis Tools; Intro to Unix

  ∙  NGS Experiment Design and Library Preparation - collaborative projects

Web: https://qcb.ucla.edu/collaboratory-2/workshops/w16-library-prep-for-ngs/

2012 – 2017: Graduate Student Researcher

Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA, USA

Study of the molecular mechanisms between chromatin and DNA methylation.

Advisors: Steven E. Jacobsen; Matteo Pellegrini

Gennaio 2012 – Settembre 2012: Staff Research Associate

Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA, USA

Improvement of the Reduced Representation Bisulfite Treatment technique for the detection of DNA methylation in large-scale projects.

Supervisori: Liudmilla Rubbi; Matteo Pellegrini

Numero totale di pubblicazioni su riviste scientifiche (peer-reviewed): 72

H-index: 24

Numero totale di citazioni: 2187