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Alessia USARDI

PARIS

En résumé

Postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience at Collège de France with extensive experience of grant acquisition and management. Career milestones include multiple peer-reviewed publications, discovery of novel neurodevelopmental processes with high relevance to ongoing schizophrenia research, successful project management, mentoring and development of research workers, oral presentations at scientific conferences and outreach programs all within an international context.

Mes compétences :
Rédaction
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Management
Analyse de données
Ecriture
Microsoft PowerPoint
Biologie cellulaire
Bio-informatique
Adobe Photoshop
Biologie moléculaire
Adobe Illustrator
Recherche scientifique
Vulgarisation scientifique
Communication scientifique
Alzheimer's disease
Grant management
Successful project management
Brain development
Diabetes

Entreprises

  • Collège de France - Postdoctoral fellow

    maintenant

  • INSERM-CIRB Collège de France - Postdoctoral fellow

    2010 - maintenant - Developed scientific projects involving the use of cutting-edge technologies to tackle questions related to psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders
    - Managed research projects resulting in peer-reviewed publications and including the discovery of the novel neurodevelopmental role of a molecule associated to schizophrenia
    - Presenting at national and international scientific meetings including the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, USA (2012)
    - Awarded a 12 months Postdoctoral Fellowship (LabEx Memolife) and first prizes for best presentation at national scientific conferences (ENP days 2010 and 2012)
    - Successfully collaborating with international research institutes including the Rockefeller University in New York, USA
    - Managing, tutoring and grading of practical laboratory activities undergraduate and PhD students
    - Organized multidisciplinary conferences promoting interaction and scientific communication between research centers in Paris and contributed to events devoted to public awareness of science
    - Research areas: neuroscience, genetics, bioinformatics, cell and molecular biology and biochemistry

  • University of Geneva - Research intern

    2006 - 2006 - Research internship on the effect of fatty acid exposure and downregulation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha in pancreatic beta cells
    - Contributed to a peer-reviewed scientific publication
    - Research areas: diabetes, pharmacology, cell and molecular biology and biochemistry

  • Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital - Research Intern

    2004 - 2005 - Research internship on the characterization of the murine expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor C during neurodevelopment
    - Research areas: cell and molecular biology and biochemistry

Formations

  • Institute Of Psychiatry (Londres)

    Londres 2006 - 2010 Doctor of Philosophy

    - Developed scientific projects focused on neurodegenerative processes involved in Alzheimer’s disease resulting in several peer-reviewed publications
    - Experienced in project management, statistical data analysis, giving presentations at departmental and national meetings and scientific writing
    - Awarded a travel grant from Oxford Brain Journal to attend the International Conference on Alzheime

  • University Of Padova (Padova)

    Padova 2002 - 2005 Master of Science

    - Performed research projects in several divisions of natural sciences with particular attention on the mechanisms of development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease
    - Contributed to a scientific project focused on the role of familial mutations in presenilins in the development of Alzheimer’s disease resulting in a peer-reviewed publication

  • University Of Padova (Padova)

    Padova 2000 - 2002 Bachelor of Science

    Performed research in the Pharmacology department of the University of Padova on the pharmacological characterization of the metabolism of an anti-tumoral drug in rodents ;

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