Silvia Schwartz is postdoctoral researcher at Disruptive Technological Advances in Life Science (D-Tails s.r.l. S.B.). She obtained her Master’s degree in Cell Biology from Sapienza University, Rome (2011) and then a PhD in Genetics from Massey University, New Zealand, in 2017. Her Doctoral thesis included in the Dean’s List of Exceptional Theses. After her doctoral studies, Silvia worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon (Portugal). Her primary research interest lies in the field of neurobiology, and during her PhD and postdoc she focused on deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying neurological phenomena such as learning, memory, and regenerative neurogenesis. Since 2018, she has been working on the Cancer Detection project studying the molecular pathway responsible for olfactory sensing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Currently, she is focusing on the heterologous expression of C. elegans olfactory receptors in yeast cells. Silvia has extensive expertise in conducting behavioural assays on animal models, and she is skilled in molecular biology procedures, including genome editing via CRISPR/Cas9 methodology in both the nematode and yeast.

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