Biography

I studied Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Pisa, Italy (2012-2017). After my graduation I spent three months at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge (UK), where I was granted a postgraduate fellowship. In 2017, I joined the PlantLab and entered the PhD programme in Agrobiosciences of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

Research

My research aims to identify and characterize the bases of the cross-talk between RNA-silencing and oxygen sensing, using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism. I am studying the molecular mechanism trough which micro RNAs regulate the adaptive response of plants to hypoxia, both at transcriptional and post-transcriptional level. My research activities rely on molecular biology and transcriptomic analysis.

Selected Publications

• Loreti E, Betti F, Ladera-Carmona MJ, Fontana F, Novi G, Valeri MC, Perata P (2020) ARGONAUTE1 and ARGONAUTE4 Regulate Gene Expression and Hypoxia Tolerance. Plant Physiology, 182(1): 287–300.