Biography:
Dr. Colussi received her B.Sc. at the University of Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) in 1996. She then started her postgraduate training at the Higher Institute of Health studying DNA repair mechanisms in cancers where she was recipient of a fellowship from Italian Association for Cancers. In 2000 she joined the laboratory of Cardiac Regeneration at the New York Medical College (NY) to study the biology of cardiac progenitor cells and in 2003 she completed a Master Degree at the Clinical Pathology Medical School. In 2012 she also completed her PhD in Endocrinology at Catholic University. From 2015 she is Assistant Professor at CNR-IASI performing research focused on the understanding of the key pathological pathways that lead to alteration of synaptic plasticity in AD and neurodegeneration. She has authored 48 papers (h-I 28). She has been serving as external consultant for the Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) and as member for many International grant advisory committees.
Title : Nucleoporin 153 deficiency in adult neural stem cells defines a pathological protein-network signature and defective neurogenesis in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease