Argirò Luca

Ritratto di Luca Argirò
Corso di Studio: 
Genetica e Biologia Molecolare - Genetics and Molecular Biology
Anno di ammissione: 
2017
Progetti di ricerca: 

2020/2021: “Pan-neuronal response to sensory stimuli in C.elegans
Supervisors: Dr Viola Folli and Prof Giancarlo Ruocco, Center of Nanotechnologies for Neurosciences, Italian
Institute of Technology (IIT) and Sapienza University of Rome
SSAS Tutor: Prof Isabella Saggio - Sapienza University of Rome

2018/2019: “Investigation of a possible link between low PLP levels and cancer using Drosophila as model system”
Supervisor: Dr Fiammetta Vernì - Sapienza University of Rome
SSAS Tutor: Prof Isabella Saggio - Sapienza University of Rome

2017/2018: “Auxin homeostasis regulation and lateral roots development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Supervisors: Prof Sabrina Sabatini - Sapienza University of Rome - and Prof Riccardo Di Mambro - University of Pisa
SSAS Tutor: Prof Isabella Saggio - Sapienza University of Rome

Tesi: 
"Auxin dynamics in developmental programmed cell death events in the Arabidopsis thaliana root"
Tesi SSAS: 
"Molecular links between vascular development and leaf shape in Crucifers"
Esperienze di rilievo nazionali e internazionali: 

August - September 2022: SSAS Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany
Research project’s title: "Molecular links between vascular development and leaf shape in Crucifers"
Supervisors: Prof Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Department of Comparative Development and Genetics,
Prof Raffaele Dello Ioio, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”

September – November 2021: SSAS Internship at the Institut des Sciences des Plantes-Paris Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Institut National de la Reserche Agronomique (INRAe), Paris, France
Research project’s title: “Integration of N-related systemic pathways regulating symbiotic root nodulation in Medicago truncatula with phosphate availability”
Supervisor: Dr Florian Frugier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INRAe, IPS2, Département de Génétique et Génomique du Développement (DGG)

August – September 2020: Internship as Student Helper at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria
Research project’s title: “Identification of selective autophagy receptors in Marchantia polymorpha
Supervisor: Dr Yasin Dagdas, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna Biocenter

July – August 2019: JIC/TSL/EI International Undergraduate Summer School, Norwich, UK
Research project’s title: “How to get radial: Unlocking the mechanisms for symmetry establishment during plant organogenesis”
Supervisor: Dr Laila Moubayidin, Crop Genetics Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park

2019: British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship Awardee
https://thenode.biologists.com/bsdb-gurdon-the-company-of-biologists-201...

Pubblicazioni: 

Argirò L. & Gerosa M., (2022) Orologi convergenti: ritmi circadiani tra piante e uomo, Il Chiasmo, Treccani Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia©, Rome
https://www.treccani.it/magazine/chiasmo/scienze_della_vita/Convergenza/...

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