PhD in CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

email: silvia.campello@uniroma2.it
phone: 001842
building: SOGENE
room: 229

Education and training

2000  D.Sci., Biological Science Degree, University of Padova (I)

2004  PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathology, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova (I)

2007-2009  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CMU, Dept. Physiologie Cellulaire et Metabolisme, Genève, Suisse

2006  Visiting Fellow, lab. of Prof Ulrich Von Andrian, Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,USA

2004-2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy; Istituto Clinico

Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy

Employment

2021-present   Full Professor at the Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Dept. of Biology, Rome (I)

2014-present   Group leader of the Cell Biology and Immunology Lab at the Dept. of Biology, Rome (I)

2014-2020       Associate Professor at the Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Dept. of Biology, Rome (I)

2011-present   Head of the Mitochondrial Dynamics in Neuropathology Lab at the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia,

Rome (I)

2009-2011       Junior group leader, of the Mitochondrial Dynamics in Immunology Lab at the Centre Medical

Universitaire, University of Geneva, (CH)

2008-present   Member of The European Cell Death Organization, The Biochemical Society, Italian Society of Clinical

Immunology and Allergology, Italian Group of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes

Teaching

2019-present   Professor of the Fluorimetric Biotechnology Course in the Biotechnology degree, at the University of

Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

2018-present   Professor of the Developmental Biology Course in the Biotechnology degree, at the University of Rome

Tor Vergata, Italy

2015-present   Professor of the Fundamentals of Cell and Developmental Biology Course in the Bioinformatic

specialized degree, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

2011-2013       Teaching parts of the Cell Differentiation Course, third year at the Cellular and Molecular Biology and

Biomedical Sciences magistral course; University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

2008-2011       Teaching parts of the Histology Course (theoretical and practical courses) to first-year medical

students at the Geneva Medicine Faculty, Centre Medicale Universitaire, Genève, Switzerland

Honours

EMBO STF (2018); FEBS STF, EMBO STF, FNS STF (2010); Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship - FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 (2009); Roche Research Foundation Fellowship (2008); Collaboration fellowship (“Assegno di Ricerca”), University and Research Italian Ministry (MIUR) (2006-7); Annual fellowship for the participation to the Project C.E.E. Socrates-Erasmus scholarship at the University Paris XI of Orsay, France (1998).

Research interests

Mitochondria and mitochondrial dynamics in cell physiology and death; Lymphocytes physiology; Apoptosis and Autophagy.