Biography

Prof. Laura Ciapponi

Department of Biology and Biotechnologies

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Associate Prof. of genetics


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

Associate Professor of Genetics at Sapienza, University of Rome

Research associate position at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL/Heidelberg (Germany)

PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Sapienza, University of Rome


Publications (selected)

  1. Mengistu, D. Y., Terribili, M., Pellacani, C., Ciapponi, L., & Marzullo, M. (2025). Epigenetic regulation of TDP-43: potential implications for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Frontiers in Molecular Medicine, 5, 1530719.
  2. Marzullo, M., Romano, G., Pellacani, C., Riccardi, F., Ciapponi, L., & Feiguin, F. (2023). Su (var) 3-9 mediates age-dependent increase in H3K9 methylation on TDP-43 promoter triggering neurodegeneration. Cell Death Discovery, 9(1), 357.
  3. Marzullo, M., Coni, S., De Simone, A., Canettieri, G., & Ciapponi, L. (2023). Modeling myotonic dystrophy type 2 using Drosophila melanogaster. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(18), 14182.
  4. D’ercole, C., D’angelo, P., Ruggieri, V., Proietti, D., Virtanen, L., Parisi, C., ... & Madaro, L. (2022). Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals innervation-responsive functional clusters in skeletal muscle. Cell Reports, 41(12).
  5. Porrazzo, A., Cipressa, F., De Gregorio, A., De Pittà, C., Sales, G., Ciapponi, L., ... & Cenci, G. (2022). Low dose rate γ-irradiation protects fruit fly chromosomes from double strand breaks and telomere fusions by reducing the esi-RNA biogenesis factor Loquacious. Communications biology, 5(1), 905.
  6. Sakr, R., Cattenoz, P. B., Pavlidaki, A., Ciapponi, L., Marzullo, M., Hariharan, N., ... & Giangrande, A. (2022). Novel cell-and stage-specific transcriptional signatures defining Drosophila neurons, glia and hemocytes. bioRxiv, 2022-06.
  7. Coni, S., Falconio, F. A., Marzullo, M., Munafò, M., Zuliani, B., Mosti, F., ... & Ciapponi, L. (2021). Translational control of polyamine metabolism by CNBP is required for Drosophila locomotor function. Elife, 10, e69269.
  8. Porrazzo, A., Cipressa, F., De Gregorio, A., De Pittà, C., Sales, G., Morciano, P., ... & Cenci, G. (2021). Low dose/dose rate γ irradiation protects Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes from double strand breaks and telomere fusions by modulating the expression of Loquacious. bioRxiv, 2021-07.
  9. Strah, N., Romano, G., Introna, C., Klima, R., Marzullo, M., Ciapponi, L., ... & Feiguin, F. (2020). TDP-43 promotes the formation of neuromuscular synapses through the regulation of Disc-large expression in Drosophila skeletal muscles. BMC biology, 18, 1-13.


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