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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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