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CECILIA MANNIRONI
Researcher

National Research Council
Istitute of Molecular Biology and Pathology CNR
Department of Biology and Biotecnology - Charles Darwin - Sapienza University of Rome
RESEARCH INTERESTS
General research interest is the role of epigenetic and post-transcriptional mechanisms in gene expression control.

Current Research activities:
  • analysis of miRNA mediated post-transcriptional regulation in the nervous system, in stress related behavior and pathologies;
  • study of miRNA and RBP crosstalk mechanisms;
  • characterization of gene espression in autism spectrum disorder with particular  focus on microRNAs and circRNAs;
  • chemical and post-transcriptional control of JARID1 HDMs in human breast cancer cell lines
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Publications 2015-2020
  1. Flati, Tiziano, Silvia Gioiosa, C Giovanni, Andrea Mele, Alberto Oli, Cecilia Mannironi, Arianna Rinaldi, and Tiziana Castrignanò. 2020. “A Gene Expression Atlas for Different Kinds of Stress in the Mouse Brain,” 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00772-z.
  2. Gasparini, Silvia, Valerio Licursi, Carlo Presutti, and Cecilia Mannironi. 2020. “The Secret Garden of Neuronal CircRNAs.” Cells 9 (8): 11–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9081815.
  3. Gasparini, Silvia, Giorgia Del Vecchio, Silvia Gioiosa, Tiziano Flati, Tiziana Castrignano, Ivano Legnini, Valerio Licursi, Laura Ricceri, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Arianna Rinaldi, Carlo Presutti, Cecilia Mannironi. 2020. “Differential Expression of Hippocampal Circular RNAs in the BTBR Mouse Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Molecular Neurobiology, February. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-020-01878-6.
  4. Mannironi, Cecilia, Antonio Biundo, Samyutha Rajendran, Francesca De Vito, Luana Saba, Silvia Caioli, Cristina Zona, et al. 2018. “MiR-135a Regulates Synaptic Transmission and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Amygdala.” Molecular Neurobiology 55 (4): 3301–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-017-0564-9.
  5. Capitano, F., J. Camon, V. Licursi, V. Ferretti, L. Maggi, M. Scianni, G. Del Vecchio, et al. 2017. “MicroRNA-335-5p Modulates Spatial Memory and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity.” Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2016.12.019.
  6. Capitano, F., J. Camon, V. Ferretti, V. Licursi, Francesca De Vito, A. Rinaldi, S. Vincenti, et al. 2016. “MicroRNAs Modulate Spatial Memory in the Hippocampus and in the Ventral Striatum in a Region-Specific Manner.” Molecular Neurobiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-015-9398-5.
  7. Vecchio, Giorgia Del, Francesca De Vito, Sita J. Saunders, Adele Risi, Cecilia Mannironi, Irene Bozzoni, and Carlo Presutti. 2016. “RNA-Binding Protein HuR and the Members of the MiR-200 Family Play an Unconventional Role in the Regulation of c-Jun MRNA.” RNA. https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.057588.116.
  8. Martin Hrabě de Angelis, George Nicholson, Mohammed Selloum, Jacqui White, Hugh Morgan, Ramiro Ramirez-Solis, Tania Sorg, Sara Wells, Helmut Fuchs, Martin Fray, David J Adams, Niels C Adams, Thure Adler, Antonio Aguilar-Pimentel, Dalila Ali-Hadji, Gregory, and Steve DM Brown. 2016. “Analysis of Mammalian Gene Function through Broad Based Phenotypic Screens across a Consortium of Mouse Clinics” 47 (9): 969–78. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3360.Analysis.
  9. Angelis, Martin Hrabě De, George Nicholson, Mohammed Selloum, Jacqueline K. White, Hugh Morgan, Ramiro Ramirez-Solis, Tania Sorg, et al. 2015. “Analysis of Mammalian Gene Function through Broad-Based Phenotypic Screens across a Consortium of Mouse Clinics.” Nature Genetics 47 (9): 969–78. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3360.
COLLABORATIONS
Prof. Carlo Presutti, Prof. Rodolfo Negri, IBPM associates, Sapienza University, Rome
Dr. Valerio Licursi, Sapienza University, Rome
Dr. Arianna Rinaldi, Prof. Andrea Mele, Dept of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza       University, Rome
Dr. Maria Luisa Scattoni, Dr. Laura Ricceri, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Prof. Pascale Legault, University of Montreal, Canada
Dr. Tiziana Castrignanò, University of Tuscia, Department of Ecological and Biological          Sciences, Viterbo, Italy
Dr. Silvia Gioiosa, SCAI-Super Computing Applications and Innovation Department, CINECA, Rome, Italy
CV
Cecilia Mannironi, Ph.D.
Via degli Apuli, 4 
Roma, 00185
Tel: +39-06-4457526/49917912
Indirizzo e-mail: cecilia.mannironi@uniroma1.it
 
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1987 Ph.D. in Pharmacological Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
1983 Biological Science Degree, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Graduation Score: 110/110 cum laude 
 
CAREER OUTLINE 
2013- present: Staff Scientist IBPM, CNR, Rome, Italy
2008-2013: Visiting scientist IBPM, CNR, Rome, Italy
1991-2008: Staff Scientist IBCN, CNR, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
1988 –1990: Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, NCI, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Chromatin Structure and Function Group (Dr. W.M. Bonner), Bethesda, MD, USA
1984 -1988: Research Fellow at Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", (Dr. Maurizio D’incalci), Milano, Italy 
1983-1984: Visiting Student at Istituto di Genetica, Universita’ degli Studi di Pisa (Prof. Roberto Barale) and Istituto di Mutagenesi e Differenziamento (Dr. Lorenzo Citti), CNR, Pisa, Italy
1981-1984: Undergraduate Student, Istituto di Mutagenesi e Differenziamento, CNR, Pisa, Italy
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-2017.  Lecturer of Molecular Neurobiology at the Master Degree in Neurobiology, Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (3 CFU).
2017- 2019. Lecturer of Molecular Neurobiology I, at the Master Degree in Neurobiology, Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (3 CFU).

Supervisor of undergraduate /master students, University of Rome
Seminars and laboratory teaching for High School students 

INVITED PEER REVIEW
Peer Reviewer for the international journals Cell Communication and Signaling (Jan 2020), Scientific Reports (Nov 2017), Scientific Reports (Aug 2017), Life Scince (June 2017), Chemical Biology (March 2015). Peer Reviewer for the The Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Grants “Futuro in Ricerca” 2013. Member of REPRISE (Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation).
 
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Cineca, grant Elixir-IIB HPC@CINECA: Analysis of alternatively spliced variantsranscriptome profiling of brain and biofluids in Autism Spectrum Disorder mouse models, 2020
Cineca, grant Elixir-IIB HPC@CINECA: Transcriptome profiling of brain and biofluids in Autism Spectrum Disorder mouse models, 2018
Short Term Mobility Program from CNR. Title: "Assessment of miR-135a activity as an RNA decoy to modulate CPEB1 regulation of mRNA translation: in vitro structural and functional studies of miR-135a-CPEB1 interactions", University of Montreal, Canada 13.04.2018-05.05.2018.
Partecipant to European Grants: LIFE2020-Regione Lazio - REG LAZIO; EUMODIC (The European MOuse DIsease Clinic), 2007; EURASNET (European alternative splicing network of excellence),
2006; EUCOMM (The European Mouse Genome Mutagenesis Program), 2006; MUGEN (Integrated functional genomics in mutant mouse models as tools to
investigate the complexity of human immunological disease), 2005.
Participant to Italian Grants: MIUR-FIRB 2005; Sapienza Universita' di Roma
“Basi molecolari neuroanatomiche della memoria” 2009; PRIN “Ruolo dei Fattori Regolativi Generali (GRF) di S.cerevisiae nell'organizzazione strutturale e dinamica della cromatina” 2009.

C.M. is a member of the EUMODIC Consortium (http://www.eumodic.org), for mouse functional genomics and phenotyping, built on the work in the EUMORPHIA project funded by the European Commission under the Framework 6 (Programme contract number LSHG-CT-2006-037188).

 
MEMBERSHIPS TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Member of the European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EEMCCS)
Member of Società' Italiana di Biofisica e Biologia Molecolare (SIBBM)
 
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