Biography:
Dr. Emanuela Ruggiero studied Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy and graduates as MS in 2010. She received her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2014 at the University of Ferrara. In 2015, she joined Prof. Sara Richter group at the University of Padova, Italy, as a postdoc. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padova. She works on the biological role of alternative nucleic acid structures in microbial genomes. Her ultimate goal is to understand how the host-cell interaction exploits non-B DNA and how this mechanism can be targeted for antimicrobial purposes.
Title : First application of CUT&Tag in bacteria reveals unconventional G-quadruplex landscape in mycobacterium tuberculosis: A novel defense mechanism against oxidative stress