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Alessia Petrilli | XLI cycle
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
E-mail: alessia.petrilli@alumni.uniroma2.eu
Tutor: Dr. Artem Smirnov
Project: Investigation of LAT1-dependent amino acid metabolism in skin cancer
ORCID: 0009-0003-2592-0460
PUBLICATIONS
Petrilli A, Barnaba D, Mancini M, et al. Solute carrier family (SLC) amino acid transporters are upregulated in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Biol Direct. 2026;21(1):17. Published 2026 Jan 12. doi:10.1186/s13062-025-00722-y
NEWS
Symposium “From sequencing to discovery”
Published on 24 March 2026
Today two members of the Faculty, Dr Artem Smirnov and Prof Alessandra Gambacurta, have organised a symposium on the role of the Next Generation Sequencing in basic research. The symposium was supported by Novogene Europe. Six of our PhD students including Alessia Petrilli (41 cycle), Mariacristina Franzese Canonico (38 cycle), Elisa Cortellesi (40 cycle), Giulio Colasanto (40 cycle), Damiano Barnaba (40 cycle) and Matteo Veneziano (40 cycle) have presented flash talks and shared how they use NGS services in their projects.
