Venue: Maison du CNRS (Rua da Reitoria, nº 100, Cidade Universitária – Butantã, São Paulo, SP)
Seminário: Reshaping Intercellular Connectivity with Tunneling Nanotubes: Structure, Formation and Role in Diseases Progression
Speaker: Professor Chiara Zurzolo, Head of the Membrane Trafficking and Pathogenesis Unit and Director of the Brain Connectivity and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Program at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
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About Chiara Zurzolo: She is the Head of the Membrane Trafficking and Pathogenesis Unit and Director of the Brain Connectivity and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Program at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of protein trafficking in health and disease, with an emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) and brain tumors. Professor Zurzolo is widely recognized as a pioneer in the study of Tunneling Nanotubes (TNTs), which she characterized both in vitro and in vivo, uncovering their role in facilitating the intercellular transfer of prions and amyloids in NDs.
She received her MD and then PhD in molecular and cell biology from the University of Naples Federico II. She then obtained a postdoctoral fellowship to spend four years at Cornell Medical School, New York, where she uncovered some of the mechanisms of apical protein trafficking in polarized epithelial cells. In 1995, she returned to Naples to establish her laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at Naples University Federico II as a professor of Cell Biology.
In 2015, she was elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and promoted Professor at Institut Pasteur. In 2019, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, sponsored by the Radcliffe Fellowship. In 2023 she was elected member of Academia Europaea. Her international reputation leads her to conferences and seminars all over the world. She is also very involved in teaching and organizing national/international conferences and courses.
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