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Mirko Celii

Mirko Celii

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Postdoctoral Fellow

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3204_WS010

Biography

Current job:

Research specialist at the Center for Desert Agriculture in KAUST.

Research Interests

 L1 retrotransposition in mammalian genome and its interaction with epigenome and transcriptome

Education

  • 2005 - 2008 BSc in "Biological Sciences"  Graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza – University of Rome, Italy Final Dissertation: "Functional study of the transcription factor HFR1 in Arabidopsis thaliana"  
  • 2008 – 2010 MSc in "Genetics and Molecular Biology"   Graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude) at Sapienza – University of Rome, Italy Final Dissertation:  "Networks that control shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis thaliana" 
  • 2013 – 2015   Ph.D. in "Agricultural science and biotechnology" at University of Udine, Italy  Topic: "Analysis of epigenomic variability in grapevine and its relation with structural variation"  Advisor: Prof. Michele Morgante
  • 2016 Post-Doctoral Fellowship position at University of Udine _Advisor: Prof. Michele Morgante, 
  • 2017  present Post-Doctoral Fellowship position at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA   Advisor: Prof. Valerio Orlando, Environmental epigenetics group, BESE division
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