MAGLIARO CHIARA

Nome: 
MAGLIARO CHIARA
Phone: 
050 2218271
Office: 
4037
Address: 
Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1
Sector: 
Bioingegneria Elettronica e Informatica ING-INF/06
Office Hours: 

 

 

Chiara got her PhD with honors in 2016. For the high quality of her work, she also got the certification for the European Doctorate (Doctor Europaeus) and won the Premio Massimo Grattarola for the best Italian PhD thesis in neuroengineering 2016.

She won for two years the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi Post-Doctoral Fellowship, in 2018 and 2019.

Actually, she is an Associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering.

 

 

Research activities:

1. Development of open-source imaging methods for tissue processing, single neuron segmentation and 3D morphometric extraction from confocal/two-photon datasets representing densely-packed neurons in their native arrangement within the brain. The quantitative morphological analysis of the micro-structure could be useful to better understand the structure-function relationship within the brain. In particular, the algorithms she developed was used to study sexual dimorphism in murine models of autism and to unravel human claustral micro-architecture. Recently, she is adapting the algorithms she developed for single-cell 3D reconstruction and 3D morphometric extraction, to map human brain organoids micro-structure.

2. Oxygen and metabolism measurements in vitro and allometric scaling. The real-time monitoring of cellular behaviour in in vitro constructs at different complexity (from traditional monolayers, up to organoids) is crucial for defining quantitative metrics for determining the physiological relevance of engineered constructs.

 

Co-coordinator of the Human Brain Project Partnering project SENSEI.

Research Topic "Deciphering the Anatomical and Functional Connectome"

 

Teaching activities:

1. Neural Tissue Engineering (Modulo dell'insegnamento Neural Prostheses Cod. 700II) per Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Bionics Engineering

2. Metodi Bioingegneristici per la Medicina Regenerativa (Modulo dell'insegnamento Metodi e Tecnologie Ingegneristiche per la Medicina Rigenerativa Cod. 917II) per Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica

 

Advisor at the Simply Neuroscience APAP Program.