ARMIRAGLIO MARTA

Date of birth: August, 5^th 1978

Education:

• November 2006: "Esame di Stato" (University of Insubria, Italy).
  


• July 2004: Magistral Degree in Biological Sciences (University of Milan, Italy).
  Thesis title: "Identification of new interactors of the Methyl-Binding Protein, MeCP2, key protein in Rett syndrome".
  
  

Research activity:

• November 2005: PhD Student in Molecular Medicine at University of Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Italy.
  Research project: Role of RPS19 in pathogenesys of Diamond-Blackfan anemia.
  
  
• September 2004-October 2005: Graduated Fellow at the Department of Farmacological Sciences (Faculty of Farmacy), University of Milan. Research project: Study of lipidic methabolism in different experimental models, with particular reference to neurodegenerative pathologies in Prof. Anna Petroni's lab.
• December 2002-July 2004: Undergraduated fellow at the Department of Structural and Functional Biology (Faculty of Scienze) at University of Insubria in Prof. Gianfranco Badaracco's lab.

Abstracts:

1. Analysis of Rps19 protein and Rps19 missense mutant proteins interactome
   Orrù S., Aspesi A., Armiraglio M., Caterino M., Loreni F., Ruoppolo M., Santoro C., Dianzani I.
   2^nd ItPA Conference, Acitrezza (CT, Italy), June, 26^th-29^th 2007
2. Missense mutations affect the RPS19 interactome
   Orrù S., Armiraglio M., Aspesi A., Caterino M., Avondo F., Pavesi E., Ruoppolo M., Loreni F., Santoro C., Dianzani I.
   8^th Annual International Diamond Blackfan Anemia Consensus Conference, New York (NY, USA), March, 17^th-19^th 2007
3. Analysis of the interactome of RPS19, mutated in Diamond Blackfan Anemia
   Dianzani I., Aspesi A., Orrù S., Armiraglio M., Caterino M., Loreni F., Ruoppolo M., Santoro C.
   ASHG Annual Meeting, New Orleans (LA, USA), October, 9^th-13^th 2006
4. The role of the kinase Pim1 on translation
   Iadevaia V., Angelini M., Pagliaroli F., Armiraglio M., Pavesi E., Santoro C., Dianzani I., Loreni F.
   FISV 2006 - 8^th Annual Meeting, Riva del Garda (TN, Italy), September, 28^th-October, 1^st 2006
5. Human Ribosomal Protein S19 Interactome
   Caterino M., Orrù S., Ruoppolo M., Aspesi A., Armiraglio M., Loreni F., Santoro C., Dianzani I.
   Proteins 2006, Novara (Italy), June, 1^st-3^rd 2006
6. Conjugated linoleic acid metabolism in peroxisomal disorders
   Petroni A., Blasevich M., Armiraglio M., Marangoni F., Cappa M., Banni S.
   5^th National Conference "Polyunsaturated Fat Acids w-3, CLA and antioxidants", Ancona (Italy), June, 22^nd-25^th 2005
7. Steroid hormone metabolic alterations in peroxisomal diseases: effect of androgens on ABCD transporter proteins
   Armiraglio M., Blasevich M., Uziel G., Cappa M., Petroni A.
   32^nd Congress of Italian Society of Pharmacology, Naples (Italy), June, 1^st-4^th 2005
8. Effect of steroid hormones on lipid metabolism and ABCD transporters in the neurodegenerative disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
   Armiraglio M., Blasevich M., Uziel G., Cappa M., Petroni A.
   2^nd International Meeting "Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration", Milan (Italy), May, 7^th-10^th 2005
9. Identification and characterization of novel factors involved in MeCP2 mediated mental retardation
   Armiraglio M., Bergo A., Bosaia F., Cassetti S., Mengoni M., Bolognese F., Badaracco G., Landsberger N., Kilstrup-Nielsen C.
   6^th EMBL Transcription Meeting, Heidelberg (Germany), August, 28^th-September, 1^st 2004
10. Identification and characterization of novel factors involved in MeCP2-mediated mental retardation
    Bergo A., Armiraglio M., Bosaia F., Diani L., Bolognese F., Badaracco G., Landsberger N., Kilstrup-Nielsen C.
    SIBBM Congress, Cortona (AR, Italy), April, 15^th-17^th Aprile 2004

Publications:

1. Orrù S., Aspesi A., Armiraglio M., Caterino M., Loreni F., Ruoppolo M., Santoro C., Dianzani I. Analysis of the Ribosomal Protein S19 Interactome. Mol Cell Proteomics, 2007; 6:382-393.