Maria Mione (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Speaker: Prof. Maria Mione (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Talk: The zebrafish as a tool in cancer genetics and cancer cell biology

Time: Thursday, 4^th of September 2014, 9:30

Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2014, OW Syrenka, Stegna

Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School

Maria Mione, biographical note

Group Leader at the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT.

Research interest: Cancer and disease models using the zebrafish platform. Special focus on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of transformation and cell reprogramming by oncogenes.

Dr Mione graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, trained as a neurologist and received a PhD in Neurobiology from University College London. After postdoctoral work at University of California at San Francisco, on her return to U.K, she adopted the zebrafish for her studies on neural development and disease. In 2005 she moved to the Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan and developed zebrafish models for the study of cancer cell biology. Dr. Mione’s work focuses on understanding early events in melanoma, myeloid leukemia and glioma development, including cancer initiating cells, mechanisms of transformation, epigenetic regulation and immune responses. From 2012, she is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She is an active member of the international community of zebrafish researchers. She organized of the VI European Development and Genetics Zebrafish meeting, held in Rome in 2009, and the satellite workshop on Cancer and Immune Responses in Zebrafish in July 2009. She was part of the planning committee of the 4th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators in Asilomar, 2009-2011, Vice Chair of the Cost action BM8024, EuFishBioMed and funding member of the European Zebrafish & Medaka Society (http://www.eufishbiomed.kit.edu/). She is a member of the scientific board of the newly established Zebrafish Disease Models society

(http://www.zdmsociety.org/internation_expert_board.html).