Alice Lunardon

I completed my PhD at the University of Padova in Italy, in Dr. S. Varotto’s lab, where I examined small RNA regulation in maize under abiotic stresses. I continued to study plant small RNAs during my postdoc in Dr. M.J. Axtell’s lab at the Penn State University, where I contributed to create the plantsmallrnagenes.science.psu.edudatabase, for the storage and analysis of genome-wide annotations of small RNA genes in a large number of plants. 

 I joined the Jonikas lab in 2020 to participate in another exciting project that will significantly expand the size of the random insertion mutant library in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii recently developed in the lab (Li et al, 2019 Nat. Genet.). This will create a valuable resource for the scientific community by generating mutants for protein-coding genes and by providing phenotypic information about the mutants, with the final goal of placing genes into pathways on a genome-wide scale.

 In my free time, I enjoy nature and its wildlife, traveling, cooking and exercising with friends.