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Carmela Rita Balistreri, PhD, is actually an assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and a member of the Immunosenescence Group at the Department of Pathobiology and Medical and Forensic Biotechnologies, University of Palermo, Italy. The Immunosenescence Group is a group of scientists (Professors, Post-DOC, graduate and undergraduate students; http://www.unipa.it/immunopatologia) actively involved in the field of Bio-gerontology: in particular the topics under study include all the aspects concerning immune-inflammatory responses in ageing, longevity and age-related diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease.
Carmela Rita Balstreri, Born in Canicatti’ (AG), April 8th, 1971
Current Institutional Appointments and Affiliations:
Researcher, Department of Pathobiology and Forensic and Medical Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy
Educational History and Training:
High School Enrico Fermi Sciacca (AG), 1990; Sci.D. School of Biology, University of Palermo, 1998; Specialization Course in Immunology, University of Palermo, 2001; Postgraduate in Clinical Pathology, University of Palermo, 2003 (magna cum laude); PhD in Pathobiology (XVIII cycle), University of Palermo April 18th 2007; Master in Immunogenetics and Immunopathology, University of Palermo, 2008 (magna cum laude). 1995-1998: Boarder at Institute of General Pathology (by now Department of Pathobiology and Forensic and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Palermo) for degree experimental thesis “Immunological mechanisms of immunosenescence”; From March 1998 until 2007: Biologist Training at Laboratory of Immunosenescence Group (head Prof. C. Caruso) for Postgraduate in Clinical Pathology and PhD student (G. Candore, PhD Research Mentor); From 21 November to 6 December 2000 Molecular Biology Training at Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboartory of Departement of Research of National Aging Institute of Ancona (INRCA) (Istituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura degli Anziani a carattere Scientifico); From 11 to 22 July 2005 Molecular Biology Training at Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboartory of Departement of Research of National Aging Institute of Ancona (INRCA), Italy; From June 2007 to 11 August 2011 Research fellow, Laboratory of Immunosenescence Group of Department of Pathobiology and Forensic and Medical Biotechnologies, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy; From 18 to 22 September 2007 attendance to MiMage and Link-age joint Summer-school, Les Diablerets-Switzerland; From 5 to 12 July 2008 attendance to International School of Functional Genomics, Baia Samuele (Ragusa), Italy; From 4 to 10 June 2010 attendance to FEBS/SFRR-E/IUBMB Advanced Lecture Course "Protein maintenance and turnover in ageing & diseases" –Summer Scholl in Spetses island, Greece.
Academy experience:
Lecturer of General and Clinical Pathology in the Chemistry School, Nutritionist School, Laboratory Technician School, Medical attendance School and Obstetrics School of the University of Palermo from 2000 to date. Tutor of 20 ungraduate students for degree experimental thesis.
Research Expertise:
In the first phases of her studies (undergraduate and graduate student) Dr Balistreri was actively involved in the study on the immunological mechanisms of senescence, such as apoptosis, interleukin production, activity of natural killer and granulocyte cells in aged individuals. After this stage, her main field of scientific interest was the study of the association between the haemochromatosis gene mutations and longevity and age related diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. In the last 6 years, her principal interest focused on biogerontological studies, case control studies having the key aim to analyze the role of candidate immuneinflammatory genes in longevity and age related diseases. In these studies a particular approach was used the centenarians as a second control group, the “supercontrol”group, since they have escaped major age-related diseases. In particular, these studies demonstrated the role of antiinflammatory polymorphisms of genes involved in inflammatory and innate immunity responses (i.e TLR4, TLR2, CCR5, CRP, Connexin37, MMP9, PECAM-1/CD31, CD14, Cox and 5LO) to increase the chance to achieve longevity, in a modern environment with reduced pathogen load and improved control of severe infections by antibiotic. Furthermore, these data also evidenced the opposite role of these polymorphisms in longevity and age-related diseases, including myocardial infarction, prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. In the specific field of Alzheimer’s disease, she has published with her group several papers on the role of genetics on inflammation in AD pathophysiology. Recently, she also focused her studies on identifying the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of thoracic aorta aneurysm.
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Medicine in omicspp.100039-100039, (2024)
Sonia Terriaca,Maria Giovanna Scioli, Fabio Bertoldo,Calogera Pisano,Paolo Nardi,Carmela Rita Balistreri, Daniele Magro,Beatrice Belmonte,Luca Savino, Amedeo Ferlosio,Augusto Orlandi
CELLSno. 15 (2024)
Ageing research reviews (2024): 102362-102362
International journal of molecular sciencesno. 7 (2024)
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentpp.111952-111952, (2024)
Miriam Carella, Daniele Magro,Letizia Scola, Calogera Pisano, Eugenia Guida, Francesco Gervasi, Caterina Giambanco, Tommaso Silvano Aronica,Giacomo Frati,Carmela Rita Balistreri
Mechanisms of ageing and development (2024): 111977-111977
Ambra Colopi,Eugenia Guida, Silvia Cacciotti, Serena Fuda, Matteo Lampitto,Angelo Onorato, Alice Zucchi,Carmela Rita Balistreri,Paola Grimaldi,Marco Barchi
International journal of molecular sciencesno. 16 (2024)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCESno. 7 (2024)
International Journal of Molecular Sciencesno. 7 (2024): 3928
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#Citation: 5065
H-Index: 38
G-Index: 64
Sociability: 6
Diversity: 3
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