Aurora Valeri (auroravaleri@yahoo.com)
Pubblicazioni


Date and Place of birth, 20.04.1979 Viterbo (VT)

Work experience

Now;
Department of Neurosciences, via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, University of Siena. Post-doc Grant

01/01/2010 – 31/12/2010
Department of Neurosciences, via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, University of Siena – Grant.
Preparation of urinary bladder smooth muscle primary coltures; Immunohistochemical analysis of smooth muscle cells; Viability and proliferation assays; Measurement of intracellular Ca2+ by fluorimetric assays; Measurement of nitric oxide release by NO-sensitive electrodes. Experience in reading papers and scientific writing.
20/10/2009 – 20/12/2009
School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Birminghan, Visiting academic. Calibration of ATP-probes to measure release of ATP from tissue in situ.

31/12/2008 – 31/12/2009
Department of Neurosciences, via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, University of Siena – Grant.
Preparation of urinary bladder smooth muscle primary coltures; Immunohistochemical analysis of smooth muscle cells; Viability and proliferation assays; Measurement of intracellular Ca2+ by fluorimetric assays; Measurement of nitric oxide release by NO-sensitive electrodes; Experience in reading papers and scientific writing.
03/12/2007 – 03/12/2008
Dipartimento di Anatomia Farmacologia e Medicina legale, Università degli Studi di Torino C.so Massimo D’Azeglio, 10126 Torino, Italy, University of Turin, Italy – Grant.
Manipulation, anesthesia and euthanasia of experimental animals (rats); Preparation of detrusor strips; Contraction studies on detrusor smooth muscle strips; Bladder homogenates preparation; Western blotting for MAPK signals; Apoptosis studies by fluorimetric flow cytometric assays.
11/04/2006- 19/09/2006 – 01/03/2007-11/04/2007
Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3QT, United Kingdom, University of Oxford. Study of calcium imaging on rat detrusor smooth muscle strips
01/07/2005 – 30/07/2005
Department of Microbiology, Szeged University, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.,University of Szeged. In vitro experiments on cell cultures
Education and training
November 2004 – October 2007
University of Siena, Pharmacology, Physiology. Various analytic techniques. Thesis title: “Effects of estrogens on rodents’ urinary bladder: gender related differences in anoxia-glucopenia/ reperfusion damage”. PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Pharmacology, Toxicology
October 1998 –July 2004
University of Siena, Chemistry and Pharmacy. Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (109/110)
October 2002 –July 2004
Department of Physiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. Physiology INTERNAL STUDENT at the Department of Physiology, University of Siena (Prof. G. Pessina as tutor)

Social skills and competences
Competence in teamwork acquired in Siena, Oxford and Szeged University laboratories. Competence in living and working in multicultural environments acquired as participant in International symposiums and meetings and in various travels through the world.Experience in scientific writing (articles for international papers and abstract for congress) acquired during my PhD.

Organizational skills and competences
Competence in coordination and administration of people acquired during the PhD with internal students
Technical skills and competences
Competent Knowledge of Windows 2000/XP; management of data (Microsoft Office), graphics (Graphpad Prism, ChemWindows) statistics (Graphpad Instat), image analysis (Image J, Photoshop), internet (Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox).