
Marta joined the LBEM in May 2021 and is now doing her PhD in Neuroscience working on the involvement of axonal damage across synucleinopathies (PD, DLB, MSA). More specifically, she studies the ultrastructure of human myelinated axons with room-temperature electron microscopy both in the peripheral and central nervous systems. Next to this, she is also establishing a workflow to extract alpha-synuclein fibrils from PD human brain using the cryoWriter for structural determination with cryo-EM. Before joining the LBEM, during her Bachelor and Master degrees, she studied Physics at University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
Ultrastructural study of myelin sheaths in PNS and CNS with room-temperature electron microscopy
Extraction of alpha-synuclein fibrils from the human brain with the cryoWriter
10.2020 - 01.2021 | Fellowship at “Terahertz Sapienza” Laboratory - University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy |
10.2017 - 01.2020 | MSc in Physics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy (Master thesis: “Terahertz time domain spectroscopy and imaging: apparatus development and performances”) |
10.2014 - 10.2017 | BSc in Physics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy |
Publications
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(submitted), (2025)
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Correlative light and electron microscopy for human brain and other biological models Nature Protocols (in press), (2025)
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Brain 147(11), 3727-3741 (2024)
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FTLD-TDP assemblies seed neoaggregates with subtype-specific features via a prion-like cascade EMBO Rep. 22(12), e53877 (2021)
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