Elsa Zacco
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Biography
Elsa Zacco research focus is the investigation of the effect of RNA in protein phase separation. My interest sparkled during my post-doc at King’s College London, when I specialized in the investigation of protein aggregation and the role that RNA may play in it. My research supports the thesis that RNA plays a central role at post-transcriptional regulation and often determines the fate of ribonucleoprotein complexes. My expertise is to investigate the structural-functional interplay between proteins and RNA and unveiling the molecular mechanisms of their interactions. I am currently a senior Marie Curie research fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology, where I am addressing my expertise towards dysfunction of protein-RNA interactions in neurological disorders.