Simona Della Valle

Simona Della Valle Doctoral Student at the Doctoral Training Centre Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU

Education

MSci Biochemistry - University College London (UCL) (Sep 2014 - Jun 2018)

Relevant areas of study: molecular biology, structural biology, microbiology, biotechnology, cell biology, genetics, biophysics, bioinformatics, Python programming and modelling of biological systems, physical, organic and bioinorganic chemistry.

Research

• MSci Biochemistry Research Project (Sep 2017 - May 2018)

Final year research project in Prof Saul Purton's lab: Developing synthetic biology tools for transgene expression in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast.

• Summer Internship at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) - Barcelona, Spain (Jun 2017 – Aug 2017)

8-week research project in Dr Ben Lehner’s lab: Dissection of trans-generational epigenetic transmission of environmental information in C. elegans.



• Summer Studentship at the UCL/Birkbeck Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) - London, United Kingdom (Jun 2016 - Aug 2016)

8-week research project in Dr Joanne Santini’s lab: Characterisation of a novel arsenite oxidase-like enzyme for biosensor development. Funded by the Microbiology Society’s Harry Smith Vacation Studentship.

Awards

• The Rabin Medal - awarded by UCL's Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (Jul 2018)


• Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence - awarded by UCL's Faculty of Life Sciences (Academic Year 2016-2017)


• Undergraduate Microbiology Prize - awarded by the Microbiology Society (Sep 2016)


• Campbell Prize - awarded by UCL's Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (Academic Year 2015-2016)


• UCL Faculty of Life Sciences Dean’s List Commendee for Academic Excellence (Academic Year 2015-2016)

Interests

• Synthetic biology


• Metabolic engineering


• Bioremediation


• Microbial biotechnology/application