Mariateresa Mazzetto
Role: Treasury Coordinator
Biography: Mariateresa is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Valerie Reinke (Yale School of Medicine, Department of Genetics). She is interested in studying C.elegans epigenome to identify the molecular pathways that play a role in germline progression, using both computational and experimental techniques.
Mariateresa completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) in 2020, and during that time worked for two years at the Fritz-Lipmann Institute, Jena (Germany). Throughout her academic experience at Yale, she has been engaged in mentoring programs for women in the STEM disciplines. In her free-time she loves to draw (www.rimatesa91.com/), to read and watch movies.
In 2022, she joins the YPA as Treasury Coordinator, in order to help supporting all of YPA activities and to be part of its big comunity.