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Molecular Biologist| Research Design, Data Analysis

Profile Summary

Thank you for checking out my profile, here is a quick overview of my skills and strengths: I am a passionate molecular biologist in love with innovation and science. I have extensive experience in several molecular biology techniques in DNA and RNA biology, genetics, and genome engineer using several CRISPR/Cas tools. I received my bachelor (2011) and my master (2013) degrees in this field at the University of Padua and my PhD (2018) at University of Groningen, the Netherlands within a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. I came in the United States right after my PhD and I started working as postdoctoral research fellow in the Akbari lab at UCSD, where I develop novel CRISPR-based gene editing tools in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. I recently developed a trojan horse tool to make mosquitoes refractory to RNA-virus transmission based on RNA targeting CRISPR/CasRx. In 2023 I joined Cibus LCC as a Senior Research Scientist followed by my passion of developing tools for precise editing of economically relevant crops. - I am well organized, efficient, and self motivated. The key to my success has been to learn quickly and to then reach for a higher personal and professional standard by seeking additional responsibilities. - I am a passionate molecular biologist in love with innovation and science. I have extensive experience in several molecular biology techniques in DNA and RNA biology, genetics, and genome engineer using several CRISPR/Cas tools. -I have designed and implemented research experiment since 2013 and I have been publishing several research article in peer review journal -My goal has always been to follow my passion for innovation and build strong experimental design, data analysis and scientific writing •My expertise includes project design and management, data analysis and interpretation plus the development and the implementation of CRISPR tool for research and possible therapeutics application •I love to generate new ideas and devise feasible solutions to broadly problems. - I am an ambitious and self motivated individual. I am able to easily meet deadlines with strong attention to detail. -Although the above is only a brief snapshot, this philosophy has served me well in my professional

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Mutagenesis
• ☆ RNA Synthesis
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ DNA/Gene Synthesis
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Gene Regulation
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Biomolecular Engineering
• ☆ Gene Synthesis
• ☆ Genetic Engineering
• ☆ Gene Editing/CRISPR
• ☆ Gene Delivery
• ☆ Biographical Research & Writing
• ☆ R
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research User Research, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

PostdoctoralResearcher

University of California San Diego

January 2021 - Present

Postdoctoral Research fellow

University of California, San Diego

January 2021 - Present

Postdoc research fellow

Claremont McKenna College

July 2018 - December 2020

PhD

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

November 2013 - June 2018

Education

PhD (Evolutionary genetics)

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

November 2013 - June 2018

Master (Biologia molecolare)

Università degli Studi di Padova

September 2011 - September 2013

Bachelor (Molecular Biology)

Università degli Studi di Padova

September 2008 - June 2011

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PREPRINT

et al., Elena Dalla Benetta, Michelle Bui, Elena Dalla Benetta, Yuemei Dong, Yunchong Zhao, Ting Yang, Ming Li, Igor A Antoshechkin, Anna Buchman, Vanessa Bottino-Rojas(2022). CRISPR Mediated Transactivation in the Human Disease Vector <i>Aedes aegypti</i> . []. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genome Elimination Mediated by Gene Expression from a Selfish Chromosome Elena Dalla Benetta, Igor Antoshechkin, Ting Yang, Hoa Quang My Nguyen, Patrick M. Ferree, and Omar S. Akbari available at bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/793273 .

Paolucci et al 2019, preprint bioRxiv .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Elena Dalla Benetta, Omar S. Akbari, Patrick Ferree(2021). Mechanistically comparing reproductive manipulations caused by selfish chromosomes and bacterial symbionts . Heredity. 126. (5). p. 707--716. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Elena Dalla Benetta, Elena Dalla Benetta, Louis van de Zande, Leo W. Beukeboom(2021). Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period . Behaviour. 158. (8-9). p. 685--704. Brill

Elena Dalla Benetta, Elena Dalla Benetta, Duverney Chaverra-Rodriguez, Jason L. Rasgon, Omar S. Akbari(2020). Pupal and Adult Injections for RNAi and CRISPR Gene Editing in &lt;em&gt;Nasonia vitripennis&lt;/em&gt; . Journal of Visualized Experiments. (166). {MyJove} Corporation

Silvia Paolucci, Elena Dalla Benetta, Lucia Salis, David Dolezel, Louis van de Zande, Leo Beukeboom (2019). Latitudinal Variation in Circadian Rhythmicity in <i>Nasonia vitripennis</i> . Behavioral Sciences.

Curr Biol. 2019 Sep 23. pii: S0960-9822(19)31083-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.033 .

Am Nat. 2019 Jun;193(6):881-896. doi: 10.1086/703159. Epub 2019 Apr 12 .

Dalla Benetta E, et al. Genes (Basel). 2019 .

Menegazzi P, Dalla Benetta E, Beauchamp M, Schlichting M, Steffan-Dewenter I, Helfrich-Förster C, Current biology : CB, 2017, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 833-839, 2017 .

Schlichting M, Menegazzi P, Lelito KR, Yao Z, Buhl E, Dalla Benetta E, Bahle A, Denike J, Hodge JJ, Helfrich-Förster C, Shafer OT, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016, vol. 36, no. 35, pp. 9084-9096, 2016 .

DISSERTATION THESIS

Dalla Benetta, E. (2018). Involvement of clock genes in seasonal, circadian and ultradian rhythms of Nasonia vitripennis. [Groningen]: University of Groningen.