Universitą degli studi di Pavia

My research is part of a project that is the result of a collaboration between the Laboratory of Cytogenetics, directed by Prof. Elena Raimondi, and the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Prof. Elena Giulotto. The aim of this project is to study the molecular organization and the karyotype evolution of species belonging to the genus Equus. The species of this genus represent a model system suitable for the study of the structure of the centromere and its evolution. My reseach aims, by means of high resolution cytogenetic techniques, to analyse the relations occurring among the different classes of satellite DNA at single centromeric domains in species belonging to the Equidae, and to investigate the spatial relations between centromeric proteins and centromeric sequences.