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Dr Alessia Buscaino graduated in Molecular Biology at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2000.
She conducted her PhD research in the laboratory of Dr. Asifa Akhtar at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-Germany) research institute. During her PhD, her interest in epigenetics and chromatin modifications flourished while investigating mechanisms of Dosage Compensation in Drosophila melanogaster. In 2005, Dr Buscaino was awarded an EMBO long-term post-doctoral fellowship to conduct research in the laboratory of Professor Robin Allshire (WTCCB-Edinburgh). During her post-doc she investigated how heterochromatin assembles on large blocks of DNA repeats in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
In 2013, she obtained a EMBO short-term Fellowship to investigate the chromatin status of Candida albicans repetitive DNA elements in Judith Berman laboratory (TAU University- Tel-Aviv, Israel).
Dr Alessia Buscaino is a Senior Lecturer in Fungal Epigenetics.
Dr Buscaino’s group aim to understand how epigenetic mechanisms control fungal pathogenicity and anti-fungal drug resistance. Within these areas the group focuses on understanding how chromatin structure regulates adaptation and genome instability in Candida albicans, the most common human fungal pathogen.
Dr Buscaino’s research group belongs to the “Infection and Drug Resistance Research Group” and to the “Reproduction, evolution and genomics” research group.