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Marcello Valente

My CV

  • Education:

    Master degree in plant biotechnology

  • Qualifications:

    Master degree in plant biotechnology

  • Work History:

    Technical and commercial consultant for R&D firms

  • Current Job:

    PhD student

    • About Me

      Hi, I am an italian biotechnician with experience in academia and R and D. I live in Cork and work for Tyndall national Insistitute.

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      I live in Cork but my home town it’s Turin (Italy).

      I used to work with different Start-up and as a math and science teacher, this last experience help me to understand the beaty of teaching.

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      My PhD is focused on the developing of an electrochemical sensor for the detection of the methilation level in DNA, which is generally focused in CpG islands, a kind of “junk” DNA area of eukariots full of citosine and guanine.
      The different level of methylation is not easly read by modern sequencing mechanism and at the same time it can change the activity of a single gene or even an entire chromosome.

    • My Typical Day

      I wake up at 6.00 am and start working from 7.00 to 13.00 with my potentiostat and my sensor chip. After a quick lunch I put my data in order and I study new solutions until 15.30. Then I go back home and play videogames.

    • What I'd do with the prize money

      Here in Tyndall we love to build new wonderful machines for our science fairs in Cork, with the price we can update and repair the ines we have!

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Hard-working Italian biotechnician

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        Scientist

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        No

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        Perturbator

        What's your favourite food?

        Meat

        What is the most fun thing you've done?

        existing

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        9 more good seasons of Adventure time, an interdimensional portal gun and the book of infinite knowledge

        Tell us a joke.

        "The test was so hard I left everything white!" "Really? I also wrote nothing" " Great now the teacher will think we have copied each other!"

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