POSITIONS
2023 – present Post-doctoral fellow - Department of Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana", University of Catania, Italy
2021 – 2023 Post-doctoral fellow - Chromatin & Epigenetics Lab, Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy
2016 -2020 PhD Student - Nanoscopy and NIC, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
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EDUCATION
2020 PhD in Physics - Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Italy.
2015 Master’s Degree in Biomolecular Chemistry, 110/110 summa cum laude – Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Italy
2008 Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, 110/110 - Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Italy
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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2023 American Biophysical Society (BPS) Travel Award
2023 Italian Society for Pure and Applied Biophysics (SIBPA) Travel Award
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MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2023 Member of the Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics (SIBPA)
2023 Member of the Biophysical Society
Sviluppo di metodi di microscopia ottica ad alta risoluzione (microscopia confocale, microscopia a super-risoluzione). Sviluppo di metodi di analisi quantitativa delle immagini e ottimizzazione dei protocolli di marcatura tramite sonde fluorescenti. Applicazione su modelli cellulari dei tumori, al fine di quantificare le alterazioni indotte da oncogene sull'organizzazione del genoma e quantificare il conseguente danno al DNA.
Scalisi S., Ahmad A., D'Annunzio S., Rousseau D., Zippo A., Quantitative analysis of PcG-associated condensates by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), Methods in Molecular Biology (2023) 2655 : 10.1007/978-1-0716-3143-0_14
Scalisi S., Pisignano D., Cella Zanacchi F., Single-molecule localization microscopy goes quantitative, Microscopy Research and Technique (2023) 1-11 : 10.1002/jemt.24281
Scalisi S., Pennacchietti F., Keshavan S., Derr N.D., Diaspro A., Pisignano D., Pierzynska-Mach A., Dante S., Cella Zanacchi F., Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy to Assess Adhesion of Neuronal Cells on Single-Layer Graphene Substrates, Membranes (2021) 11(11), 878 : 10.3390/membranes11110878
Magrassi R., Scalisi S., Cella Zanacchi F., Super-Resolution microscopy: single-molecule localization to study cytoskeletal structures, membrane complexes, and mechanosensors, Biophysical Reviews (2019) 11, 745-756 : 10.1007/s12551-019-00595-2
Scalisi S., Barberis A., Petrini E.M., Cella Zanacchi F., Diaspro A., Unveiling the inhibitory synapse organization using super-resolution microscopy, Biophysical Journal (2019), 116(3):133a : 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.736
Scalisi S., Barberis A., Petrini E.M., Diaspro A., Cella Zanacchi F., Quantitative super-resolution microscopy of proteins at the synaptic level, Biophysical Journal (2018) 114(3):539a : 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.2945
La Rosa C., Scalisi S., Lolicato F., Pannuzzo M., Raudino A., Lipid-assisted protein transport: a non-equilibrium model supported by kinetic experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, The Journal of Chemical Physics (2016) 144(18), 184901 : 10.1063/1.4948323
Scalisi S., Sciacca M.F.M., Zhavnerko G., Grasso D.M., Marletta G., La Rosa C., Self-assembling pathway of hIAPP fibrils within lipid bilayers, ChemBioChem (2010) 11, 1856-1859 : 10.1002/cbic.201000090"