Maria Antonietta Pellegrino - Bottinelli

BORN
11 February 1969, Milan, Italy

CURRENT ACCADEMIC POSITION
Researcher in Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pavia

EDUCATION
1993- Degree in Pharmacological Sciences
1998- Ph.D. in Physiology
1999-2004- Post-doc fellow in Physiology
2005- Researcher in Physiology

RESEARCH ACTIVITY
She devoted most of her research activity to the study of skeletal muscle plasticity in physiological and pathological conditions, in humans and in small mammals.

The results of the research work have been published in 45 papers in international scientific, peer-reviewed journals. The bibliometric parameters relating to her research activities are as follows:
total publications: 45
H-index: 25
contemporary H-index: 18
total citations: 2306
total impact factor: 243,374

MEMBERSHIPS
She is member of the Interuniversity Institute of Myology and of the Italian Physiological Society, from which she received the Young investigator award in 2000.

REFEREE
As Referee she has collaborated with: European Journal of Applied Physiology; Journal of Applied Physiology; Journal of Comparative Physiology; Acta Physiologica; Proteomics.

RESEARCH FOUNDING
She has been funded as responsible of a local unit by the Italian Minister of University and Research (PRIN 2005) and she participated in many national and international funding requests (PRIN 2002; PRIN 2007; FP7-HEALTH-2007-B; FONDAZIONE CARIPLO (Rif. 2010.0764); AGENZIA SPAZIALE ITALIANA: 2006-2009; PROGETTO OSMA; FP5-EU: project number QLRT-2000-00417; PAN – European Network for Ageing Muscle (PENAM) 2001-2004; FP5-EU: project number QLRT-2001-00323  2002-2005; FONDAZIONE CARIPLO 2004-2006; FONDAZIONE CARIPLO 2007-2009; TELETHON: project number GSP030543 2007-2009

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Regular teacher of Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Course in Sport Sciences, University of Pavia
Regular teacher of Human Physiology (Muscle Physiology) at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pavia since 2007