Mamma and Head of target discovery group @TheMilnerInst. Interested in functional genomics, CRISPR technology, photography, travelling and cooking. 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

Cambridge, England
Joined August 2018
Excited to see this work from my Postdoc in Andrew Bassett's lab at @sangerinstitute finally out in the world! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… we found an AD-associated variant in PTK2B that actually has a causal effect on chromatin accessibility, gene expression and microglial function
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📣 We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our Target Discovery Team, led by @EricaBello4! The role holder will provide experimental support to the team to help deliver projects aligned with key Milner objectives. Closing 9 February: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49912/
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I am hiring a Research Assistant in my team at the @TheMilnerInst ! This is a great opportunity to apply CRISPR technologies to complex human in-vitro models of disease to identify novel therapeutic targets. Apply here jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49912/ before 9th Feb!
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🚀 Launch: Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme! 👉 More tickets have been released for the launch event on 18 December: eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-n… 👉 Find out more & apply: cambridgenetwork.co.uk/cambr…
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Very proud PI moment. Great job Tom!!
Very proud of Tom Dennison for presenting our collaborative work on patient-derived organoids at #ELRIGDD24. Amazing job! 👏 Super excited about future collaborations with @MilnerTherapeutics and @EricaBello4. Onward and upward! 💪 @SCICambridge"
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Very proud of Tom Dennison for presenting our collaborative work on patient-derived organoids at #ELRIGDD24. Amazing job! 👏 Super excited about future collaborations with @MilnerTherapeutics and @EricaBello4. Onward and upward! 💪 @SCICambridge"
Good to see Tom Dennison at #ELRIGDD24! Tom is a researcher in our Target Discovery group, led by @EricaBello4. Great talk on the application of patient-derived organoids to interrogate mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease. In collab with @Zilbauer_M, @SCICambridge😎
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⚡Research News ⚡ We’re delighted that work at the Milner Institute in collaboration with Professor Matthias Zilbauer has made a promising step toward identifying more precise and personalised treatments for patients with Crohn’s disease 👀 👉 milner.cam.ac.uk/milner-coll…
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Erica Bello retweeted
So, seqspec has been published. This is a good opportunity to remind everybody that your count matrix, R object, h5ad etc are NOT your raw data. Raw data are fastq files which are only useful when you know the content of your reads. Then ... 1/7 academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
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📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on neuroinflammation. 25th April at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, @CamBioCampus. Don't miss Guy Brown (@CamBiochem) & Yujing Gao (Astex) for fantastic talks and networking. ow.ly/55kg50R6scq
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Erica Bello retweeted
We tried PE4 out for mouse modeling. Check it out.
Efficient prime editing in two-cell mouse embryos using PEmbryo go.nature.com/483v6g9
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Great opportunity is a fantastic lab! Apply!
Come and join us! We are recruiting a Research Assistant to work on a highly collaborative lung disease project using human organoids and CRISPR. Closing date 5th Feb. @GurdonInstitute with friendly colleagues in Leicester/Nottingham. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44662/
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A great opportunity to lead the team that will run the new arrayed CRISPR screening lab at the @TheMilnerInst in collaboration with @AstraZeneca. A great place to work at the interface between academia and industry in a stimulating environment. Highly recommended, apply!
We recently announced a new partnership with AZ and the MRC that will establish a state-of-the-art functional genomics screening lab at the Milner Institute. We’re now delighted to share this exciting new opportunity to be the MTI Lead for the new lab! ow.ly/CRpI50QjBzJ
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Had a fantastic Christmas dinner with the whole Target Discovery Group @TheMilnerIns! Thank you everyone for all your hard work and have a great end of the year!
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Exciting times ahead at the @TheMilnerInst! Looking forward to seeing how this collaboration develops
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with @AstraZeneca and @The_MRC, that will establish a new state-of-the-art functional genomics laboratory at the Milner Therapeutics Institute! 🤩 Read more: milner.cam.ac.uk/milner-ther… #FunctionalGenomics #CRISPR
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We are delighted to announce a new partnership with @AstraZeneca and @The_MRC, that will establish a new state-of-the-art functional genomics laboratory at the Milner Therapeutics Institute! 🤩 Read more: milner.cam.ac.uk/milner-ther… #FunctionalGenomics #CRISPR
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Everyone has their own requirements in order to grow. #FlourishMaastricht #AcademicMentalHealth
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thank you to all co-authors for their help and support and to @OpenTargets for providing the funding for this project
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