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Elena Taverna is a Research Group Leader at the Neurogenomics Research Center of Human Technopole in Milan. She leads the Taverna Group which focuses on uncovering the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying brain development and synapse formation.
Her research spans three main directions:
- Stem cells meet robotics: Developing automated systems for single-cell manipulation and multimodal analysis of neural stem cells
- Stem Cell Identity in Brain Development: Investigating how cellular processes influence neural stem cell behavior in health and disease
- Time and the cell biology of neurons: Studying temporal regulation of synapse formation and neuronal function across evolution
Her work combines developmental neuroscience with robotics, multicellular multi-omics, and cell biology approaches. Recent research includes epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell division as published in EMBO Reports (2023), demonstrating how DOT1L inhibition affects cortical neurogenesis through lineage tracing and single-cell RNA sequencing.
Dr. Taverna mentors a diverse team including PhD students, postdocs, and research fellows. Her group includes current members Martina Polenghi, Valentina Rava, Maria Elena Scordato, Giulia Visani, Salma Amin, Matteo Cereda, Paolo Cucchi, Irene Majer, Yonatan Metzger, and Asia Muraca, as well as alumni who have gone on to positions at institutions including UC San Diego, IGBMC Strasbourg, PAR Systems, and the University of Genoa.
