Andrea Pozzi

09/2020-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research, The University of Edinburgh

2017-2020 PhD Student – Dowling Lab, Monash University

Research Interests

I am interested in genomic conflicts, genomes co-evolution, and RNA biology. This led me to study the conflicts and co-evolution of the mitochondrial genome with the nuclear genome through small RNAs. I started investigating small RNAs in this context due to the large amount of untapped data available for this type of study, but I am not expanding my expertise to work on other type of RNAs. Furthermore, I am learning more on genomic conflicts and RNA biology in the Buck Lab, where I am involved in the study of cross-species communication in the context of host-parasite interactions.

Publications

SmithRNAs: could mitochondria “bend” nuclear regulation? A Pozzi, F Plazzi, L Milani, F Ghiselli, M Passamonti. Molecular biology and evolution 34 (8), 1960-1973

The genomic origins of small mitochondrial RNAs: are they transcribed by the mitochondrial DNA or by mitochondrial pseudogenes within the nucleus (NUMTs)? A Pozzi, DK Dowling Genome biology and evolution 11 (7), 1883-1896