Chiara Magliaro, PhD
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Chiara Magliaro
Chiara is a PhD in Automation, Robotics and Bioengineering.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and a Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa - Italy.
Teaching 96 CFU (Neural Tissue Engineering and In silico modelling) annually.
Research Interests
Engineering tools and methods supporting the design and stufy of human-relevant brain models
Research Topics
Algorithms for quantitatively studying brain microarchitecture
Allometric scaling in vitro
Advanced in silico and in vitro models of the human brain
The MagLab Group
Ermes Botte, Post-Doc Researcher
Piera Mancini, PhD Student
Ester Bruno, PhD Student
Rachele Fabbri, PhD Student
Sonia Cerchio, PhD Student
Federico Tozzi, PhD Student
Flavio Fontana, PhD Student
Ongoing Projects
SINERGIA
SnF Swiss project aiming at understanding how resources are used at the individual level and shared within and amongst different populations in marine organisms, soil bacteria and in in vitro constructs.
Role: Team Leader
SENSEI
Human Brain Project Partnering aiming at advancing breakthroughs in 3D neuronal segmentation and morphometrics, for deciphering the human brain structurel Connectome.
Role: Co-coordinator
NAP
HORIZON-EIC project proposing a novel paradigm to assess the ability of the next generation of biohybrid in vitro brains to serve as personalized models of sleep, and to predict sleep-related early signs of Parkinsons' Disease.
Role: Coordinator
Last research outcomes
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Size-related variability of oxygen consumption rates in individual human hepatic cells†
Lab on a chip
2024
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A modular framework for multi-scale tissue imaging and neuronal segmentation
Nature Communications
2024
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To brain or not to brain organoid
Frontiers in Science
2023
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Scaling of joint mass and metabolism fluctuations in in silico cell-laden spheroids
PNAS
2021
Contacts
Office
Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1
56122 Pisa (PI)
(+39) 050-2218271
chiara.magliaro@unipi.it
