Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Sabrina Donatella Sonia Venditti - Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin
Sapienza University of Rome
P. le Aldo Moro 5, 00185
Rome, IT
Phone: +39.06.49912392/2318
e-mail: sabrina.venditti@uniroma1.it

2010- Researcher at Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin , Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2001 - Researcher at the Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology*, Sapienza University of Rome.
1999 - Short Term Fellowship of the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
1994 2017 Member of the Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology (SIBBM).
1991 - Research Assistant at Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Sapienza University of Rome.
1989 - Research Associate at the Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA).
1988 - Fondazione Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti: Thesis Award in the field of pasteurian disciplines.
1988 One year fellowship at Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare.
1987 Postgraduate studentship at Dip. Di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma La Sapienza .
1987 Degree in Biological Sciences (Laurea). Title of the thesis: Intrinsic Topological Information of the S. cerevisiae ADHII Regulatory Sequences . Final marks: 110/110 cum laude.
1981 Highschool degree at the Liceo Ginnasio Statale T. Tasso , Rome, Italy.

PUBLICATIONS
- Marson F, Zampieri M, Verdone L, Bacalini MG, Ravaioli F, Morandi L, Chiarella SG, Vetriani V, Venditti S, Caserta M, Raffone A, Ben-Soussan TD and Reale A. (2023) Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) is associated with DNA methylation changes at DNA repeats: a pilot study. PLoS One 18, e0293199. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293199.
- Verdone L, Caserta M, Ben-Soussan TD and Venditti S. (2023) On the road to resilience: Epigenetic effects of meditation. Vitam Horm. 122, 339-376. doi: 10.1016/bs.vh.2022.12.009.
- Verdone L, Marson F, Caserta M, Zampieri M, Reale A, Bacalini MG, Vetriani V, Ben-Soussan TD and Venditti S. (2023) Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) influences IL-1 expression and creativity: implications for inflammatory state reduction and cognitive enhancement. Prog. Brain Res. 277, 63-83. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.12.008.
- Bruscalupi G, Di Micco P, Failla CM, Pascarella G, Morea V, Saliola M, De Paolis A, Venditti S, Mauro ML. (2023) Arabidopsis thaliana sirtuins control proliferation and glutamate dehydrogenase activity. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 194, 236-245. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.11.007.
- Venditti S, Verdone L, Reale A, Vetriani V, Caserta M, Zampieri M. (2020) Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics. Front. Psychol. 11, 1767. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01767.
- Caserta M, Ben-Soussan TD, Vetriani V, Venditti S, Verdone L. (2019) Influence of Quadrato Motor Training on Salivary proNGF and proBDNF. Front. Neurosci. 13, Article n. 58. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00058.
- Verdone L, Caserta M, Vetriani V, Glicksohn J, Venditti S and Ben-Soussan TD. (2018) Molecular and cognitive effects of Quadrato Motor Training in adult dyslexia: a longitudinal case study. Brain, Body, Cognition 2018, 8, 37-44.
- Venditti S, Verdone L, Pesce C, Tocci N, Caserta M, Ben-Soussan TD. (2015) Creating Well-Being: Increased creativity and proNGF decrease following Quadrato Motor Training. Biomed Res Int. 2015:275062 doi: 10.1155/2015/275062
- Ben-Soussan TD, Piervincenzi C, Venditti S, Verdone L, Caserta M, Carducci F. (2015) Increased cerebellar volume and BDNF level following Quadrato Motor Training. Synapse 69, 1-6. doi: 10.1002/syn.2178
- Ciuffetta A, Salerno D, Camilloni G, Venditti S. (2015) Sir2 is involved in the transcriptional modulation of NHP6A in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 461, 42-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.03.165
- Venditti S., Di Stefano G., D Eletto M. and Di Mauro E. (2002) Genetic remodeling and transcriptional remodeling of subtelomeric heterochromatin are different. Biochemistry 41, 4901-4910
- Venditti S., Di Stefano G. and Di Mauro E. (2000) Multiple functions of yeast telomeres. Food Technology and Biotechnology 38, 305-313
- Venditti S., Di Stefano G. and Di Mauro E. (2000) Telomere-based neo-Darwinian selection of yeast clonal subpopulations. Molecular and General Genetics 263, 787-795
- Venditti S., Vega-Palas M.A., Di Stefano G. and Di Mauro E. (1999) Imbalance in dosage of the genes for the heterochromatin components Sir3p and histone H4 results in changes in the length and sequence organization of the yeast telomeres. Molecular and General Genetics 262, 367-377
- Venditti S., Vega-Palas M.A. and Di Mauro E. (1999) Heterochromatin organization of a natural yeast telomere. Recruitment of Sir3p through interaction with histone H4 N-terminus is required for the establishment of repressive structures. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 274, 1928-1933
- Vega-Palas M.A., Venditti S. and Di Mauro E. (1998) Heterochromatin organization of a natural yeast telomere. Changes of nucleosome distribution driven by the absence of Sir3p. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 273, 9388-9392
- Rubbi L., Camilloni G., Caserta M., Di Mauro E. and Venditti S. (1997) Chromatin structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA topoisomerase I promoter in different growth phases. Biochemical Journal 328, 401-407
- Vega-Palas M. A., Venditti S. and Di Mauro E. (1997) Telomeric transcriptional silencing in a natural context. Nature Genetics 15, 232-233
- Buttinelli M., Camilloni G., Costanzo G., Negri R., Venditti S., Venditti P. and Di Mauro E. (1995) Mapping of yeast nucleosomes in vivo. Methods in Molecular Genetics Academic Press, USA Vol. 6, 168-185.
- Caserta M., Camilloni G., Venditti S., Venditti P. and Di Mauro E. (1994) Conformational information in DNA: its role in the interaction with DNA topoisomerase I and nucleosomes. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 55, 1-5
- Venditti S. and Camilloni G. (1994) In vivo analysis of chromatin following nystatin-mediated import of active enzymes into Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and General Genetics 242, 100-104
- Venditti S. and Wells R.D. (1991) A DNA conformational alteration induced by neighboring oligopurine tract on GAATTA enables nicking by EcoRI. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 266, 16786-16790
- Negri R., Costanzo G., Venditti S. and Di Mauro E. (1989) Linking reduction allows nucleosome reconstitution on DNA microdomains. Journal of Molecular Biology 207, 615-619
- Venditti S., Caserta M., Di Mauro E. and Camilloni G. (1988) DNA conformational variations in the in vitro torsionally strained Igk light chain gene localize on consensus sequences. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 951, 139-148
- Della Seta F., Camilloni G., Venditti S. and Di Mauro E. (1988) The intrinsic topological information of the wild type and of up-promoter mutations of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Alchool Dehydrogenase II regulatory region. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 263, 15888-15896