About Ilaria Panzeri
Dr. Ilaria Panzeri has a B.S. in biotechnology, an M.S. in biology and a Ph.D. in translational and molecular medicine from the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan. Dr. Panzeri’s graduate work focused on the study of noncoding RNAs as modulators of cell identity and differentiation in the human immune system. Her postdoctoral work was first conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Germany, focusing on the epigenetic origins of phenotypic variation and heterogeneity in complex metabolic diseases. She was awarded numerous prizes and honors, including a Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship. In 2019, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Pospisilik at Van Andel Institute.