Giulia Bennici

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Building 2, Level 3, 3255-WS06

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Biography

Giulia earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) in 2020 and her Master’s degree in Sustainable Industrial Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies from the University of Siena (Siena, Italy) in 2022. She is currently a PhD student in Monika Chodasiewicz's group, where her research focuses on the identification and characterization of organic and inorganic inhibitors of protein aggregation, with particular emphasis on amylin. Her work integrates metabolomics, in vitro assays, and computational approaches to investigate and contrast diabetes related amyloids.

Research Interests

Biotechnology, protein aggregation, metabolomics

Selected Publications

Methods of Extraction, Detection, and Identification of Different Metabolites—A Metabolomics Approach

Giulia Bennici, Devi Permatasari, Inas Al-Younis, Manel Dhahri, Frederico G. Pinto, Mohammed J.

Uddin, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Mariusz Jaremko & Nelson C. Soares. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-

981-96-1305-2_3

 

Mitigating diabetes associated with reactive oxygen species (ROS) and protein aggregation

through pharmacological interventions

Giulia Bennici, Hanan Almahasheer, Mawadda Alghrably, Daniela Valensin, Arian Kola, Chrysoula

Kokotidou, Joanna Lachowicz, and Mariusz Jaremko* DOI: 10.1039/D4RA02349H

 

Medicinal Effects of Ephedra foeminea Aqueous Extracts: Metabolomic Characterization,

Biological Evaluation, and Molecular Docking.

Giulia Bennici, Inas Al Younis, Abeer Sharfalddin, Mutaz Akkawi, Fuad Al-Rimawi, Khaled Sawalha,Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Mariusz Jaremko* https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328995

 

Exploring the central region of amylin and its analogs aggregation: the influence of metal ions

and residue substitutions

Mawadda Alghrably,Giulia Bennici, Gabriela Szczupaj, Noura Alasmael, Somayah Qutub, Batoul

Maatouk, Kousik Chandra, Michal Nowakowski, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Mariusz Jaremko. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2024.1419019

 

Metabolites from Marine Macroorganisms of the Red Sea Acting as Promoters or Inhibitors of

Amylin Aggregation

Mawadda Alghrably, Mohamed A. Tammam, Aikaterini Koutsaviti, Vassilios Roussis, Xabier Lopez,

Giulia Bennici, Abeer Sharfalddin, Hanan Almahasheer, Carlos M. Duarte, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Efstathia Ioannou,* and Mariusz Jaremko*. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom14080951

 

Albumin as a Drug Delivery System: Mechanisms, Applications, and Innovations

Al-Harthi, Samah;Alshehri, Awatef;Alhudhali, Lubna;Alghrably, Mawadda;Bennici,

Giulia;Almohaywi, Maram;Jaremko, Łukasz;Jaremko, Mariusz. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1011323

Education

· September 2016 to July 2020 University of Pisa, Italy Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology

· October 2020 to July 2022 University of Siena Italy Master’s degree in Sustainable Industrial Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies

· From August 2023, PhD student in Bioscience

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