Ph. D. Student
Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms Department (BEOM)
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa comunale
80121, Napoli - Italia
Tel.: +39 339 458 4827
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Director of Studies: Dr. Maria Vittoria Modica
Internal Supervisor: Dr. Serena Leone
External Supervisor: Dr. Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim
Program: Open University, XXVII cycle
Research Interests
I study the secretions of marine organisms through proteo-transcriptomic and computational approaches to identify and characterise bioactive and toxic components.
My work currently focuses on molluscs (Neogastropoda) and cnidarians (Alcyonacea – gorgonians), with the intention of characterizing the diversity, evolution, and function of the toxins they produce. The interest in these compounds stems from their adaptive role, as well as their biotechnological potential.
Publications
Monticelli M, Hay Mele B, Wright DM, Guerriero S, Andreotti G, Cubellis MV. (2024). Exploring ligand interactions with human phosphomannomutases using recombinant bacterial thermal shift assay and biochemical validation. Biochimie, 222: 123-131
Hay Mele B, Rossetti F, Andreotti G, Cubellis MV, Guerriero S, Monticelli M. (2025). Bioinformatics driven multi-factorial insight into α-galactosidase mutations. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 26(12): 5802
