Jessica
Milia is a technologist in Biosciences and Computational
Infrastructures, Smart Project and Quantum Computing sector of CRS4,
NGS Core program.
She
graduated in Biology in 2018 at the University of Cagliari with a
thesis focused on the identification and characterization of HIV-1
reverse transcriptase enxyme inhibitors.
She
got her master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2020 at
the University of Cagliari. Her thesis was focused on the evaluation
of immune response inhibition mediated by Zika Virus.
From
December 2020 to October 2021 she worked as Research Fellow in the
Laboratory of Molecular Virology of Department of Life and
Environmental Sciences (University of Cagliari). Her main activities
were:
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evaluation of Sars-CoV-2 viral proteins inhibition of innate immune
system and identification of potential inhibitors;
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identification of Sars-CoV-2 nsp13 enzyme inhibitors.
From
December 2021 to current she works in the NGS sequencing platform of
CRS4. She is involved in nucleic acids libraries preparation,
performing and monitoring of sequencing experiments for WGS, WES,
RNA-Seq, target sequencing, 16s Metagenomics experiments, using
Illumina instruments. She helps to evaluate quality and quantity of
sequencing raw data and bioinformatic analysis results.
