Maria Eugenia Soriano, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Dep. of Biology, University of Padova. Her research focuses on the role of mitochondria in metabolic regulation, mitochondrial dysfunction in diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Her latest work, currently in press in Cell Metabolism, introduces Marigold and MitoCIAO, two innovative searchable compendia designed to visualize and functionalize mitochondrial protein complexes during mitochondrial remodeling, further advancing our understanding of mitochondrial dynamics.

Prof. Perocchi trained in Genomics and Molecular Biology as a graduate student at the EMBL- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (2003-2007) and as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2007-20011). During her postdoctoral studies she discovered and defined the molecular components involved in mitochondrial calcium transport. She continued her career as Research Group Leader in Functional Genomics at the Helmholtz Center of Munich (20012-201) and as an Associate Professor in Systems Biology of Metabolism at the Technical University of Munich (2021-current). Ongoing research studies in her laboratory seek to lay the foundation for a systems-level understanding of Ca2+-dependent signal transduction cascades in human mitochondria to advance basic and disease biology.