Danila Di Meo

PostDOC

Danila Di Meo completed her PhD in Natural Sciences at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) in 2022, as part of the CiM-IMPRS Graduate Program. She did her PhD in the field of neurodevelopmental biology, and her work identified a novel signaling pathway that regulates axonal mitochondria dynamics in cortical neurons during the mammalian neocortex development.

Danila is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS). Her research activity focuses on the development and optimization of tissues optical clearing and labeling methods for volumetric 3D reconstruction of large areas of post-mortem human brain using advanced microscopy techniques.