Marta Toccaceli
Email: marta.toccaceli@unimi.it
Phone office: 02 503 15006
Cicle: XXXVIII A.Y. 2022 - 2023
Supervisor: Katia Petroni
Title: Protective role of anthocyanins in cell model systems and dietary treatments in mice … read more

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PhD Seminars:

Date	Title	Speakers
28/10/2022	Long noncoding RNA functions in healthy and diseased cells	Prof. Rory Johnson
18/04/2023	From the library to the lab… and back: graeco-roman medicine as a potential treasure in drug discovery	Dr. Manuela Marai
12/05/2023	Illuminating radial genome organization in the nucleus	Prof.ssa Magda Bienko
18/07/2023	Uno sguardo ad ampio spettro sul futuro della citometria a flusso	Dr. Enrico Ghersi
14/09/2023	Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration	Prof. David Rubinsztein
22/01/2024	Small but powerful: micronutrients link metabolism to genome stability	Prof. Ralf E. Wellinger
02/02/2024	What the structures of amyloids teach us about amyloid pathology	Prof. Joost Schymkowitz
15/02/2024	How to choose the right model for my experiment?	Dr. Sabrina Marcazzan
16/02/2024	Dove lo pubblico? Luci e ombre dell'editoria scientifica	Dr. Paola Galimberti
08/03/2024	Maternal-effect variants and genomic imprinting disorders	Prof. Andrea Riccio
13/03/2024	From myogenesis to muscle wasting: uncovering new players and therapeutic approaches	Dr. Giorgia Careccia
09/05/2024	Introduction to Full Spectrum Profiling™ using the Cytek® system	Cytek® specialists
21/05/2024	Informazioni pratiche per la stesura dell’allegato VI: Parte I	Prof. Fabrizio Gardoni, Dott.ssa Marta Rigoni, Dott. Giuliano Grignaschi
24/05/2024	New insights on endothelial pathways preventing atherosclerosis development	Prof. Claudio Raimondi
21/06/2024	Mapping RNA structures in living cells: from population average to ensemble deconvolution	Prof. Danny Incarnato
28/06/2024	Adaptation to anticancer therapy: to be or not to be coding that's the question	Prof.ssa Eleonora Leucci
22/01/2025	Loss of proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases and molecular mechanisms of protection	Prof. Elena Ziviani
31/01/2025	Sialoconjugates as new players in Huntington's disease: insights into molecular mechanisms and potential therapies	Dr. Vittorio Maglione
24/02/2025	Hemoglobin takes the stage: from basic research to therapeutic applications	Prof. Luca Ronda
27/03/2025	What made our brain so big and us smarter than Neandertals? (DMEM seminar)	Prof. Wieland Huttner
27/03/2025	Nanoscale Control of the Heartbeat (BtBs seminar)	William Louch
15/04/2025	Molecole antiossidanti di origine vegetale: descrizione e metodi di misura della loro attività	Dr. Roberto Lo Scalzo
19/05/2025	Deciphering cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac fibrosis	Dr. Nuno Camboa
26/05/2025	Leveraging the Power of Mendelian Genetics for Drug Development	Dr. Bruno Reversade
12/06/2025	Chitosan-based polymeric hydrogels as scaffold for β-galactosidase (DISFARM seminar)	Dr. Isabel Fraile-Gutierrez
19/06/2025	Born to Melt: Tissue Fluidification in Pathophysiology (DMEM seminar)	Prof. Giorgio Scita
24/06/2025	Design and Optimization of Gene Delivery	Dr Maria Blasco
24/06/2025	Why scholarly writing is hard, and what to do about it (DMEM Seminar)	Prof. Dennis Hazelett

PhD Courses:

Starting Date	Ending Date	Title	Place
09/01/2023	31/01/2023	Biostatistics for Molecular and Cellular Biology	Department of Biosciences - Unimi
13/02/2023	20/02/2023	Molecular and Cellular Biology. Methods and Communication of Results	Department of Biosciences - Unimi
07/03/2023	08/03/2023	Introduzione all'Open science (Transferable Skills)	Online
03/04/2023	04/04/2023	Open science: riviste predatorie, pre-print e open review (Transferable Skills)	Online
02/05/2023	03/05/2023	Open science: dati fair (Transferable Skills)	Online
13/06/2023	13/07/2023	Comunicazione e nuovi media (Transferable Skills)	UNIMI / Online
28/06/2023	28/06/2023	Lezione propedeutica base su IP e brevetti (Transferable Skills)	Online
10/07/2023	11/07/2023	Fondamenti di Academic Writing (Transferable Skills)	Online
11/09/2023	12/09/2023	Language coaching - interpersonal skills: presentation skills (Transferable Skills)	Online
18/01/2024	19/01/2024	Quantification and characterization of extracellular vesicles in biomedical research	LITA - Unimi
20/06/2024	20/06/2024	Teaching and learning 1 (Transferable Skills)	Online
20/06/2024	25/06/2024	Behind the scene of a peer reviewed journal (Transferable Skills)	Online / UNIMI
20/06/2024	20/06/2024	The Art of Grantmanship (Transferable Skills)	Online
20/06/2024	20/06/2024	Intellectual Property and Patent Protection (Transferable Skills)	Online
20/06/2024	20/06/2024	The purpose of a PhD in the knowledge economy (Transferable Skills)	Online
20/06/2024	20/06/2024	Exploitation by means of business creation: spin-off and entrepreneurship from an academic point of view (Transferable Skills)	Online
24/06/2024	24/06/2024	Financial education and Environmental sustainability (Transferable Skills)	UNIMI
25/06/2024	17/09/2024	Preparing of a dissemination plan for a research project (Transferable Skills)	UNIMI / Online
26/06/2024	26/06/2024	Assessment of the integrated sustainability for the Global Health (Transferable Skills)	Online
28/06/2024	28/06/2024	The integrate sustainability, a case study (Transferable Skills)	UNIMI
05/07/2024	08/07/2024	Disease modeling in molecular biomedicine: focus on excitable systems	Department of Biosciences - Unimi
27/02/2025	27/02/2025	Advanced course on the use of IP for Innovation (Transferable Skills)	Online
27/02/2025	27/02/2025	Crafting your PhD career - Part 1 (Transferable Skills)	Online
27/02/2025	27/02/2025	Finding a job with a PhD - Part 1 (Transferable Skills)	Online
27/02/2025	27/02/2025	Metafore e Problem Framing - parte 1 (Transferable Skills)	Online
27/02/2025	27/02/2025	Teaching and learning II (Transferable Skills)	Online
10/03/2025	14/03/2025	Public Speaking (Trasnferable Skills)	UNIMI / Online
10/03/2025	10/03/2025	Workshop for the production of scientific content for new media (Transferable Skills)	Online
11/03/2025	18/03/2025	Innovative approaches for the characterization and activity assays of phytochemicals and their in vivo metabolites	UNIMI
12/03/2025	12/03/2025	Crafting your PhD career - Part 2 (Transferable Skills)	UNIMI
13/03/2025	14/03/2025	Finding a job with a PhD - Part 2 (Transferable Skills)	Online

Conferences / Workshops:

Starting Date	Ending Date	Title	Place
03/06/2020	04/06/2020	Alternative methods and models in Science: a multidisciplinary in vitro approach (AMMS) Summer School (Lake Como School of Advanced Study)	Online
21/06/2022	24/06/2022	3rd Food Bioactives and Health Conference (FBHC2020)	Parma (IT)
08/06/2023	21/07/2023	Corso di Perfezionamento Piccoli animali (roditori-zebrafish-xenopus): formazione specifica per il personale coinvolto nella sperimentazione animale per fini scientifici - II edizione (UZ0)	UNIMI
15/06/2023	17/06/2023	1° Congresso intersocietà sui prodotti vegetali per la salute: Il ruolo delle piante medicinali nella medicina moderna	Padova (IT)
29/06/2023	30/06/2023	PhD Students Meeting 2023	Istituto Mario Negri - Milano (IT)
03/07/2023	06/07/2023	XXXI International Conference on Polyphenols (ICP2023)	Nantes (FR)
05/09/2023	08/09/2023	NuGOweek2023 | Impact of nutrition during different life stages – tracing the impact of diet on human health	Senigallia (IT)
18/09/2023	21/09/2023	4th Food Bioactives and Health Conference (FBHC2023)	Prague (CZ)
25/01/2024	26/01/2024	GENOMICA: Tecnologie Avanzate (FISV)	Online
28/05/2024	30/05/2024	PhD Students Meeting 2024	Istituto Mario Negri - Milano (IT)
07/06/2024	08/06/2024	"Mario Polsinelli" School of Genetics in Cortona - Mastering Epigenetics: from basics to breakthroughs	Cortona (IT)
10/09/2024	13/09/2024	67th Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics Annual Congress (SIGA2024)	Bologna (IT)
19/09/2024	20/09/2024	17th World Congress on Polyphenols Applications	Milano (IT)
13/12/2024	13/12/2024	Oxinflammation: strategie fitoterapiche e nutraceutiche per la prevenzione del “killer silenzioso” - Convegno monotematico nazionale	Pisa (IT)
04/02/2025	05/02/2025	Advanced Technologies in Single Cell Omics (FISV)	Online
10/04/2025	12/04/2025	2° Congresso intersocietà sui prodotti vegetali per la salute: Il ruolo delle piante medicinali nella medicina moderna	Napoli (IT)
03/06/2025	05/06/2025	5th Food Bioactives and Health Conference (FBHC2025)	Marseille (FR)
09/06/2025	11/06/2025	10th PhD Students Meeting 2025	Istituto Mario Negri - Milano (IT)
19/09/2025	19/09/2025	Piante e Salute - Fitoterapia e nutraceutica per il controllo dell'infiammazione: evidenze e prospettive cliniche	Padova (IT)

Posters:

Date	Title	Place	File
22/06/2022	Anti-inflammatory properties of different potato varieties in THP-1 macrophages	FBHC2020, Parma (IT)
14/09/2022	Anti-inflammatory effect of upland potato varieties in THP-1 macrophages	FISV2022, Portici-NA (IT)
14/09/2022	Oral communication - "Anthocyanins confer cardioprotection against Doxorubicin by modulating the AMPK-SIRT1-p53 pathway"	FISV2022, Portici-NA (IT)
28/09/2022	Oral communication - "Poly(Glycerol-Sebacate)-Based Delivery Systems, Alternative Routes For Polyphenols Administration"	Polyphenols Applications 2022, Valencia (ES)
16/06/2023	Pigmented potatoes and their preventive effect against LPS-induced inflammation in THP-1 macrophages	PhytoSIF2023, Padova (IT)
30/06/2023	Anthocyanins: a possible anti-inflammatory strategy against Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity?	PhD Meeting 2023, Milano (IT)
03/07/2023	Flash oral communication - "Anti-inflammatory potential of pigmented potatoes enriched in Chlorogenic Acid, Carotenoids or Anthocyanins"	ICP2023, Nantes (FR)
07/09/2023	Anti-inflammatory activity of anthocyanins from purple corn against Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity	NuGOweek2023, Senigallia-AN (IT)
19/09/2023	Pigmented upland potatoes: different in vitro anti-inflammatory activity based on their distinctive bioactives	FBHC2023, Prague (CZ)
30/05/2024	Oral communication - "Upland pigmented potatoes as a climate change-resilient functional food against inflammatory-related diseases"	PhD Meeting 2024, Milano (IT)
11/09/2024	Oral communication - "Upland pigmented potatoes as valuable functional foods with anti-inflammatory properties: an insight into bioactive compounds interaction"	SIGA2024, Bologna (IT)
20/09/2024	Exploring the anti-inflammatory potential of upland pigmented potatoes	Polyphenols Applications 2024, Milano (IT)
20/09/2024	Purple corn anthocyanins on zein nanoparticles as potential delivery system	Polyphenols Applications 2024, Milano (IT)
07/10/2024	Upland pigmented potatoes as resilient foods with preventive effects: in vitro anti-inflammatory activity based on their distinctive bioactives	13th PhD Workshop, Milano (IT)
18/02/2025	Oral communication - "Exploring the anti-inflammatory potential of anthocyanin-rich crops"	MCB PhD retreat 2025, Bertinoro-FC (IT)
12/04/2025	Role of purple corn anthocyanins against Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: an insight into NF-κB pathway	PhytoSIF2025, Napoli (IT)
03/06/2025	Flash oral communication - "Purple corn anthocyanins prevent Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity modulating the NF-κB pathway in HL-1 cardiomyocytes"	FBHC2025, Marseille (FR)
11/06/2025	Zein-based nanoparticles as a potential delivery system of anthocyanins from purple corn cob	PhD Meeting 2025, Milano (IT)
19/09/2025	Oral communication - "Purple is the new black: potenziale anti-infiammatorio di mais e patate ricchi di antocianine"	Piante e Salute, Padova (IT)

Publications:

 Anthocyanins: From Mechanisms of Regulation in Plants to Health Benefits in Foods
Francesca Cappellini, Alessandra Marinelli, Marta Toccaceli, Chiara Tonelli, Katia Petroni
Frontiers in Plant Science

 Synthesis and Characterization of Curcumin-Loaded Nanoparticles of Poly(Glycerol Sebacate): A Novel Highly Stable Anticancer System
Alessio Massironi, Stefania Marzorati, Alessandra Marinelli, Marta Toccaceli, Stefano Gazzotti, Marco Aldo Ortenzi, Daniela Maggioni, Katia Petroni, Luisella Verotta
Molecules

 Preventive Effect of Upland Pigmented Potatoes Against LPS-Induced Inflammation in THP-1 Macrophages
Marta Toccaceli, Alessandra Marinelli, Federico Ballabio, Laura Bassolino, Roberto Lo Scalzo, Bruno Parisi, Daniela Pacifico, Federica Nicoletti, Carlo Camilloni, Giuseppe Mandolino, Katia Petroni
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

 Extraction and encapsulation of purple corn cob anthocyanins into starch- and zein-based delivery systems
Massironi A, Toccaceli M, Marinelli A., Maggioni D, Scapuzzi C, Emide D, Scarafoni A, Verotta L, Petroni K, Marzorati S
Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology 105:106624, 2025

 Purple Corn Extract Prevents Doxo-Induced Cardiotoxicity by Counteracting AMPK Activation and p53 Acetylation in HL-1 and Primary Cardiomyocytes
Francesca Cappellini, Debora Zorzan, Federica Tomay, Marta Toccaceli, Alessandra Marinelli, Marina Mancini, Annalisa Bucchi, Chiara Tonelli, Katia Petroni
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity