Bilde av Ciccone, Chiara
Bilde av Ciccone, Chiara
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology chiara.ciccone@uit.no

Chiara Ciccone


PhD student


  • Chiara Ciccone, Fayiri Kante, Lars Folkow, David Grey Hazlerigg, Alexander Christopher West, Shona Hiedi Wood :
    Circadian coupling of mitochondria in a deep-diving mammal
    bioRxiv 2023 DOI
  • Chiara Ciccone, Fayiri Kante, David Grey Hazlerigg, Lars Folkow, Alexander Christopher West, Shona Hiedi Wood :
    Circadian clockwork and mitochondrial metabolism in a diving mammal: a link between hypoxia tolerance and time of the day
    2022
  • Chiara Ciccone, Fayiri Kante, David Hazlerigg, Lars Folkow, AC West, Shona Wood :
    Circadian clockwork and mitochondrial metabolism in a diving mammal: clues to hypoxia tolerance?
    2021

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    Research interests

    My PhD project has the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) as model organisms and it focuses on two main objectives:

    1. Describe biological rhythms in diving species and how the molecular clock and hypoxia tolerance mechanisms are influencing each other;
    2. Define the main mitochondrial adaptations that give extreme hypoxia tolerance to the pinnipeds neural tissue.

    Teaching

    Teaching:

    • BIO-2310 Arctic Biology (2021-2022)
    • BIO-3008 Animal Physiology (2021-2022)

    Master thesis co-supervisor:

    1. Matthew Chiu (2021-2022, 60 stp). Are Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) endowed with mechanisms for non-shivering thermogenesis within the skeletal muscle? Supervisors: Shona Wood, Lars Folkow, Chiara Ciccone
    2. Silje Hælen-Helgesson (2022-2023, 60 stp). Physiological adaptations for ultra-endurance in long-distance sled dogs project. Supervisors: MA Sundset, Chiara Ciccone, Ingebjørg Helena Nymo, Shona Wood, Lars Folkow.

    Member of research group



    CV

    • BSc in Biological Science at "La Sapienza", Rome (2013 - 2016)
    • MSc in Arctic Animal Physiology at UiT (2017 - 2019)
    • PhD in Animal Physiology at UiT (2020 - current position)