Dr. Federica Fontana

Education  

University of Milan, Italy 

MSc, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2014  

University of Milan, Italy  

BSc, Biological Sciences, 2012,   

Research Interests  

I’m interested in understanding how the developing heart, and in particular the endocardium, specializes into different chambers and cells with different morphology, such as the cushion cells at the atrioventricular canal. I’m also interested in elucidating what determines in cells the responsiveness to blood flow-induced shear stress.