Affiliation: Stony Brook University, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, United States

Dada Pisconti was born and raised in Italy, where she completed her PhD in Cell Biology. After a short postdoc experience at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, she worked with Brad Olwin at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studied the molecular mechanisms involved in muscle stem cell communication with their niche. In 2012 she moved to the University of Liverpool in the UK. She started her lab, continuing her work on muscle stem cell-niche communication and how such mechanisms regulate muscle stem cell transcriptional activity. Additionally, in Liverpool, Dr., Pisconti became interested in investigating the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy. In 2018, the Pisconti lab moved to Stony Brook State University of New York. The work has further expanded into developing treatments for muscular dystrophy and investigating the pathogenic role of muscle (in)activity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.