Annamaria Buschini
University of Parma, Italy
Biography
Annamaria Buschini is a genotoxicologist. Her main research interests are environmental mutagenicity and the study of the toxicological profile of drugs/ phytochemicals. From the beginning of her research career, she worked on eukaryotic model-systems to study the interaction between xenobiotics (environmental pollutants, drugs, etc) and the cellular environment. One of the goals of this long-term project was to build up and validate screening systems able to detect different mutagenic events at the molecular level for a quantitative/qualitative evaluation of the “genetic hazard”. In recent years, she has been involved in epigenotoxicological studies.