Dr. Matteo Ruggiu is an Associate Professor in the Laboratory of RNA Biology and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University. Before that, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate at Rockefeller University from 2000 to 2008, and as a Postdoctoral Research Scientists/Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University from 2009 to 2013. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Science at Bard High School Early College in 2011 and 2012. Dr. Ruggiu joined St. John's University as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. In his lab, they are studying protein–RNA networks that control alternative splicing, and how they relate to neurons and to diseases of the nervous system. Their long-term goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms regulating protein-RNA networks that control alternative splicing, and how they relate to neuron biology, and to disease of the nervous system.
