Staff Profile

I hold a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Biological Science from the National University of Tucuman, Argentina.

My doctoral research focused on the development of innovative broad-spectrum antimicrobial molecules, leveraging advanced techniques in genetic engineering, microbiology, and biotechnology.

Currently, I am a Research Associate at Newcastle University, where my research interests converge at the intersection of biotechnology, synthetic biology, and computing science.

I am dedicated to develop novel methods for in vivo information processing, utilizing synthetic biology, DNA/RNA nanotechnology and computing technology to expand the horizons of scientific innovation.

• Articles

  • Shirt-Ediss B, Connolly J, Elezgaray J, Torelli E, Navarro SA, Bacardit J, Krasnogor N. Reverse engineering DNA origami nanostructure designs from raw scaffold and staple sequence list. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 2023, 21, 3615-3626.
  • Torelli E, Shirt-Ediss B, Navarro SA, Manzano M, Vizzini P, Krasnogor N. Light-up split Broccoli aptamer as a versatile tool for RNA assembly monitoring in cell-free TX-TL system, hybrid RNA/DNA origami tagging and DNA biosensing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023, 24(10), 8483.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Torelli E, Shirt-Ediss B, Navarro SA, Krasnogor N. Co-transcriptionally folded RNA origami and DNA stack memory as potential interfaces able to operate in vivo. In: 2023 RNA Nanotechnologies, Gordon Research Seminar and Conference. 2023, Ventura, CA, USA: Gordon Research Conferences.
  • Torelli E, Shirt-Ediss B, Navarro SA, Krasnogor N. Towards in vivo RNA origami self-assembly. In: Synthetic Biology UK 2022. 2022, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
  • Shirt-Ediss B, Connolly J, Torelli E, Navarro S, Elezgaray J, Bacardit J, Krasnogor N. Multi-Objective Sequence Selection for Scaffolded Origami Nanostructures. In: 28th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming. 2022, Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico.
  • Navarro SA, Torelli E, Krasnogor N. INTEGRONS: natural DNA-based data structures. In: Synthetic Biology UK 2022 (SBUK 2022). 2022, Newcastle Upon Tyne.