Silvia Canaider works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. At the University of Bologna, she received a degree in Biological Sciences cum laude in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in Cytomorphology in 2002. She served as a Researcher in Applied Biology at the University of Bologna from 2002 to 2007. Her research interests include the use of chemical (natural or synthetic molecules) or physical stimuli to modulate the stemness, proliferation, differentiation, and senescence of human stem cells from adult and perinatal tissues; the relationship between cytoskeleton alteration and morpho-functional properties of human stem cells from adult and perinatal tissues; the search for strategies to induce cardiomyocytes to re-enter the cell cycle; gender differences in transcriptome and cell senescence in human stem cells; and theoretic biology.