Gaia Pigino
- Associate Head of Structural Biology Research Centre, Structural biology
- Research Group Leader, Pigino Group
Gaia Pigino is a biologist, currently Associate Head of the Structural Biology Center at Human Technopole, after 9 years as Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute CBG in Dresden. She collaborate with Alessandro Vannini to develop the Centre for Structural Biology. Gaia’s laboratory studies molecular mechanisms and principles of self-organisation in cilia and other subcellular structures that are of fundamental importance for human health and disease.
CURRENT POSITION
| Since 2021 | Associate Head of the Structural Biology Center at Human Technopole, Milan, Italy |
| Since 2012 | Research Group Leader at MPI-CBG, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany |
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH
| 2010-2012 | Postdoctoral EMBO Long Term fellow Laboratory of Biomolecular Research (BMR), Department of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherer Institute (PSI) Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. T. Ishikawa. |
| 2009-2011 | Postdoctoral researcher Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Zurich, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. T. Ishikawa. |
| 2007-2009 | Postdoctoral MIUR research fellow Fellowship of the “Ministero Italiano dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca”. Laboratory of Cryotechniques for Electron Microscopy, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena. Supervisor: Prof. P. Lupetti. |
| 2009 | Participant at the Physiology Course at MBL in Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Directors: Dyche Mullins and Claire Waterman. |
EDUCATION
| 2003-2007 | Ph.D. Student (Ph.D. Fellowship by the Italian government “Ministero Italiano dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca”). Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena. Supervisor: Prof. F. Bernini and Prof. C. Leonzio. |
| 2002 | Diploma in Natural Science (Summa cum laude). University of Siena, Italy. Thesis supervisors: Prof. C. Leonzio and Prof. F. Bernini. |
OTHER POSITIONS
| 2003 | Research Associate. Department of Environmental Sciences G. Sarfatti, University of Siena. Advisor: Prof. C. Leonzio |
AWARDS and FUNDING
| 2022 | EMBO Member |
| 2019 | DFG Grant – GAČR-DFG Cooperation |
| 2018 | PoL starting fellowship (from the Dresden Excellence Cluster ‘Physics of Life’) |
| 2018 | Keith R. Porter Fellow Award for Cell Biology |
| 2018 | ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG N#819826 CiliaTubulinCode) |
| 2018 | Excellence Cluster ‘Physics of Life’, as a core Principal Investigator |
| 2010 | EMBO Long Term fellowship |
| 2009 | Scholarship from the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) MBL Physiology Course. |
| 2007 | Post-Doctoral Research fellowship from MIUR. |
| 2003 | Ph.D. Fellowship from MIUR. |
Fellowship to students and postdocs
| 2022 | EMBO Long Term Fellowship to Helen Foster |
| 2021 | EMBO Postdoc Fellowship to Nikolai Klena |
| 2019 | HFSP Postdoc Fellowship to Adrian Nievergelt |
| 2018 | EMBO Long Term Fellowship to Adrian Nievergelt |
| 2017 | Marie Curie Fellowship to Adam Schröfel (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016) |
| 2015 | DIGS-BB Fellowship to Guendalina Marini |
| 2012 | DIGS-BB Fellowship to Ludek Stepanek |
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11/2003 - Environmental Pollution
The effects of heavy metal contamination on the soil arthropod community of a shooting range
Soils in clay pigeon shooting ranges can be seriously contaminated by heavy metals. The pellets contained in ammunition are composed of Pb, Sb, Ni, Zn, Mn and Cu. The total concentrations of these metals in soils, and the effects of their increasing levels on the arthropod community were investigated at seven sampling sites in a […]
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