Dr. Luca Gentile

Biography

Luca Gentile graduated in Developmental Biology in 2000 and received his PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Pavia (ITA). In 2003, he was invited to the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research (Kenneth Square, PA, USA) for studying reprogramming in single reconstructed mouse embryos. In 2004, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (Münster, GER), working on the onset of cellular reprogramming. In 2010, he was appointed Head of the Planarian Stem Cell Laboratory (Münster, GER), working on the conserved mechanisms of pluripotency. In the same year, he organized the first International Meeting on Planarian Biology, which in 2018 reaches its 4th edition (Madison, WI, USA). Since March 2015, he leads the Pluripotency & Regeneration Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (Sulzbach, GER). His subjects of investigation are the derivation of human cardiac organoids and the functional characterization of stem cell subpopulations in planarian S. mediterran.

Research Interest

Cellular Reprogramming, Developmental Biology, Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics