Giovanni Dangelo

Biography

Since the very beginning of my scientific career I have been fascinated by Cell Biology and the Biosynthetic Pathway. Compared to other aspects of Biology I found this one of special interest for two main reasons. First, it deals with phenomena where cellular functions were mirrored by specific cellular structures; secondly, according to my naïve point of view at the time, it lacked the same cogent molecular descriptions that were provided for other aspects of Biology, thus leaving space for future discoveries. At the present, my scientific interests are at the crossroads between membrane trafficking, glycosphingolipid biology, and regulatory circuits. All of the projects in my laboratory deal with these concepts and are aimed at investigating the biosynthetic pathway in terms of an information-processing unit inside the cell.

Research Interest

Cell Biology