Dimitri Patrizio
Ordinary Professor
Department of Biology and biotechnology
University La Sapienza
Italy
Biography
Patrizio Dimitri is an associate professor of Genetics with a degree in Ordinary Professor and works at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Charles Darwin" of the Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Italian Association of Genetics (AGI), which he has been a counselor and a member of the College of PhD students in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Rome. He has been teaching since 1983. He currently holds the Genetics of the Three Year Degree Course in Agro-Industrial Biotechnology and the teaching of Structural and Functional Genomics of Animal Systems, of the Master's Degree in Genomics of Biotechnology.
Research Interest
eukaryotic genome biology; 2) Epigenetic control of gene expression; 3) Chromatin dysfunctions and genetic diseases
Publications
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Messina G, Celauro E, Atterrato MT, Giordano E, Iwashita S, Dimitri P. The Bucentaur (BCNT) protein family: a long-neglected class of essential proteins required for chromatin/chromosome organization and function. Chromosoma. 2015 Jun 1;124(2):153-62.
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Messina G, Damia E, Fanti L, Atterrato MT, Celauro E, Mariotti FR, Accardo MC, Walther M, Vernì F, Picchioni D, Moschetti R. Yeti, an essential Drosophila melanogaster gene, encodes a protein required for chromatin organization. J Cell Sci. 2014 Jun 1;127(11):2577-88.
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Hoskins RA, Carlson JW, Wan KH, Park S, Mendez I, Galle SE, Booth BW, Pfeiffer BD, George RA, Svirskas R, Krzywinski M. The Release 6 reference sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Genome research. 2015 Mar 1;25(3):445-58.
