Lupo Giuseppe
Chemistry
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
Biography
Education: July 1991: Diploma di Maturità Scientifica, High school “G. Galilei”, Palermo, Italy. July 1996: Laurea in Biological Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. October 1997: Diploma in Biological Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. December 1998: Achievement of the qualification to practice as a biologist. Aprile 2000: PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pisa. Employment history: Nov. 1998 - Febr. 1999: Project Fellow, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Milan, Italy. Febr. 2001 - Jan. 2003: EMBO post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Febr. 2003 – Sept. 2009: Research Associate, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK. Oct. 2009 - Sept. 2013: Research fellow under the programme “Rientro dei cervelli", Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome. Dec. 2013 - Nov. 2016: Tenure-track assistant professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome.
Research Interest
Physical chemistry
Publications
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Barbieri AM, Lupo G, Bulfone A, Andreazzoli M, Mariani M, Fougerousse F, Consalez GG, Borsani G, Beckmann JS, Barsacchi G, Ballabio A. A homeobox gene, vax2, controls the patterning of the eye dorsoventral axis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1999 Sep 14;96(19):10729-34.
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Lupo G, Harris WA, Lewis KE. Mechanisms of ventral patterning in the vertebrate nervous system. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 2006 Feb 1;7(2):103.
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Smith JR, Vallier L, Lupo G, Alexander M, Harris WA, Pedersen RA. Inhibition of Activin/Nodal signaling promotes specification of human embryonic stem cells into neuroectoderm. Developmental biology. 2008 Jan 1;313(1):107-17.
