Gianpaolo

Submitted by Gianpaolo on Wed, 2011-11-30 18:04

Personal Information

Last name:

Zampicinini

First name:

Gianpaolo

Phone:

+30 2810 337741

e-mail:

gpaolo@hcmr.gr

Function at IMBG:

Post Doc

Languages


Italian	native language
English	excellent

Education and Training


1997	B.Sc. in Biology - University of Torino Dissertation:“Variability of microsatellite DNA in the European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)”.
2003	M.Sc. in Bioinformatics - Fondazione per le biotecnologie, University of Torino. Dissertation: “Hexamer frequency in non-coding sequences: comparison between human chromosome 1 and chromosome 3 of D. melanogaster.”
2005	Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology - University of Torino and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Dissertation: “Insertional polymorphism of four transposable elements in European populations of Chironomus riparius (Diptera, Chironomidae) as detected by Transposon Insertion Display".

Professional Activities


2005 - 2008	Joint venture - Ambulatorio Veterinario Associato, Torino. Start up and daily management of a PCR diagnostic and genotyping lab
2008-2009	Postdoctoral research assistant - University of Swansea(GB) Environmental impact of intensive salmonid aquaculture (Salmo salar, Onchorynchus mykiss) in Chile: identification of escaped fish using microsatellite DNA fingerprinting.

International Recognition of Scientific Work

Scholarships / Awards


2011	Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (IEF) , Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Center for Marine Research. Isolation and characterization of single nucleotide polymorpisms (SNPs) in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus); supervisor: Dr. Antonis Magoulas.
2002	PhD. grant, University of Torino, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo and École doctorale en Évolution Écosystèmes Microbiologie Modélisation, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1; supervisors: Prof. G. Sella and Dr. Christian Biemont.
2000	Postgraduate research assistant, University of Torino, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo. Development of a degenerate primer Transposon Display assay to investigate insertional variability of mobile genetic elements in different taxa: Bufo, Rana, (Anura), Chironomus (Diptera); supervisors: Prof. G. Sella and Dr. V. Guryev
1998	Marie Curie postgraduate research fellow, Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Genetics department. Development of microsatellite markers in Sardina pilchardus and analysis of Mediterranean populations’ structure.
1996	Erasmus undergraduate scholarship, University of Torino and Institute of Marine Biology of Crete Development of microsatellite markers in European anchovy