GRAZIANO MARTELLO
Title: Professore ordinario
SSD: BIO/11 - Molecular Biology
Address: VIA U. BASSI, 58/B - PADOVA
Phone: 0498276088
E-mail: graziano.martello@unipd.it
Curriculum
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Martello Graziano
Researcher unique identifier: orcid.org/0000-0001-5520-085X
Date of birth: 01/04/1980
Nationality: Italian
• EDUCATION
03/2009 PhD in Genetics and developmental biology
Thesis title: “MicroRNAs involved in embryonic development and tumour progression”
Department of Histology Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Italy - Prof. Stefano Piccolo
03/2005 Master Degreee in Medical Biotechnologies
Thesis title: “Isolation of a Ubiquitin ligase for Smad4: its role in germ layers formation and cell proliferation, University of Padua, Italy
• POSITIONS
08/2017 – Present Associate Professor of Histology
03/2014 – Present Telethon Scientist
03/2014 – 07/2017 Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Medicine - Medical School of Padua University, Italy
04/2010 – 02/2014 Research Associate
Project on the mechanisms controlling pluripotency in mouse ES cells (Prof. Austin Smith)
Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge, UK
01/2009 – 03/2010 Post-Doc - Project on microRNA controlling TGF-beta signalling (Prof. Stefano Piccolo)
Department of Histology Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Italy
• FELLOWSHIPS
01/2011 – 12/2013 HFSP (Human Frontieres Science Program) fellowship
01/2009 – 03/2010 microRNA in cancer, AIRC (Italian Association for Cancer Research), Department of Histology Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Italy
• HONOURS AND PRIZES
2008 - “Concorso giovani ricercatori 2007” (Young researchers award 2007), for young Italian researchers .
2010 - “Cecila Cioffrese” prize from the Carlo Erba Foundation.
2012 - “Young Venetian Excellence Award 2012” in the field of Life sciences.
2013 - "Armenise-Harvard Career Development Award and Telethon Foundation Career Award (1,000,000 dollars , 5 years)
2013 – Telethon DTI Career Development award (600,000 euros, 5 years)
2016 – Europen Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (1,500,000 euros, 5 years)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS – INVITED SPEAKER
June 21st 2018 – Rome (Italy) SIBBM Frontier in Molecular Biology
Title: A common molecular logic determines pluripotent stem cell self-renewal and reprogramming
May 5th 2018 – Pavia (Italy) University of Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, Lectio Magistralis for the Research Day,
Title: Chasing cell identity: from embryos to stem cells
February 23rd 2018 - Vienna (Austria) IMP – IMBA, SY-STEM the next generation of stem cell researchers International meeting
Title: Direct generation of human naïve induced pluripotent stem cells from somatic cells in microfluidics.
November 22nd 2017 – Milan (Italy) TIGET - San Raffaele
Title: Metabolic and transcriptional control of pluripotent stem cells
November 20th 2017 - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (NY, USA) STATs: IMPORTANCE IN BASIC & CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH international meeting
Title: LIF/Stat3 signal reshapes the metabolic profile of Pluripotent Stem cells
October 2016 – Dresden (Germany) CRTD “Rising Star Lectures”
Title: Metabolic and transcriptional regulation of Pluripotency”.
September 24th 2014 – Pisa (Italy) FISV 2014
Title: “Cracking the naive Pluripotency code”
June 8th 2013 – University of Coimbra (Portugal) BEB Symposium
Title: Integration of signalling pathways by the gene regulatory network of pluripotent cells
