Short CV
1987 | Degree in Biology; University of Padua, Italy |
1993 | Ph.D. in Morphogenetic and Cytological Sciences; University of Padua and University La Sapienza (Rome), Italy |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
1996-2005 | Group Leader, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy |
2005- current | Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy |
Molecular mechanisms underlying inheritary diseases affecting the retina and RPE.
Research Group
Eye Diseases
Key Publications
- Trifunovi? D., Karali M., Camposampiero D., Ponzin D., Banfi S., Marigo V.
A high-resolution RNA expression atlas of Retinitis Pigmentosa genes in the human and mouse retinas.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science in press (2008).
- Giordano F., De Marzo A. Vetrini F., Marigo V.
FGF and EGF differently affect differentiation of murine retinal stem cells in vitro.
Molecular Vision 13: 1842-1850 (2007).
- Chakarova C.F., Papaioannou M.G., Khanna H., Lopez I., Waseem N., Shah A., Theis T., Friedman J. , Maubaret C., Bujakowska K., Veraitch B., Abd El-Aziz M.M., Prescott D.Q., Parapuram S., Bickmore W.A., Munro P.M.G., Gal A., Hamel C., Marigo V., Ponting C.P., Wissinger B, Zrenner E., Matter K., Swaroop A., Koenekoop R.K. Bhattacharya S.S.
Mutations in TOPORS Cause Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa with Perivascular Retinal Pigment Epithelium Atrophy.
The American Journal of Human Genetics 81: 1098-1103 (2007).
- Allocca, M., Mussolino, C., Hoyos, M. G., Sanges, D., Iodice, C., Petrillo, M., Vandenberghe, L. H., Wilson, J. M., Marigo, V., Surace, E. M., Auricchio, A.
Novel AAV serotypes efficiently transduce murine photoreceptors.
Journal of Virology 81: 11372-11380 (2007).
- Comitato A., Spampanato C., Chakarova C., Sanges D., Bhattacharya S.S., Marigo V.
Mutations in splicing factor PRPF3, causing retinal degeneration, form detrimental aggregates in photoreceptor cells.
Human Molecular Genetics 16: 1699-1707 (2007).
- Karali M., Peluso I., Marigo V., Banfi S.
Identification and characterization of microRNAs expressed in the mouse eye.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 48: 509-515 (2007).
- Sanges D., Comitato A., Tammaro R., Marigo V.
Apoptosis in retinal degeneration involves cross-talk between AIF and caspase-12 and is blocked by calpain inhibitors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 17366-17371 (2006).
- Vetrini F., Tammaro R., Bondanza S., Surace E.M., Auricchio A., De Luca M., Ballabio A., Marigo V.
Aberrant splicing in the ocular albinism type 1 gene (OA1/GPR143) is corrected in vitro by morpholino antisense oligonucleotides.
Human Mutation 27: 420-426 (2006).
- Cortese K., Giordano F., Surace E.M., Venturi C., Ballabio A., Tacchetti C., Marigo V.
The Ocular albinism type 1 (OA1) gene controls melanosome maturation and size.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 46: 4358-4364 (2005).
- Vetrini F., Auricchio A., Du J., Angeletti B., Fisher D.E., Ballabio A., Marigo V.
The microphthalmia transcription factor (Mitf) controls expression of the ocular albinism type 1 gene: a link between melanin synthesis and melanosome biogenesis.
Molecular and Cellular Biology 24: 6550-6559 (2004).
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