ECLT - Università di Pavia

Silvia Garagna

Since 2006 Director of the Interdepartmental Research Centre of the University of Pavia European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT).

Education
1980 Graduated in Biology, University of Pavia
1982 Specialisation in Cytochemistry and Histochemistry University of Pavia

Positions and employment
Oct 2001 – present. Full Professor of Developmental Biology. University of Pavia
1986–Sept 2001. Assistant professor. Department of Animal Biology University of Pavia
2006 – present. Head of the interdepartmental research centre “European Centre for Life Sciences Health and the Courts” University of Pavia

Other experience and Professional Memberships
1982 – 1990. Member, Italian Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 1985 – 1990. Member, British Society of Developmental Biology
1983. Award for the best specialisation thesis in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
1988. Visiting researcher, School of Biological Sciences , University of East Anglia, UK
1989. Visiting researcher, Department of Human Genetics, University of Wurzburg, Germany
1990. Research fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
2000-2001. Visiting researcher, Cátedra de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular - Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
2002-2003. Visiting researcher, Departamento de Ciencias Bioestructurales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006-2007. Visiting researcher, Cátedra de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular - Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Her research has been or is funded by grants from public (MIUR, CNR, Foreign Ministry, University of Pavia, Regione Lombardia) and private foundations (e.g. Telethon Foundation Onlus; Sigma-Tau; Millipore company; Olympus Foundation Europe, CARIPLO).

She is or has been a referee for international scientific Journals (European Journal of Histochemistry, Chromosoma, Chromosome Research, Cytogenetics and Genome Research, Genome, Experimental Cell Research, Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, Gene, Journal of Theoretical Biology) and for the evaluation of grant proposals (MIUR, Italy; FONCYT, Argentina; Health Research Board, Ireland).
She was associate editor of Chromosome Research and guest editor of a special issue of Cytogenetics and Genome Research entitled "Mouse Genetics after the Mouse Genome" 2004.

Areas of research interest
1) embryonic stem cell differentiation
2) functional reprogramming of somatic cells
3) Germ cell differentiation, fertilisation and early development in mammals

Her research activity is documented by 124 publications in refereed journals and books.

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Silvia Garagna
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale
Universita’ degli Studi di Pavia
Piazza Botta 9
27100 Pavia (Italia)
e-mail: silvia.garagna@unipv.it