Silvia Garagna
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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 (cum laudae),
University of Pavia
1982 Specialisation in Cytochemistry and
Histochemistry (cum laudae), 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
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
Areas of research
interest
1) Mammalian male and female germ cell differentiation
2) Embryonic stem cells differentiation into
cardiomyocytes as a platform for exposomic studies.
Her research activity is documented by 141
publications in refereed journals and books.
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).
Editorial
activity
August 2016 - to date.
Editorial Board Member of the scientific journal “Cytogenetics and Genome
Research”.
April 2015 - to date.
Associate Editor of the scientific journal “Journal of Genetics”.
2012. Guest Editor of
the special issue "Female germ cells in development and cancer",
International Journal of Developmental Biology. UBC Press.
2010. Co-author of the
text book “Developmental biology”. Piccin Editore.
2004. Guest Editor of
the special issue “Mouse Genetics after the Mouse Genome”, Cytogenetics and
Genome Research, Karger Press.
2001-2002. Associate
Editor of the scientific journal “Chromosome Research”.
2002. Redi CA, Capanna
E, Garagna S. Visual Zoology. The Pavia collection of Leuckart’s zoological
wall chart. Pavia IBIS editore.
2001. Garagna S.,
Zuccotti M., Redi C.A. Imago Animalium. Pavia Ibis editore.
During the years
2014-2016 she has been acting as a reviewer of the following international
scientific journals:
Biology of Reproduction, Cytogenetics and
Genome Research, Italian Journal of Zoology, Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society, Cariologia, Journal of Experimental Zoology part B, Chromosoma,
Chromosome Research, Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica, Folia Biologica,
Journal of Cell Science, Sexual Development, Stem Cells and Development.