FATICA ALESSANDRO

Associate professor
Department of Biology and biotechnology
University La Sapienza
Italy

Professor Genetics
Biography

2013-Present Associate Professor at the Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology "C. Darwin" of the University of Rome - Wisdom. Nov. 2002-Dec 2012 Researcher at the Dip. Genetics and Molecular Biology (pooled in the Dept. of Biology and Bioteconolgie from 2010) of the University of Rome - Wisdom. 2002 Wellcome-Trust Research Associate at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh (UK). 2000-2002 Research in quality of fellow "EMBO long term" at the laboratory of Prof. David Tollervey, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh (UK). 1998-2000 Research in quality of fellow CNR at the C.S. for Nucleic Acids-CNR c/o Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology of the University of Roma-Sapienza 1999 Achievement Research Doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology of the University of Rome- Wisdom. 1995-1998 unwinding of the Doctoral thesis of in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the laboratories of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology of the University of Rome - Wisdom. Mar-jun. 1997 Fellow "EMBO short term" in the laboratory of Prof. Angela Kramer at the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Geneva Sciences III (Switzerland). 1995 Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Rome Sapienzacon vote 110/110 e lode. 1993-1995 Course of experimental thesis at the laboratories of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology of the University of Rome.

Research Intrest

Genetics and Molecular Biology

List of Publications
Morlando M, Ballarino M, Fatica A. Long non-coding RNAs: new players in hematopoiesis and leukemia. Frontiers in medicine. 2015;2.
Hughes JM, Legnini I, Salvatori B, Masciarelli S, Marchioni M, Fazi F, Morlando M, Bozzoni I, Fatica A. C/EBPα-p30 protein induces expression of the oncogenic long non-coding RNA UCA1 in acute myeloid leukemia. Oncotarget. 2015 Jul 30;6(21):18534.
Mangiavacchi A, Sorci M, Masciarelli S, Larivera S, Legnini I, Iosue I, Bozzoni I, Fazi F, Fatica A. The miR-223 host non-coding transcript linc-223 induces IRF4 expression in acute myeloid leukemia by acting as a competing endogenous RNA. Oncotarget. 2016 Sep 13;7(37):60155.