NAME:
Solaini, Giancarlo
Scientific curriculum
Position held and professional experience:
1974-1979 Research
Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, University of Bologna,
Italy (Prof. C.A. Rossi).
1979-1980 Post-doc
Fellow, Dept of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of
Warwick, UK (Dr. D.E. Griffiths).
1981-1987 Research
Associate, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Bologna, Italy
(Prof. C.A. Rossi and G. Lenaz).
1988-2004 Professor,
Associate of Biochemistry, Medical Department, Scuola Superiore di
Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S.
Anna, Pisa, Italy
2005-2015
Professor, Associate of Biochemistry, Medical School, University of
Bologna, Italy
2016- Full Professor of Biochemistry, Medical School, University of Bologna, Italy
1981 & 1982 Visiting research
fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital
School of Medicine, University of London (UK), collaboration with
Prof. Dennis Chapman.
1993
Guest worker at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology del Medical
Research Council di Cambridge (UK), collaboration with Prof Sir
John E. Walker (Nobel Laureate, 1997)
1999
Guest worker at the Doheny Eye Institute, Depts of Ophtalmology and
Surgery (Neurological), University of Southern California School of
Medicine, Los Angeles (USA), collaboration with Prof. A Sadun and
Dr. V. Carelli
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Visiting research fellow at the Department of Biochemistry,
University of Oxford (UK), collaboration with Dr. David A.
Harris.
Main academic and scientific advisory duties: member of
the Advisory board of the Department of Biochemistry (1985-88),
member of the Management Committee of Scuola Superiore di Studi
Universitari e di Perfezionamento S. Anna, Pisa, Italy
(1996-2001); member of the Management Committee of the
Italian Group of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes (GIBB) (1997-2001,
2003-07, and 2011-15); GIBB President (2014-15); member of the Management
Committee of the Italian Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society
(SIB) (2010-2014).
Reviewer ad hoc for scientific journals, including: Biochimica
et Biophysica Acta, FEBS Letters, Journal of Biological Chemistry,
Neurology, Pediatric Research, Journal of Controlled Release,
International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,
Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Journal of Translational Medicine,
Cell Death & Disease, FASEB Journal; with expertise in mitochondrial
pathophysiology and in structure, function and regulation of the
ATP synthase complex.
Reviewer for grant assignment: for the Italian MIUR (PRIN
and FIRB); AFM (Association Francaise contre les Myopathies);
The Dutch Cancer Society, NL; The National Science Centre,
Krakow, Poland.
Main teaching experience:
1988-2004 Lecturer of
Biochemistry to medical students, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di
Perfezionamento S. Anna, Pisa, Italy
1997-2001 Lecturer of
Biochemistry, Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, University of
Bologna, Italy
2005-
Lecturer of Biochemistry, Medical School, University of
Bologna, Italy
Lecturer of Biochemistry, Laurea Magistrale in Medical
Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy
2011-2019 Lecturer
of Bioenergetics, Medical School, University of Bologna,
Italy
2020- Lecturer of Biochemistry, Corso di Base II, Speech Therapy Degree, University of Bologna, Italy.
Research interests in the recent years:
The scientific research covers a number of topics under the
general heading of bioenergetics and in particular it focuses on
aspects of mitochondrial pathophysiology. Specifically the topics
are:
- The role of the endogenous inhibitor protein of F0F1-ATPase
(ATP synthase) in normal and transformed cells
- The pathogenic mechanisms induced by mutations of the
mtDNA
- The expression, stability and catalytic properties of
F0F1-ATPase and Cytochrome c Oxidase in aging and Alzheimer's
disease
- Ischemia and hypoxia in mitochondrial physiology and
pathology
- Cellular bioenergetics and metabolism in normal and cancer
cells.
- Autors of more than 150 scientific papers, most of whichi on international journals with peer reviewers, and recognised by ISI, Scopus and so on. Actively attended more than 150 National and International Scientific Meetings, where in many cases an invited talk was delivered and/or He was designed as a chairman of a session.
Organization of scientific meetings and/or member of
the advisory board:
· Pisa, Italy 24 May 1996 Natl Meeting
“Towards an in vivo Biochemistry on the
Brainâ€
· Pisa, Italy 23-24 May 1996 Annual Meeting of
the Group "Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids" of the Italian
Biochemical and Molecular Biology Society
· Pisa, Italy 5 Jun 1998 Annual Meeting
of the Region Tosco-Umbro-Marchigiana of the Italian Biochemical
and Molecular Biology Society
· Pisa, Italy 24-26 September 1999 Annual
Meeting of the Italian Group of Bioenergetics and
Biomembranes
· Pisa, Italy 15-18 March 2003 Workshop
“HRT in Climacteric and Ageing Brainâ€
· Pisa, Italy 21-26 August 2004 13th
European Bioenergetics Conference
· Bologna, Italy 23-25 May 2005 Workshop
“Discovery the MITOCONDRIONâ€
· Moscow, Russian Federation 22-27 July 2006
14th European Bioenergetics Conference
· Bologna, Italy 18-20 October 2007 Second Natl
Meeting “New Perspectives on Mitochondrial
Medicineâ€
· Bari, Italy 20-21 Jun 2008 Annual
Meeting of the Italian Group of Bioenergetics and
Biomembranes
· Dublin, Ireland 21-26 July 2008 15th
European Bioenergetics Conference
· Varsaw, Poland 17-22 July 2010 16th European
Bioenergetics Conference
· Freiburg, Germany 15-20 September 2012 17th European
Bioenergetics Conference
- Chieti, Italy 26-29 September 2012 56th Annual
Meeting of the Italian Biochemical and Molecular Biology
Society
- Ferrara, Italy 18-20 Settembre
2013 57th Annual Meeting of the Italian
Biochemical and Molecular Biology Society
