Di Nunzio Francesca, PhD Group Leader
ORCID ID : 0000-0003-2879-3164
RESEARCH ID : A-6153-2014
Publications Sum of times cited H-Index Avg citations per item Avg citations per year
29 1 154 17 39.8 82.4
EDUCATION
2017 Habilitation à diriger les recherches (HDR), Université Paris Diderot 7-Sorbonne
2006 Ph.D. in Medical Biotechnology, University of Verona & San Raffaele Institute Italy.
2001 University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy; degree with full honours (110 out of 110)
RESEARCH and PRofessional EXPERIENCE
- CURRENT POSITION(S)
2018 –to date Group leader, Pasteur Institute, Paris France
- PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2014 – 2017 Researcher, IP, Paris France
2015 Visiting scientist, IP, Montevideo, Uruguay, Mentors: Dr. O. Pritsch & Dr. A. Buschiazzo
2009-2014 Post-doc fellow (FRM, Sidaction, ANRS), IP, Paris. Mentor: Dr. Pierre Charneau
2011 October Visiting scientist, A. Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA. Mentor: Prof. F. Diaz-Griffero
2006-2009 Post-doc fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School.
Supervisor: Prof. Alan Engelman, Boston, USA
2003-2006 Graduate student at University of Verona & University of Modena, Italy.
Supervisor: Prof. Fulvio Mavilio
2001-2002 Undergraduate student MOLMED San Raffaele Institute, Milan, Italy.
Supervisors: Dr. Anna Stornaiuolo & Prof. Fulvio Mavilio.
1999-2000 BS stage Hospital Pascale Cancer Insitute, Naples, Italy. Supervisor: Dr. F.Buonaguro.
1998 BS stage CEINGE University Federico II, Naples, Italy. Supervisor: Dr. C.Pietropaolo.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES and EXPERTISE
- Regular member of the Steering Committee ANRS (funding of programs on HIV) 2016-2020.
- Regular member COMESP IP committee 2018-2021.
- Reviewer for international Grants :
- Proposal IDEX Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
- Programme bilatéral de recherche collaborative Québec-Flandre
2018 to date Editorial Board, Frontiers in Medicine
2011 to date Reviewer for Retrovirology, Scientific Reports, Gene, Nature Microbiology, etc.
2020-2021 Guest editor special issue Viruses Journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/special_issues/viral_nuclear_import_2020
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2018 MOOC Integration of viruses and cancers IP https://lnkd.in/gH5Q242
2017 Teaching at M2 students Virology program IP, “articles reading and review writing” (Review written with the M2 student group Berry et al. 2018 Med Sci, Paris).
Participation as chairmen at international meetings:
2019 ANRS France-Japon meeting, IP, Paris, France
2019 44th CSH (Cold Spring Harbor) Retroviruses Meeting, 2019, NY, USA
2018 Frontiers in Retrovirology Conference, Leuven, Belgium
2017 6th International Conference on Retroviral Integration, Bordeaux, France
Members
- Viviana Scoca AMGEN 2017-Erasmus 2018- Engineer Sidaction 2019-PhD student ANRS 2019-2022.
- Jean-Sebastien Diana, MD, PhD student FRM 2019-2022.
- Selen Ay, M2 student 2021
- Clement de La Myre Mory, M2 student 2021
Former members
- Post-doc: Elena Rensen ANRS fellow 2019
- Engineer of research: Stella Frabetti, ERASMUS 2017-Sidaction 2018
- PhD student: Guillermo Blanco-Rodriguez (University Frontiers du Vivant, Paris Diderot 7), ANRS, 2016 – 2019
Grants
- 2020-2023 ANRS – Live-track of the retroviral DNA fate in infected cells using humanized mice. P.I.
- 2019-2022 ANRS – Study of the interplay between viral pre-integration complex and host-chromatin factors during HIV infection in live cells. P.I.
- 2018-2020 ANRS – New aspects of the role of the HIV integrase in infection inferred by the study of phylogenetic group-specific motifs. P.I. M. Negroni, co-PIs: Di Nunzio, V. Parissi
- 2017-2020 FRM/Sidaction – Study of the interplay between nucleoporins and chromatin factors to orchestrate HIV-1 replication-P.I.
- 2016-2019 ANRS – The Nuclear Pore gateway for HIV-1 replication: Study of viral functional complexes at the inner and outer sides of the pore –P.I.
- 2013-2015 ANRS – Implication of nucleoporins of the nuclear pore basket (Nup98, Nup153 and Tpr) in a concerted HIV-1 integration mechanism with translocation through the pore and chromatin modeling –P.I.
Patent
Patent Di Nunzio IP: « Live lmaging system to visualize the retro-transcribed HIV-1 DNA genome» Demande de brevet provisoire américaine No. 62/846,201 Déposée le 10 mai 2019 N/Réf.: Dl 2018-37 HIV imaging AF