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Bioinformatician with 10+ years of experience in NGS data analysis

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Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing
Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Processing
Product Development Product Evaluation
Work Experience

Head of Bioinformatics Unit

Genomix4Life

February 2016 - Present

Education

Master degree in Bioinformatics

University of Bologna

November 2007 - July 2009

Certifications
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giorgio Giurato, Assunta SELLITTO, Giovanni Pecoraro, Giovanni Nassa, Francesca Rizzo, Pasquale Saggese, Cesar A. Martinez, Claudio Scafoglio, Roberta Tarallo (2021). Regulation of Metabolic Reprogramming by Long Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer . Cancers.
Giorgio Giurato, Lorenza Mautone, Carlo Ferravante, Anna Tortora, Roberta Tarallo, Alessandro Weisz, Mario Vitale (2021). Higher Integrin Alpha 3 Beta1 Expression in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Is Associated with Worst Outcome . Cancers.
Giorgio Giurato, Pasquale Saggese, Assunta SELLITTO, Cesar A. Martinez, Giovanni Nassa, Francesca Rizzo, Roberta Tarallo, Claudio Scafoglio (2020). Metabolic Regulation of Epigenetic Modifications and Cell Differentiation in Cancer . Cancers.
Giorgio Giurato, Elena Alexandrova, Giovanni Pecoraro, Assunta SELLITTO, Viola Melone, Carlo Ferravante, Teresa Rocco, Anna Guacci, Giovanni Nassa, Francesca Rizzo, et al. (2020). An Overview of Candidate Therapeutic Target Genes in Ovarian Cancer . Cancers.
Giorgio Giurato, Annamaria Salvati, Valerio Gigantino, Giovanni Nassa, Valeria Mirici Cappa, Giovanna Maria Ventola, Daniela Georgia Cristina Cracas, Raffaella Mastrocinque, Francesca Rizzo, Roberta Tarallo, et al. (2020). Global View of Candidate Therapeutic Target Genes in Hormone-Responsive Breast Cancer . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Giorgio Giurato, Assunta SELLITTO, Ylenia D’Agostino, Elena Alexandrova, Jessica Lamberti, Giovanni Pecoraro, Domenico Memoli, Domenico Rocco, Elena Coviello, Giovanni Nassa, et al. (2020). Insights into the Role of Estrogen Receptor β in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer . Cancers.
Giorgio Giurato, Elena Alexandrova, Jessica Lamberti, Pasquale Saggese, Giovanni Pecoraro, Domenico Memoli, Valeria Mirici Cappa, Maria Ravo, Roberta Iorio, Roberta Tarallo, et al. (2020). Small Non-Coding RNA Profiling Identifies miR-181a-5p as a Mediator of Estrogen Receptor Beta-Induced Inhibition of Cholesterol Biosynthesis in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer . Cells.
Spadaro, G., Giurato, G., Stellato, C., Marone, G., Casolaro, V.(2020). Basophil degranulation in response to IgE ligation is controlled by a distinctive circadian clock in asthma . Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 75. (1). p. 158-168.
Alexandrova, E., Giurato, G., Saggese, P., Pecoraro, G., Lamberti, J., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Rocco, D., Tarallo, R., Nyman, T.A., et al.(2020). Interaction proteomics identifies erbeta association with chromatin repressive complexes to inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis and exert an oncosuppressive role in triple-negative breast cancer . Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 19. (2). p. 245-260.
Ćuković, K., Dragićević, M., Bogdanović, M., Paunović, D., Giurato, G., Filipović, B., Subotić, A., Todorović, S., Simonović, A.(2020). Plant regeneration in leaf culture of Centaurium erythraea Rafn. Part 3: de novo transcriptome assembly and validation of housekeeping genes for studies of in vitro morphogenesis . Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. 141. (2). p. 417-433.
Giorgio Giurato, Assunta SELLITTO, Konstantinos Geles, Ylenia D’Agostino, Marisa Conte, Elena Alexandrova, Domenico Rocco, Giovanni Nassa, Roberta Tarallo, Alessandro Weisz, et al. (2019). Molecular and Functional Characterization of the Somatic PIWIL1/piRNA Pathway in Colorectal Cancer Cells . Cells.
Giorgio Giurato, Annamaria Salvati, valerio gigantino, Giovanni Nassa, Elena Alexandrova, Francesca Rizzo, Roberta Tarallo, Alessandro Weisz (2019). The Histone Methyltransferase DOT1L Is a Functional Component of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Signaling in Ovarian Cancer Cells . Cancers.
Salemi, M., Cannarella, R., Condorelli, R.A., Cimino, L., Ridolfo, F., Giurato, G., Romano, C., La Vignera, S., Calogero, A.E.(2019). Evidence for long noncoding RNA GAS5 up-regulationin patients with Klinefelter syndrome . BMC Medical Genetics. 20. (1).
Vecchio, E., Golino, G., Pisano, A., Albano, F., Falcone, C., Ceglia, S., Iaccino, E., Mimmi, S., Fiume, G., Giurato, G., et al.(2019). IBTK contributes to B-cell lymphomagenesis in Eμ-myc transgenic mice conferring resistance to apoptosis . Cell Death and Disease. 10. (4).
Ravo, M., Cordella, A., Saggese, P., Rinaldi, A., Castaldi, M.A., Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Zullo, F., Weisz, A., Tarallo, R., et al.(2019). Identification of long non-coding RNA expression patterns useful for molecular-based classification of type I endometrial cancers . Oncology Reports. 41. (2). p. 1209-1217.
Salvati, A., Gigantino, V., Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Alexandrova, E., Rizzo, F., Tarallo, R., Weisz, A.(2019). The histone methyltransferase dot1l is a functional component of estrogen receptor alpha signaling in ovarian cancer cells . Cancers. 11. (11).
Nassa, G., Salvati, A., Tarallo, R., Gigantino, V., Alexandrova, E., Memoli, D., Sellitto, A., Rizzo, F., Malanga, D., Mirante, T., et al.(2019). Inhibition of histone methyltransferase DOT1L silences ER gene and blocks proliferation of antiestrogen-resistant breast cancer cells . Science Advances. 5. (2).
Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Salvati, A., Gigantino, V., Pecoraro, G., Lamberti, J., Rizzo, F., Nyman, T.A., Tarallo, R., Weisz, A.(2019). The RNA-mediated estrogen receptor α interactome of hormone-dependent human breast cancer cell nuclei . Scientific data. 6. (1). p. 173.
Guacci, A., Cordella, A., Rocco, T., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Rizzo, F., Carlomagno, C., Pepe, S., Tarallo, R., Weisz, A.(2018). Identification of a novel truncating mutation in PALB2 gene by a multigene sequencing panel for mutational screening of breast cancer risk-associated and related genes . Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis. 32. (6).
Lo Piccolo, L., Bonaccorso, R., Attardi, A., Li Greci, L., Romano, G., Sollazzo, M., Giurato, G., Ingrassia, A.M.R., Feiguin, F., Corona, D.F.V., et al.(2018). Loss of ISWI function in Drosophila nuclear bodies drives cytoplasmic redistribution of Drosophila TDP-43 . International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19. (4).
Torella, D., Iaconetti, C., Tarallo, R., Marino, F., Giurato, G., Veneziano, C., Aquila, I., Scalise, M., Mancuso, T., Cianflone, E., et al.(2018). MiRNA regulation of the hyperproliferative phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells in diabetes . Diabetes. 67. (12). p. 2554-2568.
Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Salvati, A., Alexandrova, E., Rizzo, F., Nyman, T.A., Weisz, A., Tarallo, R.(2018). Quantitative mapping of RNA-mediated nuclear estrogen receptor β interactome in human breast cancer cells . Scientific Data. 5.
Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Cimmino, G., Rizzo, F., Ravo, M., Salvati, A., Nyman, T.A., Zhu, Y., Vesterlund, M., Lehtiö, J., et al.(2018). Splicing of platelet resident pre-mRNAs upon activation by physiological stimuli results in functionally relevant proteome modifications . Scientific Reports. 8. (1).
Pistore, C., Giannoni, E., Colangelo, T., Rizzo, F., Magnani, E., Muccillo, L., Giurato, G., Mancini, M., Rizzo, S., Riccardi, M., et al.(2017). DNA methylation variations are required for epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition induced by cancer-associated fibroblasts in prostate cancer cells . Oncogene. 36. (40). p. 5551-5566.
Cimino, L., Salemi, M., Cannarella, R., Condorelli, R.A., Giurato, G., Marchese, G., La Vignera, S., Calogero, A.E.(2017). Decreased miRNA expression in Klinefelter syndrome . Scientific Reports. 7. (1).
Montico, B., Lapenta, C., Ravo, M., Martorelli, D., Muraro, E., Zeng, B., Comaro, E., Spada, M., Donati, S., Santini, S.M., et al.(2017). Exploiting a new strategy to induce immunogenic cell death to improve dendritic cell-based vaccines for lymphoma immunotherapy . OncoImmunology. 6. (11).
Lo Piccolo, L., Attardi, A., Bonaccorso, R., Li Greci, L., Giurato, G., Ingrassia, A.M.R., Onorati, M.C.(2017). ISWI ATP-dependent remodeling of nucleoplasmic ω-speckles in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster . Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 44. (2). p. 85-94.
Panero, R., Rinaldi, A., Memoli, D., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Tarallo, R., Milanesi, L., Weisz, A., Giurato, G.(2017). ISmaRT: A toolkit for a comprehensive analysis of small RNA-Seq data . Bioinformatics. 33. (6). p. 938-940.
Tarallo, R., Giurato, G., Bruno, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Salvati, A., Ricciardi, L., Marchese, G., Cordella, A., Rocco, T., et al.(2017). The nuclear receptor ERβ engages AGO2 in regulation of gene transcription, RNA splicing and RISC loading . Genome Biology. 18. (1).
Guacci, A., Chetta, M., Rizzo, F., Marchese, G., Filippo, M.R.D., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Tarallo, R., Rocco, T., et al.(2016). Phenytoin neurotoxicity in a child carrying new STXBP1 and CYP2C9 gene mutations . Seizure. 34. p. 26-28.
Rizzo, F., Rinaldi, A., Marchese, G., Coviello, E., Sellitto, A., Cordella, A., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Tarallo, R., et al.(2016). Specific patterns of PIWI-interacting small noncoding RNA expression in dysplastic liver nodules and hepatocellular carcinoma . Oncotarget. 7. (34). p. 54650-54661.
Caporali, S., Alvino, E., Lacal, P.M., Levati, L., Giurato, G., Memoli, D., Caprini, E., Cappellini, G.C.A., D'Atri, S.(2016). Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway overcomes the stimulating effect of dabrafenib on the invasive behavior of melanoma cells with acquired resistance to the BRAF inhibitor . International Journal of Oncology. 49. (3). p. 1164-1174.
Santangelo, L., Giurato, G., Cicchini, C., Montaldo, C., Mancone, C., Tarallo, R., Battistelli, C., Alonzi, T., Weisz, A., Tripodi, M.(2016). The RNA-Binding Protein SYNCRIP Is a Component of the Hepatocyte Exosomal Machinery Controlling MicroRNA Sorting . Cell Reports. 17. (3). p. 799-808.
Cimmino, G., Tarallo, R., Nassa, G., De Filippo, M.R., Giurato, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Conte, S., Pellegrino, G., Cirillo, P., et al.(2015). Activating stimuli induce platelet microRNA modulation and proteome reorganisation . Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 114. (1). p. 96-108.
Stellato, C., Nassa, G., Tarallo, R., Giurato, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Marchese, G., Alexandrova, E., Cordella, A., Baumann, M., et al.(2015). Identification of cytoplasmic proteins interacting with unliganded estrogen receptor α and β in human breast cancer cells . Proteomics. 15. (11). p. 1801-1807.
De Rosa, M.C., Caputo, M., Zirpoli, H., Rescigno, T., Tarallo, R., Giurato, G., Weisz, A., Torino, G., Tecce, M.F.(2015). Identification of Genes Selectively Regulated in Human Hepatoma Cells by Treatment With Dyslipidemic Sera and PUFAs . Journal of Cellular Physiology. 230. (9). p. 2059-2066.
Ravo, M., Cordella, A., Rinaldi, A., Bruno, G., Alexandrova, E., Saggese, P., Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Tarallo, R., Marchese, G., et al.(2015). Small non-coding RNA deregulation in endometrial carcinogenesis . Oncotarget. 6. (7). p. 4677-4691.
Dago, D.N., Scafoglio, C., Rinaldi, A., Memoli, D., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Tarallo, R., Weisz, A.(2015). Estrogen receptor beta impacts hormone-induced alternative mRNA splicing in breast cancer cells . BMC Genomics. 16. (1).
Casale, F.P., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Armond, J.W., Oates, C.J., Corá, D., Gamba, A., Mukherjee, S., Weisz, A., Nicodemi, M.(2014). Single-cell states in the estrogen response of breast cancer cell lines . PLoS ONE. 9. (2).
Rizzo, F., Hashim, A., Marchese, G., Ravo, M., Tarallo, R., Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Rinaldi, A., Cordella, A., Persico, M., et al.(2014). Timed regulation of P-element-induced wimpy testis-interacting RNA expression during rat liver regeneration . Hepatology. 60. (3). p. 798-806.
Hashim, A., Rizzo, F., Marchese, G., Ravo, M., Tarallo, R., Nassa, G., Giurato, G., Santamaria, G., Cordella, A., Cantarella, C., et al.(2014). RNA sequencing identifies specific PIWI-interacting small noncoding RNA expression patterns in breast cancer . Oncotarget. 5. (20). p. 9901-9910.
Nassa, G., Tarallo, R., Giurato, G., De Filippo, M.R., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Stellato, C., Ambrosino, C., Baumann, M., Lietzen, N., et al.(2014). Post-transcriptional Regulation of Human Breast Cancer Cell Proteome by Unliganded Estrogen Receptor β via microRNAs . Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 13. (4). p. 1076-1090.
Caputo, M., Zirpoli, H., De Rosa, M.C., Rescigno, T., Chiadini, F., Scaglione, A., Stellato, C., Giurato, G., Weisz, A., Tecce, M.F., et al.(2014). Effect of low frequency (LF) electric fields on gene expression of a bone human cell line . Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. 33. (4). p. 289-295.
Misaggi, R., Di Sanzo, M., Cosentino, C., Bond, H.M., Scumaci, D., Romeo, F., Stellato, C., Giurato, G., Weisz, A., Quaresima, B., et al.(2014). Identification of H ferritin-dependent and independent genes in K562 differentiating cells by targeted gene silencing and expression profiling . Gene. 535. (2). p. 327-335.
De Filippo, M.R., Rizzo, F., Marchese, G., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Tarallo, R., Pironti, E., Vecchi, M., Crichiutti, G., et al.(2014). Lack of pathogenic mutations in six patients with MMPSI . Epilepsy Research. 108. (2). p. 340-344.
Giurato, G., De Filippo, M.R., Rinaldi, A., Hashim, A., Nassa, G., Ravo, M., Rizzo, F., Tarallo, R., Weisz, A.(2013). IMir: An integrated pipeline for high-throughput analysis of small non-coding RNA data obtained by smallRNA-Seq . BMC Bioinformatics. 14. (1).
Paris, O., Ferraro, L., Grober, O.M.V., Ravo, M., De Filippo, M.R., Giurato, G., Nassa, G., Tarallo, R., Cantarella, C., Rizzo, F., et al.(2012). Direct regulation of microRNA biogenesis and expression by estrogen receptor beta in hormone-responsive breast cancer . Oncogene. 31. (38). p. 4196-4206.
Ferraro, L., Ravo, M., Nassa, G., Tarallo, R., de Filippo, M.R., Giurato, G., Cirillo, F., Stellato, C., Silvestro, S., Cantarella, C., et al.(2012). Effects of oestrogen on microRNA expression in hormone-responsive breast cancer cells . Hormones and Cancer. 3. (3). p. 65-78.
Grober, O.M.V., Mutarelli, M., Giurato, G., Ravo, M., Cicatiello, L., De Filippo, M.R., Ferraro, L., Nassa, G., Papa, M.F., Paris, O., et al.(2011). Global analysis of estrogen receptor beta binding to breast cancer cell genome reveals an extensive interplay with estrogen receptor alpha for target gene regulation . BMC Genomics. 12.