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Gino Cingolani, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama, presents "Signaling Through Importins: Mechanisms of STAT1 Nuclear Import".
Dr. Cingolani earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Bari in Italy, along with a diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) in Protein Crystallography from the University Joseph Fourier in France. He conducted his Ph.D. research in Structural Biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in France. His thesis project led to the first crystal structure of human importin beta, which is the universal eukaryotic import receptor.
In 1999, Dr. Cingolani moved to the U.S. to further his training in Structural Virology and Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. In 2004, he joined the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at SUNY Upstate Medical University as an Assistant Professor, where he established protein crystallography. In 2009, he moved his lab to Thomas Jefferson University as an Associate Vice-Chair from 2017 to 2023. He also directed the X-ray Crystallography Facility at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center for a decade. In 2020, he founded the Jefferson Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core, which he later merged with the X-ray Crystallography Facility to create an Integrative Structural Biology core.
In October 2023, Dr. Cingolani relocated to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to join the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and lead a newly created Center for Integrative Structural Biology. Dr. Cingolani also served for six years on the NIH Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology (PCMB) study section panel, which he chaired from 2021 to 2023. He is an associate editor for Acta Crystallographic D and a member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board.
Host: Jawdat Al-Bassam (jmalbassam@ucdavis.edu)