Curriculum Vitae of Andrea Ciliberto
General Information
Date of Birth
5th of April, 1971 in Florence (Italy).
Nationality
Italian
Present Position
Junior Fellow, Collegium Budapest.
Current Address:
Institute for Advanced Studies “Collegium Budapest”,
Szentharomsag utca 2, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary
e-mail
ancilibe@mail.bme.hu
Education
December 1995
Laurea in Biology (equivalent to Masters of Science), from the
University of Florence with mark: 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: “Replication dynamics in a cell population. A cellular automata
approach” (Advisor, Dr. Marcello Buiatti).
September 1999
PhD in Genetics, from the University of Pavia.
Thesis: “Experimental and modeling studies of mitotic patterns during
early development of sea urchin embryos” (Advisors, Dr. Marcello
Buiatti and Dr. John Tyson).
Professional Experience
Spring 1995
Visiting Scholar at IST (National Insitute for Cancer Reaserach) Genoa
(with Dr. Franco Bignone).
Research: Development of a cellular automaton for modeling the cell
division cycle.
Falls 1997 -1998
Visiting Scholar, Dept. Biology, Virginia Tech (with Dr. John Tyson).
Research: Mathematical model of the sea urchin embryo
June-August 1998
Visiting scholar, Dept. Cell Biology , SUNY at Buffalo (with Dr Bob
Summers).
Research: Confocal microscopy analysis of sea urchin mitotic waves
.
June 2000-June 2003 Research Associate, Dept. Biology, Virginia Tech (with Dr. John
Tyson).
Research: A) Cyclin-E oscillations during early Xenopus
development: experimental and mathematical analysis. B)
Mathematical model of the morphogenesis checkpoint in Budding
Yeast.
February 2003-present: Junior Fellow, Collegium Budapest.
Awards
2000
Assegno di Ricerca, National Institute of Optics (Italy).
2000
“Young Investigators Award” from the Universita' di Firenze
Courses Taught
2001 Spring Semester Genetics, Virginia Tech
Publications
[1] Bezzi M., Ciliberto A., and Mengoni A., Pattern formation by competition: a biological
example, J. Biol. Physics, 25:279-288, 1999.
[2] Ciliberto, A. and Tyson, J. J. Mathematical model for early development of the sea urchin
embryo, Bull. Math. Biol. 62:37-59, 2000.
[3] Novak, B., Pataki, Zs., Ciliberto A. and Tyson, J. J. Mathematical model of the cell
division cycle, of fission yeast. Chaos, 11:277-286, 2001
[4] Martins, G. and Ciliberto, A., Mitotic waves in the sea urchin embryo, Cytometry Vol. 6
CDROM, Purdue Cytometry Labs, 2002.
[5] Ciliberto, A., Petrus, M. J., Tyson, J. J. and Sible J. C., A kinetic model of the Cyclin
E/Cdk2 developmental timer in Xenopus laevis embryos, Biophys. Chem., 104:573-89, 2003.
[6] Bezzi, M. and Ciliberto, A., Modeling growth of filamentous organisms, in press,
Comments on Theoretical Biology.
[7] Allen, N., Calzone, L., Chen. K. C., Ciliberto, A., Ramakrishan, N., Shaffer, C. A., Sible,
J. C., Tyson, J. J., Vass, M., Watson, L. and Zwolak, J. Modeling regulatory networks at
Virginia Tech, Omics, 7285-99, 2003.
[8] Ciliberto, A., Novak, B. and Tyson J. J., Mathematical model of the morphogenesis
checkpoint in budding yeast, in press, J. Cell Biol., 163:1243-54, 2003. Commented in Dove,
A. W., Math models morphogenesis and mitosis, J. Cell Biol., 163:1184, 2003.
[9] Ciliberto, A., Tyson J. J. and Novak B., Wiring together network modules: the emergence
of hysteresis in coupled reversible phosphorylation reactions, in preparation.
Research presented at international conferences
1997
Summer School on Mathematics and Biology of the Cell Cycle, Saint-Flour,
organized by the French Society of Mathematical Biology.
1998
Laboratorio di biomatematica, CNR, Rome. (invited speaker).
1999
Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oscillations and Instabilities, Il
Ciocco. (short talk).
2000
European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Amsterdam.
(poster).
2001
Gordon Research Conference on Bioinformatics, from inference to predictive
models, New Hampshire. (poster).
2002
European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Milan.
2002
Interdisciplinary school on imaging, modeling and manipulating
transcriptional regulatory networks, Ambleteuse.
2003
Bioinformatics symposium, Biozentrum, Basel (invited speaker).
2003
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples. (invited speaker).