Dr. Gaia Pigino

Address

Office: HPK F18
ETH Zürich
Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics
ETH-Hönggerberg CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
phone: +41 44 633 3746
e-mail: gpigino (at) mol.biol.ethz.ch

Education

2003-2007: Ph.D University of Siena, Department of Evolutionary Biology (Siena, Italy). Soil ecology and ecotoxicology (Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Bernini).
1996-2002: Masters of Science (Natural Science), University of Siena, Siena (Italy).

Postdoctoral training:

Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, ETH Zürich, Departmet of Biology (Zurich, Switzerland). Cell Biology and 3D Cryo-Electron Microscopy (in the lab of Dr. Takashi Ishikawa)

2007-2009: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Siena, Department of Evolutionary Biology (Siena, Italy). Cell Biology and 3D Electron Microscopy (in the lab of Prof. Lupetti)

Awards

MBL Scholarship Award, MBL Course “Physiology: Modern Cell Biology Using Microscopic, Biochemical, and Computational Approaches", Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts), (Dr. Waterman & Dr. Mullins).

Professional position

10/2006-08/2007 Dept. Evolutionary Biology University of Siena (Siena, Italy), Scientific Collaborator, Electron Microscopy (Prof. Lupetti)
03/2003-06/2003 Dept. Environmental Science "G. Sarfatti", University of Siena (Siena, Italy), Scientific collaborator, ecotoxicology (Prof. Claudio Leonzio)

Membership of academic societies

American Society for Cell Biology

Publications

Pigino, G., Geimer, S., Lanzavecchia, S., Paccagnini, E., Cantele, F., Diener, D.R., Rosenbaum, J.L., Lupetti, P. (2009). Electron-tomographic Analysis of Intraflagellar Transport Particle Trains in Situ. Journal Cell Biology 187:135-148.

Cantele, F., Paccagnini, E., Pigino, G., Lupetti, P., Lanzavecchia, S. (2009). Simultaneous alignment of dual-axis tilt series. Journal Structural Biology, in press.

Salvi, E., Cantele, F., Zampighi, L., Fain, N., Pigino, G., Zampighi, G., Lanzavecchia, S. (2008). JUST (Java User Segmentation Tool) for semi-automatic segmentation of tomographic maps. Journal Structural Biology 161: 287-297.

Caruso, T., Pigino, G., Bernini, F., Bargagli, R., Migliorini, M. (2007). The Berger–Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages. Biodiversity and Conservation 16(12): 3277-3285.

Pigino, G., Migliorini, M., Paccagnini, E., Bernini, F. (2006). Localisation of heavy metals in the midgut epithelial cells of Xenillus tegeocranus (Hermann, 1804) (Acari: Oribatida). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 64: 257-263.

Migliorini, M., Pigino, G., Caruso, T., Fanciulli, P.P., Leonzio, C., Bernini, F. (2005). Soil communities (Acari Oribatida; Hexapoda Collembola) in a clay pigeon shooting range. Pedobiologia 49: 1-13.

Pigino, G., Migliorini, M., Paccagnini, E., Bernini, F., Leonzio, C. (2005). Fine structure of the midgut and Malpighian papillae in Campodea (Monocampa) quilisi Silvestri, 1932 (Hexapoda, Diplura) with special reference to the metal composition and physiological significance of midgut intracellular electron-dense granules. Tissue Cell 37: 223-232.

Migliorini, M., Pigino, G., Bianchi, N., Bernini, F., Leonzio, C. (2004). The effects of heavy metal contamination on the soil arthropod community of a shooting range. Environmental Pollution 129: 331-340.