Diego di Bernardo - Group Leader

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Short Biography

Diego di Bernardo was born in Naples on 26 June 1972. He was awarded a “Laurea cum laude” Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples "Federico II" (5 yrs. University study, equivalent to an M.Sc.) in January 1997. In his graduation thesis he developed a mathematical model of the electrical activity of the heart (Prof. F. Garofalo in University of Naples; Prof. S. Cerutti and Porf. M.G. Signorini at the "Politecnico" University of Milano). In June 2001, thanks to a 3-year European Commission “Marie Curie” Fellowship, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the School of Medicine of the University of Newcastle, UK, with the supervision of Prof. Alan Murray. His Ph.D. thesis describes an experimental and computational approach to cardiac repolarisation and T wave morphology. Until May 2002 he was a PostDoc at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Center in Cambridge (UK) in the group of Dr Tim Hubbard. From June 2002 to December 2002 he was a PostDoc in the lab of Prof. James Collins at the Department of BioEngineering in Boston University. Since January 2003 he is a Principal Investigatpr at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Naples (Italy). In January 2004 he also became a lecturer for the “European School of Molecular Medicine” (Italy), a graduate school funded by the Ministry of Health in Italy. Since December 2007 he is a Research Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore”) at the University of Naples “Federico II” in the Dept. of Computer Science and Systems. His research interests are in systems and synthetic biology with particular emphasis in reverse-engineering of gene networks to elucidate disease gene function and the mode-of-action of novel pharmacological compounds, and building novel synthetic circuits to modulate gene expression. He is author of more than 30 publications in peer reviewed journals. He co-organised several international workshops and conferences in the area of computational and systems biology.

Professional Experience

  • June 2001-May 2002 PostDoc at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK in the group of Dr Tim Hubbard.
  • June 2002-December 2002 PostDoc in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University in the lab of Prof. James Collins.
  • Since January 2003 Principal Investigator Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy
  • Since January 2004 Lecturer “European School of Molecular Medicine”, Naples, (Italy)
  • Since December 2007 Researcher (‘Ricercatore’). Dept. of Computer and Systems Engineering. Universita’ “Federico II” of Naples, Italy.

Education

  • 1991-1996 “Laurea cum Laude” in Ingegneria Elettronica (eq. to a M.Sc. degree). Mark: 110/110 cum laude. Università “Federico II” di Napoli. Thesis: D di Bernardo, “A model of two coupled nonlinear oscillators for the study of the heartbeat dynamics”, Tesi di Laurea, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, 1997. Supervisors: Prof. F. Garofalo. Correlatori: Prof. S. Cerutti e Dr.ssa M.G. Signorini.


  • 1998-2001 Ph.D from the School of Medicine, University of Newcastle, UK. Thesis: D di Bernardo, “Computer modeling of cardiac repolarisation for the study of the electrocardiogram”, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Newcastle, 2001. Supervisor: Prof. Alan Murray.

Publications 

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