Members' Directory

Biography: Education:
1972-1976 Degree with honours in Biological Sciences
University of Rome, IT
1976 Course in Marine Biology
Station Biologique, Roscoff, FR
1977 EMBO course 'Electron microscopy of nucleic acids'
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1987 EMBO course 'Antibodies in cell biology'
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE

Current position:
from 2000 Full Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Siena, IT

Previous positions:
1976-1978 Post-doctoral research associate
Centro Acidi Nucleici CNR, Rome, IT
1978-80 Post-doctoral long-term EMBO fellow
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1981-1986 Staff scientist
Dpt. of Genetics and Molecular Biology
University of Rome ?La Sapienza?, IT
1983 Visiting scientist
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1986-1998 Staff scientist
Dpt. of Evolutionary Biology
University of Siena, IT
1998-2000 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Siena, IT

Group leader and Co-ordinator of the research activities of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Department of Evolutionary Biology (University of Siena)

Organization of courses and meetings
1994 EC COMET course 'PCR technology and its applications' Siena
1997, 1999, 2002 EMBO Workshop 'Lymphocyte antigen receptor and coreceptor signaling' Siena
Memberships:
Editorial Board Eur. J. Immunol.
Advisory Board Journal of Mol. Biol. Biotechnol. and Signal Transduction
Ad hoc reviewer of Blood, J. Biol. Chem., EMBO Reports, FEBS Lett, J. Cell. Physiol. , Hum.Mut., Tissue and Cell, Biochem. Pharmacol.
Member of the Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology and of the Italian Society of Immunology
Expert for the evaluation EC projects IV and V FP, INTAS, Wellcome Trust
Referee for the Italian National Institute of Health and the Italian Association for Cancer Research
Supervisor in the Open University PhD Program

Biography: The Steller-lab is interested in the mechanism by which cells undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis), and how this process is regulated by distinct signaling pathways. Although most of our work focuses on genetic studies of apoptosis in Drosophila, we are also exploring to what extent concepts derived from cell death studies in Drosophila apply to apoptosis in mammalian systems.

Dr. Steller is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and also Strang Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology at the Rockefeller University. Prior to this he was Professor of Neurobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Adjunct Assistant Neurobiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received his Diplom (the German equivalent of an M.Sc. degree) in microbiology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. His graduate research was carried out with Dr. Vincenzo Pirrotta at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and with Dr. Ekkehard Bautz at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Steller was a postdoctoral fellow with Gerald Rubin at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received a number of awards, including a Pew Scholars Award, Searle Scholars Award, a Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and the Lady Davis Award from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, Israel.