Francesca Storici
Professor
Francesca Storici was born in Trieste, Italy. She graduated in Biology from the University of Trieste. Her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics was conferred by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), in Trieste in 1998, and she conducted research at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste. From 1999 to 2007 she was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics under the guidance of Dr. Michael A. Resnick at the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS, NIH) in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, USA. In 2007 she was a Research Assistant Professor at the Gene Therapy Center of the University on North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Dr. R. Jude Samulski. Francesca joined the faculty of the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech in 2007 and received the title of Distinguished Cancer Scientist of the Georgia Research Alliance. She is currently a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her research is on genome stability, DNA repair and gene targeting.
francesca.storici@biology.gatech.edu
404-385-3339
Office Location:
EBB 5017
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ribonucleotides embedded in DNA, RNA-driven DNA repair and modifications, mechanisms of genomic stability/instability, gene targeting and genome engineering.
Research Affiliations: Integrated Cancer Research Center, Center for Drug Design Development & Delivery, Center for Nanobiology of the Macromolecular Assembly Disorders - NanoMAD
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