Luigi Leone

Qualified Laboratory technician at the “Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale (ITIS)” of Pozzuoli (NA) Italy

October 2002 – October 2003 Technician in the Microbiology Laboratory of the “Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (ICB) – National Research Council (CNR)”, Pozzuoli (NA) – Italy, directed by Dott.ssa B. Nicolaus

January 2004 – April 2009 Project contract as a technician in the Neurobiology of Development Laboratory of the “Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica A. Buzzati Traverso (IGB-ABT) – National Research Council (CNR)”, Naples – Italy, directed by Dott. U. di Porzio

May 2009 – August 2010 Project contract as a technician in the facility core of the “Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica A. Buzzati Traverso (IGB-ABT) – National Research Council (CNR)”, Naples – Italy, directed by Dott. A. Baldini

September 2010 – March 2012 Permanent contract “C.T.E.R. VI level” at “Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (ICB) – National Research Council (CNR)”, Catania – Italy directed by Dott. G. Nicolosi

April 2012 – June 2013 Technician in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics del Baylor College of Medicine di Houston – Texas, directed by Dott. J. Botas

June 2013 – present Permanent contract “C.T.E.R. VI level” at “Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (ICB) – National Research Council (CNR)”, Pozzuoli (NA) – ItalyShort introduction (Biografia) max 200 parole

Volpicelli F., Caiazzo M., Greco D., Consales C., Leone L., Perrone Capano C., Colucci D’Amato L. and di Porzio U. Bdnf gene is a downstream target of Nurr1 transcription factor in rat midbrain neurons in vitro. J Neurochem. 2007 Jul;102(2):441-53. Epub 2007 May 1

Consales C., Volpicelli F., Greco D., Leone L., Colucci-D’Amato L., Perrone-Capano C. and di Porzio U. GDNF signaling in embryonic midbrain neurons in vitro. Brain Res. 2007 Jul 23;1159:28-39. Epub 2007 May 5.

Costa V., Angelini C., D’Apice L., Mutarelli M., Casamassimi A., Sommese L., Gallo M.A., Aprile M., Esposito R., Leone L., Donizetti A., Crispi S., Rienzo M., Sarubbi B., Calabrò R., Picardi M., Salvatore P., Infante T., De Berardinis P., Napoli C., Ciccodicola A. Massive-scale RNA-Seq analysis of non ribosomal transcriptome in human trisomy 21. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 20;6(4):e18493.

Finore I., Orlando P., Di Donato P., Leone L., Nicolaus B., Poli A. Nesterenkonia aurantiaca, sp. nov., an alkaliphilic actinobacterium isolated from Cape King (Antarctica). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 2016 66: 1554-1560, doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000917

Bouché V., Espinosa A.P., Leone L., Sardiello M., Ballabio A., Botas J. Drosophila Mitf regulates the V-ATPase and the lysosomal-autophagic pathway. Autophagy. 2016;12(3):484-98. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1134081