Phd in GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

email: fulvio.cruciani@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649912826
building: CU022 lato GENETICA
room: 3-09 (secondo piano)

CURRENT POSITION:
Full Professor of Genetics, Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome

EDUCATION:
1991: “Laurea” with honors in Biological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome;
1996: PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Sapienza University of Rome;
1999: “Specializzazione” with honors in Applied Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2021-present: Full Professor, Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome;
2017-present: Chair of the PhD program in Genetics and Molecular Biology; Sapienza University of Rome;
2015-present: Associate Professor, Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome;
2008-present: Teaching Professor of the PhD program in Genetics and Molecular Biology
2005-2015: "Ricercatore" (Assistant Professor), Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome;
2000-2004: Post-doctoral fellow, Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome;
2000-2002: Teaching Professor, Genetics, University of Urbino;
2001: Fulbright fellow, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, CA;
1996-1999: “Scuola di Specializzazione” student, Applied Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome;
1992-1996: PhD student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Sapienza University of Rome;
1988-1991: Undergraduate student, Population Genetics, Sapienza University of Rome.

LINES OF RESEARCH:
Research interests mainly concern different aspects of the human genetic diversity and evolution.
Specific projects:
- The Y chromosome as an evolutionary marker for the study of African and European populations;
- The role of the gene conversion in the evolution of the human sex chromosomes;
- Forensic applications of the human genetic diversity;
- Patterns of diversity and linkage disequilibrium in in the human genome;

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS (March, 2018):
60 papers published in international journals (1994-2018)
Total cites = 4613 (Scopus); 7037 (Google Scholar)
H-index = 30 (Scopus); 33 (Google Scholar)
Total I.F. > 500
VQR (2004-2014): All articles evaluated as excellent (score 1.0)

RESEARCH GRANTS (PI, 2013-2018):
2013-2015 Fondazione Pasteur Cenci Bolognetti (60,000) "Sequence diversity and evolution of human endogenous retroviral LTRs: the role of ectopic gene conversion"
2013 Sapienza University of Rome (12,000 €) "Human Y chromosome sequence diversity and the peopling of the Balkans"
2014 Sapienza University of Rome (10,000 €) "Sequenziamento di nuova generazione di aplogruppi del cromosoma Y umano coinvolti in migrazioni preistoriche trans-Sahariane"
2014-2016 PRIN 2012 (78,000 €) "Human genetic prehistory: times and modes of geographic and demographic expansions by using highly resolved (calibrated) molecular phylogenies"
2015 Sapienza University of Rome (10,000 €) "Identificazione mediante next generation sequencing di polimorfismi umani informativi sull'origine geografica di reperti genetico-forensi"
2016 Sapienza University of Rome (31,600 €) "Analisi del potere di discriminazione genetico-forense di microsatelli ipermutabili del cromosoma Y in società patrilocali dell'Africa orientale"
2017 National Geographic (30,000 $) "A great human journey: Peopling and human movements in Africa during the last Green Sahara"
2017 Sapienza University of Rome (13,000 €) "Origine e struttura genetica delle popolazioni nomadi dell'Africa sub-Sahariana: analisi mediante next generation sequencing del cromosoma Y umano"
2018-2020 Fondazione Pasteur Cenci Bolognetti (60,000) "Dynamics of intra-chromosomal gene conversion between palindrome arms of the human Y chromosome"