Utente

Guido Barbujani

Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie

Università di Ferrara

Via Borsari 46

44121 Ferrara

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal website: http://utenti.UNIFE.it/guido.barbujani/

ORCID: 0000-0001-7854-6669

Date of birth: January 31st, 1955

Nationality: Italian

 

EDUCATION

1978. Degree in Biological Sciences, University of Ferrara (110/110 cum laude); Thesis: "Chemical

Mutagenesis and sex-ratio: a test on Drosophila".

 

POSITIONS

From 2001. Professor of Genetics, Dept. Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara.

1996-2001. Associate professor of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Ferrara.

1992-1996. Associate professor of Population Genetics, Dep. of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.

1988-1992. Assistant professor of Human Genetics, Dep. of Biology, School of Medicine, Univ. of Padua.

1987-1988. Post-doc research scientist, Dep. of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

1983-1986. Assistant professor of Genetics, Institute of Zoology, University of Ferrara.

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

1996-present: Genetics, Population genetics, Ancient DNA genetics (University of Ferrara)

1992-1996: Population genetics (University of Bologna)

1988-1992: Human genetics (University of Padua)

 

EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

2006 The DNA of the Italians: 8000 BC –2000 AD

    MIUR – PRIN Fund National Coordinator and PI

2007 The impact of biotechnological innovation of individual rights.

    MIUR – FIRB Fund Local coordinator

2008 Advanced methods for the diagnosis of respiratory pathologies

    Regione Emilia-Romagna Local coordinator

2008 Population history and adaptation: A comparison between ancient and modern

    DNAs MIUR – PRIN Fund National Coordinator and PI

2013 ERC Advanced Grant LanGeLin – CoPI

 

 

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

1.       Supervision of Postdoc scientists: Lounès Chikhi (1995-1997) University of Padua, Italy; Giorgio Bertorelle (1996-1998) University of Bologna, Italy; Michele Stenico (1997-1998) University of Ferrara, Italy; Isabelle Dupanloup (1999-2003) University of Ferrara, Italy; Cristiano Vernesi (1999-2002) University of Ferrara, Italy; Oscar Lao Grueso (2002-2003) University of Ferrara, Italy; Krisztina Vasarhelyi (2003-2005) University of Ferrara, Italy; Elise M. Belle (2004-2006) University of Ferrara, Italy; Vincenza Colonna (2007-2010) University of Ferrara, Italy; Silvia Ghirotto (2011-2015) University of Ferrara, Italy; Gloria Gonzalez Fortes (2015-present) University of Ferrara, Italy; Francesca Tassi (2015-present) University of Ferrara, Italy

2.       Supervision of Doctoral dissertations, University of Ferrara: Giorgio Bertorelle (1996); Giulietta Di Benedetto (2000); Silvia Fuselli (2003); Francesca Visentini (2005); Alessia Ranciaro (2007); Giulia Riccioni (2008); Ronald R. Ferrucci (2010); Silvia Ghirotto (2011); Francesca Tassi (2014). Serena Tucci (2015), Roberta Rosa Susca (2016).

 3.       Participation in doctoral committees: Geoffrey M. Jacquez, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 1989; Lounès Chikhi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 1995 ; Serena Musolesi, Università di Bologna, 1996; Päivi Lahermo, University of Turku, 1998; Isabelle Dupanloup, Université de Genève, 1998; Luìsa Maria de Sousa Mesquita Pereira, Universidade do Porto, 2001; Eva Mateu i Morante, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2001; Chiara Romualdi, University of Padua, 2001; Pardis Sabeti, University of Oxford, 2003; Ainhoa Alzualde Zuloaga, Universidad del Paìs Vasco, Bilbao, 2005; Enrica Calura, University of Padua, 2007; Solange Rigaud, Université de Bordeaux 1, 2011; Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2013; Francesca Conselvan, University of Wien, 2016.

 

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Many, including:

2014-present: Director, Ph.D. programme in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Universities of Ferrara, Florence and Parma

2000-present: Director, Ph.D. programme in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Ferrara

2010-2015 Director, Ph.D. School of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of Ferrara

2011-2014 President, Italian Genetic Association (AGI)

1996-2000 Member, Biodiversity Committee, Italian Ministry of the Environment

 

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

Member of Scientific Evaluation Boards: National Science Foundation (USA), Wellcome Trust - Bioarcheology Panel (UK), Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique (CH), European Science Foundation

International journals Board memberships:

2002-present Associate Editor, Human Heredity

2010-2013 Section Editor, BMC Genetics

2008-2012 Associate Editor, Human Biology

1994-2012 Member, Human Biology editorial board

2003-2007 Member, International Journal of Forensic Medicine editorial board

2001-2004 Member, Journal of Evolutionary Biology editorial board

 

SCIENTIFIC POPULARIZATION

Guido Barbujani is a permanent collaborator, writing on science and society, for the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

Books:

Barbujani G. (2006) L’invenzione delle razze. Capire la biodiversità umana. Milano: Bompiani. Portuguese translation: A invencão das raças. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Contexto. Spanish translation: La invención de las razas. Lima, Peru: Centro Cultural librosperuanos.com.

Barbujani G., Cheli P. (2007) Sono razzista ma sto cercando di smettere. Roma–Bari: Laterza

Barbujani G. (2008) Europei senza se e senza ma. Storie di neandertaliani e di immigrati. Milano: Bompiani.

Barbujani G. (2014) Lascia stare i santi. Una storia di reliquie e scienziati. Torino: Einaudi.

Aime M., Barbujani G., Bartoli C., Falloppa F. (2016) Contro il razzismo. Quattro ragionamenti. Torino: Einaudi. Spanish translation: Contra el racismo. Barcelona: ED Libros.

Barbujani G. (2016) Gli africani siamo noi. Roma–Bari: Laterza.

Barbujani G., Vozza L. (2016) Il gene riluttante. Bologna: Zanichelli.

 

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

Richard E. Green, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. (Ancient DNA studies, development of software)

Josh Akey, Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Ancient DNA studies, genomic analyses)

Tomas Marques Bonet, Comparative Genomics, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. (Comparative genomics of humans and primates)

Jaume Bertranpetit Busquets, Evolutionary Biology, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (Human population genetics)

Lounès Chikhi, Evolution and Biodiversity, CNRS, Toulouse, France (Bayesian methods and software for genealogical inference)

Giuseppe Longobardi, Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK (Comparison of linguistic and genetic diversity).

Katherina Harvati, Palaeoanthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany (Comparative analyses of fossil morphology and DNA)

Krishna Veeramah, Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook (Ancient DNA studies, genomic analyses)