Group leader

ITALIAN
f.catteruccia@ic.ac.uk
flacat@unipg.it

EDUCATION

OCTOBER 1995-NOVEMBER 1999:
PhD in Molecular Entomology at Imperial College London.

NOVEMBER 1986-MAY 1992:
BSc in Chemistry (Summa cum laude) at the University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

NOV 2006-:
MRC Career Development Award, Imperial College London

OCT 2006:
Wellcome Trust Value-in-People Award, Imperial College London

DEC 2005-SEPT 2006:
BBSRC Post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College London.

JUNE 2001-NOV 2005:
Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College London.

DEC 1999-MAY 2001:
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Rome and Imperial College London.

SEPT 1996-AUG 1998:
Institute Pasteur/Cenci Bolognetti fellowship at Imperial College London.

JUNE 1994-MAY 1995:
Research fellow at the University of Rome, under the supervision of Professor M. Coluzzi.

PUBLICATIONS

D.W. Rogers, F. Baldini, F. Battaglia, M. Panico, A. Dell, H.R. Morris and F. Catteruccia. “Transglutaminase-mediated semen coagulation controls sperm storage in the malaria mosquito”. PLoS Biology, 2009, Dec 7(12).

F. Catteruccia, A. Crisanti and E.A. Wimmer. “Transgenic technologies to induce sterility in Anopheles gambiae males”. Malaria Journal, 2009, Nov 16(8). Suppl 2:S7.

P.A. Papathanos, H.C. Bossin, M.Q. Benedict, F. Catteruccia, C.A. Malcolm, L. Alphey L, A. Crisanti. “Sex separation strategies: past experience and new approaches”. Malaria Journal, 2009, Nov. 16(8). Suppl 2:S5.

D.W. Rogers, M.M.A. Whitten, J. Thailayil, J. Soichot, E.A. LEvashina and F. Catteruccia. “Molecular and Cellular Components of the Mating Machinery in Anopheles gambiae Females”. PNAS 2008, Dec 9;105(49):19390-5.

T. Dottorini, L. Nicolaides, H. Ranson, D.W. Rogers, A. Crisanti and F. Catteruccia. “A genome-wide analysis in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes reveals 46 male accessory gland genes, possible modulators of female behaviour”. PNAS 2007. Oct 9;104(41):16215-20.

N. Windbiclher, P. A. Papathanos, F. Catteruccia, H. Ranson, A. Burt and A. Crisanti. “Homing endonuclease mediated gene targeting in Anopheles gambiae cells and embryos”. Nucleic Acid Research, 2007. 35(17):5922-33.

C. Scali, T. Nolan, I. Sharakhov, M. Sharakhova, A. Crisanti, F. Catteruccia. “Post-integration behavior of a Minos transposon in the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi”. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2007. July 19.

F. Catteruccia: ‘Malaria vector control in the third millennium: progress and perspectives of molecular approaches’. Pest Management Science, 2007. Mar 20. Review.

A.E. Brown and F. Catteruccia: “Toward Silencing the burden of malaria: progress and prospects for RNAi-based approaches’. Biotechniques, 2006. Apr; Suppl: 38-44. Review.

F. Catteruccia, J. Benton and A. Crisanti: “An Anopheles transgenic sexing strain for vector control”, Nature Biotechnology, 2005. Nov; 23(11):1414-1417.

C. Scali, F. Catteruccia, Q. Lee and A. Crisanti; “Identification of sex-specific transcripts of the Anopheles gambiae doublesex gene”, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2005. Oct 1;208 (Pt 19):3701-3709.

F. Lombardo, T. Nolan, G. Lycett, A. Lanfrancotti, N. Stich, F. Catteruccia, C. Louis, M. Coluzzi, B. Arca’. “An Anopheles gambiae salivary gland promoter analysis in Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles stephensi”. Insect Mol Biol. 2005 Apr;14(2):207-16

A.E. Brown, L. Bugeon, A. Crisanti and F. Catteruccia: “Stable and heritable gene silencing in the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi. Nucleic Acid” Research 2003, Aug 1;31(15):e85.

A.E. Brown, A. Crisanti and F. Catteruccia: “Comparative analysis of DNA vectors at mediating RNAi in Anopheles mosquito cells and larvae”. J Exp Biol. 2003, Jun;206(Pt 11):1817-23.

F. Catteruccia, H. C. J. Godfray and A. Crisanti: “Impact of genetic manipulation on the fitness of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes”. Science 2003, Feb 21;299(5610):1225-7.

L.A. Moreira, J. Ito, A. Ghosh, M. Devenport, H. Zieler, E.G. Abraham, A. Crisanti, T. Nolan , F. Catteruccia and M. Jacobs-Lorena: “ Bee venom phospholipase inhibits malaria parasite development in transgenic mosquitoes”. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2002, 277 (43), 40839-43.

T. Nolan, T. M. Bower, A.E. Brown, A. Crisanti and F. Catteruccia: “piggyBac-mediated germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi using the red fluorescent protein DsRed as a selectable marker”. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2002, 277 (11), 8759-62.

J. Vizioli, F. Catteruccia, A. della Torre, I. Reckmann and H.M. Müller: “Blood digestion in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae: molecular cloning and biochemical characterization of two inducible chymotrypsins”. European Journal of Biochemistry 2001, 268 (14), 4027-35.

F. Giannoni, H.M. Müller, J. Vizioli, F. Catteruccia, F.C. Kafatos, A. Crisanti: “Nuclear factors bind to a conserved DNA element that modulate the transcription of Anopheles gambiae trypsin genes”. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2001, 276, 700-7.

F. Catteruccia, T. Nolan, T.G. Loukeris, C. Blass, F.C Kafatos, C. Savakis and A. Crisanti: “Stable germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi”, Nature 2000, 405, 959-62.

F. Catteruccia, T. Nolan, C. Blass, H.M. Müller, A. Crisanti, F.C. Kafatos, T.G Loukeris: “Toward Anopheles transformation: Minos element activity in anopheline cells and embryos”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000, 97(5), 2157-62.

H.M. Müller, F. Catteruccia, J. Vizioli, A. della Torre, A. Crisanti. “Constitutive and blood meal-induced trypsin genes in Anopheles gambiae”. Exp Parasitol. 1995 Nov;81(3):371-85.

CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS

F. Catteruccia & E.A. Levashina: “RNAi in the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae”. Chapter in “Therapeutic Applications in RNAi”, Humana Press Inc, 2008.

F. Catteruccia, A. Brown, E. Petris, C. Scali, and A. Crisanti: “Development of a toolkit for manipulating malaria vectors”. Chapter in “Genetically modified mosquitoes for malaria control”, Landes Biosciences 2005.