Dario Cecchi

Bio

After graduating with a Master of Science in 2012 in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnologies at the University of Bologna, I spent a short period as a graduate intern at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. In 2017 I obtained a PhD in Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Trento. From then until 2022 I worked as a senior scientist at Explora Srl, in Venice. I joined the Microscale Robotics Laboratory at the Biorobotics Institute of Sant'Anna School for Advanced Sciences in 2023.

Ricerca

After years of experience in artificial cells I am currently contributing to the ERC-funded project CELLOIDS (G.A. 948590), focusing on strategies to provide microrobots with self-propulsion and autonomous movement. To reach this goal I am combining my knowledge in molecular biology and biochemistry with the engineering approach typical of synthetic biology.

Pubblicazioni

T-Y. Dora Tang, Dario Cecchi, Giorgio Fracasso, Davide Accardi, Angelique Coutable-Pennarun, Sheref S Mansy, Adam W Perriman, JL Ross Anderson, Stephen Mann “Gene-mediated chemical communication in synthetic protocell communities” ACS Synthetic Biology doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00306 (1st November 2017)
Fabio Chizzolini, Michele Forlin, Noël Yeh Martín, Giuliano Berloffa, Dario Cecchi, & Sheref S. Mansy. “Cell-free translation is more variable than transcription”. ACS Synthetic Biology doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00250 (19th January 2017).
Dario Cecchi, Sheref S. Mansy “Xenobiotic Life” in: Glieder A, Kubicek CP, Mattanovich D, Wiltschi B, Sauer M, eds. “Synthetic Biology” SE - 10. Springer International Publishing doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22708-5_10 (January 2016)
Samir Ounzain, Rudi Micheletti, Carme Arnan, Isabelle Plaisance, Dario Cecchi, Blanche Schroen, Ferran Reverter, Michael Alexanian, Christine Gonzales, Shi Yan Ng, Giovanni Bussotti, Iole Pezzuto, Cedric Notredame, Stephane Heymans, Roderic Guigó, Rory Johnson, Thierry Pedrazzini “CARMEN, a human super enhancer-associated long noncoding RNA controlling cardiac specification, differentiation and homeostasis”. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology doi:10.1016/j.yjmcc.2015.09.016 (28th September 2015).
Roberta Lentini, Silvia Perez Santero, Fabio Chizzolini, Dario Cecchi, Jason Fontana, Marta Marchioretto, Cristina Del Bianco, Jessica L. Terrell, Amy C. Spencer, Laura Martini, Michele Forlin, Michael Assfalg, Mauro Dalla Serra, William E. Bentley & Sheref S. Mansy “Integrating artificial with natural cells to translate chemical messages that direct E. coli behaviour”. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms5012 (30th May 2014)
Fabio Chizzolini, Michele Forlin, Dario Cecchi, & Sheref S. Mansy. “Gene position more strongly influences cell-free protein expression from operons than T7 transcriptional promoter strength”. ACS Synthetic Biology doi:10.1021/sb4000977 (27th November 2013).