Gionata Scalcinati, MSc Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Phone: +46(0)31 772 3863 Fax: +46(0)31 772 3801 E-mail: gionata [at] chalmers.se Office: Room 6112D     Education and degrees 2007 MSc. in Industrial Biotechnology, concentration: Bioprocesses and Bioproducts, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, Milano, Italy. Employments 2006 Employee, Marketing and Sales Development, Molecular Diagnostics Europe PerkinElmer Life & Analytical SciencesPerkinElmer, Italy 2007-2008 Research Assistant, Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2008- PhD student, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers Publications, Patents & Presentations Publications 2008 Otero JM*, Scalcinati G*, Van Vleet J. Olsson L. and Jens Nielsen. Development of a S. cerevisiae Microbial Cell Factory for biochemical Production From Xylose, manuscript in preparation. *JMO and GS contributed equally to this research. Talks 2007 Oral presentation, at the research seminar center for Microbial Biotechnology DTU “Directed evolution applied to xylose uptake”,Copenaghen.   Oral dissertation of Master’s, “Metabolic Engineering of Saccaromyces cerevisiae for Biochemical production from xylose”, Milano. 2008 Oral presentation at the Annual symposium of the Swedish society for Biochemistry and molecular Biology SFBM, Gothenburg Main Collaborations and Networks 2008 NordForsk Network (DTU, Chalmers, VTT, GU and NTNU) Personal text Gionata is PhD student at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, SE), supervised by Professors Jens Nielsen and Post Doc Verena Sewers. Originally from Milano,Italy, Gionata completed his Bachelor of Science (2005) and Master of Science (2008) degrees in Industrial biotechnology, at the University of Milano-Bicocca and supervised by Professor Danilo Porro. He joined the Centre for Microbial Biotechnology Biocentrum-DTU in 2007 where he completed an industrial biotechnology research under the supervision of Professor Jens Nielsen, Professor Lisbeth Olsson and PhD student Jose´ Manuel Otero, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master’s Degree in Industrial Biotechnology. Research interest Gionata’s immediate aim is to pursue a world-class quality PhD research at an internationally recognized laboratory specializing in metabolic engineering of microbial cell factories for industrial biotechnology applications. The research interest focus on interface metabolic engineering, systems biology, biochemical engineering and genetics to enable a cross disciplinary approach to industrial biotechnology. My project Gionata’s PhD exploit metabolic engineering and systems biology tools for constructing an efficient S. cerevisiae cell factory for isoprenoids production capable of industrially relevant yield, titers, and productivities, which can be further evaluated for industrial scale up.