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Andrea Piunti

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentPediatrics-Hematology and Oncology
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    Northwestern University, Chicago (USA)Postdoctoral fellow08/2021Chromatin biology
    European Institute of Oncology, Milan (Italy)PhD03/2014Molecular Oncology
    University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy)MS09/2009Medical, molecular and cellular Biotechnology
    University of Urbin, Urbin (Italy)BSc12/2006Biotechnology
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    2019 - 2021K99, NCI/NIH
    2015 - 2016Long-Term Fellowship, EMBO
    2016 - 2018iCARE, AIRC-Marie Curie-EU

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    K99CA234434     (PIUNTI, ANDREA)Sep 15, 2019 - Aug 31, 2021
    NIH
    A molecular informed therapy for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG)
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Piunti A, Shilatifard A. The roles of Polycomb repressive complexes in mammalian development and cancer. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2021 05; 22(5):326-345. PMID: 33723438.
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    2. Schachner LF, Jooß K, Morgan MA, Piunti A, Meiners MJ, Kafader JO, Lee AS, Iwanaszko M, Cheek MA, Burg JM, Howard SA, Keogh MC, Shilatifard A, Kelleher NL. Decoding the protein composition of whole nucleosomes with Nuc-MS. Nat Methods. 2021 03; 18(3):303-308. PMID: 33589837.
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    3. Douillet D, Sze CC, Ryan C, Piunti A, Shah AP, Ugarenko M, Marshall SA, Rendleman EJ, Zha D, Helmin KA, Zhao Z, Cao K, Morgan MA, Singer BD, Bartom ET, Smith ER, Shilatifard A. Uncoupling histone H3K4 trimethylation from developmental gene expression via an equilibrium of COMPASS, Polycomb and DNA methylation. Nat Genet. 2020 06; 52(6):615-625. PMID: 32393859.
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    4. Piunti A, Smith ER, Morgan MAJ, Ugarenko M, Khaltyan N, Helmin KA, Ryan CA, Murray DC, Rickels RA, Yilmaz BD, Rendleman EJ, Savas JN, Singer BD, Bulun SE, Shilatifard A. CATACOMB: An endogenous inducible gene that antagonizes H3K27 methylation activity of Polycomb repressive complex 2 via an H3K27M-like mechanism. Sci Adv. 2019 07; 5(7):eaax2887. PMID: 31281901.
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    5. Rickels R, Herz HM, Sze CC, Cao K, Morgan MA, Collings CK, Gause M, Takahashi YH, Wang L, Rendleman EJ, Marshall SA, Krueger A, Bartom ET, Piunti A, Smith ER, Abshiru NA, Kelleher NL, Dorsett D, Shilatifard A. Histone H3K4 monomethylation catalyzed by Trr and mammalian COMPASS-like proteins at enhancers is dispensable for development and viability. Nat Genet. 2017 Nov; 49(11):1647-1653. PMID: 28967912.
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    6. Piunti A, Hashizume R, Morgan MA, Bartom ET, Horbinski CM, Marshall SA, Rendleman EJ, Ma Q, Takahashi YH, Woodfin AR, Misharin AV, Abshiru NA, Lulla RR, Saratsis AM, Kelleher NL, James CD, Shilatifard A. Therapeutic targeting of polycomb and BET bromodomain proteins in diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas. Nat Med. 2017 Apr; 23(4):493-500. PMID: 28263307.
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    7. Rickels R, Hu D, Collings CK, Woodfin AR, Piunti A, Mohan M, Herz HM, Kvon E, Shilatifard A. An Evolutionary Conserved Epigenetic Mark of Polycomb Response Elements Implemented by Trx/MLL/COMPASS. Mol Cell. 2016 07 21; 63(2):318-328. PMID: 27447986.
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    8. Piunti A, Shilatifard A. Epigenetic balance of gene expression by Polycomb and COMPASS families. Science. 2016 Jun 03; 352(6290):aad9780. PMID: 27257261.
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    9. Chiacchiera F, Rossi A, Jammula S, Piunti A, Scelfo A, Ordóñez-Morán P, Huelsken J, Koseki H, Pasini D. Polycomb Complex PRC1 Preserves Intestinal Stem Cell Identity by Sustaining Wnt/ß-Catenin Transcriptional Activity. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Jan 07; 18(1):91-103. PMID: 26526724.
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    10. Piunti A, Rossi A, Cerutti A, Albert M, Jammula S, Scelfo A, Cedrone L, Fragola G, Olsson L, Koseki H, Testa G, Casola S, Helin K, d'Adda di Fagagna F, Pasini D. Polycomb proteins control proliferation and transformation independently of cell cycle checkpoints by regulating DNA replication. Nat Commun. 2014 Apr 14; 5:3649. PMID: 24728135.
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