RESEARCHER

e-mail: marco.barchi@uniroma2.it
phone: +39 06 7259 6266/63
SSD: BIO/16
SC: 05/H1 
Macro-area:
Anatomia umana
Campi di interesse: 
- DNA damage
- Meiotic recombination
- Testicular Cancer

 Dr. Marco Barchi

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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

• 2000, Ph.D. in Medical Embryology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy.

 

• 1995, Bachelor of Sciences (Cum Laude), University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy.

 
EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2006- to date, Assistant Professor of human anatomy, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
• 2002-2006, Post-doc at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
• 2001-2002, Post-doc at Columbia University, New York, USA.
• 1996-2000, PhD. Student, Department of Public Health and Cell Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
• 1996, Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy.
• 1993-1995, undergraduate student at ENEA, Italy.

 
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• 2003-2005, American-Italian Cancer Foundation,
• 2003-2005, The Lalor Foundation.
• 1999, Short Term Mobility Fellowship from the National Research Center (CNR)

 
AWARDS

• 2008 – competitive-based research prize award from the Department of Public Health and Cell Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata.
• 2017 – competitive-based research prize award from the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
Molecular mechanisms controlling genome stability in male germ cells and its cancers
 
RESEARCH SUPPORT

• Mission Sustainability Grant 2017 (18 months). Agency: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Role: coordinator.

• Telethon Grant 2012 (36 months). Agency: Telethon Foundation, Italy.

Role: coordinator

• PRIN 2010-2011 (36 months). Agency: Ministry of University and Scientific Research of Italy. Role: Principal Investigator
• Cooperlink Grant 2011 (24 months). Agency: Ministry of University and Scientific Research of Italy. Role: Principal Investigator

·        Italian Association for Cancer Researcher (AIRC) Grant, 2007 (36 months). Agency: AIRC. Role: Principal Investigator

• “Brain Gain Grant” (Rientro dei Cervelli) 2005, (48 months). Agency: Ministry of University and Scientific Research of Italy. Role: Principal Investigator

 
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

• 26 peer-reviewed publications on international journals (1999-2018)
• 10 invitations as selected or invited speaker at national/international Congresses
• H-index 19 (Scopus), 20 (Google Scholar)

EXTRAMURAL SERVICES

• 2015-2016, Chromosoma, Guest Editor, for the “Special Issue on Recent advances in Meiotic Chromosome Structure, Recombination and Segregation”
• 2016- to date, Biomedicine & Prevention, Board and Managing Editor
• Ad hoc reviewer. PLOS Genetics, Developmental Biology, Chromosoma, Biomedicine & Prevention, Journal of Genetic Syndromes & Gene Therapy, Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, Journal of Visualized Experiments

LINKS
 
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1104-6234
 
Telethon: http://www.telethon.it/ricerca-progetti/i-ricercatori/dettaglio-ricercatore/marco-barchi
 
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-barchi-460b821a/
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Pubblicazioni rilevanti

• 1. Testa E, Nardozi D, Antinozzi C, Faieta M, Di Cecca S, Caggiano C, Fukuda T, Bonanno E, Zhenkun L, Maldonado A, Roig I, Di Giacomo M, Barchi M (2018). H2AFX and MDC1 promote maintenance of genomic integrity in male germ cells. J Cell Sci. 2018 Mar 20;131(6).
   
  2. Faieta M, Di Cecca S, De Rooij DG, Luchetti A, Murdocca M, Di Giacomo M, Di Siena S, Pellegrini M, Rossi P, Barchi M (2016). A surge of late-occurring double-strand breaks rescues chromosome synapses of mice with hipomorphyc expression of SPO11. Chromosoma 125(2), 189-203.
   
  3. Kauppi L, Barchi M, Lange J, Baudat F, Jasin M, Keeney S. (2013).
  Numerical constraints and feedback control of double-strand breaks in mouse meiosis. Genes & Development. Apr 15;27(8):873-86.
   
  4. Cavallo F, Graziani G, Antinozzi C, Feldman DR, Houldsworth J, Bosl GJ, Chaganti RS, Moynahan ME, Jasin M, Barchi M. (2012). Reduced proficiency in homologous recombination underlies the high sensitivity of embryonal carcinoma testicular germ cell tumors to Cisplatin and poly (adp-ribose) polymerase inhibition. PLoS One. 7(12):e51563.
   
  5. La Volpe A, Barchi M. (2012). Meiotic double strand breaks repair in sexually reproducing eukaryotes: we are not all equal. Exp Cell Res. Jul 15;318(12):1333-9
   
  6. Nakanishi K, Cavallo F, Perrouault L, Giovannangeli C, Moynahan ME, Barchi M, Brunet E, and Jasin M. (2011). Homology−directed Fanconi anemia pathway crosslink repair is dependent on DNA replication. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., IApr;18(4):500-3.
   
  7. Kauppi L, Barchi M, Baudat F, Romanienko PJ, Keeney S, Jasin M. (2011). Distinct Properties of the XY Pseudoautosomal Region Crucial for Male Meiosis. Science 18 February 2011: 916-920.
   
  8. Barchi M, Roig I, Di Giacomo M, de Rooij DG, Keeney S, et al. (2008). ATM promotes the obligate XY crossover and both crossover control and chromosome axis integrity on autosomes. PLoS Genet 4: e1000076.