The next talk in the Inflammation Repair and Development seminar series will be given by Dr Maurizio Chioccioli, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary, Sleep Medicine and Critical Care) at Yale School of Medicine. His research focus is to understand the pathophysiology and molecular etiology of lung remodelling and repair by combining quantitative imaging, next-generation ‘omics and human and mouse lung tissue models. His experience and expertise span multiple areas from biophysics and live-imaging microscopy to molecular biology, genetics and human respiratory diseases. Dr. Chioccioli obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Florence in Tuscany, where he is from, before going on to obtain his PhD from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Australia. He then performed his postdoctoral studies at the Cavendish Laboratory, Physics of Medicine Institute at Cambridge University where he worked on the biophysical basis of dynamic ciliary beating in respiratory diseases such as cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia. He was recruited to the Pulmonary section Yale in 2018 where he is focused primarily on the mechanisms that drive successful – an unsuccessful tissue repair in the lung.
The title of his presentation will be ‘Spatiotemporal coordination of Alveolar Type 2 cells behaviour following alveolar injury’.
Please contact r.joulia@imperial.ac.uk or g.moss@imperial.ac.uk for further information.