Full Professor
Department of Structural and Functional Biology
Via A.da Giussano 12
21052 Busto Arsizio
Italy
Tel: +39-0331 339 404
Fax: +39-0331 339 459
E-mail: gianfranco.badaracco@uninsubria.it

1969 University Degree in Biology at the University of Genova Italy.

1970 Assistant Professor of Phisiology at University of Genova

1982 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Milan

1999 Full Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Insubria

Gianfranco Badaracco is Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Insubria (Varese). During his scientific career he studied the molecular mechanisms involved in the DNA replication and molecular structure of the chromosome and their functional implications.

In more detail:
1) purification and characterization of RNA and DNA polymerases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluiveromyces lactis.

2) biochemical and functional studies of the terminal nucleotidil transferase

3) purification and functional characterization of the eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase

4) molecular mechanisms of the DNA replication focusing the attention on the DNA primase-polymerase complex from S. cerevisiae

5) molecular structure and function of the heterochromatin ; structure and function of the cromatin organized on methylated DNA; molecular mechanisms of action of proteins (PML-RAR RxR) involved in the acute promyelocytic laeukemia

6) molecular mechanisms involved in the Rett syndrome