PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Teperino, Raffaele, PhD
Researcher unique identifier(s): ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8815-1409
Date of birth: 07.11.1981
Nationality: Italian
Family status: Married (2 kids – 18 and 6 months)
URL for web site: Environmental Epigenetics Group
• EDUCATION
2009 PhD, University of Naples “Federico II” - Italy (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Beguinot)
Title: “Genetic and Epigenetic alterations in type 2 diabetes: the role of PED/PEA-15 gene”
(Ungaro P., Teperino R. et al. Diabetologia 2010)
2005 MSc., University of Naples “Federico II” - Italy (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Beguinot)
Title: “Genetic alterations in type 2 diabetes: regulation of PED/PEA-15 gene expression”
(Ungaro P., Teperino R. et al. Diabetologia 2008)
• CURRENT POSITION(S)
2015 – Independent Group Leader “Environmental Epigenetics”
Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG) - Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen (HMGU) and German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)
(Gerlini R. et al. Mol. Metab. 2018, Darr J. et al. BiorXiv & Cell Reports 2020)
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2010-2015 PostDoc – MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg (Andrew Pospisilik)
Focus: Developmental and epigenetic control of adult metabolic homeostasis
(Teperino R. et al. Cell 2012)
2009-2010 PostDoc – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Prof. J. Auwerx)
Focus: Epigenetics and Metabolism
(Teperino R. et al. Cell Metab. 2010)
• FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 – 2018 Helmholtz ERC Recognition Award
2015 – 2017 Minerva Stiftung Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (ARCHES).
2012 – 2014 Marie-Curie Intra European Exchange Fellowship (IEF)
2010 – 2012 Co-funded Fellowship from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) and Marie-Curie Action
2009 – 2010 Nestlè Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 EUGENE2 Young Investigator Award
• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2015 – 2015 Supervised 1 PostDoc, 3 PhD Students, 2 M.Sc. students, 1 Technician and trained 5 trainees to support the training program for Technician existing at the Helmholtz Research Center in Munich
• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2018 Scientific organisation of the INFRAFRONTIER Epigenetic Workshop in Munich, which aimed at bringing together world-renowned epigeneticists (eg. Robert Feil, Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla) and IMPC scientists.
• INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Since 2015 Member of 6 PhD thesis committees at the Helmholtz Munich, LMU Munich and European Institute of Oncology (Milano – Italy)
Since 2017 Member of the Epigenetics@HMGU (Epigenetics@HMGU) management board.
• REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (if applicable)
Since 2015 Reviewer for Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Cell Metabolism, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Diabetes, Diabetologia, Clinical Epigenetics, Molecular Metabolism
• MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2010 – Active member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
2015 – Active member of the EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence (EpiGeneSys)
• MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
M. Witting, Mass Spectometry, HMGU – Germany
H. Grallert, Human GWAS Studies, HMGU – Germany
ME Torres-Padilla, Epigenetic Inheritance, HMGU – Germany
A. Körner, Epigenetic inheritance in humans, University of Leipzig – Germany
E. Schleicher & H. Häring, Metabolic control in humans, University of Tübingen - Germany
M. Buschbeck, Epigenetic and metabolism, Josep-Carrera Institute, Badalona – Spain
O. Koren, Gut microbiota and epigenetic inheritance, Bar-Ilan University – Israel
N. Kotaja, Spermatogenesis and epigenetic inheritance, University of Turku – Finland
R. Sedlacek, Mouse model generation, CCP Prague – Czech Republic
S. Robertson, Seminal fluid and developmental programing, University of Adelaide – Australia
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Germany
Vortrag
Gene-environment interactions in the epigenetic control of inheritance
Speaker