Maddalena Nano

Education

Postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

PhD, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institut Curie and UPMC, Paris, France

MS, Functional Genomics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

MS, Genetics, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France

BSc, Biotechnology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Selected publications

Nano, M., Harwood, J., Lukaszewicz, G., Kagan, A., Peshkin, L., Montell, D.J., 2026. A kinome inhibitor screen implicates adhesion and growth factor signaling in cellular recovery after caspase activation. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.06.697929

Nano, M., Montell, D.J., 2023. Editorial: Special issue SCDB “Cell death and survival”: Cell death and resilience in health and disease. Semin Cell Dev Biol 157.

Nano, M., Montell, D.J., 2023. Apoptotic signaling: Beyond cell death. Semin Cell Dev Biol 156, 22–34. 

Nano, M., Mondo, J.A., Harwood, J., Balasanyan, V., Montell, D.J., 2023. Cell survival following direct executioner-caspase activation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 120, e2216531120. 

Gemble, S., Wardenaar, R., Keuper, K., Srivastava, N., Nano, M., Macé, A.-S., Tijhuis, A.E., Bernhard, S.V., Spierings, D.C.J., Simon, A., Goundiam, O., Hochegger, H., Piel, M., Foijer, F., Storchová, Z., Basto, R., 2022. Genetic instability from a single S phase after whole-genome duplication. Nature 604, 146–151. 

Nano, M., Gemble, S., Simon, A., Pennetier, C., Fraisier, V., Marthiens, V., Basto, R., 2019. Cell-Cycle Asynchrony Generates DNA Damage at Mitotic Entry in Polyploid Cells. Curr. Biol. CB 29, 3937-3945.e7.