Gaia Novarino, Ph.D.

Professor, Institute of Science and Technology

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Gaia Novarino is an assistant professor and group leader at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Before moving to Austria, she worked as research fellow at the University of California, San Diego and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association and Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders.

Funded Projects

Probing the development and reversibility of autism-related phenotypes in SETD5 conditional knockout mice

Awarded: 2016
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

Haploinsufficiency of the intellectual disability gene SETD5 disturbs developmental gene expression and cognition. Deliu E., Arecco N., Morandell J., Dotter C.P., Contreras X., Girardot C., Käsper E.L., Kozlova A., Kishi K., Chiaradia I., Noh K.M., Novarino G.

A homozygous founder mutation in TRAPPC6B associates with a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by microcephaly, epilepsy and autistic features. Marin-Valencia I., Novarino G., Johansen A., Rosti B., Issa M.Y., Musaev D., Bhat G., Scott E., Silhavy J.L., Stanley V., Rosti R.O., Gleeson J.W., Imam F.B., Zaki M.S., Gleeson J.

Impaired amino acid transport at the blood brain barrier is a cause of autism spectrum disorder. Tarlungeanu D.C., Deliu E., Dotter C.P., Kara M., Janiesch P.C., Scalise M., Galluccio M., Tesulov M., Morelli E., Sonmez F.M., Bilguvar K., Ohgaki R., Kanai Y., Johansen A., Esharif S., Ben-Omran T., Topcu M., Schlessinger A., Indiveri C., Duncan K.E., Caglayan A.O., Gunel M., Gleeson J., Novarino G.

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