Dmitry Lim. Curriculum Vitae
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PERSONAL DATA
Born Kazan, Russia, 29/10/1968
Current address Via Ariosto 42, Padova, 35128, Italy
Work address Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Via Orus 2, 35129, Padova, Italy

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CURRENT POSITION
January 2007 - present Postdoctoral fellow. Marie Curie Fellowship granted in frame of the NeuroNE program, Laboratory of Prof. Ernesto Carafoli, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova.

POSITIONS HELD
2004 - 2006 Postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Prof. Ernesto Carafoli, Department of Biochemistry, University of Padova.

EDUCATION
1999 - 2003 PhD program of The Open University of London in Physiology and Cell Biology at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli (SZN) "Anton Dohrn". Director of study Dr. Luigia Santella, external superviser Prof. Ernesto Carafoli, University of Padova, Italy. The title of the PhD thesis: Calcium signals mediated by InsP3 and NAADP during maturation and fertilization of satrfish oocytes.
1995 - 1999 The Moscow State University (MSU), Russia. Degree in physiology with a final mean score 5/5. Two years of experimental work at the Cancer Research Institute, Moscow, under the supervision of Dr. D. B. Kazansky. The title of the diploma work: The role of heat shock proteins in the pattern of the macrophage migration in vivo.
1992 - 1993 The Novokuybishevsk School of Nursing, Russia. Degree in Nursing with Honor.

LANGUAGES
Russian - native speaker; English and Italian - fluent oral and good written communication


SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS ↓ Show content ↓

OUTLINE OF EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS ↓ Show content ↓

EXPERIENCE IN OTHER LABORATORIES
May-June 2001 I spent 2 months in the Laboratory Dr. Keiichiro Kyozuka of The Marine Biological Station in Asamushi, Japan. The stay gave me the chance of improving skills in the handling of gametes of marine animals, and of increasing my experience in confocal microscopy
November 2005 I spent 1 month in the Laboratory of Prof. Jose R. Naranjo, Madrid, Spain, acquiring experience in DNA microarray technology and Real-Time PCR.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2003-2004

Member of the Secretariat of two international meetings:

  • EMBO workshop on Calcium Signaling and Disease, 2004, Capri, Italy;
  • International Meeting on Calcium in Health and Disease, 2004, Rovaniemi, Finland.
STUDENTS SUPERVISION
2007

Supervision of the work of Carmelina Chiarello leading to the Master degree in Sanitary Biology, which was completed in October 2007.

2006-2007

Supervision of the work of Paola Rebellato towards the Master degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, which was completed in March 2007.

2004

Supervision of the experimental work leading to the Bachelors degree of Roberto Sommavilla in Experimental Biotechnology. The work was successfully completed in September 2004.

COURSES ATTENDED
March 2004

BIORAD Seminar on PCR Real time and Microarrays in genomic research, Padova, Italy.

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
Dicember 2007

NeuroNE Workshop on Protein Aggregation and Neurodegeneration. Soelden, Austria.

October 2007

14th International Symposium on Calcium-Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Oral presentation "Calcium homeostasis and mitochondrial dysfunction in striatal neurons of Huntington's disease". D. Lim, L. Fedrizzi, M. Tartari, E. Cattaneo, M. Brini, and E. Carafoli.

October 2007

NeuroNE Workshop on Neuronal Calcium in Health and Disease. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Oral presentation "Mitochondrial Defects and Calcium Signaling Dysfunction in a striatal cell model of Huntington's disease". D. Lim, L. Fedrizzi, M. Tartari, C. Zuccato, E. Cattaneo, M. Brini, and E. Carafoli.

June 2006

20th IUBMB International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Kyoto, Japan.

Poster "Altered ATP and Bradykinin (BK)-mediated calcium signaling in striatal cells expressing mutated huntingtin". D. Lim, M. Tartari, E. Cattaneo, L. Fedrizzi, M. Brini, and E. Carafoli.

July 2004

International Symposium on Calcium in Health and Disease, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Poster "The role of the Ca2+-dependent transcriptional repressor DREAM on Ca2+ homeostasis" M. Brini, L. Fedrizzi, D. Lim, J.R. Naranjo, and E. Carafoli.

January 2002

12th International Symposium on Calcium-Binding Proteins and Calcium Function in Health and Disease. Cavalese, Italy.

Poster "NAADP+ initiates the Ca2+ response during fertilization of starfish oocytes". D. Lim, K. Kyozuka, G. Gragnaniello, E. Carafoli, and L. Santella.


KEY REFERENCES     (Link to full list of publications)
7 Lim D, Fedrizzi L, Tartari M, Zuccato C, Cattaneo E, Brini M, Carafoli E. (2007) Calcium homeostasis and mitochondrial dysfunction in striatal neurons of Huntington′s disease. J Biol Chem. published online ahead of print December 21, 2007. PDF 1m
6 Ficarella R, Di Leva F, Bortolozzi M, Ortolano S, Donaudy F, Petrillo M, Melchionda S, Lelli A, Domi T, Fedrizzi L, Lim D, Shull GE, Gasparini P, Brini M, Mammano F, Carafoli E. (2007) A functional study of plasma-membrane calcium-pump isoform 2 mutants causing digenic deafness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:1516-1521. PDF 1.5m
5 Moccia F, Nusco GA, Lim D, Kyozuka K, Santella L. (2006) NAADP and InsP3 play distinct roles at fertilization in starfish oocytes. Dev Biol. 294:24-38. PDF 870k
4 Santella L, Lim D, Moccia F. (2004). Calcium and fertilization: the beginning of life. Trends Biochem. Sci. 29, 400-408. PDF 1m
3 Moccia F, Lim D, Kyozuka K, Santella L. (2004). NAADP triggers the fertilization potential in starfish oocytes. Cell Calcium. 36, 515-524. PDF 350k
2 Lim, D., Ercolano, E., Kyozuka, K., Nusco, G.A., Moccia, F., Lange, K. and Santella, L. (2003). The M-phase promoting factor modulates the sensitivity of the Ca2+ stores to inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate via the actin cytoskeleton. J Biol Chem. 278, 42505-42514. PDF 810k
1 Lim, D., Kyozuka, K., Gragnaniello, G., Carafoli, E. and Santella, L. (2001). NAADP+ initiates the Ca2+ response during fertilization of starfish oocytes. FASEB J. 15, 2257-2267 PDF 750k