Education

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2007

Current position

Research Scientist, 
Gehring Lab
 White head Institute for Biomedical Research 9 Cambridge Center,
 Cambridge, MA 02142

Publications

1. Pignatta, D., Erdmann, R. M., Scheer, E., Picard, C. L., Bell, G. W. and Gehring, M. (2014). Natural epigenetic polymorphisms lead to intraspecific variation in Arabidopsis gene imprinting. eLife 3: e03198.
   
2. Pignatta, D. and Gehring, M. (2012). Imprinting meets genomics: new insights and new challenges. Curr Opin Plant Biol 15(5): 530-535.
   
3. Li, F., Pignatta, D., Bendix, C., Brunkard, J. O., Cohn, M. M., Tung, J., Sun, H., Kumar, P. and Baker, B. (2012). MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(5): 1790-1795.
   
4. Pignatta, D., Dilkes, B. P., Yoo, S. Y., Henry, I. M., Madlung, A., Doerge, R. W., Jeffrey Chen, Z. and Comai, L. (2010). Differential sensitivity of the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome and enhancers to the effects of genome doubling. New Phytol 186(1): 194-206.
   
5. Pignatta, D. and Comai, L. (2009). Parental squabbles and genome expression: lessons from the polyploids. J Biol 8(4): 43.
   
6. Pignatta, D., Dilkes, B., Wroblewski, T., Michelmore, R. W. and Comai, L. (2008). Transgene-induced gene silencing is not affected by a change in ploidy level. PLoS One 3(8): e3061.
   
7. Pignatta, D., Kumar, P., Turina, M., Dandekar, A. and Falk, B. W. (2007). Quantitative analysis of efficient endogenous gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana plants using tomato bushy stunt virus vectors that retain the capsid protein gene. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20(6): 609-618.