Dario graduated in Molecular Cell biology focussed in Genomics in 2012. During his Master final year he joined the Attimonelli’s lab where he had his first approach with bioinformatics methods working on the identification and annotation of Nuclear Mitochondrial Sequences (NUMTs) in the genome of several organisms.
He then started his PhD in the Gene Regulation and RNA Biology group at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. Here he worked in the Winkler’s lab studying the impact of mutations found in cancer on the functions and assembly of the Ccr4-Not Complex deadenylase enzyme using biochemical and bioinformatics approaches.
He graduated at the beginning of 2017 and joined the Wickstead’s lab at the School of Life Science, University of Nottingham where he reconstructed the genetic repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) using bioinformatics and phylogenetic approaches.
In 2018 he briefly joined the Soller’s lab at the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham where he used Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to study the m6A methylation and its impact on sex differentiation. In November 2019 he joined the School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, where he is currently working on an exciting project aimed to investigate the different bacteria that are present on the skin of people with Epidermolysis Bullosa (Founded by DEBRA UK).