Giulia Rancati PhD

Giulia Rancati received her Degree in Biotechnology from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in 2001. She started out her career as a graduate student in Prof. Simonetta Piatti’s lab at the University of Milano-Bicocca where she focused on mechanisms of spindle assembly checkpoint activation in budding yeast. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2005, she stayed in the same lab for a short postdoctoral training during which she collaborated with Andrea Musacchio at IFOM (Italy).

In 2006, Giulia started her postdoc in Prof. Rong Li’s group at the Stowers Institute (USA), where she studied the role of aneuploidy in cellular adaptation to environmental and genetic perturbations. In October 2010, Giulia was awarded the A*STAR Investigatorship and joined the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore as a Principal Investigator in May 2011. Her lab focuses on the role of aneuploidy and genome instability in short term evolutionary processes, such as adaptation to environmental and genetic perturbations and emergence of chemotherapy resistance.