Dr Paolo Piazza

Post-doctoral Research Scientist

  

Paolo studied at Univerista' degli Studi di Milano, where he completed a degree in Biology and a PhD in Genetics. He joined the department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, in 2003 to work on molecular aspects of evolution of plant shapes. Paolo has been part of the High Throughput Genomics lab since 2009. He is currently section leader for the library preparation team and coordinates process improvement initiatives for the core.

 

Recent publications 

A Modified RNA-Seq Approach for Whole Genome Sequencing of RNA Viruses from Faecal and Blood Samples. Batty EM, Wong TH, Trebes A, Argoud K, Attar M, Buck D, Ip CL, Golubchik T, Cule M, Bowden R, Manganis C, Klenerman P, Barnes E, Walker AS, Wyllie DH, Wilson DJ, Dingle KE, Peto TE, Crook DW, Piazza P. PLoS One. 2013 Jun 10;8(6):e66129. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066129. Print 2013.

Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission. Didelot X, Eyre D, Cule M, Ip C, Ansari A, Griffiths D, Vaughan A, O'Connor L, Golubchik T, Batty E, Piazza P, Wilson D, Bowden R, Donnelly P, Dingle K, Wilcox M, Walker S, Crook D, Peto T, Harding R. Genome Biol. 2012 Dec 21;13(12):R118

A pilot study of rapid benchtop sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile for outbreak detection and surveillance. Eyre DW, Golubchik T, Gordon NC, Bowden R, Piazza P, Batty EM, Ip CL, Wilson DJ, Didelot X, O'Connor L, Lay R, Buck D, Kearns AM, Shaw A, Paul J, Wilcox MH, Donnelly PJ, Peto TE, Walker AS, Crook DW. BMJ Open. 2012 Jun 6;2(3)

Arabidopsis thaliana leaf form evolved via loss of KNOX expression in leaves in association with a selective sweep. Piazza P, Bailey CD, Cartolano M, Krieger J, Cao J, Ossowski S, Schneeberger K, He F, de Meaux J, Hall N, Macleod N, Filatov D, Hay A, Tsiantis M. Curr Biol. 2010 Dec 21;20(24):2223-8. Epub 2010 Dec 2.

PROCERA encodes a DELLA protein that mediates control of dissected leaf form in tomato. Jasinski S, Tattersall A, Piazza P, Hay A, Martinez-Garcia JF, Schmitz G, Theres K, McCormick S, Tsiantis M. Plant J. 2008 Nov;56(4):603-12. Epub 2008 Jul 16. Erratum in: Plant J. 2009 Oct;60(2):397.

KNOX action in Arabidopsis is mediated by coordinate regulation of cytokinin and gibberellin activities. Jasinski S, Piazza P, Craft J, Hay A, Woolley L, Rieu I, Phillips A, Hedden P, Tsiantis M. Curr Biol. 2005 Sep 6;15(17):1560-5.

Evolution of leaf developmental mechanisms. Piazza P, Jasinski S, Tsiantis M. New Phytol. 2005 Sep;167(3):693-710. Review. Erratum in: New Phytol. 2006;171(3):684.