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Pietro De Camilli

Pietro De Camilli

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Biology and Biochemistry
USA
2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Pietro De Camilli is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas including biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to related subfields such as cell biology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and neurology.

The scientist's main topics of study encompass cellular transport and secretion, lipid membrane structure and behavior, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, erythrocyte function and pathophysiology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, as well as autophagy in disease and therapy.

Frequent publication venues for Pietro De Camilli include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biophysical Journal

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Pietro De Camilli are:

  • "VPS13D bridges the ER to mitochondria and peroxisomes via Miro" (2021) published in The Journal of Cell Biology
  • "Nanoscale subcellular architecture revealed by multicolor three-dimensional salvaged fluorescence imaging" (2020) published in Nature Methods
  • "Insights into VPS13 properties and function reveal a new mechanism of eukaryotic lipid transport" (2021) published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
  • "Cooperative function of synaptophysin and synapsin in the generation of synaptic vesicle-like clusters in non-neuronal cells" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Presynaptic autophagy is coupled to the synaptic vesicle cycle via ATG-9" (2022) published in Neuron

Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Yumei Wu
  • Andrés Guillén-Samander
  • Michael G. Hanna
  • Peng Xu
  • Daehun Park

Awards and recognitions received by Pietro De Camilli include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001

Best Publications

  • Phosphoinositides in cell regulation and membrane dynamics

    Gilbert Di Paolo;Pietro De Camilli

  • Identification of the 64K autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes as the GABA-synthesizing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase.

    Steinunn Baekkeskov;Henk-Jan Aanstoot;Stephan Christgai;Annette Reetz

  • Botulinum neurotoxin A selectively cleaves the synaptic protein SNAP-25

    Juan Blasi;Juan Blasi;Edwin R. Chapman;Egenhard Link;Thomas Binz

  • The BioPlex Network: A Systematic Exploration of the Human Interactome

    Edward L. Huttlin;Lily Ting;Raphael J. Bruckner;Fana Gebreab

  • Synapsin I (protein I), a nerve terminal-specific phosphoprotein. III. Its association with synaptic vesicles studied in a highly purified synaptic vesicle preparation.

    W B Huttner;W Schiebler;P Greengard;P De Camilli

  • Dynamin, a membrane-remodelling GTPase

    Shawn M. Ferguson;Pietro De Camilli

  • Essential Role of Phosphoinositide Metabolism in Synaptic Vesicle Recycling

    Ottavio Cremona;Ottavio Cremona;Gilbert Di Paolo;Markus R Wenk;Anita Lüthi

  • Tubular membrane invaginations coated by dynamin rings are induced by GTP-γS in nerve terminals

    Kohji Takei;Peter S. McPherson;Sandra L. Schmid;Pietro De Camilli

  • SynGO : An Evidence-Based, Expert-Curated Knowledge Base for the Synapse

    Frank Koopmans;Pim van Nierop;Maria Andres-Alonso;Andrea Byrnes

  • Phosphoinositides as Regulators in Membrane Traffic

    Pietro De Camilli;Scott D. Emr;Peter S. McPherson;Peter Novick

  • A single motif responsible for ubiquitin recognition and monoubiquitination in endocytic proteins

    Simona Polo;Sara Sigismund;Mario Faretta;Monica Guidi

  • Functional partnership between amphiphysin and dynamin in clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

    Kohji Takei;Vladimir I. Slepnev;Volker Haucke;Pietro De Camilli

  • Protein p38: an integral membrane protein specific for small vesicles of neurons and neuroendocrine cells.

    F Navone;R Jahn;G Di Gioia;H Stukenbrok

  • Autoantibodies to GABA-ergic neurons and pancreatic beta cells in stiff-man syndrome.

    Michele Solimena;Franco Folli;Roxanne Aparisi;Guido Pozza

  • Synapsin I (protein I), a nerve terminal-specific phosphoprotein. I. Its general distribution in synapses of the central and peripheral nervous system demonstrated by immunofluorescence in frozen and plastic sections.

    P De Camilli;R Cameron;P Greengard

  • Generation of high curvature membranes mediated by direct endophilin bilayer interactions

    Khashayar Farsad;Niels Ringstad;Kohji Takei;Scott R. Floyd

  • Synapsin I (Protein I), a nerve terminal-specific phosphoprotein. II. Its specific association with synaptic vesicles demonstrated by immunocytochemistry in agarose-embedded synaptosomes.

    P De Camilli;S M Harris;W B Huttner;P Greengard

  • Epsin is an EH-domain-binding protein implicated in clathrin-mediated endocytosis

    Hong Chen;Silvia Fre;Vladimir I. Slepnev;Maria Rosaria Capua

  • A presynaptic inositol-5-phosphatase

    Peter S. McPherson;Peter S. McPherson;Elizabeth P. Garcia;Vladimir I. Slepnev;Carol David

  • Erratum: Identification of the 64K autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes as the GABA-synthesizing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase (Nature (1990) 347 (151-156))

    Steinunn Baekkeskov;Henk Jan Aanstoot;Stephan Christgau;Annette Reetz

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus R. Wenk
Markus R. Wenk Hamad bin Khalifa University
Kohji Takei
Kohji Takei Okayama University
Gilbert Di Paolo
Gilbert Di Paolo Columbia University Medical Center
Pier Paolo Di Fiore
Pier Paolo Di Fiore University of Milan
Derek Toomre
Derek Toomre Yale University
Peter S. McPherson
Peter S. McPherson Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn Max Planck Society
Roberto Zoncu
Roberto Zoncu University of California, Berkeley
Richard A. Flavell
Richard A. Flavell Yale University

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