Research Fellow

Cristiano obtained a Laurea in Physics from the University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy, in 2000 with experimental thesis work on modelling of membranes applying the Langmuir-Blodgett and Patch-Clamp techniques. In the same year, he moved to the University of Nottingham (UK) where he performed research on bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. For a couple of years up to 2004 he worked at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) in Rome, Italy, where he studied the interaction between an essential oil (Tea Tree Oil) with planar models of lipid rafts and melanoma cancer cells. In April 2004, he began his PhD in Japan at Kyoto University sponsored by the Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho-Mext). The PhD work focused on the study of aggregation and location of cholesterol in organic solvents and large unilamellar vesicles mimicking the lipid rafts by solution-state NMR spectroscopy. Cristiano was awarded a PhD in Chemistry from Kyoto University in September 2007. Cristiano joined the Nanoscale Function Group in 2008.

Publications

• Giordani C, Wakai C, Yoshida K, Okamura E, Matubayasi N, and Nakahara M, Cholesterol Location and Orientation in Acqueous Suspension of Large Unilamellar Vesicles of Phospholipid Revealed by Intermolecular Nuclear Overhauser Effect. J Phys. Chem.B 2008, 112, 2622-2628.
• Giordani C, Wakai C, Okamura E, Matubayasi N, and Nakahara M, Dynamic and 2D NMR Studies on Hydrogen-bonding Aggregates of Cholesterol in Low-polarity Organic Solvents. J Phys. Chem.B 2006, 110, 15205-15211.
• Giordani C, Molinari A, Toccacieli L, Calcabrini A, Stringaro A, Chistolini P, Arancia G, and Diociaiuti M Interaction of Tea Tree Oil with Model and Cellular Membranes. J. Med. Chem. 2006, 49, 4581-4588.
• Diociaiuti M, Ruspantini I, Giordani C, Bordi F, and Chistolini P, Distribution of GD3 in DPPC Monolayers: a Thermodynamic and Atomic Force Microscopy Combined Study. Biophys. J. 2004, 86, 321-328.
• Heindrichs A S D, Geen H, Giordani C, and Titman J J, Improved Scalar Shift Correlation NMR Spectroscopy in Solids. Chemical Physics Letters2001, 335, 89-96.

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