Gianfilippo Coppola, PhD
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Gianfilippo Coppola, PhD, is interested in computational and systems biology.
Dr Coppola gained his undergraduate degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universita' di Napoli "Federico II" in Italy, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. Gianfilippo joined the Department of Pathology in July 2019 as Research Scientist and was appointed as Assistant Professor in October 2022.
Dr. Coppola is a member of the PsychENCODE and Brain Somatic Mosaicism Consortia.
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- PhD
- Yale University (2009)
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Autistic Disorder; Brain Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cell Culture Techniques; Computational Biology; Computing Methodologies; Epigenomics; Gene Expression Regulation; Gene Regulatory Networks; Genetics; Genomics; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Microfluidics; Systems Biology; Tourette Syndrome
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0000-0003-2675-783X
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Flora Vaccarino, MD
Alexej Abyzov, PhD
Livia Tomasini
Soraya Scuderi, PhD
Anna Szekely, MD
Jessica Mariani, PhD
28Publications
2,875Citations
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Gene Regulatory Networks
Tourette Syndrome
Publications
2023
Astroglial Hmgb1 regulates postnatal astrocyte morphogenesis and cerebrovascular maturation
Freitas-Andrade M, Comin C, Van Dyken P, Ouellette J, Raman-Nair J, Blakeley N, Liu Q, Leclerc S, Pan Y, Liu Z, Carrier M, Thakur K, Savard A, Rurak G, Tremblay M, Salmaso N, da F. Costa L, Coppola G, Lacoste B. Astroglial Hmgb1 regulates postnatal astrocyte morphogenesis and cerebrovascular maturation. Nature Communications 2023, 14: 4965. PMID: 37587100, PMCID: PMC10432480, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40682-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsHigh mobility group box 1Blood-brain barrierGroup box 1Brain blood vesselsMouse cortical astrocytesPostnatal brain developmentAstroglial factorsNeurovascular couplingAstrocyte morphogenesisCortical astrocytesPostnatal weekAdult miceBox 1Aquaporin-4Endothelial ultrastructureAstrocyte morphologyNeuronal functionAstrocytesBrain developmentTranscriptional changesHMGB1Blood vesselsBirthAlters distributionImportant players
2022
Sex differences in developmental patterns of neocortical astroglia: A mouse translatome database
Rurak GM, Simard S, Freitas-Andrade M, Lacoste B, Charih F, Van Geel A, Stead J, Woodside B, Green JR, Coppola G, Salmaso N. Sex differences in developmental patterns of neocortical astroglia: A mouse translatome database. Cell Reports 2022, 38: 110310. PMID: 35108542, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110310.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsGene expression patternsRibosome affinity purificationDevelopmental time pointsAstroglial phenotypeMaintenance of neuronsRNA sequencingAffinity purificationExpression patternsTelencephalic developmentAstroglial cellsSteroid hormone receptorsSex differencesKey playersNeuronal networksHormone receptorsDevelopmental patternsImportant sex differencesPhenotypeDevelopmental sex differencesWindow of vulnerabilityFemale miceHormonal manipulationPostnatal developmentAstrogliaTranslatome
2021
Cell-to-Cell Adhesion and Neurogenesis in Human Cortical Development: A Study Comparing 2D Monolayers with 3D Organoid Cultures
Scuderi S, Altobelli GG, Cimini V, Coppola G, Vaccarino FM. Cell-to-Cell Adhesion and Neurogenesis in Human Cortical Development: A Study Comparing 2D Monolayers with 3D Organoid Cultures. Stem Cell Reports 2021, 16: 264-280. PMID: 33513360, PMCID: PMC7878838, DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.12.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords
2020
Genetic pathways disrupted by ENPP1 deficiency provide insight into mechanisms of osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and paradoxical mineralization
Maulding ND, Kavanagh D, Zimmerman K, Coppola G, Carpenter TO, Jue NK, Braddock DT. Genetic pathways disrupted by ENPP1 deficiency provide insight into mechanisms of osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and paradoxical mineralization. Bone 2020, 142: 115656. PMID: 32980560, PMCID: PMC7744330, DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2020.115656.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsGenetic pathwaysSkeletal phenotypeGene expressionHuman disease phenotypesAsj/Suppression of WntTranscript countsGene transcriptionENPP1-deficient miceGene pathwaysEnzyme functionENPP1 deficiencyWnt ligandsSoluble Wnt inhibitorsWnt activityReduced gene transcriptionBiomechanical phenotypeTranscriptionWnt inhibitorsBone findingsUnbiased analysisDisease phenotypePhenotypeOld miceStrong signature
2019
A Further Analysis and Commentary on: Profiling Changes in Cortical Astroglial Cells Following Chronic Stress
Coppola G, Rurak GM, Simard S, Salmaso N. A Further Analysis and Commentary on: Profiling Changes in Cortical Astroglial Cells Following Chronic Stress. Neuroscience Insights 2019, 13: 1179069519870182. PMID: 31452604, PMCID: PMC6698990, DOI: 10.1177/1179069519870182.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsGene co-expression network analysisCo-expression network analysisAnxiety-like behaviorKey transcription factorPerineuronal netsAstroglial cellsExtracellular matrix componentsTrophic pathwaysImportant extracellular matrix componentTranscription factorsProtein degradationChronic stressNeuroplasticity hypothesisKey regulatorExpression of PNNsNeural plasticityCortical astroglial cellsChronic variable stressTreatment of depressionMatrix componentsMajor depressive disorderProfiling changesCortical neural plasticityKey mediatorModulates neuroplasticity
2018
Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids
Amiri A, Coppola G, Scuderi S, Wu F, Roychowdhury T, Liu F, Pochareddy S, Shin Y, Safi A, Song L, Zhu Y, Sousa AMM, Gerstein M, Crawford G, Sestan N, Abyzov A, Vaccarino F, Akbarian S, An J, Armoskus C, Ashley-Koch A, Beach T, Belmont J, Bendl J, Borrman T, Brown L, Brown M, Brown M, Brunetti T, Bryois J, Burke E, Camarena A, Carlyle B, Chae Y, Charney A, Chen C, Cheng L, Cherskov A, Choi J, Clarke D, Collado-Torres L, Dai R, De La Torre Ubieta L, DelValle D, Devillers O, Dracheva S, Emani P, Evgrafov O, Farnham P, Fitzgerald D, Flatow E, Francoeur N, Fullard J, Gandal M, Gao T, Garrett M, Geschwind D, Giase G, Girdhar K, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Goes F, Goodman T, Grennan K, Gu M, Gürsoy G, Hadjimichael E, Hahn C, Haroutunian V, Hauberg M, Hoffman G, Huey J, Hyde T, Ivanov N, Jacobov R, Jaffe A, Jiang Y, Jiang Y, Johnson G, Kassim B, Kefi A, Kim Y, Kitchen R, Kleiman J, Knowles J, Kozlenkov A, Li M, Li Z, Lipska B, Liu C, Liu S, Mangravite L, Mariani J, Mattei E, Miller D, Moore J, Nairn A, Navarro F, Park R, Peters M, Pinto D, Pochareddy S, Polioudakis D, Pratt H, Price A, Purcaro M, Ray M, Reddy T, Rhie S, Roussos P, Sanders S, Santpere G, Schreiner S, Sheppard B, Shi X, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Song L, Sousa A, Spitsyna V, State M, Sullivan P, Swarup V, Szatkiewicz J, Szekely A, Tao R, van Bakel H, Wang Y, Wang D, Warrell J, Webster M, Weissman S, Weng Z, Werling D, White K, Willsey J, Wiseman J, Witt H, Won H, Wray G, Xia Y, Xu M, Yang Y, Yang M, Zandi P, Zhang J, Zharovsky E. Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids. Science 2018, 362 PMID: 30545853, PMCID: PMC6426303, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6720.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricProfiling changes in cortical astroglial cells following chronic stress
Simard S, Coppola G, Rudyk CA, Hayley S, McQuaid RJ, Salmaso N. Profiling changes in cortical astroglial cells following chronic stress. Neuropsychopharmacology 2018, 43: 1961-1971. PMID: 29907879, PMCID: PMC6046043, DOI: 10.1038/s41386-018-0105-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsChronic variable stressDepressive-like behaviorPerineuronal netsAstroglial cellsAstroglial plasticityCortical astroglial cellsAstroglial cell functionModel of depressionAstroglial contributionNeuroplasticity hypothesisAstroglial changesCortical astrogliaAntidepressant potentialDepressive behaviorSwim testGFAP expressionDepressive phenotypeNeuronal plasticityGlutamate recyclingCorticosterone levelsRibosome affinity purificationSynaptic plasticityGrowth factor signalingChronic stressDegradation of PNNs
2017
Human induced pluripotent stem cells for modelling neurodevelopmental disorders
Ardhanareeswaran K, Mariani J, Coppola G, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Human induced pluripotent stem cells for modelling neurodevelopmental disorders. Nature Reviews Neurology 2017, 13: 265-278. PMID: 28418023, PMCID: PMC5782822, DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.45.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsEmbryonic stem cellsNeurodevelopmental disordersPluripotent stem cellsBrain developmentStem cellsAbnormal brain developmentBrain cell typesDopaminergic neuronsCortical neuronsUnique genetic signatureEarly developmentKey PointsHumanHiPSC modelsSomatic cellsDisordersGenetic signaturesGenetic studiesAltered trajectoryCell typesAdult cellsNeuronsUnknown facetsCellsDrug discoveryHiPSCsOne thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin
Abyzov A, Tomasini L, Zhou B, Vasmatzis N, Coppola G, Amenduni M, Pattni R, Wilson M, Gerstein M, Weissman S, Urban AE, Vaccarino FM. One thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin. Genome Research 2017, 27: 512-523. PMID: 28235832, PMCID: PMC5378170, DOI: 10.1101/gr.215517.116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsSomatic mosaicismFibroblast cellsSingle-cell whole-genome amplificationAllele frequenciesNumber of SNVsNormal cell proliferationCell proliferationWhole genome amplificationStem cell linesPluripotent stem cell lineHealthy human tissuesDe novo variantsCancer mutationsHigh-resolution analysisMutational loadPCR experimentsSkin fibroblast cellsMutational signaturesHiPSC linesDe novoGenomeNovo variantsFibroblast populationsCell linesSomatic SNVs
2015
The PsychENCODE project
Akbarian S, Liu C, Knowles JA, Vaccarino FM, Farnham PJ, Crawford GE, Jaffe AE, Pinto D, Dracheva S, Geschwind DH, Mill J, Nairn AC, Abyzov A, Pochareddy S, Prabhakar S, Weissman S, Sullivan PF, State MW, Weng Z, Peters MA, White KP, Gerstein MB, Amiri A, Armoskus C, Ashley-Koch AE, Bae T, Beckel-Mitchener A, Berman BP, Coetzee GA, Coppola G, Francoeur N, Fromer M, Gao R, Grennan K, Herstein J, Kavanagh DH, Ivanov NA, Jiang Y, Kitchen RR, Kozlenkov A, Kundakovic M, Li M, Li Z, Liu S, Mangravite LM, Mattei E, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Navarro FC, North N, Omberg L, Panchision D, Parikshak N, Poschmann J, Price AJ, Purcaro M, Reddy TE, Roussos P, Schreiner S, Scuderi S, Sebra R, Shibata M, Shieh AW, Skarica M, Sun W, Swarup V, Thomas A, Tsuji J, van Bakel H, Wang D, Wang Y, Wang K, Werling DM, Willsey AJ, Witt H, Won H, Wong CC, Wray GA, Wu EY, Xu X, Yao L, Senthil G, Lehner T, Sklar P, Sestan N. The PsychENCODE project. Nature Neuroscience 2015, 18: 1707-1712. PMID: 26605881, PMCID: PMC4675669, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4156.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
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