Alessandro Costa

Alessandro Costa

Principal Group Leader

Alessandro Costa obtained his PhD at Imperial College London, studying the structure of the archaeal replicative helicase motor in the research group of Silvia Onesti.

He spent one year in the laboratory of Stephen D. Bell at Oxford, working on the Biochemistry of DNA replication initiation in archaea and then joined the University of California, Berkeley as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow to work with James Berger.

At Berkeley, Alessandro used three-dimensional electron microscopy to solve the structure of the eukaryotic replicative helicase, the 11-member Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS complex.

In spring 2012, Alessandro moved to London to establish his own research group at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute Clare Hall laboratories, which then became part of the Francis Crick Institute.

His research at the Crick focuses on the architecture and function of the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.

Qualifications and history

2004
University of Padova, Italy
Laurea Degree in Biotechnology
2007
Imperial College London, London, UK
PhD
2007
University of Oxford, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2009
University of California Berkeley, USA
EMBO Postdoctoral fellow
2012
London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK
Establish lab
2015
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Group Leader
2018
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Senior Group Leader
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