Cell scientist to watch - Gaia Pigino.

Gaia Pigino received her master's degree in natural science followed by a PhD in evolutionary biology - focusing on zoology and ecotoxicology - in the laboratory of Fabio Bernini at the University of Siena, Italy. She then joined the electron microscopy laboratory of Pietro Lupetti for her first postdoctoral position before moving to Zürich. There, supported by an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, she worked with Takashi Ishikawa at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen. In 2012, Gaia became an independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden. Her laboratory is interested in understanding the assembly of the cilium and mechanisms of ciliary transport in eukaryotic cells, as investigated with cryo-transmission electron microscopy.