Dr. George diCenzo

Project Co-Leader

Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Department of Biology

Dr. George diCenzo joined the Department of Biology at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor in July of 2019. He completed his B.Sc. (2012) in Molecular Biology and Genetics at McMaster University (Canada), during which he performed research in the group of Prof. Turlough Finan. He remained in Dr. Finan’s group to complete his Ph.D (2017) in Biology. He then joined the group of Prof. Alessio Mengoni at the University of Florence (Italy) as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, where he also worked closely with Prof. Marco Fondi. During this time, he spent two months with Dr. Peter Mergaert at a CNRS institute just outside of Paris (France). In 2017 diCenzo was awarded the Armand Frappier Outstanding Student Award from the Canadian Society of Microbiology for his Ph.D. research.