Since its establishment in 2000 by Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Stefano Gustincich is a member of the FANTOM consortium.

The FANTOM project is a joint international effort aiming at studing and characterizing the mammalian transcriptome, in order to “progress from an understanding of the ‘elements’ - the transcripts - to an understanding of the ‘system’ - the transcriptional regulatory network - governing an individual life form”.

Almost 500 scientists from 18 countries worldwide are currently involved in the fifth phase of the project, the FANTOM5.

As member of the FANTOM consortium, Stefano Gustincich published the following seminal research articles:

• Morikawa H et al. (2014). Differential roles of epigenetic changes and Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cell-specific transcriptional regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111(14):5289-94.
• Andersson R et al. (2014). An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues. Nature 507(7493):455-61.
• Forrest A et al. (2014). A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas. Nature 507(7493):462-70.
• Carninci P et al. (2006). Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution. Nature Genetics 38(6): 626-35.
• Carninci P et al. (2005). The transcriptional landscape of the mammalian genome. Science 309(5740): 1559-63.
• Okazaki Y et al. (2002). Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs. Nature 420: 563-73.
• Kawai J et al. (2001). Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection. Nature 409: 685-90.