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Personal information
Name / Marino Stefano
Address / Via stra’ 112, colognola ai colli (VR)
E-mail /
Nationality / Italian
Date of birth / 22/04/1977
Work experience
• Date (from - to) / O1/ 2007 - 04/ 2007
Prof. Gianfranco Gilardi, Dr. Sheila Sadeghi
• Institution / company / University of Torino / Imperial College (UK)
• Acitvities and duties / Protein engineering applied to biosensors
Rational design of engineered human p450 for biosensoring and pharmaceutical screening purposes. I worked on the computational part of the project.
• Date (from - to) / 2003-2006
• Institution / company / PhD in “Molecular physiology and Structural Biology” , University of Padova
Tutor: Prof. Luigi Bubacco (University of Padova)
• Competencies
• PhDThesis title
• Collaborations / Computational biochemistry and bioinformatics
“A combined computational and experimental approach in the structural investigations of metalloproteins”
Prof. Stefano Moro, Molecular Modelling Section, University of Padova
Dott. Maurizio Benfatto, I.N.F.N. (Frascati)
Prof. Luigi Casella, University of Pavia
Prof. Luca De Gioia, Università of Milano “Bicocca”
• Title of qualification awarded / PhD successfully defended on March 2007
Education
• Date (from - to) / 1998-2003
• University
• Thesis subject and title / Degree in Biological Sciences (major in Molecular Biology) at University of Padova
(final mark 107/110)
Thesis work in Molecular Biology (Dr. E. Bergantino’s lab, prof. G.M. Giacometti’s group).
Thesis title:
“Produzione di un anti-siero specifico per la proteina unknown (at2g 17230)/Phi-1 like di
Arabidopsis thaliana” (Production of a specific anti-serum for the unknown protein (at2g
17230)/Phi-1 like of A. thaliana)
• Date (from – to) / 1991-1996
• Institute / Liceo Scientifico “A. Messedaglia” (Verona)
Personal skills
and competences
Mother Tongue / Italiano
Other Language / English
• Reading skills: Very Good
• Writing skills: Good
• Verbal skills: Good
Technical skills
and competences / Computational skills
- Molecular modelling techniques (homology modelling, loop building)
- Computational biochemistry (docking, molecular dynamics)
- Sequence alignment analysis (protein, DNA), pattern & motif discovering
- XANES spectroscopy of protein reaction centres (only the computational part)
- GNU\Linux (Debian, Kubuntu)
- Python programming language
Laboratory/Experimental skills
- Molecular biology techniques for engineering, production, expression and purification
of recombinant proteins
- Kinetic characterization of enzymes
Pubblications
Stefano Marino, Kuniko Hayakawa, Keisuke Hatada, Maurizio Benfatto, Antonia Rizzello, Michele Maffia, Luigi Bubacco “Structural features that govern enzymatic activity in carbonic anhydrase from low temperature adapted fish C. hamatus” , Biophysical journal, accepted, February 2007.
I also presented this work at ABR2006 congress , Roma, February 2006 (talk in English)
Stefano Marino, Stefano Fogal, Stefano Moro, Luca De Gioia, Marco Bisaglia, Stefano Mammi,
Luigi Casella and Luigi Bubacco “Molecular mechanics investigation into S. antibioticus Tyrosinase activity toward chloro-phenols and naphthols” , submitted to European Biophysical Journal, May 2007
This work was also presented as a poster at S.i.b.p.a. 2006 congress, Palermo, September 2006
Campello S., Beltramini M., Giordano G., Di Muro P., Marino S., Bubacco L. “Role of the tertiary structure in the diphenol oxidase activity of Octopus vulgaris hemocyanin”, will be submitted to Biochemistry
Stefano Marino “A successive sub-grouping method for multiple sequence alignment analysis”, submitted to http://arxiv.org/ , code number code 0705.4429 (on line service of peer revision and open access submission of scientific works hosted and managed by the Cornell University, USA )
Stefano Marino, Stefano Fogal, Marco Bisaglia, Luigi Casella, Luigi Bubacco “S. antibioticus Tyrosinase catalyzed oxidation on monochlorophenols” , manuscript in preparation