Research: Development of a protein modeling and drug design platform within the PyMOL molecular visualization environment.
EDUCATION
November 2021
PhD Life Sciences - (XXXVII)
Curriculum: Bioinformatics and Omics, Structure and function of macromolecules, Drug Discovery.
October 2019 – June 2021
Master Degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology (English curriculum, LM-6) - Path of excellence - “Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza” - 110/110 with honors
Thesis title: Design and Development of a Versatile Graphical User Interface for Assisting Molecular Docking and Drug Discovery.
October 2016 – October 2019
Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology (L-2) - “Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza” - 110/110 with honors
Thesis title: Inibitori di Aurora-A: analisi del contributo della flessibilità dei residui del sito attivo nell’accuratezza del Docking molecolare
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
- Object Oriented programming (OOP) in Python (Software and GUI development)
- Advanced usage of ‘in silico’ chemical tools for molecular visualization and manipulation (PyMOL, MarvinSketch, Openbabel, RDKit)
- Detailed theoretical and practical knowledge of Molecular Docking algorithms and related programs
- Bioinformatic analyses on Mass-Spectrometry-derived data.
- Linux, macOS and Windows Operative Systems use and management (software updates, programs installation)
- Good level of knowledge of Bash and R programming languages
- Protein structure prediction (Homology Modeling)