CURRICULUM VITAE
Stefano Pascarella
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Scienze biochimiche “A. Rossi Fanelli” – Sapienza – Università di Roma
Tel. +39 06 4991 7694
e-mail Stefano.Pascarella@uniroma1.it
WORK EXPERIENCE
2001-today Full Professor BIO/10; Sapienza Università di Roma; Teaching and Research activity: Biochemistry, Structural Bioinformatics
2000-2001 Associate Professor BIO/10; Sapienza Università di Roma; Teaching and Research activity: Biochemistry, Structural Bioinformatics
1991-2000 Ricercatore BIO/10; Sapienza Università di Roma; Teaching and Research activity: Biochemistry, Structural Bioinformatics
1990-1991 Post-doc fellow (European Community Fellowship; EMBO Fellowship)
EMBL – Heidelberg; Biocomputing division. Research activity: Structural Bioinformatics
1989 (1 m) Visiting fellow; Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. Research activity: Biochemistry
1985 (3 m) Visiting fellow; Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. Research activity: Biochemistry
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1986-1989 PhD in Biochemistry
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Project: Site directed mutagenesis of Serine hydroxymethyltransferase; protein purification; structural bioinformatics
1984 Laurea in Scienze biologiche 110/110 cum laude
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Project: Determination of the primary structure of cytosolic rabbit SHMT
1978 Maturità classica (Grammar school)
Liceo Ginnasio Statale Luciano Manara
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue Italian
ORGANIZATIONAL AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Tutor of PhD, Graduate, and Post-Docs students
• Co-founder and member of the of the Teaching Board of the one-year Master in Bioinformatics (since 2001)
• Director of the Master in Bioinformatics (since 2010)
• Principal investigator of research projects
• Member of Department commissions
• Member of the Teaching Board of the former PhD program in Biophysics (until 2013)
• Member of the Teaching Board of PhD program in Biochemistry (since 2015)
• Course of Biochemistry (Biological Sciences)
• Course of Bioinformatics (Master in Genomics, Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology)
• Director of the Sapienza Advanced Course in Bioinformatics since 2021
TECHICAL SKILLS
• Molecular Graphics; Web site management; Use of software for protein and nucleic acid sequences and protein structure analysis.
• Computer programming using Perl, C and bash scripting. Operating systems: Mac OS-X, Linux, MS Windows. R language.
FUNDING
• Principal investigator of Sapienza University Research Projects;
• Participant in National Research Projects (PRIN);
• Participant in Cenci-Bolognetti projects;
• Principal investigator of the PNRA (Progetto Nazionale Ricerca Antartide) 2004 1.8
• Participant in “Progetto FILAS 2016 Regione Lazio”
OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Referee for international scientific journals: AminoAcids; BBA; Bioinformatics; BMC Structural biology; Computational biology and chemistry; Current microbiology; Genome Biology and Evolution; Gene; Interdisciplinary sciences: computational life sciences; J Computer Aided Molecular Design; Microbial genomics; Molecular BioSystems; Plos ONE; Scientific Report; European Journal of Biochemistry; FEBS journal; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
• Member of the Biotechnology panel evaluation in the framework of IV FP of the European Commission
• Referee for evaluation of scientific projects (Norway, Poland);
• Referee for evaluation of National Projects (PRIN)
• Program Committee member of the Meetings BITS2012, BITS2013, BITS2014;
• Associate Editor of the BITS Supplement to BMC Bioinformatics (2012, 2013, 2014);
• Member of the Editorial Board of Biochemistry Research International, Hindawi Publishing Corporation;
• Member of the Editorial Board of BioMed Research International, Hindawi Publishing
• Guest Editor of Symmetry Special Issue: "Structural Symmetry and Protein Function", MDPI Publishing
• Member of the Editorial Board of Open Life Sciences, De Gruyter Publishing
• Sapienza delegate with the ELIXIR-IIB Board (since 2017)
INVITED ORALCONTRIBUTIONS
• VI National meeting “Proteine ‘91”, Trieste
• “Vitamin B6 and carbonyl catalysis”, Capri, 22-27 Maggio 1994
• National School in Protein Science (Urbino, 5-9 settembre 1994)
• National School in Protein Scienc (Urbino, 18-22 settembre 1995)
• School in Protein Structure and Function (L’Aquila, 25-27 Maggio 2000)
• Course “Bioinformatica”, IST, Genova 1-2 luglio, 2004
• SIB-BIB 2000 Meeting “Biochemistry and Biotechnology”, Como, June 27-29, 2000
• XVII National SIB Meeting “Proteine 2004”, Viterbo, May 20-22, 2004
• Lecture, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze – Università degli Studi di Milano “Bicocca”, Dec 15, 2004
• SIB Workshop "Biologia Computazionale e di Sistema", Bologna, June 28, 2017
MEMBERSHIPS
• SIB, Società Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare