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
Other languages UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English B2 C1 B1 B2 B2
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