Members' Directory

Biography: PhD studies in Madrid (Spain), Universidad Complutense, in Chemistry, specialty Biochemistry.
April 1994 - August 1995 / C. Sander's Biocomputing group at EMBL Heidelberg.
August 1995 - May 1996 / A. Valencia's Protein Design Group at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid.
May 1996 - September 1996 / C. Sander's Biocomputing group at EMBL Heidelberg.
September 1996 - July 1998 / C. Sander's Biocomputing group at European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
July 1998 - May 2003 / P. Bork's Biocomputing group at EMBL Heidelberg.
May 2003 - present / Scientist. Head of the Bioinformatics Group at the Ottawa Health Research Institute.
Sept 2006 - present / Scientist. Group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.

Biography: Frederico Gonzalez Colombo Arnoldi has bachelor degree in Biological Sciences (2004) and PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology (2009) from São Paulo State University, Brazil, with a period at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Japan. He was professor at Sorocaba University (2008-2009), teaching Industrial Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetic Engineering and Nanotechnology. Since the second semester of 2009, he is post-doc researcher at Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine in the field of Bioinformatics for Tuberculosis, with an internship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL - Heidelberg, Germany). He can work in the fields of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. On the bench, he already worked with mouse models, cell culture (mammals and bacterial cells), cloning, sequencing and expression of proteins and with flow cytometry; about in silico methods, he already worked with alignment of gene sequences, phylogenetical analysis, assembly and annotation of mitochondrial genomes, protein homology modelling, microarray data analysis and text-mining. He has knowledge on Statistics, including multivariate analysis, computer programming (Python and R), and Artificial Intelligence. Papers in which he participated as author or coauthor can be found at PubMed using the query "Arnoldi F.G.[au] or Arnoldi F.C.[au]" or by looking for Scopus Author ID 8732317700.

Biography: PhD EMBL & Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, advisor: Werner Kühlbrandt
Postdoc at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center (advisor: Da Neng Wang) and The Rockefeller University, in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience (advisor: A. Jim Hudspeth). Since 5/2004 group leader at the Berkeley Lab (www.lbl.gov)

Biography: My prime interest is the relationship between the structures of proteins and their biochemical and biological functions. This encompasses studies of their covalent structures, tertiary structures and assembly into functional complexes. Approaches employed include structure-function studies of muteins, molecular modelling, empirical tertiary structure determination by NMR or X-ray crystallography and chemical modifications. More recently, I have applied techniques of mass spectrometry and two-dimensional electrophoresis to the study differential expression of proteins in pathogenic oral bacteria and to the characterization of proteins and their post-translational modifications.

Biography: Following my PhD studies at EMBL in 2001, I did my postdoctoral studies in the group of Kenneth R. Chien, and subsequently Ju Chen, at University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA. In 2007 I moved to Milan, Italy where I started up my own group as an Assistant Telethon Scientist hosted by the National Research Council. In 2010 I got a permanent position at the National Research Council in Milan.