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Silvia Morante home page Associate Professor of Biophysics Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma
"Tor Vergata", Tel.: +39 06 72594554; Fax: +39 06
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Teaching activity (see here)
Coordination activity
- Leader of the Biophysics Group
- President of the SIBPA (Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics)
- Responsible
of the Iniziativa Specifica INFN in Biophysics
- Responsible of the Laurea specialistica in Biophysics
- Responsible of the PRIN2005 approved project
- National Representatives of EBSA
Scientific interests
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Folding versus misfolding: physiological and pathological role of metal
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The role of metals in neurodegenerative diseases – Alzheimer, BSE and Parkinson
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Structural studies of biomolecules by XAS (X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy)
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Numerical simulation based approaches (Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Car-Parrinello)
Recent scientific publications
- M. Salomone-Stagni, F. Stellato, C.M. Whaley, S. Vogt, S. Morante, E. Bill, S. Shima, T.B. Rauchfuss, W. Meyer-Klaucke “The electronic structure of [Fe]-hydrogenase and model systems: an X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy study” Dalton Transaction (2010) accepted
- BioFEL Collaboration - spokeperson Silvia Morante “FEL’s light into life: The value of SPARX for life sciences” (2009) submitted
- V. Minicozzi, S. Morante. “Cu involvement in prion oligopeptide stability: experiments and numerical simulations.” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2010) 110: 656-680F.
- P.R. Crippa, M. Eisner, S. Morante, F. Stellato, F. C. Vicentin, L. Zecca. “A XAS Study of the Sulphur Environment in Human Neuromelanin and its Synthetic Analogues” European Biophysical Journal, (2009) DOI 10.1007/s00249-009-0462-9
- S. Alleva, A. Forlino, A. Lupi, V. Minicozzi, S. Morante, F. Stellato, R. Tenni. “Identifying the structure of the active sites of human Prolidase.” European Biophysical Journal, (2009) DOI 10.1007/s00249-009-0459-4
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Guerrieri, V. Minicozzi, S. Morante, G. C. Rossi, S. Furlan,
G.
- S. Morante. “The rôle of
metals in b-amyloid peptide
aggregation: X-ray spectroscopy and
numerical simulations” Curr. Alz. Res.
5 (6) 508-524 (2008) invited
review.
- V. Minicozzi, S. Morante,
G.C. Rossi, F. Stellato, N. Christian, K. Jansen. “The role of metals in
aggregation. Experiments and ab initio
simulations” International Journal of
Quantum Chemistry, 108 1992-2015
(2008).
- S. Morante. “Metal ions and protein aggregation: the case
of Prion protein and b-amyloids” invited review
in “Biophysical
Inquiry into Protein Aggregation and Amyloid Diseases”, eds. D. Bulone and P.L. San Biagio, Research Signpost Edition, Ch. 3 (2008).
- V. Minicozzi, F. Stellato, M. Comai, M. Dalla Serra, C. Potrich, W. Meyer-Klaucke, S. Morante. “Identifying the Minimal Cu and Zn Binding Site Sequence in Amyloid Beta Peptides” J. Biol. Chem. 283, 10784-10792 (2008).
- S.Furlan, F.Guerrieri, G.La Penna, S.Morante, G.C.Rossi “Studying the Cu binding sites in the PrP N-terminal region. A test case for ab initio simulations” European Biophysics Journal 36: 841-845 (2007)
