Dr. Jessica Abbott
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences
Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Magnetic Resonance spectroscopies, NMR, Structural Biology
Proteins and Biochemistry, Structural Biology and Biophysis, Systems Biology, Metals in Life Sciences, Cellular Structural Biology, Structural Vaccinology
Her publications has been cited more than 9000 times in the last 20 years (1992 – 2012)
Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization), 2012
Listed among the 45 Top Italian Female Scientists, 2011
Joint Gold Medal of GIDRM (Italian Group on Magnetic Resonance) and GIRM-SCI (Interdivisional Group on Magnetic Resonance of the Italian Chemical Society, 2004
Premio Federchimica – Per un Futuro Intelligente, 1998
"Raffaele Nasini" Medal of the Inorganic Division of the Italian Chemical Society, 1994
English, Italian
Banci L, Barbieri L, Bertini I, Luchinat E, Secci E, Zhao Y and Aricescu AR. Atomic-resolution monitoring of protein maturation in live human cells by NMR. Nat Chem Biol doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1202: epub ahead of print, 2013.
Banci, L., Bertini, I., Calderone, V., Ciofi-Baffoni, S., Giachetti, A., Jaiswal, D., Mikolajczyk, M., Piccioli, M., and Winkelmann, J. A molecular view of an electron transfer pathway essential for iron-sulfur protein biogenesis. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 2013.
Banci L, Bertini I, Cantini F, Kozyreva T, Massagni C, Palumaa P, Rubino JT and Zovo K. Human SOD1 maturation through interaction with human CCS. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 13555-13560, 2012.
Banci L, Bertini I, Blazevits O, Calderone V, Cantini F, Mao J, Trapananti A, Vieru M, Amori I, Cozzolino M and Carri MT. Interaction of Cisplatin with Human Superoxide Dismutase. J Am Chem Soc 134: 7009-7014, 2012.
Scarselli M, Arico B, Brunelli B, Savino S, Di Marcello F, Palumbo E, Veggi D, Ciucchi L, Cartocci E, Bottomley MJ, Malito E, Lo SP, Comanducci M, Giuliani MM, Cantini F, Dragonetti S, Colaprico A, Doro F, Giannetti P, Pallaoro M, Brogioni B, Tontini M, Hilleringmann M, Nardi-Dei V, Banci L, Pizza M and Rappuoli R. Rational design of a meningococcal antigen inducing broad protective immunity. Sci Transl Med 3: 91ra62, 2011.
Banci L, Bertini I, Ciofi-Baffoni S, Kozyreva T, Zovo K and Palumaa P. Affinity gradients drive copper to cellular destinations. Nature 465: 645-648, 2010.
Banci L, Bertini I, Cefaro C, Ciofi-Baffoni S, Gallo A, Martinelli M, Sideris DP, Katrakili N and Tokatlidis K. MIA40 is an oxidoreductase that catalyzes oxidative protein folding in mitochondria. Nat Struct Mol Biol 16: 198-206, 2009.
Abriata LA, Banci L, Bertini I, Ciofi-Baffoni S, Gkazonis P, Spyroulias GA, Vila AJ and Wang S. Mechanism of Cu(A) assembly. Nat Chem Biol 4: 599-601, 2008.
Andreini C, Banci L, Bertini I and Rosato A. Counting the zinc proteins encoded in the human genome. J Proteome Res 5: 196-201, 2006.
Banci L, Bertini I, Cantini F, Felli IC, Gonnelli L, Hadjiliadis N, Pierattelli R, Rosato A and Voulgaris P. The Atx1-Ccc2 complex is a metal-mediated protein-protein interaction. Nat Chem Biol 2: 367-368, 2006.
Mechanistic Systems Biology for metal transport and homeostasis
In cell NMR
Integration of Structural Methods
Structural Vaccinology
ESFRI Infrastructure "Instruct – Integrated Structural Biology" – Member of the Executive Committee and of the Council, 2012 – 2017
Scientific partner of the EC Cooperation Project BioMedBridges, 2012 – 2015
Scientist Responsible of the POR Project BIOVAX, 2011 – 2013
Scientific Partner of the EC project FESP Forum for European Structural Proteomics, 2005 – 2006
Member of the Scientific Committee for "Life, Environment and Geo Sciences" of Science Europe, 2013 – 2016
Member of the Chemistry Committee for the Evaluation of the Italian Research, 2012 – 2014
Member of the HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) Review Committee, 2008 – 2012
Member of the ISMAR Council
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Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences, Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Environmental virology, Molecular and structural biology, biochemistry
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies