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Postdocs

Giuseppina Sabatino, currently Researcher at CNR – Istituto di Cristallografia, Catania

 

Chiara Testa

 

PhD Students

Patrycja Ledwon, (Cotutorate between the PhD Schools in Drug Research and Innovative Treatments (University of Florence) and in Chemical Sciences (Wroclaw University of Science and Techology):  Design, synthesis and biological investigation of new peptides and peptidomimetics of cosmeceutical interest.

 

Annunziata D'Ercole, (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Development and scale-up of synthetic strategies for exotic macrocyclisation to increase druggability of peptides as active pharmaceutical ingredients of industrial interest. 

 

Hendrik Rusche, (PhD in Chemistry, Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université): Aberrant immune response to xenobiotics triggering autoimmunity The proof-of-concept of antibodies against biologics and non-typeable Haemophilus influenza adhesin protein

 

Raffaello Paolini (PhD in Chemistry, Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université, Bourse CIFRE):  Research & Development of chimeric peptides involved in the hypothalamic-pituitary axis to optimise their cell proliferation regulatory activity in different disease conditions

 

Antonio Mazzoleni (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence and Paris Sorbonne Université):  Autoimmune diseases: identification of glycopeptides, autoantigens resulting from aberrant glycosylations and preparation of specific columns for a plasmapheresis-based treatment.

 

Lorenzo Altamore (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Uso di peptidi mimetici di proteine per la caratterizzazione della risposta immunitaria in differenti condizioni patologiche

 

Anne-Sophie Champy ( PhD in Chemical Sciences University of Florence and Ecole Doctorale Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté): Glycosylated natural product as autoantibody mimetic activating an immune response and development of glycopepidomimetics as diagnostic tools

 

Matthaia Ieronymaki (Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université,  18 moths Erasmus Traineeship @ PeptLab):  Immunological and conformational characterization of synthetic peptide probes for autoimmune diseases

 

Cedric Rentier (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence and Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université):  Autoimmune diseases: design, synthesis and immunological screening of post-translationally modified peptides to characterize autoantibodies in patients' sera.

 

Margherita di Pisa (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Synthetic peptide probes mimicking aberrant modifications of protein antigens involved in autoimmunity. Currently Project Manager at Flamma S.p.A.

 

Yihong Cao (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence and Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université):  Sugar and Peptide mimetics for SPR characterization of antibodies in monoclonal gammopathy

 

Shashank Pandey (PhD in " Sistemi Complessi e dinamiche non lineari Sistemi Complessi e dinamiche non lineari", University of Florence):  Native aberrantly glucosylated myelin proteins cross-reacting with anti-glucopeptide antibodies

 

Alisa Santarlasci (PhD in " Sistemi Complessi e dinamiche non lineari Sistemi Complessi e dinamiche non lineari", University of Florence):  Bioinformatic approach to develop a general mechanism of autoimmunity

 

Stefano Carganico (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Glycation in type-1 diabetes and N-glucosylation in Multiple Sclerosis: a parallel mechanism of autoimmunity?

 

Alexandra Le Chevalier-Isaad (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence and Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université):  Peptides modified with unnatural amino acids as synthetic tools for protein-protein interaction studies

 

Fabio Rizzolo (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence): Design, synthesis and characterization of peptides for the study of transfer of ions in bio-mimetic systems of membranes.

 

Ilaria Paolini (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Post-translational modifications of peptides, as antigenic models of proteins by studies of correlations structure-activity

 

Barbara Mulinacci (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence):  Synthesis and semi-synthesis of glycosylated peptides and proteins for dissecting the sugar-specific autoantibody recognition in Multiple Sclerosis.

 

Maria Claudia Alcaro (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence and Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Ingénierie, Cy Cergy Paris Université):  Synthèse de peptides contraints cycliques et linéaire.

 

Elena Nardi (PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Florence ): Synthesis of lipo and glycopeptides for interaction studies with biological receptors

 

 

Master students

Hermon Berhani Tesfay Research project (Master thesis in Advanced Molecular Sciences): Synthetic glucosylated peptide antigens of Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein and of the bacterial protein adhesin of non-typable Haemophilus Influenzae to detect antibodies in Multiple Sclerosis and its animal model Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini

 

Greta Calamai, Research project (Master thesis in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology): Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of peptides of cosmeceutical interest. Tutor: Paolo Rovero

 

Diletta FarnioliResearch Project (Master thesis in Chemical Sciences): Design and synthesis of bioactive peptides of cosmeceutical interest. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini

 

Gemma Marchi,Research Project (Master thesis in Chemical Sciences): Synthesis, design and formulation of peptides for cosmeceutical interest. Tutor: Anna Maria Papini

 

Sara Pavone, Research project (Master Thesis in Chemistry): Introduction of exotic sugars in proteins using specific glycosyltransferases (Erasmus traineeship at University of Groningen, Netherlands).  Tutor Anna Maria Papini

 

Bachelor Students

 

Erasmus students

Last update

05.11.2023

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