Erica Valentini

Erica Valentini

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Erica Valentini has a Bachelor degree in Biology obtained in the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and during her studies she spent one year at the University of Valencia. Then, having a great interest in mathematics and computer science, she moved to the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” for a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics. Her Master’s thesis project: “Computational analysis of the Cyclophilin-Cyclosporin A complex in Leishmania and Human” was conducted part in the Center for Molecular Bioinformatics in Rome under the supervision of Prof. M. H. Citterich and part at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona under the supervision of C. Notredame. Working on her thesis she increased her knowledge about protein structures and multiple sequence alignment. After her graduation in 2011 she started an internship as visiting scientist in the K. Patil’s laboratory at EMBL in Heidelberg working in System Biology to broaden her perspective in bioinformatics. She has just joined as a predoc the D. Svergun group in the Hamburg outstation of EMBL.

Researcher	Erica Valentini
Project Topic	Complementary tools to study IDPs
Brief Project Description	Bioinformatics applied to improve Intrinsically Disordered Proteins analysis through SAXS and NMR.
Project Home	EMBL
Supervisor	Dmitri Svergun
Starting Date	October 2011
Publications	Varadi, M., Kosol, S., Lebrun, P., Valentini, E., Blackledge, M., Dunker, A.K., Felli, I.C., Forman-Kay, J.D., Kriwacki, R.W., Pierattelli, R., Sussman, J., Svergun, D.I., Uversky, V.N., Vendruscolo, M., Wishart, D., Wright, P.E. & Tompa, P. pE-DB: a database of structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered and of unfolded proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Oct 29. Europe PMC
Meetings	Conference 11th international conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation September 2013-Hamburg,Germany Intensive training course Marie Curie Training Network Complementary skills: Entrepreneurship and NMR September 2013-Zurich,Switzerland Workshop PDBe April 2013-Hamburg, Germany Intensive training module Marie Curie Training Network On-line purification in SAXS experiments March 2013-Hamburg, Germany Intensive training course Marie Curie Training Network SAXS and computational techniques to study intrinsically disordered proteins March 2013-Hamburg,Germany Course EBI computational course November 2012-Hinxton, United Kingdom Workshop, speaker Macro-molecular structure of biological and non-biological materials November 2012-Hurgada, Egypt Intensive Training Module – Marie Curie Training Network Protein Structure Analysis using NMR Chemical Shifts May 2012 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Complementary Skills Training – Marie Curie Training Network Self Marketing, Project Management, Benchmarks and Competition in Research February 2012 - St. Moritz, Switzerland Intensive Training Course – Marie Curie Training Network Bioinformatics and Structural biology of IDPs October 2011 - Budapest, Hungary

Scientific Posters

Design of a Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Databasem
November 2012, EBI course, Hinxton, United Kingdom

DaRa-X, an extended biological SAXS database
September 2013, Biology and Synchrotron Radiation conference, Hamburg, Germany