Communications On increasing
Research Efforts
CORE Initiative – Series Three
A monthly discussion series of interest to USP faculty and students.
October 30, 2008
Wilson 209, 4 pm - 5 pm
“Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti PhD”
A short biographical sketch
Prof. Righetti earned his Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from the University
of Pavia in 1965. He then spent 3 years as a Post. Doc at MIT (Cambridge,
Mass, USA) and 1 year at Harvard (Cambridge, Mass, USA). He is currently
a fulltime professor of Biochemistry at the Milan’s Polytechnic
in (Italy). He has been a visiting Professor at the University Rene’
Descartes in Paris, the University of Uppsala, the University of
Arizona in Tucson, the NIH in Bethesda (MD, USA). In the late seventies
he had been a consultant for NASA (Huntsville, AL, USA) for electrophoresis
experiments in micro gravity. From 1990, he has been a consultant
for the European and Italian Space Agencies for protein crystallization
in microgravity.
He is part of the Editorial Board of International scientific journals
in Separation Science and proteomics, such as Electrophoresis, J.
Chromatography, J. Capillary Electrophoresis, J. Biomedical and
Biophysical Methods,
Bio Techniques, Proteomics, Journal of Proteomics.
He has developed and patented a number of important methodologies,
such as isoelectric focusing in immobilized pH gradients, multi
compartment electrolyzes with the isoelectric membranes, membranes-trapped
enzyme reactors operating in an electric field, temperature-programmed
capillary electrophoresis and, most recently, combinatorial ligand
libraries (hex peptide baits) for the capture and amplification
of the low-abundance proteome.
His research interests include protein purification and crystallization,
screening for genetic defects, DNA-based diagnosis and proteomics.
During his scientific career, he has published 700 articles in the
international literature and written/edited 12 books, among which:
Hamdan, M Righetti, P>G.: Proteomics Today: Protein Assessment
and Biomarkers Using mass Spectrometry, 2-D Electrophoresis and
Micro array Technology, Wiley-VCH, Hoboken, 2005, pp.1-426.
Faculty, Staff and Students are encouraged to attend all
sessions!
Snacks and drinks are provided.
 All
CORE Sessions are 4:00-5:00pm in Wilson 205 (Refreshments are served)
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