Laura Ragona

Education:
1993 Degree in Physics, University of Milano (110/110 e lode)
1997 Specialization in Biotechnology, University of Milano (50/50 e lode)
Positions:
1998-2001 Postdoc at NMR Lab, Istituto per lo Studio delle Macromolecole (ISMAC), Milano
1999 Visiting researcher at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 permanent Research Scientist at ISMAC, CNR
2007-today Senior Research Scientist at SCITEC, CNR
2008-today member of CdA “Antonio De Marco Foundation”
2010-today Group leader of SCITEC “NMR Structural Biology” Group.
2016-2019 Member of ISMAC consultant committee
2018-today President of “Antonio De Marco Foundation”

- Characterization of aggregation states and oligomerization kinetics of amyloid peptides for the rational design of inhibitors (see for ex. Pagano et al. Molecular Neurobiology 2019, Tomaselli et al., ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2019)
- Description of biologically relevant protein interactions by solution NMR approaches (see for ex. Zanzoni et al., Chemistry 2017; Ronca et al. CANCER CELL, 2015)
- Role of protein dynamics in recognition phenomena (see for ex. Ragona at al. BBA, 2014; Pagano et al., PLoS ONE, 2012; Ragona et al. JBC, 2006)
- Structure/function relationship of protein systems combining NMR, molecular dynamics simulation and data driven docking approaches (see for ex. Tomaselli et al., Chemistry, 2012)
- Covalent and non-covalent protein functionalization to confer selected properties (light-responsive, photo-luminescent) (see for ex. Pagano et al. J. Physi Chem. Letters 2019)
- Development of bactericidal biomaterials (see for example Tomaselli et al. Macromol Biosci. 2017)