Paola Picotti elected EMBO member
The European Molecular Biology Organisation EMBO announced today that it elected 67 new members. One of them is Paola Picotti, group leader at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at the Department of Biology. Through this lifelong honour, new EMBO Members and Associate Members are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the life sciences.
The Picotti laboratory is interested in how protein conformational changes, such as those associated with protein aggregation or allostery, impact cellular physiology and result in human disease. They develop mass spectrometry-based structural and chemical proteomic methods aimed at monitoring protein conformational changes in the complex cellular milieu. These tools are combined with classical biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches in several lines of research.
Link to the website of the Picotti lab
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