- Barbara Medagli joined our group in 2017 under the framework of an AIRC-MFAG project. She expressed in silico designed nanobodies in bacteria. She carried out her activity hosted in de Zorzi lab. In 2020 she moved on and joined the Geremia group.
- Luciana Gneo joined our group in 2017. She worked on the generation of protein-based biosensors using AFM, hosted in NanoLab@Elettra. In 2019 she moved to the Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy with the University of Birmingham (UK).
- Katja Praček, from the University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia), joined our team in 2017 to work towards her bachelor thesis in Bioinformatics. She computationally characterized a set of antibody fragments capable of interfering with the association of P53 and Twist, proteins involved in cancer progression.
- Cedrix Dongmo joined us in 2014 as an ICTP-TRIL predoctoral fellow. His key contribution to our team relies in the screening of computational designed peptides. He then successfully undertook his PhD in the Fogolari group (Udine, Italy) and in 2018 he joined the laboratory of Biomolecular Interactions and Transport at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (Poland).
- Miguel Soler joined our team in 2014 working on peptides design. In 2016 he moved to SISSA (Trieste, Italy) where he became the main developer of BINDesignER. He is a key collaborator of our team and currently works at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, Genoa, Italy).
- Abimbola Adedeji worked with us in the framework of her PhD program in nanotechnology at the University of Trieste (Italy). As part of the atomic force microscopy (AFM) group, she was working on the generation of protein-based biosensors using AFM, she showed that computational designed peptides can be successfully employed as biosensors. In 2016 she successfully defended her PhD thesis and, together with the AFM group, moved to the University of Leeds (UK).
- Anna Russo worked with us in the framework of her PhD in Genetics, Oncology and Clinical Medicine at the University of Siena (Italy). Her work with us focused on the experimental characterization of computational designed peptides for protein recognition. She successfully defender her PhD thesis in 2014, then moved to the University Federico II of Naples (Italy).
- Giacinto Scoles (Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton, US) is our scientific father and mentor. His motto, summarized as: “COLLABORATE, COLLABORATE, COLLABORATE!!!“, inspires us and guides us through our research as well as in our life. He seeded and mentored our team within the European Grant, 7FP, Ideas, ERC Advanced Grant ”Molecular Nanotechnology For Life Science Application (MONALISA): QUantitative Interactomics for Diagnostics, Proteomics and QUantitative Oncology (Quidroquo, proposal n. 269025, 2011-2016, PI: G. Scoles). In 2016, when the junior MONALISA teams he seeded reached independence, he moved to the CNR-NANOTECH (Lecce, Italy) to guide and inspire a new generation of researchers.