Current address:

Institute of Food Science - CNR National Research Council
via Roma 64
Avellino 83100

Italy

Education:

MSc Chemistry
University of Naples

Specialist in Biotechnological Applications
University of Naples

PhD Cellular Biochemistry
Second University of Naples

Experience:

Staff Scientist CNR - National Council of Researches, Italy

Skills:

Activities:

Involved in official Doctorate and PhD courses of the University of Salerno, Italy

Responsible and participant in projects supported by Italian and International funds.

Owner of national and international patents and copyright.

Interests:

Bioinformatics

Protein structure and function relationships, prediction of 3D structure, molecular modelling and analysis

Gene expression analysis by microarray

Protein profiles in cancer

References:

Scafuri B, Marabotti A, Carbone V, Minasi P, Dotolo S, Facchiano A. (2016) A theoretical study on predicted protein targets of apple polyphenols ... Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 2;6:32516. doi: 10.1038/srep32516.

d'Acierno A, Facchiano A, Marabotti A. GALT Protein Database: querying structural and functional features of GALT enzyme. Hum Mutat. 2014, 35, 1060-1067. doi: 10.1002/humu.22613.

Facchiano A, Marabotti A. (2010) Analysis of galactosemia-linked mutations of GALT enzyme using a computational biology approach. Proteins Eng Des Sel. 2010, 23, 103-113.

Marabotti A, D'Auria S, Rossi M, Facchiano AM Theoretical model of the three dimensional structure of a sugar binding protein from Pyrococcus horikoshii: structural analysis and sugar binding simulations. Biochem J. 2004, 380, 677-684. 10.1042/BJ2003

Facchiano AM, Facchiano A, Facchiano F. (2003) ASC (Active Sequences Collection) database: a new tool to assign functions to protein sequences. Nucleic Acids Research 2003 Database Issue, 31, 379-382.

Other:

1999: European Doctor in Biotechnology (award from the European Association for Higher Education in Biotechnology)