Annalisa Pastore

MAE
Pastore in 2017
Born
Italy
Alma materUniversity of Naples Federico II
ETH Zurich
University of Wisconsin System
AwardsEMBO Member (2000)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsStructural biology[2]
NMR
Neurodegeneration
Iron metabolism[3]
InstitutionsKing's College London
University of Oxford
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
National Institute for Medical Research
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Websitewww.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/bcn/dri/lab-groups/annalisa-pastore-group/annalisa-pastore-group.aspx

Annalisa Pastore MAE is a Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at King's College London.[3][4] In 2018 she was appointed full professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[5] In 2022, she was appointed director of research for life sciences, chemistry and soft matter science at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. She resigned in Frebruary 2023.[6]

Education

Pastore studied chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II. She earned a master's degree in 1981 and her PhD in 1987. She worked as an exchange student with Richard R. Ernst at ETH Zurich and also at the University of Wisconsin.[7]

Research

Pastore started her career at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, working alongside Iain Donald Campbell.[8][9] Pastore was subsequently appointed a staff scientist position at European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1988. In 1991 she was made group leader of the Structures Program.[10] She joined the National Institute for Medical Research in 1991. She has solved several structures on the Protein Data Bank. She was made an honorary professor at University College London.[1] She took a one-year sabbatical at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research.[7] During this time, she filed several patents related to allergens and their uses.[11]

Pastore worked at King's College London from 2013 to 2018.[12] She has secured several million pounds of funding from Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.[13] She works on the molecular basis of neurodegeneration.[14] She looks at diseases caused by protein aggregation, including Huntington's disease and Machado–Joseph disease.[12] She also studies pathologies that are a result of misfunctioning of the iron metabolism, including Friedreich's ataxia.[12] She is interested the structure and function of these diseases and uses a range of characterisation techniques, including AFM, EM and ITC calorimetry.[12] She served as the Field Chief Editor for Frontiers Media Molecular Biosciences.[15] She serves as an editor of PeerJ.[9]

In 2018 Pastore was the first woman to be appointed full professor at the faculty of Science of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[5][16]

Awards and honours

Pastore was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).[17] She was nominated to AcademiaNet in 2013[18] and made a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "EMBO MEMBER: Annalisa Pastore". people.embo.org. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  2. ↑ Ehrnhoefer, Dagmar E; Bieschke, Jan; Boeddrich, Annett; Herbst, Martin; Masino, Laura; Lurz, Rudi; Engemann, Sabine; Pastore, Annalisa; Wanker, Erich E (2008). "EGCG redirects amyloidogenic polypeptides into unstructured, off-pathway oligomers". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 15 (6): 558–566. doi:10.1038/nsmb.1437. ISSN 1545-9993. PMID 18511942. S2CID 12799205.
  3. 1 2 Annalisa Pastore publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. ↑ Annalisa Pastore publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. 1 2 "Pisa, la prima prof ordinaria di Scienze nella storia della Normale: "Anche contro di me offese sessiste" - Il Fatto Quotidiano". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  6. ↑ "ESRF appoints two new Directors of Research". 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  7. 1 2 "Annalisa Pastore". Loop. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  8. ↑ Cooke, Robert M.; Wilkinson, Anthony J.; Baron, Martin; Pastore, Annalisa; Tappin, Michael J.; Campbell, Iain D.; Gregory, Harry; Sheard, Brian (1987). "The solution structure of human epidermal growth factor". Nature. 327 (6120): 339–341. Bibcode:1987Natur.327..339C. doi:10.1038/327339a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 3495735. S2CID 4285994.
  9. 1 2 "PeerJ - Profile - Annalisa Pastore". peerj.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  10. ↑ EMBL. "Alumni News - March 2009 - NMR alumni celebrate opening of NMR centre at EMBL Heidelberg - EMBL". www.embl.es. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  11. ↑ "Annalisa Pastore Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "King's College London - Annalisa Pastore Group". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  13. ↑ "Annalisa Pastore". Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  14. ↑ "Annalisa Pastore - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  15. ↑ Frontiers (2016-02-16), Frontiers Science Hero Annalisa Pastore, retrieved 2018-10-20
  16. ↑ Tebano, di Elena. "Scuola Normale, Annalisa Pastore è la prima ordinaria di scienze: "Il sessismo? Esiste"". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  17. ↑ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Pastore Annalisa". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-10-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ "Prof. Annalisa Pastore - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
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