Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name / Surname AlessiaLasorsa Address 91, S.Vito, 70033, Corato, ITALY Telephones +39 080-8982778 Mobile: +39 3890525035 E-mail alessia.lasorsa@libero.it / alessia.lasorsa@uniba.it Nationality Italian Date of birth 1988/08/08 Gender Female Desired employment/ Occupation field Researcher Work experience Dates 1/2013-to date PhDStudent at -Dipartimento di Chimica (Supervisors: Prof. Giovanni Natile; Prof. Fabio Arnesano) Recombinant expression, purification and characterization of copper transport proteins. Synthesis of metal complexes and metallodrugs. Study of the interaction between anticancer platinum-based drugs and copper transporters by solution and in-cell NMR and other spectroscopic techniques., 4, Orabona, 70125, Bari (Italy) Bioinorganic Chemistry Dates 10/2011-10/2012 Internship -Organic Semiconductors with Pending Thiol Groups for Solar Cells(Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Babudri) Synthesis and characterization of oligomeric and polymeric organic compounds, and use in photovoltaic devices as active materials for conversion of light into electricity. Organic Chemistry Dates 4/2010-10/2010 Internship - Synthesis and reactivity of fluorinated aryl benzyl sulfoxides (Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Naso) Synthesis and characterization of chiral fluorinated aryl benzyl sulfoxides. Organic Chemistry Page 1/5- Curriculum vitae of
Education and training Dates 1/2013-to date PhD student in Chemical Sciences (Chemical Synthesis and Enzymatic Catalysis) Probing the interaction of platinum-based drugs with human copper transporters by solution and in cell NMR spectroscopy (Supervisor: Proff. Giovanni Natile and Fabio Arnesano). Dates 10/2010-10/2012 Master s Degree in Chemical Sciences ''Organic semiconductors with pending thiol groups for solar cells'' (Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Babudri). 110/110 cum laude Dates 10/2007-10/2010 Dates 7/2007 Bachelor s Degree in Chemistry ''Synthesis and reactivity of fluorinated aryl benzyl sulfoxides'' (Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Naso). 110/110 cum laude Scientific Diploma 90/100 Language skills Mother tongue Italian Other languages Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction English C1 Proficient Spoken production French A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic Dates 3/2011-6/2012 Attendance certificate Upper-Intermediate English Course (Council of Europe Level: B1 ) Lord Byron College (Cambridge ESOL Exam Centre) 102, via Sparano, 70121 Bari Page 2/5- Curriculum vitae of
Poster communications Poster Cellular trafficking of metallo-drugs: an integrated structural biology approach ( Alessia Lasorsa, Fabio Arnesano, Maurizio Losacco, Angela Galliani and Giovanni Natile) al 35 th FGMR Discussion Meeting and Joint Conference of the German, Italian and Slovenian Magnetic Resonance Societies, Frauewörth (Germany) 9th-12th Settembre 2013. Poster Interaction of platinum anticancer drugs with the copper chaperone Atox1 (Alessia Lasorsa, Fabio Arnesano, Maurizio Losacco, Angela Galliani and Giovanni Natile) al 2013 Training School associate con Action CM0902 (Molecular machineries for ion translocation across biomenbranes), Lisbon (Portugal) 15th-18th May 2013. Poster Synthesis of organic semiconductors with pending thiol groups: new multifunctional materials for BHJ solar cells (Alessia Lasorsa, Alessandra Operamolla, Omar Hassan Omar, Rizzo, Anna Loiudice, Paolo Guarino, Giuseppe Gigli, Francesco Babudri, Gianluca M. Farinola) at Second International Meeting on Organic materials for a better future 16/20 September 2012. Poster Improvement of P3HT:PCBM bulk-heterojunction solar cells efficiency by addition of conjugated aryleneethynylenetetrathiol (Alessandra Operamolla, Aurora Rizzo, Hassan Omar, Anna Loiudice, AlessiaLasorsa, Giuseppe Gigli, Francesco Babudri, Gianluca M. Farinola) at Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics Conference 6/9 May 2012. Poster Synthesis of molecular semiconductors with peripheral dithiol functionalization for organic electronics (Alessandra Operamolla, Omar Hassan Omar, Roberta Ragni, Cosimo Vincenzo Ciasca, AlessiaLasorsa, Francesco Babudri, Gianluca M. Farinola) al convegno SISOC IX- 9th Spanish-Italians Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Tenerife (Spain) 10th-14th February 2012. Poster Molecular semiconductors with perpheraldithiol functionalization for organic electronics applications ((Alessandra Operamolla, Omar Hassan Omar, Roberta Ragni, Cosimo Vincenzo Ciasca, Alessia Lasorsa, Francesco Babudri, Gianluca M. Farinola) al 1st Workshop on Materials Science and Technology, Salone degli Affreschi, Palazzo Ateneo, Bari (Italy) January 18th 2012. Attendance at conferences and training Training course, Progetto PON Research, Application, Innovation, SErvices in Bioimaging (R.A.I.S.E. in Bioimaging), ITELPHARMA, Ruvo di Puglia (BA), 23th November 2013. "Primo confronto interlaboratorio nazionale sulla Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare", organized by Retelab and Samer, Camera di Commercio di Bari (Italy), 11th November 2013. 1-day GIDRM Workshop Investigating Soft Matter using NMR. Università degli Studi di Bari- Dipartimento di Chimica, Bari (Italy), 30th September 2013. Scuola Base di Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare organized by GIDRM, Turin (Italy) 23th-27th September 2013 35 th FGMR Discussion Meeting and Joint Conference of the German, Italian and Slovenian Magnetic Resonance Societies, Frauewörth (Germany) 9th-12th September 2013. 2013 Training School associated with Action CM0902 (Molecular machineries for ion translocation across biomembranes), Lisbon (Portugal) 15th-18th May 2013. Second International Meeting on Organic Materials for a Better Future (FUTURMAT2), Ostuni (BA) 16 th -20 th September 2012. Publications Page 3/5- Curriculum vitae of Galliani, Angela; Losacco, Maurizio; Lasorsa, Alessia; Natile, Giovanni; Arnesano, Fabio Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2013) - Cisplatin handover between copper transporters: the effect of reducing agents.
Fellowships A fellowship granted by ADISU, Agenzia per il Diritto allo Studio della Regione Puglia, covered university taxes for the entire degree course. Social skills and competences Technical skills and competences Attending the English course in Bari and the International Meeting in Ostuni I developed good ability to relate with people of different nationalities. During the internship in the laboratory I experienced the importance to communicate with coworkers to avoid misunderstanding and obtain the best team results. Dedication and sense of responsibility characterize my work, as well as passion and strong interest in new equipment and technologies. Acquisition, processing and analysis of NMR spectra (protein backbone and side chain resonance assignment by NMR, determination of protein structures through collection and analysis of NMR data). Acquisition and analysis of circular dichroism spectra of proteins. Use of ESI-Ion Trap and ESI-Q-ToF mass spectrometer. Recombinant expression of labeled 15 N, 13 C proteins in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry: SDS PAGE, Western Blot, purification of proteins by affinity chromatography, ion exchange chromathography, size exclusion chromathography. Organic synthesis (developing of new organometallic methodologies aimed to the obtainment of organic materials with semiconducting properties for applications in electronics and photonics). Organic synthesis purification techniques (column chromatography, distillation, crystallization, extraction, etc.). Characterization through GC-MS, FT-IR spectroscopy, spectrophotometry UV-Vis absorption and photoluminescence, NMR. Characterization of polymeric materials through MALDI-TOF and GPCchromatography. Deposition techniques of organic thin films (spin-coating, solution casting). Enantioselective synthesis. MW assisted polymerizations. Use of Glove boxes. Computer skills and competences Principal subjects providing education and training Dates 6/2007 Advanced knowledge of Windows Operative System Advanced knowledge of Open Office package Good knowledge of Linux Operative System Good Knowledge of NCBI tools and computational tools for protein analysis (PubMed, ExPASy) Good knowledge of NMR softwares: TOPSPIN, CARA/NEASY Good knowledge of mass spectromtetry softwares: MMASS Good knowledge of molecular visualization systems: VMD, PyMOL Good knowledge of several programs (OriginPro 8, SigmaPlot 10.0, MestReC, MestReNova, ChemSketch, ChemOffice, ChemDraw, GAMESS, Avogadro, Gabedit) and knowledge of some programming languages (Pascal, Matlab). ECDL - European Computer Driving Licence Basic concepts of information technology and usage of Microsoft Office suite AICA (Italian Association for Informatics and Computing) Driving licence Type B license. Annexes Page 4/5- Curriculum vitae of
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