Rita Casadio

Rita Casadio
Alma mater	University of Bologna (PhD)
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2020) [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning SNP annotation Bioinformatics Computational biology Genome annoation [2]
Institutions	University of Bologna
Website	www.biocomp.unibo.it/casadio/

Rita Casadio is an Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry/Biophysics in the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology at the University of Bologna. ^{[3] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Career

She earned her degree in physics at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1987, she began her academic career as an assistant professor of biophysics at the University of Bologna, later becoming a full professor of biochemistry/biophysics in 2001. Her research primarily focuses on membrane and protein biophysics, as well as computer modeling of biological processes, including protein folding, stability and interactions.

She has authored more than 500 scientific papers ^[2] and held key roles in various editorial and organizational positions within the field of bioinformatics.

Her work in machine learning has been used for protein structure prediction and methods from her group have been highly ranked in international competitions, such as the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) and the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA). ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]}

Awards and honours

She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. ^[1]

See also

• ELIXIR

References

1. Anon (2020). "ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
2. Rita Casadio publications indexed by Google Scholar
3. "Rita Casadio". University of Bologna.
4. Rita Casadio at DBLP Bibliography Server
5. Rita Casadio publications from Europe PubMed Central
6. Rita Casadio publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
7. Griffin, Martin; Casadio, Rita; Bergamini, Carlo M. (2002). "Transglutaminases: Nature's biological glues". Biochemical Journal. 368 (2): 377–396. doi:10.1042/bj20021234. ISSN   0264-6021. PMC   1223021 . PMID   12366374.
8. Capriotti, E.; Fariselli, P.; Casadio, R. (2005). "I-Mutant2.0: predicting stability changes upon mutation from the protein sequence or structure". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (Web Server): W306 –W310. doi:10.1093/nar/gki375. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   1160136 . PMID   15980478.
9. Anon (2020). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
10. Radivojac, Predrag; Clark, Wyatt T; Oron, Tal Ronnen; Schnoes, Alexandra M; Wittkop, Tobias; Sokolov, Artem; Graim, Kiley; et al. (2013). "A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction". Nature Methods. 10 (3): 221–227. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2340. ISSN   1548-7091. PMC   3584181 . PMID   23353650.
11. Rost, Burkhard; Sander, Chris; Casadio, Rita; Fariselli, Piero (2008). "Transmembrane helices predicted at 95% accuracy". Protein Science. 4 (3): 521–533. doi:10.1002/pro.5560040318. ISSN   0961-8368. PMC   2143072 . PMID   7795533.
12. Rost, Burkhard; Fariselli, Piero; Casadio, Rita (1996). "Topology prediction for helical transmembrane proteins at 86% accuracy-Topology prediction at 86% accuracy". Protein Science. 5 (8): 1704–1718. doi:10.1002/pro.5560050824. ISSN   0961-8368. PMC   2143485 . PMID   8844859.

External links

• Rita Casadio publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Publications by Rita Casadio at ResearchGate