Rita Casadio
Alma materUniversity of Bologna (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2020)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
SNP annotation
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Genome annoation[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Bologna
Websitewww.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

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2020). "ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
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