Andrea Motta

After graduating in chemistry at the University of Naples “Federico II” (110/110 cum laude; supervisor Prof. Pier Andrea Temussi) he was “Postdoctoral research associate” at the NMR laboratory of prof. M. Llinás, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie – Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA. In January 1985, he became researcher at the Institute for the Chemistry of Molecules of Biological Interest (ICMIB), now Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB).

His scientific interests are:

Structure-activity relationship of proteins and peptides involved in pathologies:

1. Solution structure of proteins and peptides by multidimensional NMR spectroscopy.

2. Structure-activity relationship.

3. Development of pulse sequences for NMR experiments and software for data processing.

4. Conformational calculations.

5. Expression of recombinant proteins.

Phytotoxins for biocontrol in agriculture and as drugs:

1. Solution structure of natural products obtained from phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria by multidimensional NMR spectroscopy.

2. Structure-activity relationship.

Biomolecular markers in pathologies and in food quality control:

1. NMR spectroscopy of biological fluids and in-vivo cells.

3. Statistical analysis.

4. Systems biology.

5. Food quality control.

6. Protocols for food quality control.