Cristina Di Carluccio

Cristina Di Carluccio received her title of PhD Doctor in Chemical Sciences at University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2022. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, in the group of Prof. Antonio Molinaro, Prof. Alba Silipo and Prof. Roberta Marchetti. Her research activity is mainly based on the study of the molecular recognition of eukaryotic and bacterial-derived glycans by different carbohydrate-binding proteins, whose interactions underlie numerous biological processes. During her educational path, she deepened her knowledge of advanced NMR techniques and computational methods to study the molecular binding from both receptor and ligand perspectives. She also gained experience in the production of recombinant bacterial and mammalian proteins and the NMR characterization of labeled proteins through her secondments at Charles University of Prague and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre (CERM) in Florence. Cristina spent one-month internship at Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (CSIC – University of Seville), under supervision of Prof. Jesus Angulo, to work on the project entitled: “Application of a novel very fast reduced matrix approach to get 3D protein-ligand complexes validated by STD NMR spectroscopy”.