Biography
Prof. Righetti earned his Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pavia in 1965. He then spent 3 years as a Post. Doc. at MIT and 1 year at Harvard (Cambridge, Mass, USA). He is now Emeritus Professor at the Milan’s Polytechnic. He is in the Editorial Board of Electrophoresis, J. Proteomics, BioTechniques, Proteomics, Proteomics Clinical Applications. He has co-authored the books Righetti P.G., Stoyanov A., Zhukov M.: The Proteome revisited: Theory and Practice of the Relevant Electrophoretic Steps. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001; Hamdan M, Righetti P.G.: Proteomics Today, Wiley-VCH, Hoboken, 2005 and Boschetti E. Righetti P.G. Low-Abundance Proteome Discovery; State of the Art and Protocols, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2013, pp. 1-341. He has developed isoelectric focusing in immobilized pH gradients, multicompartment electrolyzers with isoelectric membranes, membrane-trapped enzyme reactors, temperature-programmed capillary electrophoresis and combinatorial peptide ligand libraries for detection of the low-abundance proteome. On 560 articles reviewed by the ISI Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters) and by Mendeley Statistics, Righetti scores 22.680 citations, with an average of 40 citations/article and with a H-index of 68. During the years 2005-2013 he has received citations ranging from 1000 to 1200 per year. He has won the CaSSS (California Separation Science Society) award (October 2006), and the Csaba Horvath Medal award, presented on April 15, 2008 by the Connecticut Separation Science Council (Yale University). In 2011, he has been nominated honorary member of the Spanish proteomics society and in 2012 he has won the prestigious Beckman award and medal granted in February at the Geneva MSB meeting. In 2014, in October, in Madrid, he has been given the HuPO award for proteomic research and in November, in Atlanta, the American Electrophoresis Society award.
Research Interest
Proteomics,Combinatorial peptide ligand libraries, Biomarker discovery, Cancer research, Red blood cell pathologies, Allergen discovery in food stuff, Cerebrospinal fluid analysis
Biography
Yedira Prieto graduated of bachelor of Biochemistry in 2005 and MSc in 2010 (UH, Cuba). She acquired expertise in different areas, such as: purification and development of analytical techniques; in proteomic studies of expression stability in recombinant NS0 cell lines. Yedira Prieto developed and validated of chromatographic techniques for the Mab´s characterization and quantification. Yedira Prieto have expertise in mass spectrometric for characterization of proteins and oligosaccharide residues. The measurement expression levels of mRNA in recombinant NS0 cell lines are part of acquired knowledge. She have been serving as reviewer of Cytotechnology journal and Member of Cuban Society of Pharmacy dated 2011.
Research Interest
Purification and Development of analytical techniques; Proteomic studies of expression stability in recombinant NS0 cell lines
Biography
Joseph Pesek received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. He did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA before becoming Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northern Illinois University. He moved to San Jose State University becoming Professor of Chemistry and has also served as Department Chair, and Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. He has over 225 publications, 3 books, 4 patents and has made over 200 presentations at a variety of symposia and meetings. He is one of the editors for the Journal of Separation Science.
Research Interest
Separation methods including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), LCMS, capillary electrophoresis, capillary electrochromatography and microfluidic chips. Chemical modification of surfaces used in separation methods. Metabolomics and proteomics.