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Matteo Dal Peraro

matteo.dalperaro@epfl.ch http://lbm.epfl.ch

Nationality: Italian

EPFL SV IBI-SV UPDALPE
AAB 0 48 (Bâtiment AAB)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

EPFL SV IBI-GE
AAB
Station 15
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IBI-GE
AAB
Station 15
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Structural Biology, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Engineering, Nanopore Sensing 

Mission

I am a physicist on loan to biochemistry and biology, working at the intersection of theoretical, computational, and experimental sciences: I am interested in understanding the physical foundations of life and in leveraging these principles to engineer new solutions for medicine and biotechnology.
Matteo Dal Peraro graduated in Physics at the University of Padua in 2000. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste) in 2004. He then received postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). His research at the Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling focuses on structural biology and molecular engineering. He served as the Director of the Doctoral Programs in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, and in Computational and Quantitative Biology. He is the Director of the Institute of BioEngineering.

Education

B.S. and M.S.

| Physics

2000 – 2000 University of Padua

Ph.D.

| Biophysics

2004 – 2004 International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Parth Bibekar, Arthur Samurkas, Fernando Augusto Teixeira Pinto Meireles, Benedikt Singer, Artemiy Burov, Ekaterina Pyatova, Edoardo Cavani, Alissa Agerova, Marianna Mitsioni, Jana Susanne Anton, Roxana Ghasemi

Past EPFL PhD Students

Matteo Thomas Degiacomi, Thomas Lemmin, Enrico Spiga, Christophe Bovigny, Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres, Martina Audagnotto, Giorgio Elikem Tamo, Alexandra Styliani Kalantzi, Deniz Aydin, Giulia Fonti, Alessio Prunotto, Sylvain Träger, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Zhidian Zhang, Simon Finn Mayer, Anastasia Theodoropoulou, Benjamin Gallusser

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Michel Plattner, Maiia Bragina, Verena Rukes

Courses

Biological chemistry I

BIO-212

Biochemistry is a key discipline for the Life Sciences. Biological Chemistry I and II are two tightly interconnected courses that aim to describe and understand in molecular terms the processes that make life possible.

Scientific literature analysis in computational molecular biology

BIO-468

The goal of this course is to learn to analyze a scientific paper critically, asking whether the data presented support the conclusions that are drawn. The analysis is presented in the form of a summary presentation and critical, constructive assessments of the paper.

Structural biology

BIO-315

The main focus of this course is on the molecular interactions defining the structure, dynamics and function of biological systems. The principal experimental and computational techniques used in structural biology, as well as molecular modeling and design will be introduced and practiced.

Synthetic biology

BIOENG-320

This advanced Bachelor/Master level course will cover fundamentals and approaches at the interface of biology, chemistry, engineering and computer science for diverse fields of synthetic biology. This class requires critical and analytical thinking at the frontiers of multiple disciplines