My CV

CURRICULUM VITAE OF FEDERICO DE MASI, PHD

    PERSONAL INFORMATION
    Name: Federico De Masi
    Citizenship: Italian – French
    Date of Birth: 04 January 1973
    Place of Birth: Durban (South Africa)
    Marital Status: Single

      Contact Info:

    Bulyk Lab – Room 466
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital -Harvard Medical School
    77, Av. Louis Pasteur
    Boston, Ma – 02115 USA
    Phone: -1.617.5254754
    Email: internet @ fdemasi.org

    CURRENT POSITION
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School Boston, Ma, USA
    Research Fellow (Postdoc)
    Research in Martha Bulyk’s Lab.
    Study of DNA-binding specificities of Transcription Factor Complexes using Protein Binding Microarrays

    EDUCATION
    2000 – 2004: European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
    PhD Student in Biochemistry
    Research in the Biochemical Instrumentation programme, under the supervision of Prof. Wilhelm Ansorge.
    Other supervisors:
    - Matthias Wilm (EMBL)
    - Luis Serrano (EMBL)
    - Gwyn W. Gould (University of Glasgow)
    Project Title: “HybriChip : an antigen microarray based screening tool, designed for a high-throughput production platform of mouse derived monoclonal antibodies”

    1996 – 2000: University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
    BSc (Honours – with Work Placement) Biochemistry
    Grade Obtained: Upper Second Class (Grade B)
    Dissertation Title: “The NFkB/IkB System”
    Project Title: “The effects of LPS and PMA on Rack-1 and PDE4D5 expression and localization in Raw 264-1 cells.”

    PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
    07/2004 – 12/2004: European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
    Bridging Postdoctoral Fellwoship
    Worked in the groups of Luis Serrano and Rob Russell in the expression, purification and microarray analysis of novel protein-protein interactors.

    1998 – 1999: Novartis Pharma AG Basel, Switzerland
    Trainee (Undergraduate Work Placement Year)
    Part of University Curriculum
    Assigned to the Arthritis and Bone Metabolism Research Department
    Worked on the purification and activity studies of IkB kinases (IKKa and IKKb)
    Project: “Inhibition of IkB Kinases: The activity of the TNF-stimulated IKK complex is dominated by IKKb”

    PUBLICATIONS
    De Masi, F., Chiarella, P., Wilhelm, H., Massimi, M., Bullard, B., Ansorge, W. and Sawyer, A. (2005) High throughput production of mouse monoclonal antibodies using antigen microarrays. Proteomics 5(16):4070-81

    Victor Neduva, Rune Linding, Isabelle Su-Angrand, Alexander Stark, Federico de Masi, Toby J. Gibson, Joe Lewis, Luis Serrano and Robert B. Russell Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks. PLoS Biology 3(12):e405

    PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS
    De Masi, F; Sawyer, A.M “Method for producing monoclonal antibodies”: UK patent GB2387847 and International Application PCT/GB03/01684 (17/04/2003)

    Hy-CAT (Hybridoma -Chip Analysis Tool): Submitted for Copyright and Trademark

    SELECTED CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS

      Participated:

    - Orfeome Meeting 2006
    Boston, MA – USA
    15-18 November 2006
    Speaker: “High Throughput analysis of Transcription Factor Complexes’ DNA specifities using Protein Binding Microarrays”

    - MGED9
    Seattle, WA – USA
    07-10 September 2006
    Poster: “High Throughput analysis of Transcription Factor Complexes’ DNA specifities using Protein Binding Microarrays”

    - ESF/EU MolTools Workshop: Ligand binding molecules against the Human Proteome
    Cambridge, UK
    6-8 September 2004
    Speaker: “Hybridoma Chips: a parallel screening and isotyping microarray platform for the production of monoclonal antibodies”

    - 2nd HUPO World Meeting
    Montreal, Canada
    8 -11 October 2003
    Speaker: “Hybridoma Chips: a parallel screening and isotyping microarray platform for the production of monoclonal antibodies”

    - 11th European Congress on Biotechnology
    Basel, Switzerland
    24 -29 August 2003
    Speaker: “Hybridoma Chips: a parallel screening and isotyping microarray platform for the production of monoclonal antibodies”

    -PepTalk + 3rd Annual Human Proteome Project Meeting.
    San Diego, CA – USA,
    13-16 January 2003
    Poster: “One step screening and isotyping of monoclonal antibodies by antigen coated microarrays”

    - CNCBD/EBNIC Proteomics Workshop.
    Zhuhai, China
    01 November -05 December 2001
    Speaker: “Protein Chips: reality and possibilities”

      Organized

    - EMBO Course “Microarray technology: genome -proteome – function”.
    Heidelberg, Germany
    29 May -5 June 2004

    - EMBO Course “Microarray techniques: applications in bio-medical research”.
    Tokyo, Japan
    14 -21 March 2004

    - EMBL-EMBO Science and Society Minisymposium
    ”Publishing practices at the crossroads -between the print media and the internet”
    http://www.embl.de/ExternalInfo/SciSoc/sciscowsa.html
    Heidelberg, Germany
    7 June 2003

    - 3rd EMBL PhD Symposium – “Life within boundaries: membranes and compartments in biology”
    http://symposium.predocs.org/symp2002/index1.html
    Heidelberg, Germany
    14-16 November 2002

    AWARDS
    - MGED9
    Seattle, WA – USA
    07-10 September 2006-09-25
    MGED9 Travel Award (funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute)

    - 3rd Annual Human Proteome Project Meeting.
    San Diego, CA – USA
    13-16 January 2003
    Winner of the 1st price in Poster Competition
    Poster title: “One step screening and isotyping of monoclonal antibodies by antigen coated microarrays”

    EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
    Reviewer for the journals Nucleic Acids Research and Biotechniques.
    2000 -2004 Member of the Science and Society Committee, EMBL
    2002 PhD student representative, EMBL

    LANGUAGES
    Mother tongues: French, Italian
    Fluent: Spanish, English
    Basic: German