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This
is going to be the website of Stefano Benini Office room K2.14,
tel 0471017128 |
Please note: this website is still under evolution! (may be it will always be!!)
Who am I?
My name is Stefano Benini, I am assistant professor in the Faculty of Science
and Technology.
I am teaching Organic Chemistry to the first
year students for the Degree: Bachelor in Agricultural Science and Agricultural Technology
My
research focuses on the study of the pathogenicity factors of Erwinia amylovora in collaboration with
Dr Mickael Malnoy and Dr Stefan Martens. (Edmund Mach Foundation-IASMA). Dr
Lorenzo Caputi is my research assistant working on the structural genomics of
pathogenic proteins from E. amylovora. Moreover I have a long standing collaboration
on urease with Professor
Stefano Ciurli (Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and
Technologies, University of Bologna).
I have a background education in Agricultural
Science with a Master Degree (Laurea) obtained at the University of Bologna.
After a period of research in protein
crystallography carried out at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Hamburg Germany from 1996 to 2000, in 2001 I was awarded the
degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in Chemistry at the University of York with a thesis on: Structure and
Function Relationships of Urease and Cytochrome c-553
from Bacillus pasteurii. My PhD supervisors were Professor Wojciech Rypniewski and
Professor Keith S. Wilson.
You
can search for the protein structures I have solved that are publicly available
in the Protein Data
Bank (PDB).
As
an example of the kind of information you can get with X-ray crystallography
here are some nice pictures:
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Places
where I have been doing research before:
2007-2009
AstraZeneca Alderly Park,
Macclesfield, United Kingdom (poster:
Structural Sciences at AstraZeneca)
2002-2007
York Structural
Biology Laboratory (YSBL) (University of York) (poster: the
last structure I solved before leaving YSBL!)
2000-2002
International Centre for Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology (ICGEB) / Elettra synchrotron
Trieste, Italy
1996-2000
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Hamburg Germany
1992-1996
Agricultural Chemistry Laboratory (now Department of Agroenvironmetal Sciences and
Technologies), University of Bologna
My hobbies …….. actually at the moment I
haven’t got much spare time as when I am not teaching, or in the office, or in
the laboratory, I am busy with my family. My main hobby is playing the clarinet.
In 2009 in the corpo musicale
M. Mascagni and since January 2010 I joined
a new group called “Music in Progress” conducted by Rossella Simonazzi (previously
conductor of the Mascagni) and playing music ranging from classic to jazz and
contemporary etc.,.
I sometimes
listen to BBC Radio 2 (I need/like
to hear some good English from time to time!)
Click on this link to see two interesting
photos of la Crème de la
crème!