Elena Conti (biochemist)

Elena Conti (born February 14, 1967 in Varese ) is an Italian biochemist with significant work in molecular biology .

Career

Conti studied chemistry at the University of Pavia from 1986 to 1991 and continued her studies from 1992 with a focus on biochemistry at Imperial College London , where she received her doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on protein crystallography . From 1997 to 1999 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in New York City .

From 1999 to 2005 she was group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg ; her group was assigned to both the Structural and Computational Biology Unit and the Gene Expression Unit .

Elena Conti has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried since January 2006 , where she heads the research area “Cellular Structural Biology ”. She has held an honorary professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2007 .

Act

Elena Conti's research concerns the molecular mechanisms of transport and degradation of RNA . One focus is the mechanisms of the export of messenger RNA (mRNA) into the cytoplasm as well as processes with which defective mRNA is recognized and broken down.

honors and awards

Elena Conti was honored with an ELSO Early Career Award in 2005 and the FEBS Anniversary Award of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2007 .

The German Research Foundation awarded Elena Conti and her specialist and former work colleague Elisa Izaurralde the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2008 . In 2009, Conti was elected a member ( matriculation number 7258 ) of the Leopoldina . In December 2010 she was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

In 2014 Conti was awarded the Louis Jeantet Prize . In the same year she was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . For 2019 she was awarded the Schleiden Medal of the Leopoldina and an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

Publications (selection)

Elena Conti, Marc Uy , Lore Leighton , Günter Blobel , John Kuriyan : Crystallographic Analysis of the Recognition of a Nuclear Localization Signal by the Nuclear Import Factor Karyopherin α . In: Cell . 94, No. 2, July 1998, pp. 193-204. ISSN 0092-8674 . doi : 10.1016 / S0092-8674 (00) 81419-1 .
Elena Conti, Elisa Izaurralde : Nucleocytoplasmic transport enters the atomic age . In: Current Opinion in Cell Biology . 13, No. 3, June 2001, pp. 310-319. ISSN 0955-0674 . doi : 10.1016 / S0955-0674 (00) 00213-1 .
Elena Conti, Elisa Izaurralde : Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: molecular insights and mechanistic variations across species . In: Current Opinion in Cell Biology . 17, No. 3, June 2005, pp. 316-325. ISSN 0955-0674 . doi : 10.1016 / j.ceb.2005.04.005 .
Atlanta Cook , Fulvia Bono , Martin Jinek , Elena Conti: Structural Biology of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport . In: Annual Review of Biochemistry . 76, No. 1, June 7, 2007, pp. 647-671. ISSN 0066-4154 . doi : 10.1146 / annurev.biochem.76.052705.161529 .

literature

Leopoldina Newly elected members 2009, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2010, p. 20 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Scientific members: Conti, Elena. Max Planck Society , accessed on May 30, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b CV Elena Conti. (PDF) German Research Foundation , accessed on May 30, 2015 .
↑ Research focus Elena Conti. (PDF) German Research Foundation , accessed on May 30, 2015 .
↑ Prize winners. (No longer available online.) Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , archived from the original on October 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 2, 2019 .
↑ Prof. Dr. Elena Conti & Dr. Elisa Izaurralde - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winners 2008. German Research Foundation , December 10, 2009, accessed on May 30, 2015 .
↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Elena Conti (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
↑ Dettaglio del conferimento: Conti Dott.ssa Elena. Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica ( Presidential Office of the Italian Republic ), December 27, 2010, accessed on June 1, 2015 (Italian).
^ Louis-Jeantet 2014 Prize Lecture. (No longer available online.) In: febs-embo2014.org. Federation of European Biochemical Societies , European Molecular Biology Organization , archived from the original on July 8, 2015 ; accessed on March 2, 2019 .
^ Membership directory: Elena Conti. Academia Europaea, accessed June 21, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Conti, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian biochemist and molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Varese

[mpg:conti-1] Scientific members: Conti, Elena. Max Planck Society , accessed on May 30, 2015 .

[dfg:leibniz:conti:lbnslf-2] CV Elena Conti. (PDF) German Research Foundation , accessed on May 30, 2015 .

[dfg:leibniz:conti:frschng-3] Research focus Elena Conti. (PDF) German Research Foundation , accessed on May 30, 2015 .

[gbm:preistraeger-4] Prize winners. (No longer available online.) Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , archived from the original on October 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 2, 2019 .

[dfg:leibniz:conti+izaurralde-5] Prof. Dr. Elena Conti & Dr. Elisa Izaurralde - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winners 2008. German Research Foundation , December 10, 2009, accessed on May 30, 2015 .

[6] Member entry by Prof. Dr. Elena Conti (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.

[quirinal2010-7] Dettaglio del conferimento: Conti Dott.ssa Elena. Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica ( Presidential Office of the Italian Republic ), December 27, 2010, accessed on June 1, 2015 (Italian).

[febsembo2014-8] Louis-Jeantet 2014 Prize Lecture. (No longer available online.) In: febs-embo2014.org. Federation of European Biochemical Societies , European Molecular Biology Organization , archived from the original on July 8, 2015 ; accessed on March 2, 2019 .

[9] Membership directory: Elena Conti. Academia Europaea, accessed June 21, 2017 .