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Ricardo Capone

Ricardo Capone

Post-doctoral Researcher

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
  • EMBO practical course in Molecular Neurophysiology, 1999
  • M.Sc., University of Milan, 1996

Professional Experience

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering, Prof. Michael Mayer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006 - present
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Biologic and Material Sciences, Prof. J.C. Fenno, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003 - 2006
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Plant Sciences, Prof. A. Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2002 - 2003
  • Researcher under Prof. F. Salamini, Max-Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Koeln, Germany, 1996-1997

Awards/Honors

  • AADR Pfizer/Hatton Award finalist (Abstract # 2841), 83rd General Session and Exhibition of IADR, Baltimore, Maryland, March 9-12, 2005
  • AADR Pfizer/Hatton Award finalist (Abstract # 2840), 83rd General Session and Exhibition of IADR, Baltimore, Maryland, March 9-12, 2005
  • Postdoctoral Scholarship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
  • Scholarship from the Italian Association of the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), 1997
  • ERASMUS Exchange Student Program at the Dept. of Genetics, Leicester University (UK), 1992

Publications

1. Capone R, Blake S, Rincón-Restrepo M, Yang J, and M. Mayer.
"Designing Nanosensors Based on Charged Derivatives of Gramicidin A."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 9737-9745 (2007).
2. Capone R, Wang H.T, Ning Y, Sweier D.G, Lopatin D.E. and J.C. Fenno.
"Human serum antibodies recognize Treponema denticola Msp and PrtP protease complex proteins."
Oral Microbiol. Immunol. 23, 165-169 (2008).
3. Capone R.F; Ning Y; Pakulis N; Alhazzazi T, and JC Fenno.
"Characterization of Treponema denticola pyrF encoding orotidine-5 '-monophosphate decarboxylase."
FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 268 (2): 261-267 (2007).
4. Nadav A, Diskin R, Avitzour M, Capone R, Livnah O and D Engelberg
"Hyperactive variants of p38 induce, whereas hyperactive variants of p38 suppress AP-1-mediated transcription."
J. Biol. Chem. 282(1):91-9 (2007).
5. Diskin R, Askari N, Capone R, Engelberg D, and O. Livnah
"Active mutants of the human p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase."
J Biol. Chem. 279(45):47040-9 (2004).
6. Capone R, Tiwari B.S, and A. Levine
"Rapid transmission of oxidative and nitrosative stress signals from roots to shoots in Arabidopsis."
Plant Physiol. Biochem. 42(5):425-8 (2004).
7. Bell M, Capone R, Pashtan I, Levitzki A, and D. Engelberg.
"Isolation of hyperactive mutants of the MAPK p38/Hog1 that are independent of MAPKK activation."
J. Biol. Chem. 276(27): 25351-8 (2001).
8. Pozzi C, Faccioli P, Terzi V, Stanca AM, Cerioli S, Castiglioni P, Fink R, Capone R, Muller KJ, Bossinger G, Rohde W, and F. Salamini.
"Genetic of mutations affecting the development of barley floral bract."
Genetics 154 (3): 1335-46 (2000).
9. Kleinberger-Doron N, Shelah N, Capone R, Gazit A, and Levitzki A.
"Inhibition of Cdk2 activation by selected tryrphostins causes cell cycle arrest at late G1 and S phase."
Exp. Cell Res. 241(2): 340-51 (1998).
10. Foiani M, Nadjar-Boger E, Capone R, Sagee S, Hashimshoni T, and Kassir Y.
"A meiosis-specific protein kinase, Ime2, is required for the correct timing of DNA replication and for spore formation in yeast meiosis."
Mol. Gen. Genet. 253 (3): 278-288 (1996).

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