Professor
Physics
Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Pisa
Italy
Ciro Cecconi completed his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley, USA - December 2003. He worked as a Supervisor: Prof. Carlos J. Bustamante, Department of Physics and Molecular & Cell Biology. Thesis Title: Studies of the Mechanical Unfolding and Refolding of RNase H and T4 lysozyme.
Single molecule manipulation techniques, Mechanical properties of tertiary and secondary protein structures, Folding and misfolding pathways of individual protein molecules, Kinetics and thermodynamics of fluctuations between different molecular conformations, Protein energy landscapes, Molecular dynamics simulations.