Matteo Dal Peraro

Expertise Computational biophysicsModeling of biological systems Matteo Dal Peraro graduated in Physics at the University of Padua in 2000. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste) in 2004. He then received postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) under the guidance of Prof. M. L. Klein. He was nominated Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences in late 2007.His research at the Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling (LBM), within the Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering (IBI), focuses on the multiscale modeling of large macromolecular systems. Education B.S. and M.S. | Physics 2000 – 2000 University of Padua Ph.D. | Biophysics 2004 – 2004 International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Teaching & PhD PhD Students Verena Rukes, Parth Bibekar, Arthur Samurkas, Fernando Augusto Teixeira Pinto Meireles, Benedikt Singer, Artemiy Burov, Ekaterina Pyatova, Edoardo Cavani, Alissa Agerova, Marianna Mitsioni, Jana Susanne Anton, Roxana Ghasemi Past EPFL PhD Students Matteo Thomas Degiacomi, Thomas Lemmin, Enrico Spiga, Christophe Bovigny, Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres, Martina Audagnotto, Giorgio Elikem Tamo, Alexandra Styliani Kalantzi, Deniz Aydin, Giulia Fonti, Alessio Prunotto, Sylvain Träger, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Zhidian Zhang, Simon Finn Mayer, Anastasia Theodoropoulou, Benjamin Gallusser Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Michel Plattner, Maiia Bragina Courses Biological chemistry I BIO-212 Biochemistry is a key discipline for the Life Sciences. Biological Chemistry I and II are two tightly interconnected courses that aim to describe and understand in molecular terms the processes that make life possible. Scientific literature analysis in computational molecular biology BIO-468 The goal of this course is to learn to analyze a scientific paper critically, asking whether the data presented support the conclusions that are drawn. The analysis is presented in the form of a summary presentation and critical, constructive assessments of the paper. Structural biology BIO-315 The main focus of this course is on the molecular interactions defining the structure, dynamics and function of biological systems. The principal experimental and computational techniques used in structural biology, as well as molecular modeling and design will be introduced and practiced. Synthetic biology BIOENG-320 This advanced Bachelor/Master level course will cover fundamentals and approaches at the interface of biology, chemistry, engineering and computer science for diverse fields of synthetic biology. This class requires critical and analytical thinking at the frontiers of multiple disciplines