
Position
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical and Technological Applications of Chemistry
Contacts
Phone: +39 0498275708
e-mail: francesca.mastrotto@unipd.it
Expertise
- Organic chemistry: synthesis of ligands and small molecules.
- Polymer synthesis: controlled radical polymerisations techniques (ATRP, RAFT).
- Bioconjugation techniques.
- Formulation and characterization of nanovectors (micelles, polymersomes, liposomes, polymeric nanoparticles etc.) by traditional or innovative microfluidic techniques (Nanoassemblr)
- Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell cultures, murine bone marrow isolation, cell transfection and protein expression/purification, biological and immunological assays.
- Pharmacokinetics studies.
- Flow cytometry, Fluorescence and confocal microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Atomic Absorbance Spectroscopy, size and zeta-potential measurements, Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR).
- Other techniques: NMR, HPLC, FPLC, GPC, IR, ESI-TOF, MALDI, SDS-PAGE, WESTERN BLOT, ELISA, in cell ELISA, IP, qPCR.