S3-INFM-CNR
National Research Center on
nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces
Via Campi 213/A
41100 Modena
Italy        

e-mail: berti.lorenzo@unimo.it

Tel +39-(059)-205-5626/5305
Fax +39-(059)-374-794

• Lorenzo Berti was born in Bologna 26/11/1971

• November 1995, Laurea in Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna

• March 2000, Ph.D in Chemistry, University of Bologna

• Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2003

• Present Position: Research Scientist

• Bottom-up approaches for self-assembly of biomolecular systems

• Derivatization of biomolecules for nanotechnological applications

• Strategies for DNA-templated metal deposition

1. Berti L., Alessandrini, A., Menozzi, C, Facci, P. "Controlled DNA-Templated Metal Deposition: Towards Ultra-Thin Nanowires" (2005), J. Nanosci. Nanotech., in press

2. Berti L, Alessandrini A, Facci P "DNA-templated photoinduced silver deposition" J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2005), 127, 11216-11217

3. Alessandrini A, De Renzi V, Berti L, Barak, I., Facci, P. "Chemically homogeneous, silylated surface for effective DNA binding and hybridization" Surf. Sci. (2005), 582, 202-208

4. Sapsford, K.E., Berti, L., Medintz, I.L. "Fluorescence resonance energy transfer - Concepts, applications and advances" Minerva Biotecnologica, (2004), 16, 247-273

5. Medintz, I.L., Berti, L., Mathies, R.A. "Novel energy transfer fluorescence labeling cassette", Biotechniques (2002), 32, 270-270

6. Medintz, I.L., Paegel, B.M., Blazej, R.G., Emrich, C.A., Berti, L., Scherer, J.R., Mathies, R.A., "High-performance genetic analysis using microfabricated capillary array electrophoresis microplates" Electrophoresis (2001), 22, 3845-3856

7. Medintz, I.L., Berti L, Emrich CA, Tom J, Scherer JR, Mathies RA, "Genotyping energy-transfer-cassette-labeled short-tandem-repeat amplicons with capillary array electrophoresis microchannel plates" Clin. Chem. (2001), 47, 1614-1621

8. Berti, L., Medintz, I.L., Tom, J., Mathies, R.A."Energy-transfer cassette labeling for capillary array electrophoresis short tandem repeat DNA fragment sizing" Bioconj. Chem. (2001), 12, 493-500

9. Berti, L., Xie, J., Medintz, I.L., Glazer, A.N., Mathies, R.A."Energy transfer cassettes for facile labeling of sequencing and PCR primers" Anal. Biochem. (2001), 292, 188-197

10. Medintz, I.L., Wong, W.W., Berti, L., Shiow, L., Tom, J., Scherer, J., Sensabaugh, G., Mathies, R.A."High-performance multiplex SNP analysis of three hemochromatosis-related mutations with capillary array electrophoresis microplates", Genome Res. (2001), 11, 413-421