Monica Maria Zoppe'
Research staff
Monica Zoppè studied in Milan and continued her research career in several laboratories in Italy and abroad, including the University of Birmingham, UK, the Salk Institute of La Jolla, USA, ICGEB in Trieste, and IFC in Pisa. After many years of ‘wet research’, since 2007, she started a project aimed at the elaboration, interpretation and visualization of biological processes using the techniques developed for Computer Graphics, animation and gaming. Between 2007 and 2014 we created and used BioBlender, a specific AddOn for biological work in Blender, based on the assumption that we humans have a special ability at grasping information presented visually, and easily recognize patterns and identify exceptions after only a few sights of new phenomena. The SciVis website presents some of the videos.
After moving to Milano, Monica’s work has been dedicated to other aspects of representations: a theoretical study of colors and signs, and a method for the preparation of tangible models of proteins either in hard plastic (3D-printed), or in soft rubber.
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Contact:
- Email monica.zoppe@cnr.it
- Phone +39-02-23699547
- Location Milano
Website:
Research interests:
- SciVis (Principal investigator)
- Rubber proteins (Principal investigator)
- ProQuaB (Principal investigator)
Further collaborations:
- Claudia Caudai, ISTI CNR, (Pisa)
- Emanuele Salerno , ISTI CNR, (Pisa)
- Maria Antonietta Pascali, ISTI CNR, (Pisa)
- Daniela Giorgi, ISTI CNR, (Pisa)
- Thomas Alderighi, ISTI CNR, (Pisa)
- Edisel Navas, Univesidad de Ciencias Informaticas, (La Havana, Cuba)
- Pablo E. Ramos Univesidad de Ciencias Informaticas, (La Havana, Cuba)
- Tiziana Loni, Independent artist (Glasgow, UK)
Key publications:
Zoppè, M. Colors in the representation of biological structures. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB). 2022 Jul 4;19(2):20220021.
Alderighi T, Giorgi D, Malomo L, Cignoni P, Zoppè M. Computational design, fabrication and evaluation of rubber protein models. Computers & Graphics. 2021 Jun;S0097849321001096.
Zoppè M. Improving Gender Diversity in Science. In: #WeTooInScience - Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Institutions and Research Organizations. Rome, Italy: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing; 2019. p. 235–41.
Caudai C, Salerno E, Zoppè M, Tonazzini A. Estimation of the Spatial Chromatin Structure Based on a Multiresolution Bead-Chain Model. IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics [Internet]. 2018 Jan 9; Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29994172
Zoppè M, Loni T. The Representation of Electrostatics for Biological Molecules. In: Rocchia W, Spagnuolo M, editors. Computational Electrostatics for Biological Applications: Geometric and Numerical Approaches to the Description of Electrostatic Interaction Between Macromolecules. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 215–25.
Publications (4):
Colors in the representation of biological structuresZoppe M.
journal of integrative bioinformatics, 19, 2022
DOI: 10.1515/jib-2022-0021
Virucidal Activity of the Pyridobenzothiazolone Derivative HeE1-17Y against Enveloped RNA Viruses
Bonotto R.M.; Boni F.; Milani M.; Chaves-Sanjuan A.; Franze S.; Selmin F.; Felicetti T.; Bolognesi M.; Konstantinidou S.; Poggianella M.; Marquez C.L.; Dattola F.; Zoppe M.; Manfroni G.; Mastrangelo E.; Marcello A.
viruses, 14, 2022
DOI: 10.3390/v14061157
Computational design, fabrication and evaluation of rubber protein models
Alderighi T.; Giorgi D.; Malomo L.; Cignoni P.; Zoppè M.
computers & graphics, 98, 2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2021.05.010
Integration of multiple resolution data in 3D chromatin reconstruction using ChromStruct
Caudai C.; Zoppè M.; Tonazzini A.; Merelli I.; Salerno E.
biology (basel)issn: 2079-7737mdpi, 10, 2021
DOI: 10.3390/biology10040338