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I got Bachelor degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2012 and Master degree in Material Chemistry in 2014, at the University of Catania. In 2019 I obtained the PhD in Structural Biochemistry at Aix-Marseille Université – CEA Cadarache. I started my first PostDoc in the same year at the Instituto de Tecnologia Quìmica e Biològica (ITQB NOVA) in Lisbon. I am interested in studying structure-function relationship in metalloproteins in both natural and artificial processes. During my PhD I manly focused my interest in the manganese cofactor (OEC) involved in the conversion of water into oxygen as well as in ferredoxins and heme proteins implicated in electron-transfer processes during natural photosynthesis. I developed my expertise in FTIR spectroscopy, coupled with electrochemistry and photochemistry. Now, at ITQB I am further developing proficiency in vibrational spectroscopy, implementing my knowledges with RR spectroscopy and related techniques. I am currently working on endonucleases and dye-decolorizing peroxidases.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Lidia Zuccarello

Citation names

  • Zuccarello, Lidia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0C18-F7FE-BC84
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7201-1767

Email addresses

  • lidiazuccarello@itqb.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/01 - 2019/04
Concluded
 Structural Biochemistry (Docteur)
Aix-Marseille Université, France
"Structure-function relationships of photosynthesis related proteins studied by Mid- and Far- FTIR difference spectroscopy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/09 - 2014/07
Concluded
 Material Chemistry (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
"FRET and FRAP Confocal Laser Microscopy applications on hybrid nanomaterials study" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09 - 2012/07
Concluded
 Chimica Industriale (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
"Synthesis of nanostructured materials with laser ablation of graphite in water" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/01 - 2019/04 PS2FIR ANR project
PS2FIR
PhD Student Fellow
Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09 - Current Oxidoreductase-based electrochemical biosensors: rational design guided by biophysical characterization
PTDC/BIA-BFS/31026/2017
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Caserta, Giorgio; Zuccarello, Lidia; Barbosa, Catarina; Silveira, Célia M.; Moe, Elin; Katz, Sagie; Hildebrandt, Peter; Zebger, Ingo; Todorovic, Smilja. "Unusual structures and unknown roles of FeS clusters in metalloenzymes seen from a resonance Raman spectroscopic perspective". Coordination Chemistry Reviews 452 (2021): 214287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214287.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214287
  2. Célia M. Silveira; Lidia Zuccarello; Catarina Barbosa; Giorgio Caserta; Ingo Zebger; Peter Hildebrandt; Smilja Todorovic. "Molecular Details on Multiple Cofactor Containing Redox Metalloproteins Revealed by Infrared and Resonance Raman Spectroscopies". Molecules (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26164852.
    10.3390/molecules26164852
  3. Lidia Zuccarello; Catarina Barbosa; Edilson Galdino; Nikola Loncar; Célia M. Silveira; Marco W. Fraaije; Smilja Todorovic. "SERR Spectroelectrochemistry as a Guide for Rational Design of DyP-Based Bioelectronics Devices". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 15 (2021): 7998-7998. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157998.
    10.3390/ijms22157998
  4. Lidia Zuccarello; Catarina Barbosa; Smilja Todorovic; Célia M. Silveira. "Electrocatalysis by Heme Enzymes—Applications in Biosensing". Catalysts 11 2 (2021): 218-218. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11020218.
    10.3390/catal11020218
  5. Zuccarello, Lidia. "Protonation of the Cysteine Axial Ligand Investigated in His/Cys c-type Cytochrome by UV-Vis, Mid- and Far-IR Spectroscopy". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01016.
    10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01016
  6. Taiki Motomura; Lidia Zuccarello; Pierre Sétif; Alain Boussac; Yasufumi Umena; David Lemaire; Jatindra N. Tripathy; et al. "An alternative plant-like cyanobacterial ferredoxin with unprecedented structural and functional properties". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1860 11 (2019): 148084-148084. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.bbabio.2019.148084.
    10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.148084
  7. Patrizia Di Pietro; Gaetano Strano; Lidia Zuccarello; Cristina Satriano. "Gold and Silver Nanoparticles for Applications in Theranostics". Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 16 27 (2016): 3069-3102. https://doi.org/10.2174%2F1568026616666160715163346.
    10.2174/1568026616666160715163346
  8. L. Zuccarello; E. Rampazzo; L. Petrizza; L. Prodi; C. Satriano. "The influence of fluorescent silica nanoparticle surface chemistry on the energy transfer processes with lipid bilayers". RSC Advances 6 58 (2016): 52674-52682. https://doi.org/10.1039%2Fc6ra09816a.
    10.1039/c6ra09816a
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Zuccarello, Lidia. "Structure-function relationships of photosynthesis related proteins studied by Mid- and Far- FTIR difference spectroscopy". PhD, Aix-Marseille Université, 2019.

Other

Other output
  1. Investigation of Oxygen Evolving Complex catalytic cycle by Far-FTIR difference spectroscopy. Poster presentation at Congress SCF 18. 2018. Zuccarello, Lidia.
  2. Probing cysteine and water molecules in redox proteins by FTIR difference spectroscopy. Poster presentation at Journées franco-italiennes de chimie. 2018. Zuccarello, Lidia.
  3. Supported lipid bilayer-driven nanoparticle cellular uptake for theranostic applications. Poster presentation at E-MRS Spring Meeting. 2015. Zuccarello, Lidia.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/08/14 Effect of cysteine axial ligation in c-type cytochromes with native His/Cys heme coordination studied by FTIR difference spectroscopy IC-BIC19
(Interlaken, Switzerland)
2018/05/31 Photosynthesis related redox proteins studied by FTIR difference spectroscopy International Symposium of Quantum Beam Science in Biology and Soft Matter
(Mito, Japan)
2018/04/05 Investigation of Oxygen Evolving Complex catalytic cycle by Far FTIR difference spectroscopy Journées de la phoyosynthèse
ScPhi (Paris, France)
2017/12/08 Metal-ligand properties in new cytochromes and ferredoxins of T. elongatus • France-Japan Joint Workshop on Photosysthem II
Matsuyama University (Matsuyama, Japan)
Distinctions

Award

2018 Best Oral Presentation
Société Française de Photosynthèse, France