Projects: Molecular dynamics simulations, free-energy calculations, and molecular docking to investigate pharmaceutically relevant enzymes and functionalized gold nanoparticles for chemosensing.
Laura joined the group in September 2013, from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet of Freiburg - Germany. She is a computational scientist who is mainly focused on molecular dynamics (MD)-based studies of gold-nanoparticles for chemosensing and catalysis.
She is also working on pharmaceutically relevant enzymes involved in lipid signaling. Her research is then bridged to drug design via the identification of promising hit compounds targeting those enzymes.
Phone
+39 010 2897 537
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
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All Publications
2025
Franco-Ulloa S., Cesari A., Zanoni G., Riccardi L., Wallace J., Mascitti B.B., Rastrelli F., Mancin F., De Vivo M.
Rational design of gold nanoparticle-based chemosensors for detection of the tumor marker 3-methoxytyramine
Chemical Science
2023
Franco-Ulloa S., Cesari A., Riccardi L., De Biasi F., Rosa-Gastaldo D., Mancin F., De Vivo M., Rastrelli F.
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Detection Sensitivity in Nanoparticle-Assisted NMR Chemosensing
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 14, (no. 30), pp. 6912-6918
2023
Franco-Ulloa S., Riccardi L., Rimembrana F., Grottin E., Pini M., De Vivo M.
NanoModeler CG: A Tool for Modeling and Engineering Functional Nanoparticles at a Coarse-Grained Resolution
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 19, (no. 5), pp. 1582-1591
2021
Franco-Ulloa S., Guarnieri D., Riccardi L., Pompa P.P., De Vivo M.
Association Mechanism of Peptide-Coated Metal Nanoparticles with Model Membranes: A Coarse-Grained Study
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 17, (no. 7), pp. 4512-4523
2021
Riccardi L., Decherchi S., Rocchia W., Zanoni G., Cavalli A., Mancin F., De Vivo M.
Molecular Recognition by Gold Nanoparticle-Based Receptors as Defined through Surface Morphology and Pockets Fingerprint
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 12, (no. 23), pp. 5616-5622
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