Fabrizio Pucci

Assistant Professor
3BIO-Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles
email: Fabrizio.Pucci at ulb.be

Research Interests

1. Protein Engineering and Design
2. Genetic Variant Analysis
3. Molecular Evolution
4. Mathematical Modeling
5. ImmunoInformatics

Publications

Bibliometric Data: h-index 25, i10-index 36, citations 1819.

Most cited works:

• Fabrizio Pucci and Marianne Rooman, Physical and molecular bases of protein thermal stability and cold adaptation, Current Opinion in Structural Biology (2017) 42, 117-128.

• Fabrizio Pucci, Katrien V Bernaerts, Jean Marc Kwasigroch, Marianne Rooman, Quantification of biases in predictions of protein stability changes upon mutations, Bioinformatics (2018) 34, 3659–3665.

• Fabrizio Pucci, Raphaël Bourgeas, Marianne Rooman, Predicting protein thermal stability changes upon point mutations using statistical potentials: Introducing HoTMuSiC, Scientific Reports (2016) 6, 23257.

Full List of pubblications on Google Scholar

Teaching

Biophysics and structural bioinformatics I, BINF-F403 (ULB, Bruxelles)
Biophysics and structural bioinformatics II, BINF-F405 (ULB, Bruxelles)
Introduction à la bioinformatique et à ses applications, BING-H5000 (ULB, Bruxelles)
Connaissances fondamentales et éléments de physique, PHYS-H101 (ULB, Bruxelles)

Supervision

11 PhD students, 18 Master thesis, 9 Internships.

Current Lab Members: Prof. Fabrizio Pucci (PI), Prof. Marianne Rooman (PI), Simone Attanasio, Matsvei Tsishyn, Pauline Hermans, Benoıt de Witte, Dong Li, Gregory Coolen, Romain Debruyne, Matthias Reveillard, Thibault Legrand, Andre Ciupitu.

PhD Alumni: Gabriel Cia, Martin Schwersensky, François Ancien, Mehari Zerihun, Mame Ndew Mbaye.