Pasquale Stano
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry (Institutional web-page)
e-mail: pasquale.stano[at]unisalento.it
phone: (+39) 0832 298709
Address: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Universita' del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Location: Building B8, Campus Ecotekne, S.P. 6 Lecce-Monteroni (Google Maps)
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Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry (Institutional web-page)
e-mail: pasquale.stano[at]unisalento.it
phone: (+39) 0832 298709
Address: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Universita' del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Location: Building B8, Campus Ecotekne, S.P. 6 Lecce-Monteroni (Google Maps)
ORCID / Scopus / Loop / WoS
Career
To be completed
To be completed
Keywords, Research Areas
Working at the Interface between Chemistry and Biology
Pasquale Stano studied chemistry at the University of Pisa, Italy. In his thesis, done under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Isola, he worked on the design and synthesis of heterotopic Schiff base ligands and their nickel and copper supramolecular complexes, and studied the kinetics of trans-imination on these compounds.
He joined the Pier Luigi Luisi group in Zürich in February 2002, working on liposomal drug delivery (of camptothecin derivatives, in collaboration with Sigma-Tau, Pomezia, IT).
In 2004 he moved to the Dept. of Biology of the University of Roma Tre (Rome, Italy), where he has been involved in the Luisi's research dealing with semi-synthetic "minimal cells". This research has included several national and international projects like the "Minimal Cell" project (Junion Grants at the "Enrico Fermi" Centre), the PRIN 2008FY7RJ4, and EU FP6 project "Synthcells", and the HFSP project Nr. RGP0033/2007-C). He currently promotes the bottom-up approach in synthetic biology, origin of life research, and systems chemistry.
- Origins of Life / Synthetic Biology / Systems Chemistry / Artificial Life
- Bio-organic Chemistry / Organocatalysis / Chemical Biology
- Liposome Technology / Colloidal Chemistry
- Enzymology / Spectroscopic Characterization of Biomacromolecules
Working at the Interface between Chemistry and Biology
Pasquale Stano studied chemistry at the University of Pisa, Italy. In his thesis, done under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Isola, he worked on the design and synthesis of heterotopic Schiff base ligands and their nickel and copper supramolecular complexes, and studied the kinetics of trans-imination on these compounds.
He joined the Pier Luigi Luisi group in Zürich in February 2002, working on liposomal drug delivery (of camptothecin derivatives, in collaboration with Sigma-Tau, Pomezia, IT).
In 2004 he moved to the Dept. of Biology of the University of Roma Tre (Rome, Italy), where he has been involved in the Luisi's research dealing with semi-synthetic "minimal cells". This research has included several national and international projects like the "Minimal Cell" project (Junion Grants at the "Enrico Fermi" Centre), the PRIN 2008FY7RJ4, and EU FP6 project "Synthcells", and the HFSP project Nr. RGP0033/2007-C). He currently promotes the bottom-up approach in synthetic biology, origin of life research, and systems chemistry.
Professorship Qualification (ASN, Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale)
- 2013 December: Professore di II Fascia - Organic Chemistry (03/C1)
- 2014 June: Professore di II Fascia - Biochemistry (05/E1)
Editor and Reviewer Roles
- Editor-in-Chief of Life - Section "Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology" (MDPI)
- Editor of BioSystems (Elsevier)
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Section "Synthetic Biology" (Frontiers)
- Associate Editor of Synthetic Biology (Oxford Academics)
- Member of the Editorial Board of ChemSystemsChem (Wiley)
- Review Editor of Frontiers in Physiology - Section "Membrane Physiology and Membrane Biophysics"(Frontiers)
- Reviewer of about 500 manuscripts (194 verified on Web of Science, ABH-1195-2020) and about 20 international research proposals
Editor of Books, Special Issues, Research Topics
Books
Books
- Pier Luigi Luisi, Pasquale Stano (Eds.), The Minimal Cell (Springer, 2011)
- Basic Questions about the Origins of Life (proceedings of the 4th Course of the International School on Complexity - Erice - 1-6 October 2006 (Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2007);
- Philosophical and scientific perspectives on emergence (Synthese, 2009);
- Synthetic Biology (Current Opinions in Chemical Biology, 2014);
- Protocells - Design for Life (MDPI Life, 2015);
- What can synthetic biology offer to artificial intelligence, and vice versa (Biosystems, 2016);
- Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016);
- Selected papers from the Satellite Workshop of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2017) on What Can Synthetic Biology Offer to Artificial Intelligence? (Complex Systems, 2018).
- Trends and Outlooks in Synthetic Biology: A Special Issue for Celebrating 10 Years of Life and Its Landmarks (MDPI Life, 2020-21).
- Membranous and Membraneless Interfaces—Origins of Artificial Cellular Complexity (MDPI Life, 2021)
- Fiat Lux! Light-Driven and Light-Controlled Synthetic Biology Parts, Devices, Systems and Processes (Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Synthetic Biology, 2021).
- Biology in AI. New frontiers in hardware, software and wetware modeling of cognition (Artificial Life, 2022)
- Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other (BioSystems, 2022)
- Bio-Chem-ICTs: Synergies between Bio/Nanotechnologies and Molecular Communications (IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2023)
- Optogenetics and Light-Induced Processes in Synthetic Biology (MDPI Life, 2023/2024)
- Education in Synthetic Biology (Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology; section Synthetic Biology, 2023/2024)
- Strategies for Controlling Synthetic Cells: Approaches, Models, Applications (MDPI Life, 2023/2023)
Affiliation to Scientific Societies
- Active Membership: International Liposome Society, The International Society for Artificial Life
- Past Membership: Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics (SIBPA), the American Chemical Society, and the Artificial Life Society
Supporter
- Supporter of the "Build-a-Cell" Initiative
- Supporter of the "Synthetic Cell" Initiative
Teaching
Current teaching activities (see the Teaching page):
Current teaching activities (see the Teaching page):
- Organich Chemistry, since AA 2016/17;
- Bio-Organic Chemistry, since AA 2016/17.
- at the Science Department of RomaTre University: module "Spectroscopic Methods in Biochemistry" of the course "Applied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology", from AA 2004/05 to AA 2010/11);
- at the Chemistry Department of Ca' Foscari University of Venice: module "Lipid vesicles" of the course "Physical Chemistry of Colloids", from AA 2008/09 to AA 2010/11;
- at ICN-Venice: a course on "Liposomes in Basic and Applied Science" in the "Master in Nanotechnology 2009".