Dario Alessi

Dario Alessi FRS (born France) is a British biochemist, Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee,^[1] and Programme Leader in the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, since 1998.^[2][3][4]

Life

He attended high school in Brussels. He graduated from the University of Birmingham, with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 1988, and with a Ph.D. in 1991, where he studied with Ian Trayer and David Trentham^[5]. His postdoctoral research was with Sir Philip Cohen FRS from 1991 to 1997.^[6][7]

References

1. ^ "Dario Alessi | College of Life Sciences". http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/dario-alessi. Retrieved 2011-11-13. 
2. ^ "MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit :: Research :: Dario Alessi". http://www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/research/?pid=2. Retrieved 2011-11-13. 
3. ^ "Dario Alessi - SCILLS - The Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling". http://www.scills.ac.uk/dario-alessi.shtml. Retrieved 2011-11-13. 
4. ^ "* Dario Alessi (professor), Scotland - Online Encyclopedia of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in America". http://www.issawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=*_Dario_Alessi_(professor),_Scotland. Retrieved 2011-11-13. 
5. ^ Alessi, D. R.; Corrie, J. E.; Fajer, P. G.; Ferenczi, M. A.; Thomas, D. D.; Trayer, I. P.; Trentham, D. R. (1992). "Synthesis and properties of a conformationally restricted spin-labeled analog of ATP and its interaction with myosin and skeletal muscle". Biochemistry 31 (34): 8043–8054. doi:10.1021/bi00149a039. PMID 1324724.  edit
6. ^ Gong, M. C.; Fuglsang, A.; Alessi, D.; Kobayashi, S.; Cohen, P.; Somlyo, A. V.; Somlyo, A. P. (1992). "Arachidonic acid inhibits myosin light chain phosphatase and sensitizes smooth muscle to calcium". The Journal of biological chemistry 267 (30): 21492–21498. PMID 1328235.  edit
7. ^ "MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Overview - Scientific Advisory Board - Dario Alessi". http://www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/About/ScientificAdvisoryBoard/DarioAlessi/. Retrieved 2011-11-13.