What's New

May 9th '25. Eleonora presents a poster at the FCBIS 2025 (https://www.fcbis.org/). Authors & Title: Gianti E. "Viral RNA Proofreading by the SARS-CoV-2 NSP14 Exonuclease Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations." Great networking opportunity!

April '24. Eleonora receives a Research Award from the Professional Staff Congress - City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)

April 11th '25. The first poster presentation of the Gianti Lab is here! Check it out below and great job everyone! 

Shabatian B; Ghirardo A; Aghelian A; Tau K; Gianti E. “Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Transcription Complexes via Structural and Evolutionary Approaches.” CUNY Undergraduate Research Symposium.

March 26th '25. Eleonora Eleonora present her Research at the Queens College Master of Arts in Behavioral Neuroscience (MABN) Colloquium. Title: "Sensing the world –From environmental stimuli to ion channels gating through the lens of computation."

March '25.  A new CUNY graduate student joins the Lab for a Biochemistry rotation. Welcome Sylvester Sakyi!

February '25.  A new CUNY graduate student joins the Lab for a Chemistry rotation. Welcome Kyle Tau!

March 12th '25. Eleonora presents her Research at the ASRC (https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/). Title: "Interplay of Key Enzymatic Functions in the Life Cycle of Emerging Viruses –A computational approach."

December '24. Amelie, Avishai and Ben give their first research talks at Fall '24 HMNS Student Research Seminar. Congrats!

October 15th '24. Eleonora is the invited Chair of the "Cross Cutting Computational Research" session at the 2nd NanoBioNYC Symposium at the ASRC and the Graduate Center. Check out the Program Schedule!

September 11th '24. Our first Lab Meeting of the Semester... We're thrilled to start (or continue) our research journey!

August '24. Amelie Ghirardo and Avishai Anghelian start their first research projects in computational biophysics. Congratulations!

August '24. We present our research at the Natural Science Poster Session at the CUNY Graduate Center. Title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Replication/Transcription Complexes in Emerging Viruses. H Gibbs, B Shabtian, P Moore, E Gianti*

June '24. Ben  Shabtian works on his first research project in computational biophysics. Congratulations Ben!

May '24. Eleonora attend the 2024 NSF Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Division of Chemistry in Alexandria, VA. Great experience! Thank you Prof. Giulia Palermo and Prof. Sarah Tasker for organizing the event, and NSF Chemistry Division for sponsoring. 

April '24. A new undergraduate student joins the Lab. Welcome Avishai Anghelian! Looking forward to having you full time in Fall '24!

April '24. Eleonora receives a Research Award from the Professional Staff Congress - City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)

April '24. A new undergraduate student joins the Lab. Welcome Ben Sabthian! Looking forward to having you full time in Summer '24!

April '24. Our Lab attend the 2024 William H Nichols Medal Ceremony in NYC. Congratulations Prof. Emily Carter!

March '24. We're presenting our research at the CUNY Graduate Center, Chemistry Program

March '24. First graduate student joins the Lab for a rotation. Welcome Fortunatus Ezebuo!

February '24. Check out our latest research on SARS-CoV-2 Proofreading ExoN (doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.1317)

February '24. Eleonora attend the Biophysical Society (BPS) Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Meet us at the event!

February '24. Eleonora is proud to serve as a Mentor in the One-on-One with a Mentor Program at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Meeting

November '23. First undergraduate student joins the Lab. Welcome Amelie Ghirardo! Looking forward to having you full time in Fall '24!

November '23. We're presenting our research at the CUNY College of Staten Island

October '23. We're presenting our research at the CUNY Graduate Center, Biochemistry Program

September '23. We're presenting our research at the CUNY Queens College, Biology Department

September '23. We're presenting our research at Drexel University, in Philadelphia PA

August '23. Eleonora named recipient of the orestigeous Robert Bittman Fellowship from Queens College!

August '23. The Gianti Lab moves to CUNY Queens College, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department!

April '23. Our Book Chapter with Prof. Virgil Percec at UPenn on Complex Helical Self-Organizations and Functions is published! Check it out! (https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527834044.ch1)

Nov '22. Our paper with Prof. Tibor Rohacs at Rutgers on TRPM3 and TRPM8 is published. We predicted the location of a lipid binding site before an experimental structure was published from another lab. Check it out! (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.10254)

May 6th '25. Eleonora delivers a guest lecture in Physical Biochemistry at at the CUNY Graduate Center, NY. Title: "Computing Life. An Introduction to Biomolecular Simulation."