Benedetta A. Sampoli Benitez

435 East 70^th Street, 23F

New York, NY 10021

Tel. (212) 288-5536 E-mail:bsampoli@mmm.edu

EDUCATION

1988-1995 B.S./M.S. Chemistry (summa cum laude). University of Florence, Italy

Supervisor: Dr. Ivano Bertini

1995-1999 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego

Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth A. Komives

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2000-present Assistant Professor of Chemistry;

Marymount Manhattan College, New York

1999-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow; supervisor: Dr. Michael K. Rosen

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

1996-1999 Teacher Assistant (Phys. Chem., Mol. Biology and Biochem.)

University of California, San Diego

1993-1995 Undergraduate Tutor of Organic Chemistry,

University of Florence, Italy

HONORS AND AWARDS

1996-1998 NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

1997-1999 La Jolla Interface in Science BurroughsWellcome Fund Fellowship

1997 Barry Epstein Award for Academic Excellence

2000 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

B.A. Sampoli Benitez, M.J. Hunter, D.P. Meininger & E.A. Komives “Structure of the fifth EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin: an EGF-like domain with a novel disulfide bonding pattern” J. Mol. Biol. 273:913-926 (1997).

M.J. Wood, B.A. Sampoli Benitez, & E.A. Komives “Solution structure of the smallest cofactor-active fragment of Thrombomodulin” Nature Struct. Biol. 7: 200-204 (2000).

B.A. Sampoli Benitez, & E.A. Komives “Disulfide bonds plasticity of Epidermal Growth Factor” Proteins, 40:168-74 (2000).

B.A. Sampoli Benitez, M.J. Wood & E.A. Komives “¹⁵N relaxation studies of the thrombo-modulin fragment comprised of the fourth and fifth EGF-like domains” (in preparation).