Alberto Bartesaghi

Biography

Dr. Alberto Bartesaghi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Instituto de Ingeniera Electrica, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2005. He joined the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the National Cancer Institute, NIH in 2005 to conduct his postdoctoral studies, and became a Staff Scientist in 2008 and an Associate Scientist in 2015. Dr. Bartesaghi has pioneered the development and application of novel image processing methods in three-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy to determine the structures of a variety of macromolecular assemblies of fundamental biomedical interest. He is responsible for the design, automation and optimization of image processing workflows, both for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) modalities, and for managing the computational resources of the group.

Research Interest

1) image analysis, 2) cryo-electron microscopy 3) cryo-electron tomography, 4) protein structure determination, 5) high throughput and automation, 6) high-resolution cryo-EM, 7) Structural Biology.