DI PALMA F, Chiappori F, Cavalli A, de Rosa M, Viti F. Dynamical features of smooth muscle actin pathological mutants: the Arginine-257(258)-Cysteine cases. CSBJ 2025, Published online Feb 17.
Scarano N, DI PALMA F, Origlia N, Musumeci F, Schenone S, Spinelli S, Passalacqua M, Zocchi E, Sturla L, Cichero E, Cavalli A. New insights into the LANCL2-ABA binding mode towards the evaluation of new LANCL agonists. Pharmaceutics 2023, 15(12):2754.
DI PALMA F, Majumdar S, Spyrakis F, Decherchi S, Cavalli A. Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Give Insights on the Flexibility-Activity Relationships in Tyrosine Kinome. JCIM 2023, 63(15):4814–4826.

DI PALMA F, Abate C, Decherchi S, Cavalli A. Ligandability and druggability assessment via machine learning. WIREs Comput Mol Sci. 2023; 13(5):e1676.
DI PALMA, Decherchi, Pardo-Avila, Succi, Levitt, von Hejine, Cavalli. Probing interplays between human XBP1u translational arrest peptide and 80S ribosome. JCTC 2022, 18(3):1905–1914.
DI PALMA, Perot, Lauricella, Sterpone, Succi, Melchionna. Three-stage multiscale modelling of the NMDA neuroreceptor. Molecular Physics 2021, 119(19-20):e1928312.
DI PALMA, Daino, Ramaswamy, Corona, Frau, Fanunza, Vargiu, Tramontano, Ruggerone. Relevance of Ebola Virus VP35 homo-dimerization on the IFN cascade inhibition. Antiviral Chemistry & Chemotherapy 2019, 27: 2040206619889220.
Ramaswamy, DI PALMA, Vargiu, Corona, Piano, Ruggerone, Zinzula, Tramontano. Insights into the homo-oligomerization properties of N-terminal coiled-coil domain of Ebola virus VP35 protein. Virus Research 2018, 247, 61–70.
DI PALMA, Tramontano. Dynamics behind affinity maturation of an anti-HCMV antibody family influencing antigen binding. FEBS Letters 2017, 591:2936–2950.
Bottaro, DI PALMA, Bussi. Towards de novo RNA 3D structure prediction. RNA & Disease 2015, e544.
DI PALMA, Colizzi, Bussi. Using reweighted pulling simulations to characterize conformational changes in riboswitches. Methods in Enzymology 2015, 553:139-162.
DI PALMA, Bottaro, Bussi. Kissing loop interaction in adenine riboswitch: insights from
umbrella sampling simulations. BMC Bioinformatics 2015, 16(Suppl 9):S6.
Bottaro, DI PALMA, Bussi. The role of nucleobase interactions in RNA Structure and
Dynamics. NAR 2014, 42:13306-14.
DI PALMA, Colizzi, Bussi. Ligand-induced stabilization of the aptamer terminal helix in the adenine riboswitch. RNA 2013, 19:1517-24.
Falconi, Oteri, DI PALMA, Pandey, Battistoni, Desideri. Structural-dynamical investigation of the ZnuA histidine-rich loop: involvement in zinc management and transport.
J Comput Aided Mol Des. 2011, 25:181-94.

Journal Publications

- Richard P. Feynman -

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

my Track Record

Seminars & Conference Presentations

Invited Speaker at the 8th Workshop “Physics of Biomolecules: Structure, Dynamics and Function” – 5-8 Feb 2024, Bressanone (BZ), IT.
Poster presentation at The Royal Society meeting "Ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation” – 6-7 Nov 2023, London, UK.
Invited Seminar for the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series of the RNA Society – 19 June 2024 (virtual).
Invited Speaker at the SBDD Congress 2023: Computational Advances in Drug Discovery – 2-4 May 2023, Sestri Levante (GE), IT.
Invited Seminar for the Mixed-Gen of CECAM Season 3 - Session 5: Data Science in Biophysics for applications to drug discovery – 23 Mar 2023 (virtual).
Invited Speaker at the Workshop on "The impact of computational methods and HPC on Life Sciences" – 15-17 Mar 2023, Aosta, IT.
Poster presentation at the Ribosome meeting 2022: Structure & Function – 10-14 July 2022, Bordeaux, FR.
Selected Short Talk at the EMBO Conference 2021: Advances and Challenges in Biomolecular Simulations – 18-21 Oct 2021, Brno, CZ (virtual).
Poster presentation and Travel Award received at 31st ICAR – 11-15 Jun 2018 Porto, PT.
Oral Presentation at 255th ACS National Meeting (Division: Computers in Chemistry) – 18-22 March 2018, New Orleans, (LA) USA.
Poster presentation at the 19th IUPAB and 11th EBSA Congress – 16-20 July 2017, Edinburgh, UK.
Poster presentation at the CCPN/CCPBioSim joint conference 2016 – 25-28 July 2016, University of Derby, Buxton, UK.
Oral presentation at the 4th CDDD Meeting – 24-26 Feb 2015 Angelini Research Center, Pomezia, IT.
Poster presentation at the RNA 2014 – The 19 th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society – 3-8 Jun 2014 Quebec City, (QC) CA.
Poster presentation at the 4th CDMC Symposium – Structure and Dynamics of RNA interactions – 1-2 Jun 2014 Montréal, (QC) CA.
Oral presentation at the BITS 2014, 11th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society – 26-28 Feb 2014, Sapienza University of Rome, IT.
Poster presentation at the Biophysical Society 58th Annual Meeting – 15-19 Feb 2014 San Francisco, (CA) USA.
Poster presentation at the RNA 2013 – The 18th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society – 11-16 Jul 2013 Davos, CH.
Poster presentation at the Research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation - Computationa Biology: Then and Now – 6-9 May 2013 Weizmann Institute of science, Rehovot, IL.
Oral communication and Poster presentation at the 72nd Harden Conference – RNA regulators of gene expression – 22-25 July 2012 Robinson College, Cambridge, UK