Luca Gessa, PhD
University of Sassari in Biological Sciences, Italy; University of Oslo, Norway
PhD Student
Proteins Involved in the Visual Cycle
Description
Luca Gessa completed the bachelor degree at the University of Sassari in Biological Sciences in Italy. Then he completed the master degree in Molecular Biosciences at the University of Oslo, Norway, with the thesis: Characterization of an evolutionary conserved human methyltransferase. The result obtained during the master thesis are included in a manuscript published in 2021 (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab088).
He has joined the Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER in March 2021. His research will focus on the structure and the functions the proteins involved in the visual cycle.
Publication list
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Open Biology
CryoEM structure and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses of porcine retinol-binding protein 3
10.1098/rsob.240180
2025
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Frontiers in Medicine
Two-photon excitation fluorescence in ophthalmology: safety and improved imaging for functional diagnostics.
10.3389/fmed.2023.1293640
2024
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Towards a New Biomarker for Diabetic Retinopathy: Exploring RBP3 Structure and Retinoids Binding for Functional Imaging of Eyes In Vivo
10.3390/ijms24054408
2023
2025 Research projects
Research groups
Integrated Structural Biology
Research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of vision, particularly proteins of the phototransduction pathway and the visual cycle, at an atomic and molecular level.
