Federico Torta
Research Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore
Schools
- National University of Singapore
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Biography
National University of Singapore
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, University of Parma, Italy
- MSc, University of Parma, Italy
Companies
- Research Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2016)
- Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2014 — 2015)
- Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2010 — 2014)
- Postdoc San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park (2007 — 2010)
- Postdoc Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark (2006 — 2007)
- PhD student Department of Biochemistry, University of Parma (2002 — 2005)
RESEARCH AREAS
Synthetic Biology : Proteomics and Lipidomics
RESEARCH INTEREST(S)
- Mass Spectrometry
- Clinical Lipidomics
- Protein-lipid Interactions
- Signalling Lipids
Recent Publications
- Burla B, Arita M, Arita M, Bendt AK, Cazenave-Gassiot A, Dennis EA, Ekroos K, Han X, Ikeda K, Liebisch G, Lin MK, Loh TP, Meikle PJ, Orešič M, Quehenberger O, Shevchenko A, Torta F, Wakelam MJO, Wheelock CE, Wenk MR. MS-based lipidomics of human blood plasma: a community-initiated position paper to develop accepted guidelines. J Lipid Res. 2018; 59(10):2001-2017.
- Chew WS, Seow WL, Chong JR, Lai MKP, Torta F, Wenk MR, Herr DR. Sphingolipidomics analysis of large clinical cohorts. Part 1: Technical notes and practical considerations. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018; 504(3):596-601.
- Vu TM, Ishizu AN, Foo JC, Toh XR, Zhang F, Whee DM, Torta F, Cazenave-Gassiot A, Matsumura T, Kim S, Toh SES, Suda T, Silver DL, Wenk MR, Nguyen LN. Mfsd2b is essential for the sphingosine-1-phosphate export in erythrocytes and platelets. Nature. 2017 Oct 26;550(7677):524-528.
- Lees JA, Messa M, Sun EW, Wheeler H, Torta F, Wenk MR, De Camilli P, Reinisch KM. Lipid transport by TMEM24 at ER-plasma membrane contacts regulates pulsatile insulin secretion. Science. 2017; 355(6326).
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