Organizing Committee Member
Matthew A. Perugini
Associate Professor & Director
La Trobe University
Australia
Biography
Matt Perugini completed his Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Melbourne in Australia. In October 2004, he was awarded the Young Biophysicists Award by the Australian Society for Biophysics largely for his contribution to the study of protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions during his Ph.D. and early post-doctoral studies. In 2005, Matt was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC), and in the same year, moved to the new Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. During his tenure at the Bio21 Institute, Matt was awarded the 2007 Applied Biosystems Edman Award by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, an inaugural ARC Future Fellowship in 2009, and was promoted to Reader in 2010. In January 2012, A/Prof Perugini moved his laboratory to the new $100 million La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University. At La Trobe, A/Prof Perugini serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Proteomics Platform, which is a multi-dimensional facility incorporating gas, solution and crystal phase technologies spanning protein sequencing & identification, structural biology, biomolecular interactions, and bioinformatics.
Research Area
structure, function, regulation, and inhibition of enzyme antibiotic & herbicide targets functioning in lysine biosynthesis