Degree in Chemistry, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, 1996

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free University, Berlin, Germany, 2001

Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free University, Berlin, Germany, 2001- 2002

Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 2002-present

Pioletti, M., Findeisen, F., Hura, G.L., and Minor, D.L., Jr., Three-dimensional structure of the KChIP/Kv4.3 T1 domain complex reveals a cross-shaped octamer. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2006)

Auerbach T., Bashan A., Harms J., Schluenzen F., Zarivach R., Bartels H., Agmon I., Kessler M., Pioletti M., Franceschi F., Yonath A. (2002) Antibiotics targeting ribosomes: crystallographic studies. Current Drug Targets Infect Disord., 2(2): 169-86.

Zarivach R., Bashan A., Schluenzen F., Harms J., Pioletti M., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2002) Initiation and inhibition of protein biosynthesis - Studies at high resolution. Current protein & peptide science, 3(1): 55-65

Bashan A., Agmon I., Zarivach R., Schluenzen F., Harms J., Pioletti M., Bartels H., Gluehmann M., Hansen H.A.S., Auerbach T., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2001) High resolution structures of ribosomal subunits: initiation, inhibition and conformational variability. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Quantitative Biology, 66: 43-56

Gluehmann M., Zarivach R., Bashan A., Harms J., Schluenzen F., Bartels H., Agmon I., Rosenblum G., Pioletti M., Auerbach T., Avila H., Hansen HAS., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2001) Ribosomal crystallography: From poorly, diffracting microcrystals to high-resolution structures. Methods, 25(3): 292-302

Pioletti M., Schlunzen F., Harms J., Zarivach R., Gluhmann M., Avila H., Bashan A., Bartels H., Auerbach T., Jacobi C., Hartsch T., Yonath A. and Franceschi F. (2001) Crystal structures of complexes of the small ribosomal subunit with tetracycline, edeine and IF3. EMBO J., 20(8): 1829-1839

Bartels H., Gluehmann M., Janell D., Schluenzen F., Tocilj A., Bashan A., Levin I., Hansen H.A.S., Harms J., Kessler M., Pioletti M., Auerbach T., Agmon I., Avila H., Simitsopoulou M., Weinstein S., Peretz M., Bennett W.S., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2000) Targeting exposed RNA regions in crystals of the small ribosomal subunits at medium resolution. Cellular and molecular biology, 46(5): 871-882

Bashan A., Pioletti M., Bartels H., Janell D., Schlunzen F.,Gluehmann M., Levin I., Harms J., Hansen H.A.S., Tocilj A., Auerbach T., Avila H., Simitsopoulou M., Peretz M., Bennett W.S., Agmon I., Kessler M., Weinstein S., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2000) Identification of selected ribosomal components in crystallographic maps of prokaryotic ribosomal subunits at medium resolution. In The Ribosome: Structure, Function, Antibiotics and Cellular Interactions pp. 21-33  Edited by R. Garrett, S. Douthwaite, A. Liljas, A. Matheson, P. Moore and H. Noller. ASM Press, Washington D.C.

Auerbach T., Pioletti M., Avila H., Anagnostopoulos K., Weinstein S., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (2000) Genetic and biochemical manipulations of the small ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, 17: 617-628

Weinstein S., Jahn W., Glotz C., Schluenzen F., Levin I., Janell D., Harms J., Koelln I., Hansen H.A.S., Gluehmann M., Bennett W.S., Bartels H., Bashan A., Agmon I., Kessler M., Pioletti M., Avila H., Anagnostopoulos K., Peretz M., Auerbach T., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (1999) Metal compounds as tools for the construction and the interpretation of medium-resolution maps of ribosomal particles. J. Structural Biology, 127: 141-151

Schluenzen F., Koelln I., Janell D., Gluehmann M., Levin I., Bashan A., Harms J., Bartels H., Auerbach T., Pioletti M., Avila H., Anagnostopoulos K., Hansen H.A.S., Bennett W.S., Agmon I., Kessler M., Tocilj A., Krumbholz S., Peretz M., Weinstein S., Franceschi F. and Yonath A. (1999) The identification of selected components in electron density maps of prokaryotic ribosomes at 7 A resolution. J. Synchrotron Radiation, 6: 928-941

Yonath A., Harms J., Hansen H.A.S., Bashan A., Schlunzen F., Levin I., Koelln I., Tocilj A., Agmon I., Peretz M., Bartels H., Bennett W.S., Krumbholz S., Janell D., Weinstein S., Auerbach T., Avila H., Pioletti M., Morlang S. and Franceschi F. (1998) Crystallographic studies on the ribosome, a large macromolecular assembly exhibiting severe nonisomorphism, extreme beam sensitivity and no internal symmetry. Acta Crystallographica - Section A, 54: 945-955