We collaborate with researchers in the United States and abroad on a number of different research projects of mutual interest.
 

1. Prof. Anne B. Mason, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont: Electron resonance studies of site directed mutants of the N terminal and C-terminal half molecules of human serum transferrin and their interaction with the receptor.

2. Prof. Paolo Arosio,Dibit, University of Brescia, Milan: Spectroscopic, kinetic and thermodynamic studies of site directed variants of recombinant human ferritins.

3. Dr. Grazia Isaya, Mayo Clinic and Foundation: Studies of Iron binding and protein docking of human and yeast frataxins using isothermal titration calorimetry.

4. Prof. Emilia Chiancone, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rome: The iron oxidation and hydrolysis reactions of Listeriainnocua and Escherichia coli Dps  - DNA binding and protection proteins.

5. Prof. Geoffry R. Moore, Prof. Andrew Thomson and Dr. Nick LeBrun, Center for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, University of East Anglia: The iron oxidation and hydrolysis chemistry of Escherchia coli bacterioferritin EcBFR.

6. Prof. Georgia Papaefthymiou, Department of Physics, Villanova University: Rapid freeze-quench Mössbauer spectroscopy of reaction intermediates during iron deposition in the ferritins.

7. Dr. Simon Andrews, Department of Microbial Biochemistry, University of Reading: Structural and functional studies of the bacterial ferritin EcFTnA from E. coli.

8. Prof. Thomas M. Laue, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Hampshire: Analytical ultracentrifugation studies of the assembly properties of ferritins, Dps proteins and frataxins.