Simona Kovarich

University of Insubria

Department of Structural and Functional Biology
Via J.H. Dunant 3 - 21100 Varese - Italy

(2006) Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Insubria (Varese).
(2008) Master degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Insubria (Varese).

Simona Kovarich was born in Milan (Italy) in 1983. In Febrary 2006 she got the bachelor degree in Biological Science (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy) with a thesis entitled “POGs: Rapid Samplers of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air” (Prof. Antonio Di Guardo, Dr. Luca Nizzetto).
In July 2009 she got the master degree in Biological Science (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy) with a thesis entitled “QSAR modelling of physico-chemical property and toxicity of brominated flame retardants” (Prof. Paola Gramatica, Dr. Ester Papa).
Since October 2008 she is working at the QSAR Research Unit in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (Department of Structural and Functional Biology - University of Insubria – Varese) with a fellowship of the european project FP7-ENV-2007-1 CADASTER.
She is a member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) since 2008.

Papers

1. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, 2009. “Development, Validation and Inspection of the Applicability Domain of QSPR Models for Physico-Chemical Properties of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers”. QSAR & Combinatorial Sciences, 28 (8): 790-796.

Posters

2. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSPR prediction of physico-chemical properties and degradation of PBDEs”. 18th Annual Meeting SETAC-Europe, Warsaw, Poland, 25-29 May 2008.
3. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSAR prediction of endocrine disruption potencies of brominated flame retardants”. 18th Annual Meeting SETAC-Europe, Warsaw, Poland, 25-29 May 2008.
4. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSPR prediction of physico-chemical properties of PBDEs”. 13th International Workshop on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) in the Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, New York, USA, 8-12 June 2008.
5. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSAR prediction of endocrine disruption potencies of brominated flame retardants”. 13th International Workshop on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) in the Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, New York, USA, 8-12 June 2008.
6. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “Predizione delle proprietà chimico-fisiche dei PBDE mediante QSPR”, XI° Congresso Nazionale di Chimica dell’Ambiente e dei Beni Culturali (SCI), Muggia, Trieste, 16-20 June 2008.
7. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “Predizioni QSAR della potenziale attività dei ritardanti di fiamma bromurati come interferenti endocrini”, XI° Congresso Nazionale di Chimica dell’Ambiente e dei Beni Culturali (SCI), Muggia, Trieste, 16-20 June 2008.
8. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSPR prediction of physico-chemical properties and endocrine disrupting activity of brominated flame retardants”. 17th European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships & Omics Technologies and Systems Biology, Uppsala, Sweden, 21-26 September 2008.
9. S. Kovarich, E. Papa, P. Gramatica, “Modelli QSA(P)R per la predizione delle proprietà chimico fisiche e dell’attività di interferenza endocrina di ritardanti di fiamma bromurati”, IX° Convention Nazionale ARG (Ambiente Ricerca Giovani), Cinisi, Palermo, 17-21 November 2008.
10. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSAR modelling of the endocrine disrupting activity of Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs)”. 19th Annual Meeting SETAC-Europe, Göteborg, Svezia, 31 Maggio – 4 Giugno 2009.
11. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, G.S. Monti, P. Gramatica, M. Vighi, “Pesticides and Narcotics toxicity to Vibrio fischery studies by QSAR”. 19th Annual Meeting SETAC-Europe, Göteborg, Sweden, 31 May – 4 June 2009.
12. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSAR modelling of the endocrine disrupting activity of Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs)”. 5th International Symposium on Computational Methods in Toxicology and Pharmacology Integrating Internet Resources, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-8 July 2009.
13. E. Papa, S. Kovarich, P. Gramatica, “QSPR prediction of physico-chemical properties and endocrine disrupting activity of brominated flame retardants.”. 30th Annual Meeting SETAC-USA, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 19-23 November 2009. (abstract accepted)