Eva Nogales
| Eva Nogales | |
|---|---|
| Born | Madrid, Spain |
| Alma mater | B.S., physics, Autonomous University of Madrid in 1988, Ph.D., University of Keele, 1992 |
| Occupation | Biophysicist, professor |
| Employer | University of California, Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Synchrotron Radiation Source |
| Known for | The first to determine the atomic structure of tubulin by electron crystallography |
| Spouse(s) | Howard Padmore |
| Children | Two children |
| Awards |
Early Career Award, American Society for Cell Biology (2005) Chabot Science Award for Excellence (2006) |
Eva Nogales (b. Madrid, Spain) is a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a faculty member in the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Eva Nogales works on structural and functional characterization of macromolecular complexes. Her lab uses electron microscopy, computational image analysis as well as functional biochemical assays to gain insights into function and regulation of the large biological assemblies.
Early life and education
Eva Nogales obtained her B.S. degree in physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1988. She later earned her Ph.D. from the University of Keele in 1992 while working at the Synchrotron Radiation Source under the supervision of Joan Bordas.
Career
During her post-doctoral work in the Ken Downing lab, Eva Nogales was the first to determine the atomic structure of tubulin by electron crystallography.[1]
She now continues to study microtubule dynamics in her own laboratory.[2] In addition to microtubules, Dr. Nogales explores the structural and functional aspects of large macromolecular assemblies such as eukaryotic transcription and translation initiation complexes.[3]
Awards
Nogales is a recipient of several awards including Early Career Award by the American Society for Cell Biology (2005), and the Chabot Science Award for Excellence (2006). In April 2015, she was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, 2015.
Personal life
Nogales is married to Howard Padmore and they have two children.
- ↑ Nogales, E., Wolf, S. G. and Downing, K. H. (1998.) Structure of the ab tubulin dimer by electron crystallography. Nature, 391, 199-203.
- ↑ Nogales, E., Wang. H-W. (2006.) Structural intermediates in microtubule assembly and disassembly: how and why? Curr. Opin. Cell. Biol., 18(2):179-84.
- ↑ Michael A. Cianfrocco, George A. Kassavetis, Patricia Grob, Jie Fang, Tamar Juven-Gershon, James T. Kadonaga, Eva Nogales (2013.) Human TFIID Binds to Core Promoter DNA in a Reorganized Structural State. Cell, 152(1):120-131.