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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Burton Medal, Mineralogical Society of America

Overview

Eva Nogales is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, specializing primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Cell Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers multiple research topics, prominently focusing on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, DNA Repair Mechanisms, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Eva Nogales has contributed to a number of research articles published in notable scientific venues. Recent publications include:

  • Bridging structural and cell biology with cryo-electron microscopy, 2024, Nature
  • Structures of a phycobilisome in light-harvesting and photoprotected states, 2022, Nature
  • Structural and functional insight into regulation of kinesin-1 by microtubule-associated protein MAP7, 2022, Science
  • JARID2 and AEBP2 regulate PRC2 in the presence of H2AK119ub1 and other histone modifications, 2021, Science
  • Structure of the activated ROQ1 resistosome directly recognizing the pathogen effector XopQ, 2020, Science

Their frequent co-authors include Paul Sauer, Basil J. Greber, Patricia Grob, Alfredo Jose Florez Ariza, and Brian J. Staskawicz.

Eva Nogales' work has appeared extensively in several publication venues, with a significant number of works featured in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 24 publications
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 6 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5 publications
  • Science, 4 publications
  • Nature, 4 publications

Throughout their career, Eva Nogales has received several honors including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Burton Medal, Mineralogical Society of America (2000)

Best Publications

  • Structure of the alpha beta tubulin dimer by electron crystallography.

    Eva Nogales;Sharon G. Wolf;Kenneth H. Downing

  • Correction: Structure of the αβ tubulin dimer by electron crystallography

    Eva Nogales;Sharon G. Wolf;Kenneth H. Downing

  • Refined structure of alpha beta-tubulin at 3.5 A resolution.

    J Löwe;H Li;K.H Downing;E Nogales;E Nogales

  • Structures of Cas9 Endonucleases Reveal RNA- Mediated Conformational Activation

    Martin Jinek;Fuguo Jiang;David W. Taylor;David W. Taylor;Samuel H. Sternberg

  • High-resolution model of the microtubule.

    Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales;Michael Whittaker;Ronald A. Milligan;Kenneth H. Downing

  • Structural insight into microtubule function.

    Eva Nogales

  • Structural Insights into Microtubule Function

    Eva Nogales

  • Complete subunit architecture of the proteasome regulatory particle

    Gabriel C. Lander;Eric Estrin;Mary E. Matyskiela;Charlene Bashore

  • High-resolution microtubule structures reveal the structural transitions in αβ-tubulin upon GTP hydrolysis.

    Gregory M. Alushin;Gabriel C. Lander;Elizabeth H. Kellogg;Rui Zhang

  • Tubulin and FtsZ form a distinct family of GTPases.

    Eva Nogales;Kenneth H. Downing;Linda A. Amos;Jan Löwe

  • Structures of a CRISPR-Cas9 R-loop complex primed for DNA cleavage.

    Fuguo Jiang;David W. Taylor;Janice S. Chen;Jack E. Kornfeld

  • A common pharmacophore for epothilone and taxanes: Molecular basis for drug resistance conferred by tubulin mutations in human cancer cells

    Paraskevi Giannakakou;Rick Gussio;Eva Nogales;Kenneth H. Downing

  • Structures of the RNA-guided surveillance complex from a bacterial immune system

    Blake Wiedenheft;Gabriel C. Lander;Kaihong Zhou;Matthijs M. Jore

  • Structure of tubulin at 6.5 Å and location of the taxol-binding site

    Eva Nogales;Sharon Grayer Wolf;Israr A. Khan;Richard F. Ludueña

  • Microtubule structure at 8 A resolution.

    Huilin Li;David J. DeRosier;William V. Nicholson;Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales

  • The binding conformation of Taxol in β-tubulin: A model based on electron crystallographic density

    James P. Snyder;James H. Nettles;Ben Cornett;Kenneth H. Downing

  • The development of cryo-EM into a mainstream structural biology technique

    Eva Nogales

  • Mechanistic Origin of Microtubule Dynamic Instability and Its Modulation by EB Proteins

    Rui Zhang;Gregory M. Alushin;Alan Brown;Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales

  • Cryo-EM: A Unique Tool for the Visualization of Macromolecular Complexity

    Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales;Sjors H.W. Scheres

  • CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors

    Jun Jie Liu;Jun Jie Liu;Jun Jie Liu;Natalia Orlova;Benjamin L. Oakes;Enbo Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer A. Doudna
Jennifer A. Doudna University of California, Berkeley
Hong-Wei Wang
Hong-Wei Wang Tsinghua University
Krishna K. Niyogi
Krishna K. Niyogi University of California, Berkeley
Jeremy Thorner
Jeremy Thorner University of California, Berkeley
Robert Tjian
Robert Tjian University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Bondy-Denomy
Joseph Bondy-Denomy University of California, San Francisco
Steven Chu
Steven Chu Stanford University
Michael R. Botchan
Michael R. Botchan University of California, Berkeley
David G. Drubin
David G. Drubin University of California, Berkeley

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