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Dr. Nicola G. A. Abrescia

Dr. Nicola G. A. Abrescia

Ikerbasque Research Professor
(Italy)

  • Doctor in Science 2001 from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona-Spain).
  • 10 years of research experience in centres in Spain, United States and United Kingdom.
  • Research line: Structural studies of large macromolecular complexes and virus particles by X-ray crystallography and Electron microscopy.
  • Comes from 7 years postdoctoral experience at the Division of Structural Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at University of Oxford.
  • Has joined the Structural Biology Unit as Group Leader at the CICbioGUNE in October 2008.

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Publications

2011

El Omari, Dhaliwal, B., Ren, J., Abrescia, N. G. A., Lockyer, M., Powell, K. L., Hawkins, A. R., Stammers, D. K. (2011)
Structures of respiratory syncytial virus nucleocapsid protein from two crystal forms: details of potential packing interactions in the native helical form.
Acta Cryst. F67

Abrescia N.G.A, Grimes J.M, Oksanen H.M., Bamford J.K.H, Bamford D.H. & Stuart D.I. (2011)
The use of low resolution phasing followed by phase extension from 7.6Å to 2.5Å resolution with non-crystallographic symmetry to solve the structure of a bacteriophage capsid protein
Acta Cryst. D67

Wojtas M., Peralta B., Ondiviela M., Mogni M., Bell S.D and Abrescia N.G.A. (2011)
Archaeal RNA polymerase: the influence of the protruding stalk in crystal packing and preliminary biophysical analysis of the Rpo13 subunit
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 39

2009

Korkhin Y., Unligil, U. M., Littlefield, O., Nelson, P. J., Stuart, D. I., Sigler, P. B., Bell, S. D. and Abrescia, N. G. A. (2009)
Evolution of Complex RNA Polymerases: the Complete Archaeal RNA Polymerase Structure
Plos Biology

In press

Abrescia N.G.A, Bamford D.H., Grimes J.M & Stuart D.I. (2012)
Structure unifies the viral universe

Books and book chapters

Published

  • Abrescia, N. G. A., Grimes, J. M., Fry, E., Ravantti, J. J., Bamford D. H., Stuart, D. I. (2010)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Emerging Principles of Physical Virology
    Chapter: What does it take to make a virus: the concept of the viral “self”
    Page numbers: 35-57
    ISBN: ISBN-13 978-1-84816-464-2 | London: Imperial College Press, 2010 | Editors: Stockley, P. and Twarock, R.

Master degree

  • Molecular studies of eukaryotic and archaeal viral proteins involved in transcription and morphogeneisis (2011)
    Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV-EHU)
    Susana Azcune

Courses given

  • 2011
    Lecturer at "SICI Advanced Practical Course in Structural Techniques"
    The Spanish Ion Channel Initiative
    11-14 April, 2011
    CICbioGUNE
  • 2009
    'Viruses, small chemistry factories (snapshots from their structure)'
    Curso de Verano: Cuando la Quimica se hace Biologia. Organizers: Malaga University, Spain

Congresses, Proceedings & Scientific meetings

  • Phages and virus structures by hybrid methods. Nicola G. A. Abrescia
    Virology Days 2011 - University of Jyväskylä -Finland (2011) Congress
    The Rantasipi Laajavuori Hotel Laajavuorentie 30 40740 JYVÄSKYLÄ (Invited talk)
  • Archaeal RNAPs: preliminary biophysical analysis of the Rpo13 subunit & role of the protruding stalk in crystal packing. Magdalena Wojtas, Bibiana Peralta, Marina Ondiviela, Maria Mogni, Stephen D. Bell & Nicola G. A. Abrescia
    Molecular Biology of Archaea II (2010) Congress
    Robinson College, Cambridge, UK (Invited talk)
  • Structure of archaeal RNA polymerase. Magdalena Wojtas, Maria Mogni, Stephen D. Bell & Nicola G. A. Abrescia
    69th Harden - RNAP2010 - Structure, function and evolution of RNA polymerases. (2010) Congress
    The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CAM CB10 1RQ UK (Invited talk)
  • Closer to eukarya: the structure of the complete archaeal RNA polymerase. Nicola G. A. Abrescia
    The modern RNA world- Murnau Conference (2010) Congress
    The Murnau Conference-Germany (Invited talk)
  • New virus discovery from Archaea-a halophilic icosahedral virus HHIV-2 with an internal membrane. Kivela HM, Abrescia NG, Peralta B., Bamford JKH, Penttinen RK, Vilen S, Bamford DH
    Viruses of Microbes (2010) Congress
    Institute Pasteur, Paris (Poster)
  • Viruses as “living fossils”: chasing the ancestors through structural virology. Abrescia N. G. A.
    Structural Virology Workshop (2009) Congress
    CIC bioGUNE 4th-5th June 2009 (Talk)
  • Virus Paleontology: chasing the ancestors. Abrescia N. G. A.
    IV Alice Research Seminar Structural biology, vaccine research and immunology (2009) Congress
    University of Jyvaskyla - Finland (Invited talk)
 
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