Mónica Fernández-Vidal
Dr. Mónica Fernández-Vidal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics
University of California at Irvine
Med. Sci. I, D-374
Irvine, CA 92697-4560
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A Brief Curriculum Vitae
- Bachelor Degree on Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Spain (1997)
- Master of Sciences, Institute of Analytic Chemistry, Micro- and Radiochemistry at the Technical University of Graz, Austria. Adviser: Prof. Günter Knapp. Title: Investigations of Temperature and Pressure Behavior with Closed Vessels Microwave Assisted Sample Digestion (1999)
- Ph.D. , Institute of Biophysics and X-Ray Structure Research at the Technical University of Graz, Austria. Adviser: Prof. Peter Laggner. Title: Effects of Salts, Cholesterol and Melittin on Phospholipid Model Membranes. X-Ray Studies at the Concentration-Pressure-Temperature Space (2002)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California, P.I. Prof. Stephen White (present)
Projects
- Studies on structural and thermodynamic aspects of
proteinlipid interactions in order to develop methods for
predicting the topology of membrane proteins.
- Membrane Protein Folding and Stability
Techniques used:
- Solid-phase peptide synthesis
- High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- Circular dichroism (CD)
- Oriented circular dichroism (OCD)
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC)
- Dynamic and static light scattering.
Research Interests
- Membrane Protein Folding and Stability
- Energetics of protein-bilayer interactions
- Antimicrobial peptides
- Biophysical methods
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