Monday, November 23, 2009
Eva Nogales
Dr.
Nogales is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; and Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory. She obtained her B.S. degree in physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
(Spain). She did her thesis work at the Synchrotron Radiation Source (U.K.), under the supervision of Joan
Bordas, on the structural dynamics of tubulin assembly, earning a Ph.D. degree from the University of
Keele. Her work in Kenneth Downing's group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory involved the use
of electron crystallography to determine the high-resolution structure of tubulin.
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Eva Nogales (Evangelina Nogales de la Morena)
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Education
B.S. (1988) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. General Physics and Solid State Physics
Ph.D. (1992) Biophysics, University of Keele, U.K. - Work at the Synchrotron Radiation
Source (Daresbury Laboratory). Thesis title: "The assembly of microtubules and drug-induced tubulin
polymers: and X-ray diffraction and cryo-electron microscopy study." Thesis advisor: Joan Bordas.
Work Experience
1993 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. Advisor: Ken Downing
1996 - 1998 Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
1998 - 2003 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
1998 - 2008 Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
2000 - present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
2003 - 2006 Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
2006 - present Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
2008 - present Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
Awards, Honors, Fellowships
1984 - 1988 Undergraduate fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education
1989 - 1992 Doctoral fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education. Bursary from the MRC
(U.K.)
1998 Outstanding Performance Award by Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
1999 Member of the Program Committee for the American
Society for Cell Biology
2000 Burton Award by the Microscopy Society of
America
2000 - present Member of the editorial board of Journal
of Structural Biology
2001 One of 18 scientists at LBNL highlighted in the campaign "Did you ever wonder?"
2001 - 2005 Elected member of the Biophysical
Society Council
2002 Co-organizer of the Biophysical Discussions on Frontiers In Structural Cell Biology
2002 - present Chair - Advisory Board for the National Resource for Automated Molecular
Microscopy
2003 - 2005 Elected member of the Biophysical
Society Executive Board
2003 Organizer of the first QB3 Annual Symposium:
"Challenges in Biological Imaging: From Cells To Molecules"
2003 - 2006 Elected member of the Program Committee for the Biophysical Society
2004 Co-organizer of HHMI-MPI joint Workshop on Molecular and Cellular
Imaging
2005 Chabot Science Award for Excellence
2005 Early Career Award by the American Society for Cell
Biology
2005 - 2009 Macromolecular Structure and Function C Study Section Member
2006 Co-organizer of "Imaging" mini-symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology
2007 Co-editor of the Macromolecular Section, Current Opinion in Structural Biology,
2007
2007 Co-organizer of the "Imaging Techniques" workshop of the GTL-DOE Annual Conference
2008 Co-organizer of CNiO Cancer Conference:
Structure And Mechanisms of Essential Complexes For Cell Survival
2008 Co-organizer of workshop "Frontiers in Cryo-EM" at Janelia Farm
2009 Chair of the Early Career Selection Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology