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Daura Ribera, Xavier
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Life & Medical Sciences
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Xavier Daura obtained the Doctor degree in Biological Sciences by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1996. He then moved to the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of the Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology - ETH Zürich, where he performed research on computational modelling and simulation of biomolecular systems under the direction of Prof. Wilfred van Gunsteren. In 2002 he was appointed Research Professor by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and took this position to the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) of UAB, where he is an Associate Professor and leads the group of Computational Biology and Proteomics. He is Director of IBB since January 2011.
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Research Interests
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At present, the main objective of the group of Computational Biology and Proteomics of IBB is the analysis of proteomes of pathogenic bacteria for the identification of novel vaccine and antibacterial-target candidates. The group's trajectory was initially associated to the use of molecular-dynamics simulation methods for the study of biomolecular systems at atomic resolution, a field in which they are still active. Since 2007, however, the group has been expanding its scope with the incorporation of expertises on additional computational and experimental techniques. Currently, the group has active projects, often intertwined, in the following topics: study of biophysical properties of peptides and proteins by molecular-dynamics simulation methods; computational compound screening and redesign for drug discovery; bioinformatic and experimental identification and characterization of proteins of pathogenic bacteria for vaccine and antibacterial-drug development.
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KeyWords
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biomolecular modelling, biomolecular simulation, bioinformatics, pathogen proteomics, vaccines, antimicrobials
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