Eva Nogales, a Distinguished Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, studied physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, did her doctorate in biophysics at the University of Keele, and her postdoctoral work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where she obtained the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography. She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2000 and is a Senior Faculty Scientist at LBNL.
Nogales uses cryo-EM to describe the structure, dynamics and interactions of biological assemblies essential to the life of all eukaryotic cells, including microtubules and associated factors, and complexes involved in gene transcription activation and epigenetic gene silencing.
Nogales is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain and of EMBO. In 2020 she served as President of ASCB. In 2023 she received the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for her structural studies of the human transcription preinitiation complex.
Professional position
- Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
