Sandro Ataide
Sandro F Ataide is a biochemist and structural biologist at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. He completed his PhD at The Ohio State University (USA) Under the supervision of Prof. Michael Ibba studying the evolution and selectivity of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS). During his PhD, Dr. Ataide received a Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association and was awarded a Phi-Kappa-Phi Honors. He started his post-doc work with Professor Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley as a crystallographer studying the Signal Recognition Particle (SRP). In 2009 he was awarded ETH Post-doctoral Fellowship to continue his work with SRP and the eukaryotic ribosome with Professor Nenad Ban at ETH Zurich. His research focus on the structural and biochemical characterization of non-coding RNAs and RNA-protein complexes. His research has entered a new phase in developing a set of tools and compounds to block RNA-protein interactions aiming to develop antibiotics, antivirals etc. Recently his lab has discovered the reprogrammable seekRNA which is a new type of gene editing tool.
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