Background
Currently Researcher at Embrapa, Genetic Resources and
Biotechnology.Previous post-doctoral experience at the Universities of Leeds and Edinburgh. PhD Biochemistry University of Edinburgh,
1994.BA Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 1990.
Research areas
- Protein sequence analysis
- Protein computational functional annotation
- Structural bioinformatics
- Molecular modelling
Discovery of a novel amidase domain, CHAP, present in diverse bacterial and trypanosomal proteins (in press).
Analysis of the sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase sequence whose surprising presence in
Trypanosomatidae suggests that their distant ancestors gobbled up a plant cell –
PUBMED.
Analysis of the impressive over-representation of the TIM barrel
architecture among Glycoside Hydrolase families (in press).
Structural determinations of PhoE complexes, yielding insights into its
catalytic mechanism.
PUBMED.
A complete list of publications may be found here
E-mail: daniel@cenargen.embrapa.br
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Brazil.
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