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Curriculum Vitae

1 Formación

Licenciado en Química (Universidad de Barcelona, junio de 1991)

Doctorado en Química (Universidad de Barcelona, enero de 1997) bajo la dirección de los doctores Anna Izquierdo Ridorsa y Romà Tauler Ferré.

Máster en Administración de Empresas (EADA, Barcelona, 2003)


2 Estancias en otros centros de investigación

Instituto de Farmacia de la Vrije Universiteit de Bruselas (Bélgica), 1994. Validación de nuevas técnicas quimiométricas y aplicación a datos de equilibrios en solución y de HPLC-DAD

Instituto de Química General, Inorgánica y Teórica de la Universidad de Innsbruck (Austria), 1997. Aprendizaje y aplicación del método CoMFA al establecimiento de relaciones cuantitativas entre la estructura electrónica y la actividad de compuestos de importancia biológica

Institut de Biologia Fonamental - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999. Simulaciones de dinámica molecular de proteínas

Grup de Recerca en Informàtica Estructural - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), 2002. Aplicación del método P3M para el cálculo de energías electrostáticas en simulaciones de dinámica molecular de proteínas.


3 Publicaciones en revistas científicas nacionales e internacionales

Combination of chromatographic and chemometric methods to study the interactions between DNA strands. Ruiz, S.; Checa, A.; Gargallo, R.; Jaumot, J. Anal. Chim. Acta. 2012, en prensa

Experimental methods to study the interaction of G-quadruplex structures with ligands. Jaumot, J., Gargallo, R. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2012, en prensa.

Influence of pH, temperature and cationic porphyrin TMPyP4 on the stability of the i-motif formed by the 5'-(C3TA2)4-3' sequence of the human telomere. Fernández, S.; Jaumot, J.; Aviñó, A.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2011, 49, 729-736

Chemical equilibria studies using multivariate analysis methods. Jaumot, J.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2011, 399, 1983-1997

Spectrometric study of the folding process of i-motif-forming DNA sequences upstream of the c-kit transcription initiation site. Bucek, P.; Gargallo, R.; Kudrev, A. Anal. Chim. Acta, in press. DOI 10.1016/j.aca.2010.10.008

Using Principal Component Analysis to find hidden correlations between loop-related and thermodynamic variables for G-quadruplex-forming sequences. Jaumot, J.; Gargallo, R. Biochimie 2010, 92, 1016-1023

Synthesis and G-quadruplex binding properties of defined acridine oligomers. Ferreira, R.; Aviñó, A.; Pérez-Tomás, R.; Gargallo, R.; Eritja, R. Journal of Nucleic Acids, 2010, article ID 489060, doi:10.4061/2010/489060

Spectrometric study of the oligodeoxyribonucleotide protonation in aqueous solution. Gargallo, R.; Eritja, R.; Kudrev, A. Russian Journal of General Chemistry 2010, 3, 485. DOI: 10.1134/S1070363210030205

Structural properties of G,T-parallel duplexes carrying 8-aminopurine residues. Aviñó, A.; Cubero, E.; Gargallo, R.; González, C.; Orozco, M.; Eritja, R. Journal of Nucleic Acids, 2010, Article ID 763658, doi:10.4061/2010/763658

pH-modulated Watson-Crick duplex - quadruplex equilibria of guanine-rich and cytosine-rich DNA sequences 140 bp upstream of the c-kit transcription initiation site. Bucek, P.; Jaumot, J.; Aviñó, A.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2009, 15, 12663-12671

del Toro, M.; Bucek, P.; Aviñó, A.; Jaumot, J.; González, C.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. Targeting the G-quadruplex-forming region near the P1 promoter in the human BCL-2 gene with the cationic porphyrin TMPyP4 and with the complementary strand. Biochimie, 2009, 91, 894 - 902

Ramos, R.; Manning, B.; Aviñó, A.; Gargallo, R.; Eritja, R. Photocleavage of peptides and oligodeoxynucleotides carrying 2-nitrobenzyl groups. Helv. Chim. Acta 2009, 92, 613

Jaumot, J.; Eritja, R.; Navea, S. Gargallo, R.  Classification of nucleic acids structures by means of the chemometric analysis of circular dichroism spectra. Anal. Chim. Acta. 2009, 642, 117 - 126

del Toro, M.; Gargallo, R.; Eritja, R.; Jaumot, J. Study of the interaction between the G-quadruplex-forming Thrombin Binding Aptamer and the porphyrin TMPyP4. Anal. Biochem. 2008, 379, 8 - 15

Aviñó, A.; Grimau, M.G.; Alvira, M.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R.; Orozco, M.; González, C. Triplex formation using oligonucleotide clamps carrying 8-aminopurines. Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids 2007, 26, 979 - 983

Kahn, N. Aviñó, A.; Tauler, R.; González, C.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. Solution equilibria of the i-motif-forming region upstream of the B-cell lymphoma-2 P1 promoter. Biochimie 2007, 89, 1562 - 1572

Vives, M.; Tauler, R.; Eritja, R.; Gargallo, R. Spectroscopic study of the interaction of actinomycin D with oligonucleotides carrying the central base sequences -XGCY- and -XGGCCY- using multivariate methods. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2007, 387, 311- 320

Jaumot, J.; Tauler, R.; Gargallo, R. Exploratory data analysis of DNA microarrays by multivariate curve resolution. Analytical Biochemistry 2006, 358, 76 - 89

Gargallo, R.; Cedano, J.; Mozo-Villarias, A.; Querol, E.; Oliva, B. Study of the influence of temperature on the dynamics of the catalytic cleft in 1,3-1,4-beta-glucanase by molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Molecular Modeling 2006, 12, 835 - 845

Jaumot, J.; Eritja, R.; Tauler, R.; Gargallo, R. Resolution of a structural competition involving dimeric G-quadruplex and its C-rich complementary strand. Nucleic Acids Research 2006, 34, 206 - 216

López de la Osa, J.; González, C.; Gargallo, R.; Rueda, M.; Cubero, E.; Orozco, M.; Aviñó, A.; Eritja, R. Destabilization of quadruplex DNA by 8-aminoguanine. ChemBioChem 2006, 7, 46 - 48

Kumar, P.; Verma, A.; Maiti, S.; Gargallo, R.; Chowdhury, S. Tetraplex DNA transitions within the human c-myc promoter detected by Multivariate Curve Resolution of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. Biochemistry 2005, 44, 16426 - 16434

Kumar, P.;Kanchan, K.; Gargallo, R.; Chowdhury, S. Resolution of folding processes of DNA monitored by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer by Multivariate Curve Resolution. Analytica Chimica Acta 2005, 536, 135 - 143

Jaumot, J.; Gargallo, R. ; de Juan, A.; Tauler, R. A user friendly interface for MCR-ALS: a new tool for Multivariate Curve Resolution in MATLAB. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 2005, 76, 101 - 110

Grimau, M.G.; Aviñó, A.; Gargallo, R.; Eritja R. Synthesis and triplex-forming properties of cyclic oligonucleotides with (G,A)-Antiparallel strands. Chemistry & Biodiversity 2005, 2, 275 - 285

Jaumot, J.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Noise propagation and error estimations in multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares using resamplig methods. Journal of Chemometrics 2004, 18, 327 - 340

Jaumot, J.; Marchán, V.; Gargallo, R.; Grandas, A.; Tauler, R. Multivariate Curve Resolution applied to the analysis and resolution of two-dimensional [1H,15N]-NMR data.  Analytical Chemistry 2004, 76, 7094 - 7101

Jaumot, J.; Vives, M.; Gargallo, R. Application of multivariate resolution methods to the study of Biochemical and Biophysical processes. Analytical Biochemistry 2004, 327, 1 - 13

Plankensteiner, K.; Righi, A.; Gargallo, R.; Jaumot, J.; Tauler, R. ; Rode, B. M. Indications towards a stereoselectivity of the Salt-Induced Peptide Formation reaction.  Inorganica Chimica Acta 2004, 357, 649 - 656

Vives, M.; Eritja, R.; Tauler, R.; Marquez, V.E.; Gargallo, R. Synthesis, Stability, and Protonation Studies of a Self-Complementary Dodecamer Containing the Modified Nucleoside 2'-Deoxyzebularine. Biopolymers 2003, 73, 27 - 43

Gargallo, R.; Jaumot, J.; Tauler, R.; Vives, M. Resolución de procesos ácido-base y de desnaturalización en sistemas macromoleculares mediante métodos quimiométricos de análisis de factores. Industria Farmacéutica 2003, octubre, 121 - 126

Gargallo, R.; Hünenberger, P.H.; Avilés, F.X.; Oliva, B. Molecular Dynamics simulation of highly-charged proteins: Comparison of the particle-particle particle-mesh and reaction field methods for the calculation of electrostatic interactions. Protein Science 2003, 12, 2161 - 2172

Jaumot, J.; Aviñó, A.; Eritja, R.; Tauler, R.; Gargallo, R. Resolution of parallel and antiparallel oligonucleotide triple helices formation and melting processes by Multivariate Curve Resolution. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2003, 21, 267 - 278

Jaumot, J.; Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Multivariate resolution of NMR labile signals by means of hard- and soft-modelling methods. Analytica Chimica Acta 2003, 490, 253 - 264

Vives, M.; Tauler, R.; Moreno, V.; Gargallo, R. Study of the interaction of a cis-dichloroamino- pyrrolidine Pt(II) complex and the polynucleotide poly(I)-poly(C) by means of H-NMR and Multivariate Curve Resolution. Analytica Chimica Acta 2001, 446, 439 - 450

Jaumot, J.; Escaja, N.; Gargallo, R.; Gonzalez, C.; Pedroso, E.; Tauler, R. Multivariate curve resolution: a powerful tool for the analysis of conformational transitions in nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Research  2002, 30, e92

Vives, M.; Tauler, R.; Gargallo, R. Study of the influence of metal ions on tRNAPhe thermal unfolding equilibria by UV spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2002, 89, 115 - 122

Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Three-way data analysis applied to speciation of acid-base and unfolding transitions of an alternating polynucleotide. Biopolymers 2001, 59, 477 - 488

Gargallo, R.; Vives, M.; Tauler, R.; Eritja, R. Protonation studies and multivariate curve resolution on oligodesoxynucleotcarrying the mutagenic base 2-aminopurine. Biophysical Journal 2001, 81, 2886 - 2896

Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Moreno, V. Study of the interaction of cis-dichloro- -(1,2-diethyl-3-aminopyrrolidine)Pt complex with poly(I), poly(C) and poly(I)-poly(C).  Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2001, 85, 279 - 290

Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Analytical characterization of the cooperative effects in conformational transitions of polynucleotides by means of different molecular spectros copies and multivariate curve resolution. Analytical Biochemistry 2001, 291, 1 - 10

Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Multivariate extension of the continuous variation and mole-ratio methods for the study of the interaction of intercalators with polynucleotides. Analytica Chimica Acta 2000, 424, 105 - 114

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Introducción al análisis de componentes principales y a la calibración multivariante y a sus aplicaciones en el campo de la industria farmaceútica.  Industria Farmacéutica 2000, julio, 87 - 91

Gargallo, R.; Oliva, B.; Querol, E.; Avilés, F.X. Effect of the reaction field electrostatics term on the dynamics of the activation domain of procarboxypeptidase B. Protein Engineering 2000, 13, 21 - 26

Gargallo, R.; Sotriffer, C.A.; Liedl, K.R.; Rode, B.M. Application of multivariate data analysis methods to Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA). Proton affinities and pKa prediction for nucleic acids components. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 1999, 13, 611 - 623

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Aplicaciones de la Quimiometria en el ámbito de la industria química. Química e Industria 1999, 46, 511 - 514

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A. Study of the protonation equilibria of a transfer ribonucleic acid by means of a multivariate curve resolution. Quimica Analitica 1999, 18, 73 - 81

Tauler, R.; Gargallo, R.; Vives, M.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A. Resolution of temperature dependent conformational multiequilibria processes. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 1999, 46, 275 - 296

Vives, M.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R. Study of the intercalation equilibria between the polynucleotide poly(ade- nylic)-poly(uridylic) acid and the ethidium bromide dye by means of Multivariate Curve Resolution and the multivariate extension of the con- tinuous variation and mole-ratio methods. Analytical Chemistry 1999, 71, 4328- 4337

Kudrev, A.; Gargallo, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Tauler, R.; Casassas, E. Study of the acid-base equilibria and conformational changes of double stranded polyadenylic-polyuridylic acid in aqueous solution. Analytica Chimica Acta 1998, 363, 119 - 132

De Juan, A.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Fondrodona, G.; Casassas, E. Three-way curve resolution applied to the study of solvent effect on the thermodynamic and conformational transitions related to the protonation of polycytidylic acid. Analytical Biochemistry 1997, 249, 174 - 183

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A. Application of a multivariate curve resolution procedure to the analysis ofsecond-order melting data of synthetic and natural polynucleotides. Analytical Chemistry 1997, 69, 1785 - 1792

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A. Acid-base and copper(II) complexation equilibria of poly(inosinic)- poly(cytidylic) acid. Biopolymers 1997, 42, 271 - 283

Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Casassas, E.; Gargallo, R.; Marqués, I.; Tauler, R. A comparative study of polyelectrolyte effects and conformational changes in several purine and pyrimidine homopolyribonucleotides. Reactive & Functional Polymers 1996, 28, 127 - 137

de Juan, A.; Fonrodona, G.; Gargallo, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Tauler, R.; Casassas, E. Application of a self-modeling curve resolution approach to the study of solvent effects on the acid-base and Cooper(II) complexing behaviour of polyuridylic acid. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 1996, 63, 155 - 173

Gargallo, R.; Tauler, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A. Influence of selectivity and polyelectrolite effects on the performance of soft modelling and hard-modelling aproaches applied to the study of acid-base equilibria of polyelectrolites by spectrometric titrations. Analytica Chimica Acta 1996, 331, 195 - 205

Gargallo, R.; Cuesta-Sánchez, F.; Massart, D.L.; Tauler, R. Validation of alternating least squares multivariate curve resolution for the chromatographic resolution and quantitation. Trac-Trends in Analytical Chemistry 1996, 15, 279 - 286

Gargallo, R.; Cuesta-Sánchez, F.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Massart, D. L. Application of Eigenstructure Tracking Analysis and SIMPLISMA to the study of the protonation equilibria of cCMP and several polynucleotides. Analytical Chemistry 1996, 68, 2241 - 2247

Casassas, E.; Gargallo, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Tauler, R. Application of a multivariate curve resolution procedure to the study of the acid-base and cooper(II) complexation equilibria of polycytidylic acid. Reactive Polymers 1995, 27, 1 - 14

Tauler, R.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Gargallo, R.; Casassas, E. Application of a new multivariate curve resolution procedure to the simultaneous analysis of several spectroscopic titrations of the copper (II)-polynosinic acid system. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 1995, 27, 163 - 174

Casassas, E.; Gargallo, R.; Giménez, I.; Izquierdo, A.; Tauler, R. Study of the Acid-Base Behaviour and Copper (II) Complexing Properties of Uracil- and Hypoxanthine-Derived Nucleotides in Aqueous Solution. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 1994, 56, 187 - 199

Casassas, E.; Gargallo, R.; Giménez, I.; Izquierdo-Ridorsa, A.; Tauler, R.; Application of an evolving factor analysis-based procedure to speciation in the Copper (II) polyrudilic acid system; Analytica Chimica Acta 1993, 283, 538 - 547


4  Dirección de tesis doctorales, tesis de máster y Tesinas

Tesis de Máster en Química experimental: Estudis espectroscòpics i cromatogràfics dels equilibris en solució d'una seqüència formadora de G-quàdruplex al gen hTERT, Sara Ruiz. Codirector: Joaquim Jaumot Soler.

Tesis de "European Master in Quality in Analytical Laboratories": Application of Surface Plasmon Resonance and spectroscopic techniques for characterizing the interaction between the human c-kit G-quadruplex DNA and water soluble porphyrins. Sintayehu Manaye

Tesis de Máster en Química experimental: Interaccion de la estructura G-cuádruplex formada por el aptámero de la trombina con porfirinas, Miquel del Toro. Codirector: Joaquim Jaumot Soler.

Tesis doctoral: Nous desenvolupaments, aplicacions bioanalítiques i validació de Mètodes de Resolució Multivariant, Joaquim Jaumot Soler, 2006. Codirector: Romà Tauler Ferré.

Tesis doctoral: Estudio de los cambios conformacionales de ácidos nucleicos y de su interacción con compuestos de interés farmacológico, Montserrat Vives Blázquez, 2003. Codirector: Romà Tauler Ferré.

Tesis de máster en Química experimental: Estudi dels equilibris i dels canvis conformacionals de l’oligonucleòtid cíclic d(pTGCTCGCT) mitjançant tècniques espectroscòpiques i Resolució Multivariant de Corbes, Joaquim Jaumot Soler, 2002. Codirector: Romà Tauler Ferré.

Tesina: Aplicación de metodologías in-situ y en continuo para el estudio de los equilibrios ácido-base y de complejación de la 1,10-fenantrolina y derivados, Jordi Iglesias Yagüe, 1998. Codirector: Anna Izquierdo Ridorsa.

Tesina: Acoplamiento de técnicas espectrométricas al estudio de la interacción entre fármacos y DNA, Montserrat Vives Blázquez, 1998. Codirector: Anna Izquierdo Ridorsa.

 
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