Nadia Opara

Current Project

Solid supports for X-FEL based dynamic studies on 2D and 3D nanocrystals of membrane proteins.

This is a joint project between the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland running under the Swiss Nano Institute (SNI) PhD program.

 

 

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    Short Biography

    Nadia Opara from Poland joined the Stahlberg group at CINA / the Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen, Switzerland in Mar 2014. She has a BSc in the field of Biological Chemisty and an MSc in the field of Molecular Biotechnology and Technical Biochemistry, both from the Lodz University of Technology, Poland. She obtained her PhD in Fall 2018.

    Publications

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    Coordination-Driven Monolayer-to-Bilayer Transition in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Networks

    Moradi, M., Opara, N., Housecroft, C., Tulli, L., Stahlberg, H., Jung, T., Shahgaldian, P.

    J. Phys. Chem. 125(16), 4204-4211 (2021)

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    DOI: J. Phys. Chem.

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    Demonstration of femtosecond X-ray pump X-ray probe diffraction on protein crystals

    Opara, N., Mohacsi, I., Makita, M., Castano-Diez, D., Diaz, A., Jurani, P., Marsh, M., Meents, A., Milne, C.J., Mozzanica, A., Padeste, C., Panneels, V., Sikorski, M., Song, S., Stahlberg, H., Vartiainen, I., Vera, L., Wang, M., Willmott, P.R., David, C.

    Structural Dynamics 5(5), 054303 (2018)

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    Direct protein crystallization on ultrathin membranes for diffraction measurements at X-ray free electron lasers

    Opara, N., Martiel, I., Arnold, S., Braun, T., Stahlberg, H., Makita, M., David, C., Padeste, C.

    J. of Applied Crystallography 50, 909-918 (2017)

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    Total sample conditioning and preparation of nanoliter volumes for electron microscopy

    Arnold, S., Albiez, S., Opara, N., Chami, M., Schmidli, C., Bieri, A., Padeste, C., Stahlberg, H., Braun, T.

    ACS Nano 10, 4981-4988 (2016)

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    DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b01328

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