Dr Agata Rekas
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Agata is a Protein Chemist with the National Deuteration Facility. She has an MSc in Molecular Biology from the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland and a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining ANSTO she held two postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto and University of Wollongong. She has research experience in various biological applications of NMR, and more recently focused on structure-function studies of proteins. She joined ANSTO in April 2006 to work on the production of deuterated proteins for structural characterization by neutron scattering.
Publications
A. Rekas, K. J. Ahn,J. Kim and J. A. Carver, The chaperone activity of a-synuclein: Utilizing deletion mutants to map its interaction with target proteins, Proteins 80(5), 1316-1325 (2012).
A. Sokolova, C. S. Kealley, T. Hanley, A. Rekas, and E. P. Gilbert, Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Study of the Effect of pH and Salts on 11S Soy Glycinin in the Freeze-Dried Powder and Solution States, J. Agric. Food Chem., 58(2), 967-974 (2010).
A. Ghahghaei, A. Rekas, J. A. Carver, and R. C. Augusteyn, Structure/function studies of dogfish alpha-crystallin, comparison with bovine alpha-crystallin, Mol. Vis., 15(256-59), 2411-2420 (2009).
A. Rekas, V. Lo, G. E. Gadd, R. Cappai, and S. L. Yun, PAMAM Dendrimers as Potential Agents against Fibrillation of alpha-Synuclein, a Parkinson's Disease-Related Protein, Macromol. Biosci., 9(3), 230-238 (2009).