Post-doctoral Training in Bioinformatics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (USA), under the supervision of Dr. Gerard Manning (2007-present).
Post-doctoral Training in Bioinformatics at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Adam Godzik (2005-2007).
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of York (UK), under the supervision of Prof. Rod Hubbard (2000-2004).
M.Res. in Bioinformatics, University of York (UK, 1999-2000).
B.Sc. in Genetics, University of Leeds (UK, 1996-1999).
Slabinski L.S., Jaroszewski L., Rodrigues A.P.C., Rychlewski, L., Wilson I.A., Lesley S.A. & Godzik A. (2007) "The challenge of protein structure determination - lessons from structural genomics" Protein Science 16: 2472-2482.
Rodrigues A.P.C., Grant B.J., Godzik A. & Friedberg I. (2007) "The 2006 Automated Function Prediction Meeting" BMC Bioinformatics 8 (Suppl 4): S1.
Grant B.J., Rodrigues A.P.C., ElSawy K.M., McCammon J.A. & Caves L.S.D. (2006) "Bio3d: an R package for the comparative analysis of protein structures" Bioinformatics 22 (21): 2695-2696.
Rodrigues A.P.C., Grant B.J. & Hubbard R.E. (2006) "sgTarget: a target selection resource for structural genomics" Nucleic Acids Research 34 (Web-server issue): W225-W230.
Rodrigues A.P.C. (2004) "Target Selection in Structural Genomics", Ph.D. Thesis, University of York, UK.
Rodrigues A. & Hubbard R.E. (2003) "Making Decisions for Structural Genomics" Briefings in Bioinformatics 4 (2): 150-167.
Brannigan J.A., Boucher I., Dodson G.G., Rodrigues A., Schnick C. & Wilkinson A.J. (2003) "Structural Studies of Plasmodium Proteins" Experimental Parasitology 105: 26 (MAM2004 Proceedings).
Co-editor of "The Second Automated Function Prediction Meeting" supplement in BMC Bioinformatics (2007).
Referee for Bioinformatics journal, OUP (since 2005).
Scientific Committee Member for "Automated Function Prediction" Conference, San Diego (USA, 2006).
Referee for "Automated Function Prediction" SIG at ISMB, Detroit (USA, 2005).
University of Southern California Conference Bursary (2004).
University of York Predoctoral Fellowship (2000-2004).
KM Stott Award for meritorious performance in research (2003).
BBSRC Conference Bursary (2003).
Wellcome Trust Conference Bursary (2002).
Leeds City Council Award for University Tuition Fees (1996-1999).
Co-supervised three Master student projects, University of York (UK, 2002-2004)
Developed and supervised one undergraduate student research project, University of York (UK, 2001)
Teaching Assistant, University of York (UK):
GCG Wisconsin Package Administrator, University of York (UK, 2000-2003).
Bioinformatics Department Intern, deCode Genetics, Reykjavik (Iceland, 2000).
Clinical Biology Unit Trainee, Medical Genetics Institute Jacinto Magalhaes, Porto (Portugal, 1998).
Salk Institute for Biological Studies (USA, 2007) Invited.
Joint Center for Structural Genomics Annual Meeting, The Scripps Research Institute (USA, 2007) Invited.
Biochemistry and Structural Biology Seminar, Department of Biology, University of York (UK, 2003) Invited.
KM Stott Award Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of York (UK, 2003) Invited.
"Functional Genomics: The Future of Biology", EMBL/EMBO Conference, Heidelberg (Germany, 2002) Contributed.
Young Modellers Forum, MGMS/RCS MMG, London (UK, 2001) Contributed.
3rd Annual "Systems to Synthesis" Symposium, La Jolla (USA, 2008)
"Metabolism and Cancer", 19th Annual Usha Mahajani Symposium on Molecular Medicine, La Jolla (USA, 2007)
"16th International C. elegans Meeting", Los Angeles (USA, 2007).
"Exploring Proteins" UCSD Dean's Symposium, La Jolla (USA, 2007).
"Metagenomics" Conference, La Jolla (USA, 2006).
"Automated Function Prediction" Conference, La Jolla (USA, 2006) Scientific committee.
"The Most Important Open Problems in Bioinformatics" UCSD Student-run Symposium, La Jolla (USA, 2006).
"Celebrating a Decade of Genome Sequencing" Meeting, La Jolla (USA, 2005).
"RNA: Beyond the Central Dogma" UCSD Dean's Symposium, La Jolla (USA, 2005).
3DSIG at ISMB, Glasgow (UK, 2004).
RECOMB, San Diego, (USA, 2004) Poster presentation.
"Structural Challenges in the Post-Genomics Era" XV John Innes Center Symposium, Norwich (UK, 2003) Poster presentation.
BioSimGrid Group Meeting, York (UK, 2003).
"Genome Informatics" CSHL/Wellcome Trust Conference, Hinxton (UK, 2002) Poster presentation.
GRID Simulation Group Meeting, Nottingham (UK, 2002).
"Sequence-based Pathogen Biology" Wellcome Trust Conference, Hinxton (UK, 2002) Poster presentation.
"Structural Genomics" CCP4 Study Weekend, York (2002).
Biotechnology YES, BBSRC, Nottingham (UK, 2001) Oral presentation.
Molecular Modelling and Simulation Group Meeting, Southampton (UK, 2001).
"Structure-based Drug Design", "Molecular Mechanics" and "Molecular Dynamics and Introduction to Life Sciences Modelling" Workshops, Accelrys, York (UK, 2001).
Ana P. C. Rodrigues Salk Institute for Biological Studies 10010 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037-1099 USA T +1 858.453.4100 x1983 E arodrigues.at.salk.dot.edu
Updated: Monday, November 5, 2007