SUSANA A. SANCHEZ
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Institution and Location

Degree

Year(s)

Field of Study

Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (UCV), Valparaiso, Chile

Doctor in Sciences

1997

Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (UCV), Valparaiso, Chile

Biochemistry

1987

Bioelectochemistry

Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (UCV), Valparaiso, Chile

Lic. in Biochemistry

1986

Bioelectochemistry

Professional Experience

2002-present:

User Coordinator Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics and Research Physicist, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2000-2002:

 Research Physicist, Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1997-2000:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1992-1997:

Graduate Student, UCV, Valparaiso, Chile.

1989-1991:

Research Assistant, U.T.Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

1988-1989:

Research Assistant, Protein Purification. Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

1986-1988: 

Teaching Assistant in Experimental Biochemistry. UCV, Chile.
Research Assistant, Electrochemistry of Biological Molecules. UCV, Chile.

Publications

 

·  Susana A. Sánchez, M. Alejandra Tricerri, Enrico Gratton. Interaction of High Density Lipoprotein particles with membranes containing cholesterol. J Lipid Res 48: 1689-1700, 2007

·  Nicolini, C., J. Baranski, S. Schlummer, J. Palomo, M. Lumbierres-Burgues, M. Kahms, J. Kuhlmann, S. Sánchez, E. Gratton, H. Waldmann and R. Winter. Visualizing association of N-Ras in lipid microdomains: Influence of domain structure and interfacial adsorption.  J. Am Chem Soc. 128(1):192-201 (2006)

·  Susana A. Sánchez and Enrico Gratton. Lipid-Protein Interactions Revealed by Two-Photon Microscopy and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. Accounts of Chemical Research Acc Chem Res., 38(6):469-77 (2005).

·  Cristina Arnulphi, Susana Sánchez, Maria A. Tricerri, Enrico Gratton, and Ana Jonas. Interaction of Human Apolipoprotein A-I with Model Membranes Exhibiting Lipid Domains. Biophys J., 89(1):285-95 (2005).

·  M. A.Tricerri, J.D. Toledo, S. A. Sánchez, T. L. Hazlett, E.Gratton, A. Jonas, and H. A. Garda. Visualization and analysis of apolipoprotein A-I interaction with binary phospholipid bilayers. J. Lipid Res. 46: 669-678 (2005).

·  Sanchez SA, Brunet JE, Jameson DM, Lagos R, Monasterio O. Tubulin equilibrium unfolding followed by time-resolved fluorescence and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Protein Sci.  Jan;13(1):81-8. (2004).

·  Bell, J.D.,Sánchez S.A., Hazlett T.L. Liposomes in the study of phospholipase A2 activity. Methods Enzymol. ; 372:19-48.(2003)

·  Bagatolli, L.A., S.A.Sanchez, T.L. Hazlett, And E. Gratton . Giant Vesicles, Laurdan and Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy: Direct Evidence of Lipid Lateral Separation in Bilayers.  Methods in Enzymology 360, 481-500 (2003).

·  Tricerri, M A., S. A. Sanchez, C. Arnulphi, D. M. Durbin, E. Gratton, A. Jonas. Interaction of apolipoprotein A-I in three different conformations with palmitoyl oleoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles, Journal of Lipid Research, 43(2), 187-197 (2002).

·  Sanchez, S.A., L. A. Bagatolli, E. Gratton, and T. L. Hazlett. A Two-Photon View of an Enzyme at Work: Crotalus atrox Venom PLA2 Interaction with Single-Lipid and Mixed-Lipid Giant Unilamellar Vesicles. Biophys. J. 82, 2232-2243 (2002).

·  Sanchez, S. A., Y. Chen, J. D. Mueller, E. Gratton,  T. L. Hazlett.  Solution and interface aggregation states of C. atrox venom phospholipase A2 by 2-photon excitation fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.  Biochemistry 40, 6903-6911 (2001).

·  S.K.Smith, A.R.Farnbach, F.M.Harris, A.C.Hawes, L.R.Jackson, A.M.Judd, R.S.Vest, S.Sánchez and J.D.Bell. Mechanisms by Which Intracellular Calcium Induces Susceptibility to Secretory Phospholipase A2 in Human Erythrocytes. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276, 22732-22741 (2001).

·  M.A.Tricerri, A.K.Behling Agree, S.Sánchez, J.Bronski and A.Jonas. “Arrangements of Apolipoprotein A-I in Reconstituted High-Density Lipoprotein Disks: An alternative Model Based on Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Experiments”. Biochemistry. 40, 5065-5074 (2001).

·  M.A.Tricerri, A.K.Behling Agree, S. Sánchez and A.Jonas. “Characterization of Apo A-I Structure Using a Cysteine-Specific Fluorescence Probe”. Biochemistry. 39, 14682-14691 (2000).

·  S.Sánchez, T.Hazlett, J.E.Brunet, D.M.Jameson “Aggregation states of Mitochondrial Malate dehydrogenase.. Protein Science. 7:2184-2189 (1998).

·  S.Sánchez, A.Arratia, R.Cordova, H.Gomez, R.Shrebler “Electron transport in Biological Processes II: Electrochemical behavior of Q10 immersed in a phospholipidic matrix added on a pyrolitic graphite electrode..  Biolectrochemistry and Bioenergetics. 36, 76-71 (1995).

·  R.Taussig, S.Sánchez, A.G.Gilman, F.Belardetti “Inhibition of the ?-Gonotoxin-sensitive Calcium Current by Distinct G Proteins”.  Neuron 8, 799-809 (1992).

·  R.Shcrebler, A.Arratia, S.Sánchez, M.Haun, N.Duran “Electron transport in biological processes. Electrochemical Behavior of Ubiquinone Q10 adsorbed on graphite electrode”.  Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 23, 81-91 (1990).

Susana Sanchez