University Associate Professor

Rosana is the Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics at the Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, and a Winton Advanced Research Fellow in the Department of Physics. Her group develops multiscale modelling approaches to investigate the physicochemical driving forces that govern DNA packaging inside cells, membraneless compartamentalization via liquid-liquid phase behaviour of biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, and chromatin), chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, and the relationship between the structure of the genome and gene expression regulation. 

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Publications

Surfactants or scaffolds? RNAs of different lengths exhibit heterogeneous distributions and play diverse roles in RNA-protein condensates
I Sanchez-Burgos, L Herriott, R Collepardo-Guevara, J Espinosa
(2022)
Protein structural transitions critically transform the network connectivity and viscoelasticity of RNA-binding protein condensates but RNA can prevent it.
AR Tejedor, I Sanchez-Burgos, M Estevez-Espinosa, A Garaizar, R Collepardo-Guevara, J Ramirez, JR Espinosa
Nature communications
(2022)
13
Aging can transform single-component protein condensates into multiphase architectures.
A Garaizar, JR Espinosa, JA Joseph, G Krainer, Y Shen, TPJ Knowles, R Collepardo-Guevara
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2022)
119
Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates by coevolution of protein mixtures
PY Chew, J Joseph, R Collepardo-Guevara, A Reinhardt
(2022)
Protein structural transitions critically transform the network connectivity and viscoelasticity of RNA-binding protein condensates but RNA can prevent it
A Tejedor, I Sanchez-Burgos, M Estevez-Espinosa, A Garaizar, R Collepardo-Guevara, J Ramirez, J Espinosa
(2022)
Multiscale modelling of chromatin organisation: Resolving nucleosomes at near-atomistic resolution inside genes
J Huertas, EJ Woods, R Collepardo-Guevara
Curr Opin Cell Biol
(2022)
75
Kinetic interplay between droplet maturation and coalescence modulates shape of aged protein condensates
A Garaizar, JR Espinosa, JA Joseph, R Collepardo-Guevara
Scientific reports
(2022)
12
RNA length has a non-trivial effect in the stability of biomolecular condensates formed by RNA-binding proteins
I Sanchez-Burgos, JR Espinosa, JA Joseph, R Collepardo-Guevara
PLoS computational biology
(2022)
18
Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy
JA Joseph, A Reinhardt, A Aguirre, PY Chew, KO Russell, JR Espinosa, A Garaizar, R Collepardo-Guevara
Biophysical Journal
(2022)
121
Comparison of experimental phase diagrams and residue-level coarse-grained simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins
MJ Maristany, R Collepardo-Guevara, JA Joseph, A Reinhardt
Biophysical Journal
(2022)
121

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