Email: aarda@cicbiogune.es
Website: https://www.cicbiogune.es/people/aarda
Biographical sketch
Ana Ardá studied Chemistry at University of A Coruña (Spain), from where she got her PhD degree in 2006. After that, she moved to The Netherlands where she joined the Bioorganic chemistry group of Prof H. Kamerling at the Bijvoet Center for Biological Research (Utrecht) to research on carbohydrate chemistry. She then moved to Madrid, to the Center for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC) to join the group of Prof. Jiménez-Barbero, where she started to apply and develop NMR tools and strategies to understand and characterize glycan molecular recognition processes by protein receptors. In 2014, she moved to CIC bioGUNE Research Center in Bilbao (Spain), where in 2015 she was awarded with the tenure-track-like Ramón y Cajal Fellow, and in 2022 promoted to Ikerbasque Research Associate. At CIC bioGUNE she is involved in different projects where, by employing a combination of different chemical, biophysical and biomolecular techniques and through different collaborations, she tries to understand from a molecular perspective, how glycans bind to special protein receptors, mainly lectins and antibodies, in biologically relevant processes, mostly related to host-pathogen interactions and immune response.
In the last ten years Ana Ardá has published more than 70 paper in prestigious journals such as Nature Chemistry, Angewandte, ACS Cent Sci, PNAS, Chemistry, etc … and participates in several international collaborative research projects.
