Andrea Barta
Full Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences since 2008
- Max Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna
Contact:
andrea.barta(at)meduniwien.ac.at
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Genetic engineering
- Biochemistry
- Genomics
- Molecular biology
Selected Memberships:
- European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO
Selected Prizes:
- Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien
- RNA Society Service Award
- Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Wien
- L‘Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award
- Sandoz-Preis für Chemie
Selected Publications:
- Barta, A., Steiner, G., Brosius, J., Noller, H.F. and Kuechler. E. (1984). "Identification of a site on 23S ribosomal RNA located at the peptidyltransferase center". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 81, 3607-3611.
- Barta, A., Dorner, S., and Polacek, N. et al., (2001) "Mechanism of Ribosomal Peptide Bond Formation", Science, 291, 203.
- Marquez Y, Höpfler M, Ayatollahi Z, Barta A, Kalyna M. (2015) Unmasking alternative splicing inside protein-coding exons defines exitrons and their role in proteome plasticity. Genome Res. 2015. 25: 995-1007.
- Kalyna, M., Lopato, S., Voronin, V., and Barta, A. (2006) „ Evolutionary conservation and regulation of particular alternative splicing events in plant SR protein Nucleic Acids Res. 34, 4395 -43405.
- Lopato, S., Mayeda, A., Krainer, A.R., and Barta, A. (1996) "Pre-mRNA splicing in plants: Characterization of Ser/Arg splicing factors." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 93, 3074-3079.