Ester Ballana Guix
Associate researcher
HIV Pathogenesis
Spain
Biography
Ester Ballana graduated in Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2001. She completed a health and life sciences PhD under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Estivill at the Barcelona-based Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in May 2007, with a thesis on the subject of the molecular basis of deafness linked to mitochondrial DNA mutations. In June 2007 she joined IrsiCaixa as a post-doctoral researcher, investigating the contribution of host genetic factors to viral replication and disease outcomes. In January 2015 she was awarded a Miguel Servet fellowship. Her research currently focuses on viral restriction factors as regulators in human infection susceptibility and clinical evolution.
Research Interest
HIV, Molecular biology, Virology, Genetics
Publications
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Eduardo Pauls, Alba Ruiz, Roger Badia, Marc Permanyer, Albert Gubern, Eva Riveira-Muñoz, Javier Torres-Torronteras, Mar Ãlvarez, Beatriz Mothe, Christian Brander, Manel Crespo, Luis Menéndez-Arias, Bonaventura Clotet, Oliver T. Keppler, Ramon MartÃ, Francesc Posas, Ester Ballana and José A. EstéJ Immunol August 15, 2014, 193 (4) 1988-1997
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Eduardo Pauls; Roger Badia; Javier Torres-Torronteras; Alba Ruiz; Marc Permanyer; Eva Riveira-Muñoz; Bonaventura Clotet; Ramón Marti; Ester Ballana; José A. Esté AIDS. 28(15):2213–2222, SEP 2014
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Ruiz, A., Pauls, E., Badia, R., Torres-Torronteras, J., Riveira-Muñoz, E., Clotet, B., … Esté, J. A. (2015). Cyclin D3-dependent control of the dNTP pool and HIV-1 replication in human macrophages. Cell Cycle, 14(11), 1657–1665.
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Badia, R., Angulo, G., Riveira-Muñoz, E., Pujantell, M., Puig, T., Ramirez, C., … Esté, J. A. (2016). Inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1 by the CDK6 inhibitor PD-0332991 (palbociclib) through the control of SAMHD1. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 71(2), 387–394.
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Badia, R., Pujantell, M., Riveira-Muñoz, E., Puig, T., Torres-Torronteras, J., MartÃ, R., … Ballana, E. (2016). The G1/S Specific Cyclin D2 Is a Regulator of HIV-1 Restriction in Non-proliferating Cells. PLoS Pathogens, 12(8), e1005829.
