Raul Barrea, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor of PhysicsAssociate Director of BioCAT
Office: Building 435B, APS
Office Hours:
Phone: 630.252.0541
Fax: 630.252.0545
Email:
barrea@bio.aps.anl.gov
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Expertise
Education
- B.S, National University of C?rdoba
- Ph.D, National University of C?rdoba
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Synchrotron radiation applications in physics and biology. Emphasis in micro-beams. X-ray spectroscopy and imaging with micro-beams of biological specimens. Molecular and Atomic Physics, information about atoms and molecules obtained experimentally. In particular on rare earth atomic properties. Cross sections, photon ½atom collisions. Synchrotron Instrumentation and techniques. General physics, x-ray instrumentation. Atomic and molecular physics, applications in biology.
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
- Di Chen, Qiuzhi Cindy Cui, Huanjie Yang, Raul A Barrea, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Shijie Sheng, Bing Yan, G. Prem Veer Reddy, and Q. Ping Dou, "Clioquinol, a Therapeutic Agent for Alzheimer’s Disease, Has Proteasome-inhibitory, Androgen Receptor Suppressing, Apoptosis-inducing and Anti-tumor Activities in Human Prostate Cancer Cells and Xenografts", Cancer Res 2007; 67: (4). February 15, 2007
- Barrea R. A., Fischetti R., Stepanov S., Rosenbaum G., Black E., Gore D., Heurich R., M. Vukonich, Kondrashkina E., Kropf A.J., Wang S., Zhang K. , Irving T.C. and Bunker G.B. “Biological XAFS at the BioCAT 18ID undulator beamline at the APS”, Physica Scripta, T115, 867-869, 2005.
- Glatzel P., de Groot F. M. F., Manoilova O., Grandjean D., Weckhuysen B. M, Bergmann U. and. Barrea R., “Range-extended EXAFS at the L-edge of rare earths using high-resolution fluorescence detection: A study of La in LaOCl”, Phys. Rev. B, 72, 014117,2005.
- J F Collingwood, A Mikhaylova, M R Davidson, C Batich, W J Streit, T Eskin, J Terry, R A Barrea, R S Underhill and J Dobson, High-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of metal compounds in neurodegenerative brain tissue, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 17, 54–60, 2005.
- W.M. Heijboer, P. Glatzel, R.F. Lobo, U. Bergmann, R. Barrea, D.C. Koningsberger, B.M. Weckhuysen and F.M.F. de Groot (2004), “Kb-detected XANES of framework substituted FeZSM-5 zeolites”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 10002-10011.

