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Prof. Carles Curutchet

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Host Organization
University of Barcelona, Spain
Faculty of Pharmacy
Curutchet Lab

ALLODD Role
Main Supervisor for ESR4

Brief Bio
Carles Curutchet is Serra Húnter Full Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTC-UB) and the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB). He began his research career at this university (Ph. D. awarded in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. F. J. Luque and M. Orozco) followed by postdoctoral studies at the Universities of Pisa (2005 – 2007), Toronto (2008–2009) and Girona (2010-2011), working with several professors like B. Mennucci (Pisa), R. Cammi (Parma), G. Scholes (Toronto, now at Princeton) and M. Solà (Girona). He joined back the UB in 2012 as a Ramón y Cajal independent researcher, and was promoted to Serra Húnter Associate Professor in 2016 and Full Professor in 2020. The research group led by Dr. Curutchet tackles different topics related to photoinduced processes and the spectroscopy of biosystems, including the mechanisms of light harvesting and excitation transfer in photosynthesis, DNA photoprotection, and the spectroscopy of fluorophore-tagged biomolecules and protein-ligand complexes. The group develops in-house multiscale embedding methods based on polarizable QM/MM (MMPol model) able to describe how complex biological environments modulate excitation transfer and excited-state properties of biochromophores.
Selected Publications
On the Binding of Congo Red to Amyloid Fibrils
Espargaró A, Llabrés S, Saupe SJ, Curutchet C, Luque FJ, Sabaté R
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020, 59(21):8104-8107
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201916630

Electronic energy transfer in biomacromolecules
Cupellini L, Corbella M, Mennucci B, Curutchet C
WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 2019, 9(2), e1392.
https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1392

Density-Dependent Formulation of Dispersion-Repulsion Interactions in Hybrid Multiscale Quantum/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Models
Curutchet C, Cupellini L, Kongsted J, Corni S, Frediani L, Steindal AH, Guido CA, Scalmani G, Mennucci B
J Chem Theory Comput. 2018,14(3):1671-1681
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00912

Can Förster Theory Describe Stereoselective Energy Transfer Dynamics in a Protein-Ligand Complex?
Pinheiro S, Curutchet C
J Phys Chem B. 2017, 121(10):2265-2278
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00217

Quantum Chemical Studies of Light Harvesting
Curutchet C, Mennucci B
Chem Rev. 2017, 117(2):294-343
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00700

Chromophore-protein coupling beyond nonpolarizable models: understanding absorption in green fluorescent protein
Daday C, Curutchet C, Sinicropi A, Mennucci B, Filippi C
J Chem Theory Comput. 2015, 11(10):4825-4839
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00650

Single Amino Acid Mutation Controls Hole Transfer Dynamics in DNA-Methyltransferase HhaI Complexes
Corbella M, Voityuk AA, Curutchet C
J Phys Chem Lett. 2015, 6(18):3749-3753
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01683

Polarizable QM/MM Multiconfiguration Self-Consistent Field Approach with State-Specific Corrections: Environment Effects on Cytosine Absorption Spectrum
Li Q, Mennucci B, Robb MA, Blancafort L, Curutchet C
J Chem Theory Comput. 2015, 11(4):1674-1682
https://doi.org/10.1021/ct5010388

Photosynthetic light-harvesting is tuned by the heterogeneous polarizable environment of the protein
Curutchet C, Kongsted J, Muñoz-Losa A, Hossein-Nejad H, Scholes GD, Mennucci B
J Am Chem Soc. 2011, 133(9):3078-3084
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja110053y

Triplet-triplet energy transfer in DNA: a process that occurs on the nanosecond timescale
Curutchet C, Voityuk AA
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011, 50(8):1820-1822
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201004732

Electronic Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase Studied by a Polarizable QM/MM Model
Curutchet C, Muñoz-Losa A, Monti S, Kongsted J, Scholes GD, Mennucci B
J Chem Theory Comput. 2009;5(7):1838-1848
https://doi.org/10.1021/ct9001366

Toward a molecular scale interpretation of excitation energy transfer in solvated bichromophoric systems
Curutchet C, Mennucci B
J Am Chem Soc. 2005;127(47):16733-16744
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja055489g

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956314.
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