David Baker Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994
Research Interests
e are trying to understand how amino acid sequences determine protein three dimensional structures using a combination of molecular biological, biophysical and computational methods.
| Phone: | 206-543-1295 | |
| FAX: | 206-685-1792 | |
| Email: | baker@ben.bchem.washington.edu | |
| WWW: | http://depts.washington.edu/bakerpg/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry/Biophysics University of Washington Box 357350 Seattle, WA 98195 |
Brenda L. Bass Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991
Research Interests
y laboratory studies double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) binding proteins, including the dsRNA adenosine deaminase which converts adenosines to inosines within dsRNA.
| Phone: | 801-581-4884 | |
| FAX: | 801-581-5379 | |
| Email: | bbass@howard.genetics.utah.edu | |
| WWW: | http://howard.genetics.utah.edu/bass/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry & Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Utah 50 North Medical Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84132 |
Simon C. Brassell Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1988
Research Interests
y research assesses and interprets straigraphic variations in the sedimentary carbon record, applies biomarkers as paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic tools, and explores the occurrence and formation of petroleum and petroleum source rocks.
| Phone: | 812-855-3786 | |
| FAX: | 812-855-7961 | |
| Email: | simon@indiana.edu | |
| WWW: | http://php.indiana.edu/~simon/ | |
| Address: | Biogeochemical Laboratories Indiana University 1005 E. 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 |
Rey-Huei Chen Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998
Research Interests
ey-Huei Chen studies regulatory mechanisms of cell division. Her work focuses on the "checkpoint" mechanism which ensures that genetic information is transmitted accurately to both daughter cells when a cell divides. She investigates the checkpoint at molecular and biochemical levels.
| Phone: | 607-255-6542 | |
| FAX: | 607-255-2428 | |
| Email: | rc70@cornell.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/chen/chen.html | |
| Address: | Section of Biochemistry, Molecular, & Cell Biology Cornell University 258 Biotechnology Building Ithaca, NY 14853 |
Carol A. Fierke Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1990
Research Interests
echanism of enzyme catalyzed reactions, especially metal-catalyzed hydrolytic reactions (carbonic anhydrase, ribonucleaseP, .3', 5' exonuclease, etc.).
| Phone: | 919-684-2557 | |
| FAX: | 919-684-8885 | |
| Email: | fierke@bchm.biochem.duke.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.chem.duke.edu/research/fierke/fierke.html | |
| Address: | Biochemistry Dept. Duke University Medical Center Box 3711 Durham, NC 22710 |
Miriam S. Hasson Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999
Research Interests
rotein crystallography and molecular genetics; signal transduction; enzyme mechanisms.
| Phone: | 765-496-2928 | |
| FAX: | | |
| Email: | mhasson@bragg.bio.purdue.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.bio.purdue.edu/Bioweb/people/faculty/Hasson.html | |
| Address: | Dept of Biological Sciences Purdue University 1392 Lilly Hall of Life Sciences West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392 |
Daniel Herschlag Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995
Research Interests
ur research centers around the critical feature of biological systems, enzymatic catalysis. We are taking this problem in two directions: toward deriving a fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical principles that underlie enzymatic catalysis and toward understanding how these principles are utilized to produce complex biological processes.
| Phone: | 650-723-9442 | |
| FAX: | 650-723-6783 | |
| Email: | herschla@cmgm.stanford.edu | |
| WWW: | http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/herschlag.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry Stanford University Beckman Center, B471 Stanford, CA 94305-5307 |
Wendell A. Lim Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997
Research Interests
roteins that regulate cell morphology and motility.
| Phone: | 415-502-8080 | |
| FAX: | 415-502-8644 | |
| Email: | w_lim024708@ucsf.edu | |
| WWW: | http://msg.ucsf.edu/~lim/NewFiles/Peoplepages/Wendell.html | |
| Address: | Department of Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco Box 0450 HSE 2 San Francisco, CA 94143 |
Melissa J. Moore Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994
Research Interests
y laboratory is studying the basic chemical mechanisms of RNA splicing, an essential step in gene expression. RNA splicing is the process by which intervening sequences (introns) are removed from nascent pre-mRNA transcripts to generate mature nRNAs which subsequently function as templates for protein synthesis.
| Phone: | 617-736-2359 | |
| FAX: | 617-736-2349 | |
| Email: | mmoore@binah.cc.brandeis.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/pages/faculty/moore.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry Brandeis University 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02254 |
Andrew G. Myers Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989
Research Interests
ynthesis and study of molecules of importance in biology and human medicine. Development of synthetic strategies, chemical reactions, and reagents.
| Phone: | 626-395-6044 | |
| FAX: | 626-795-3658 | |
| Email: | agm@starbase1.caltech.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.caltech.edu/~chemistry/Faculties/Myers.html | |
| Address: | Division of Chemistry California Institute of Technology Mail Stop 164-30 Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Erin K. O'Shea Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994
Research Interests
echanisms by which yeast cells control gene regulation and their cell cycle (growth and division) in response to nutrient starvation.
| Phone: | 415-476-2212 | |
| FAX: | 415-502-4315 | |
| Email: | oshea@socrates.ucsf.edu | |
| WWW: | http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/oshea_erin.html | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco 513 Parnassus Avenue San Fransisco, CA 94143-0448 |
Joseph D. Puglisi Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994
Research Interests
tructure and function of RNA. We use nuclear magnetic resonance and biochemical methods to study RNA structure its role in RNA function.
| Phone: | 408-459-3961 | |
| FAX: | 408-459-3737 | |
| Email: | puglisi@chemistry.ucsc.edu | |
| WWW: | http://puglisi.stanford.edu/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |
Amy C. Rosenzweig Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999
Research Interests
tructural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake and transport, oxygen activation by copper and nonheme iron enzymes, metalloregulatory proteins.
| Phone: | 847-467-5301 | |
| FAX: | 847-467-6489 | |
| Email: | amyr@nwu.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/ibis/research/rosenzweig.html | |
| Address: | Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology Northwestern University 2153 North Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-3500 |
Alanna Schepartz Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1990
Research Interests
rotein-nucleic acid interactions.
| Phone: | 203-432-5094 | |
| FAX: | 203-432-6144 | |
| Email: | alanna@milan.chem.yale.edu | |
| WWW: | http://paris.chem.yale.edu/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Chemistry Yale University 225 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 |
Didier Stainier Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995
Research Interests
e are interested in how organs form during vertebrate embryogenesis. We focus on the development of the heart and use the zebra fish, a simple vertebrate model system that allows a combination of embryological and genetic approaches.
| Phone: | 415-502-5679 | |
| FAX: | 415-476-3892 | |
| Email: | didier_stainier@biochem.ucsf.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.ucsf.edu./dyrslab/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Fransisco 513 Parnassus Avenue Box 0554 San Fransisco, CA 94143-0448 |
Jonathan V. Sweedler Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1992
Research Interests
esearch interests involve analytical neurochemistry: specifically two main areas: 1) the development of new micro separation and detection methods, and 2) studies of the sub-cellular neuropeptide distribution and release in individual Aplysia neurons.
| Phone: | 217-244-7359 | |
| FAX: | 217-244-8068 | |
| Email: | sweedler@bozo.scs.uiuc.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/gswee2.html | |
| Address: | School of Chemical Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 600 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 |
Julie A. Theriot Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998
Research Interests
ulie Theriot is studying the transformation of chemical energy to mechanical energy in cell movement. Her work focuses on understanding the mechanisms of actin-based movement of the intracytoplasmic pathogenic bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and Shigella flexneri. She is investigating these systems at the molecular level, to yield insights into the mechanisms of whole-cell actin-based motility, as well as bacterial pathogenesis.
| Phone: | 650-725-7968 | |
| FAX: | 650-723-6783 | |
| Email: | theriot@Cmgm.stanford.edu | |
| WWW: | http://cmgm.stanford.edu/theriot/ | |
| Address: | Dept of Biochemistry Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5307 |
Jonathan Weissman Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1996
Research Interests
ur laboratory studies the mechanism of chaperone-mediated protein folding. We currently focus on understanding the mechanism of action of a particular chaperone, GroEL, as well as identifying novel chaperones important for folding in the endoplasmic reticulum.
| Phone: | 415-502-7642 | |
| FAX: | 415-502-8644 | |
| Email: | jsw1@itsa.ucsf.edu | |
| WWW: | http://www.ucsf.edu/jswlab/ | |
| Address: | Dept. of Celluar and Molecular Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco 513 Parnassus Ave., S-1210 Box 0450 San Fransisco, CA 94143-0450 |
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