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biophysicists in profile
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Paul
Adams: Personal Success is Doing your Best.
Institution:
Cornell University
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Protein Structure and Function
Degrees: B.S. Biochemistry, Louisiana State University; Ph.D.,
Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
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Mary
Barkley: Biophysics through the Back Door
Institution:
Case Western Reserve University
Discipline:
Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research:
Biophysical Chemistry, fluorescence spectroscopy, protein-protein and
protein-nucleic acid interactions
Degrees: B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D.,
University of California, San Diego; NIH Postdoctoral Fellow; Salk Institute of
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Tharin Blumenschein: Science in her Blood
Institution:
University of Alberta
Discipline:
Biochemistry
Research: Muscle regulatory proteins
Degrees:
B.Sc. in Molecular Sciences, University of
São Paulo;
Ph.D. in Biochemistry,
University of São Paulo
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Bernie
Chasan: High Energy to Biological Physics: Baseball, Music & Art along the
way
Institution:
Boston University
Discipline: Biophysics
Research: Atomic Force Microscopy
Degrees: A.B., Columbia University;
Ph.D., Cornell University |
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Patricia
Clark: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Institution:
University of Notre Dame
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Protein folding in the
cellular environment; the discrimination between productive protein folding and
aggregation/amyloid formation
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, Georgia
Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sarah
Garber: An Academic Nomad in Biophysics
Institution: Rosalind Franklin University of
Medicine and Science
Discipline: Biology
Research: Chloride channels, cell volume
regulation, mechano-sensitivity, fluid secretion
Degrees: B.S., Biology, Barnard College;
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Brandeis University; Postdoc, Neurobiology, Stanford
University
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Kathleen
Giangiacomo: Going Beyond the Stereotypes: Finding One's Place
in Science
Institution: Temple University School of Medicine
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Potassium channel, structure function
studies
Degrees: B.A., Biology, Temple University; Ph.D.,
Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania |
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Lila
Gierasch: The Right Place at the Right Time
Institution:
University of Massachusetts
Discipline: Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
Research: Biophysical Approaches to
Protein Folding and Localization
Degrees: D.Sc., Mount Holyoke College;
Ph.D., Harvard University |
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Yale
Goldman: A Tinkerer's Life for Me
Institution:
University of Pennsylvania
Discipline: Physiology
Research: Motor Proteins, Ribosomal
Elongation Factors
Degrees: B.S., Electrical Engineering,
Northwestern University; M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania |
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Stephen
C. Harvey: Breadth of Experience
Institution:
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Discipline: Biochemistry and Molecular
Genetics
Research: Macromolecular Structure,
Dynamics and Function
Degrees: A.B., Physics, University of
California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Biophysics, Dartmouth College |
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Lily
Jan: Biophysics by Elimination
Institution:
University of California, San Francisco - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Discipline: Neurobiology/Biochemistry
Research: Potassium Channels
Degrees: B.Sc., Physics, National Taiwan
University; M.Sc., Physics, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Physics
and Biophysics, California Institute of Technology |
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Jonathan
King: From Football to Biophysics
Institution:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Protein Folding
Degrees: B.S., Yale University; Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology |
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Stephen L. Mayo: High Risk, High
Return Biophysics
Institution:
California Institute of Technology
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Protein Design
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, Pennsylvania
State University; Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology |
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Catherine
Royer: The French Connection in Biophysics
Institution:
Centre de Biochimie Structurale Institut National pour la Sante et la Recherche
Medicale, Montpelier, France
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Protein folding, biophysics of
transcriptional control, fluorescence, high pressure
Degrees:
DEUG, Sciences de la Nature et
de la Vie Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6; Licence, Sciences de la
Nature et de la Vie - Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6; Ph.D.,
Biochemistry University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
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Antonio
Scarpa: Artist, Architect, Gourmet, Hiker, Biophysicist
Institution:
Case Western Reserve University
Discipline: Biophysics
Research: Membrane Transport & Cell
Metabolism
Degrees: Humanities, Venice and Padua;
M.D., University of Padua, School of Medicine |
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Michael
Summers: Rather than Dairy Farming
Institution:
University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Discipline: Biochemistry/chemistry
Research: NMR Studies of Retrovirus
Structure and Assembly
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, University of
West Florida; Ph.D., Bioinorganic Chemistry, Emory University |
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Jacqueline
Tanaka: Being a Role Model
Institution:
Temple University
Discipline: Biology
Research: Structure-function of ion
channels, particularly the cyclic nucleotide gated channel in photoreceptor
membranes
Degrees: B.A., Biology, Geneva College;
M.S. and Ph.D., Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Jill
Trewhella: A Biophysicist from Down Under
Institution:
University of Utah
Discipline: Biochemistry/Chemistry
Research: Microbial forensics, detection
and characterization of pathogens and chemical agents, structural molecular
biology of Ca2+-dependent signaling and structure and dynamics of Protein Kinase
A (PKA) Signaling Complexes
Degrees: B.S., Math and Physics,
University of New South Wales; M.S., Physics, University of New South Wales;
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Sydney |
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Ligia
Toro de Stefani: Dedication, and Work, and Love of Learning
Institution:
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Anesthesiology, Division of
Molecular Medicine
Discipline: Biology
Research:
Ion Channels, Smooth Muscle, Signaling, Aging
Degrees:
Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics; M.Sc.,
Biochemistry; Bachelors, Chemistry |
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Clare Woodward:
Protein Mobility and Personal Mentoring: A Life in Biophysics
Institution:
University of Minnesota, Emeritus
Discipline: Chemistry
Research: Hydrogen exchange and its
relationship to protein fluctuation and folding.
Degrees: Ph.D., Rice University |
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