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Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 99-106
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His research has ranged widely over many areas of theoretical chemistry, physics, and biology, including theories of chemical reactions and quantum many-body phenomena in liquids and biomolecules and the theory of glasses. He is most well known, however, for his development of the energy landscape theory of protein folding, which brought the perspective of modern statistical mechanics to this central problem of molecular biology and led to new approaches to predicting protein structures from DNA sequences.
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Austin was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his ability to combine physical tools and theories with biochemical techniques to attack fundamental problems in protein and nucleic acid dynamics and function. His research interests span three areas: protein dynamics and conformational statistics; DNA dynamics and base pair sequence elastic variability; and applica tions of micro- and nanofabrication technology to cellular and molecular biology.
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in biophysical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. His research interests include human genome analysis, molecular genetics, new biophysical tools and methodologies, and genetic engineering.
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Sloan Foundation Fellowship awards. He has won numerous awards from the American Chemical Society, including the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, and the Harrison Howe Award.
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, where she was its principal executive officer; a theoretical physicist conducting basic research at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories (1976-1991) ; and a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University (1991-1995)
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His research is in the area of theoretical biophysics and chemical physics, focusing on the rational design of functional proteins using computational methods. He is a member of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Steering Committee at UCSD and served on UCSD's Task Force on Biological Sciences.
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For over 25 years, he has worked to understand how enzymes achieve their extraordinary catalytic power, developing crystallographic methods for direct observation of productive enzyme-substrate and enzyme-intermediate complexes that led to techniques for studying protein crystal structures at very low temperatures. He is a founding scientist of the combinatorial-chemistry company ArQule, Inc., and hopes to use genetic, biochemical, and biophysical tools to study structure-function relationships as they apply to in vivo and in vitro function.
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Dr. Whitesides's recent advisory positions include service with the NRC on various boards, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and NASA.
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