Educational Record 1988-92
Curriculum Vitae
Master-Thesis advisor: Prof. Andrew Miller, Imperial College, London, Thesis Title: Biochemical characterization of heat-chock protein lysyl-tRNAtransferase (LysU gene)
1993-96 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Advisor: Prof. Bengt Norden, Thesis Title: Intelligent nucleic acid interactions with peptide nucleic acids and in recombination proteins
1997-98 Post-doctoral fellow California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute, Pasadena, CA
Advisor: Prof. Harry B Gray, Topic: Electron-transfer triggered folding of redox proteins
Professional Appointments
Honors and Awards
1991,1992
Stipend from the Adelbertska Foundation1993 John Ericson Medal: Awarded the most excellent Chalmers graduate
1994 Lennander's Award
1994,1995 Stipends from the Gunvor & Josef Aner Foundation
1997-1998 Technical Research Council, Sweden: Post-Doctoral Fellowship
1998 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award
2000 Newcomb College Mortar Board Teaching Award
2000 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
2001- Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry Department, Tulane University
2001 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2001 Albert Wallin’s Science Award from the Gothenburg Royal Academy of Science and Art
Research Support
2001 Louisiana Board of Regents LEQSF(1999-02)-RD-A-39 Metalloprotein folding
1999-2000 Co-PI (with V John, M Herman, K Papadopoulos, S Landry), NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant for NMR upgrade; CTS-9977269
1999 Tulane LAS Centers for Scholars New Orleans Protein Folding Inter Group
2000-2001 ACS-PRF Starter G Grant Folding and assembly of oligomeric protein
2000 Newcomb Foundation Individual Grant, Tulane Summer-student salary
1999 Cancer Association for Greater New Orleans (CAGNO) Delivery of genetic drugs
2003 NSF Grant MCB-0075902 Role of cofactors in protein folding
2001-2006 NIH R01GM59663-01A2 Role of cofactors in beta-sheet protein folding
2001 Co-PI (with W Wimley, S Landry, J Nolan, T Bishop) Louisiana Board of Regents
Enhancement Fund, Instrumentation
2001-2004 Co-PI (with W Wimley, S Landry, J Nolan, T Bishop) Tulane Wall Fund
Committee and Other Services
1995-1996
Chemistry Department Board, Chalmers University, Sweden1998 Co-organizer, Nobel Workshop: Gene-Targeted Drugs, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-2002 Co-director, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, Tulane University
1999 Scientific Advisor, Natural Science Research Council, Sweden (Chemistry Section)
1999 Member: Tulane Cancer Center and Center for Bioenvironmental Research
2000 Application Review Committee SPRITE (Summer Pipeline Research Initiative: The Tulane Experience)
2001 Committee member, Center for Scholars of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tulane University
1999 Member, Chemistry Department Graduate Affairs Committee
2000- Member, Search Committee Clair B. Luce Professorship
2000 Design and preparation of new Graduate Chemistry Brochure
2001 Design and preparation of new Graduate Chemistry Poster
2001 Scientific-Program Organizer, Nobel Jubilee Symposium, Dec 4-6, Stockholm, Sweden
Advisor for students
Current
Irina Pozdnyakova (5th year graduate student Chemistry)
David Apiyo (4th year graduate student Chemistry)
Katherine Jones (3rd year graduate student Molecular and Cellular Biology Program)
Catherine Higgins (2nd year graduate student Chemistry)
Jesse Claiborne (1st year graduate student Chemistry)
Susanne Griffin and Andrea Vitello (undergraduate students)
Jesse Guidry (staff; laboratory supervisor)
Previous
Johan Kajanus (1994 M.Sc,, Chalmers, Sweden)
Malin Ardhammar (1996 M.Sc., Chalmers, Sweden)
Michael Suh (1998 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURF), Caltech, LA)
Graduate student committees
Smriti Koodanjeri (Dr. Ramamurthy, Chemistry) Teaching
Joshua Rausch (Dr. Wimley, Biochemistry)
PH Lakshminarasimhan (Dr. Ramamurthy, Chemistry)
Charlene Keh (Dr. Li, Chemistry)
Matthewos Eshete (Dr Alworth, Chemistry)
Ann-Margret Anderson (Dr Schmehl, Chemistry)
Alison Krieger (Dr. Blake, Opthamology)
Karen Gerlach (Dr. Landry, Biochemistry)
Jennifer Brightwell (Dr. Colombo, Psychology)
Frank Shewmaker (Dr. Landry, Biochemistry)
Sweden: Class-lecturing (1995-96) and laboratory instructor (1993-95) in:
Physical Chemistry undergraduate-level
Biophysical Chemistry graduate-level.
Tulane: Spring 1999 Special Topics in Biological Chemistry "Protein Folding" graduate-level
Spring 1999 Tulane Science Scholars Program, targeting exceptional high-school students
Fall 1999, 2000 Introduction to Biochemistry (Chem-383/683) undergraduate/graduate-level
Spring 2000 General Chemistry (Chem-108) undergraduate-level
Spring 2000 Honors Thesis Committee: Erica Bayly, Physics
Fall 2000 Honors Thesis Committee: Michelle Kirian, Biology
Spring 2001 Physical Chemistry-II (Chem-312), Special Topics graduate-level (Chem-714)
Spring 2001 Honors Thesis Committees: Michael Zeringue; Biology
Joshua Yukich; Chemistry
Lectureships
1996
4th Swedish-German Workshop on Nucleic Acids, Reisenburg Castle, Germany1997 10th Conversion of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, Albany, NY
1998 Gordon Graduate Research Seminar Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA
1998 ISIS Pharmaceuticals Inc., Carlsbad, CA (invited lecturer)
1998 Department of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda (invited lecturer)
1999 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane Medical School (invited lecturer)
2000 Woman-In-Science Organization Tulane University
Poster Presentations 1993
1994 Gordon Conference: Proton & Membrane Reactions, Ventura, CA
CNRS Conference Jacues Monod Drugs Acting on Nucleic Acids, Aussois, France
Euchem: Bioinorganic Chemistry of Cupper, Hindas, Sweden
1995 Antisense Nucleic-Acid Conference, Garmich, Germany
Recombination: Biological consequences and mechanisms, Avignon, France
1996 Thereapeautic Oligonucleotides, Rome, Italy
XIIth International Biophysics Congress, Amsterdam, Holland
1997 17th Int. Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, San Fransisco, CA
1998 EMBO Workshop Protein Folding and Misfolding, Oxford, UK John Hopkins Protein Folding Meeting, Baltimore, VA. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (2 student posters)
2000 Summer Symposium: Protein and RNA folding, Penn State, State College, PA
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Boston (2 student posters)2002 Gordon Graduate Research Seminar in Bioinorganic Chemistry (student speech and poster)