Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund (2011-2013)
- PEO Scholar Award, PEO International (2009-2010)
- NSF pre-doctoral fellowship, NSF (awarded: 2002)
- Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright (2003-2004)
- Gates Cambridge Scholar, Gates Cambridge Foundation (2002-2003)
Stanford Advisors
| Daniel Herschlag: | Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor |
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
chemical-scale investigation of the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules; RNA catalysis
Publications
- Exploring purine N7 interactions via atomic mutagenesis: the group I ribozyme as a case study. RNA. 2012; (6): 1222-9
- Evidence for an extended hydrogen bond network in the binding site of the nicotinic receptor: role of the vicinal disulfide of the alpha1 subunit. J Biol Chem. 2011; (37): 32251-8
- Long-range coupling in an allosteric receptor revealed by mutant cycle analysis. Biophys J. 2009; (8): 3168-78
- Probing the role of backbone hydrogen bonding in a critical beta sheet of the extracellular domain of a cys-loop receptor. Chembiochem. 2009; (8): 1385-91
- Structural rearrangements of the motor protein prestin revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2009; (2): C290-8
- An intersubunit hydrogen bond in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that contributes to channel gating. J Biol Chem. 2008; (51): 35638-43
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