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Education, Affiliations, and Memberships
EDUCATION
Beckman Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2002-2003
PhD, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2002
BS, Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1997
BA, Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1997
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Tenure Track Investigator, 2006-present
Bioinorganic chemistry and Biophysics: protein conformation and dynamics; protein-protein, protein-membrane, and protein-nucleic acid interactions; roles of metals in protein misfolding and aggregation; interactions of anesthetics with ligand-gated ion channels and heme proteins
Beckman Senior Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003-2006
alpha-synuclein structures and dynamics probed by fluorescence energy transfer and electron transfer kinetics; interactions of alpha-synuclein and membrane mimics; characterization of metal binding to alpha-synuclein; amyloid formation kinetics studies
Postdoctoral Fellow with Ralf Langen
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2002-2003
Recombinant expression and purification of amyloidogenic proteins
Graduate Student with Harry B. Gray
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1997-2002
Electron transfer triggered folding of four-helix bundle cytochromes. Probing protein folding by energy and electron transfer kinetics