Gregory Petsko

Gregory Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is currently the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry at Brandeis University.

Education

Petsko was an undergraduate at Princeton University. He received a Rhodes Scholarship, and obtained his doctorate from Oxford University.

Academics

Petsko's independent academic career included stints at Wayne State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute, and, since 1991, Brandeis University, where is Professor of Biochemistry and of Chemistry and Director of the Rosenstiel Center. He is President Elect of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Research

Petsko is co-author with Dagmar Ringe of Protein Structure and Function. He is also the author of a monthly column in [http://www.genomebiology.com Genome Biology] modelled after an amusing column in [http://www.current-biology.com Current Biology] penned by Sydney Brenner.

Petsko is best known for using X-ray crystallography to solve important problems in protein function including protein dynamics as a function of temperature and problems in mechanistic enzymology.

At MIT and Brandeis, he trained a large number of current leaders in structural molecular biology who now have leadership roles in science. These individuals include [http://ucxray.berkeley.edu/ Tom Alber] and John Kuriyan, professors at University of California, Berkeley; [http://www.fhcrc.org/science/labs/stoddard/index.html Barry Stoddard] and [http://www.fhcrc.org/science/labs/strong/ Roland Strong] , faculty at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Ilme Schlichting, department head at [http://wbmm.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/ Max Planck, Heidelberg] ; [http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/stock.html Ann Stock] , professor at HHMI and Rutgers; [http://atb.slac.stanford.edu/ Axel Brunger] , professor at Stanford; [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~brenner Charles Brenner] , professor at Dartmouth Medical School; [http://biophysics.bumc.bu.edu/faculty/allen/allenpage/index.html Karen Allen] , professor at Boston University; [http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/howell/bch.html Lynne Howell] and [http://xtal.uhnres.utoronto.ca/rose/ David Rose] , professors at University of Toronto; and [http://www.sgxpharma.com/aboutus/management.php#burley Stephen Burley] of [http://www.sgxpharma.com SGX Pharmaceuticals] .


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