ABOUT THE WCPCW

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Wayne A. Hendrickson
University Professor, Columbia University
"Anomalous Diffraction Analysis of Native Biological Macromolecules"

Wayne A. Hendrickson is a University Professor at Columbia University and an Investigator with the Howard HughesMedical Institute.  He has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University based on work with Warner Love.  His postdoctoral research was with Jerome Karle at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).  He remained at NRL as a Research Biophysicist until 1984 when he joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia.  In 1986, Hendrickson became an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; in 2008, he was named the Violin Family Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; and in 2009, he was appointed as Associate Director for Life Sciences of the National Synchrotron Light Source – II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Research in Dr. Hendrickson's laboratory focuses on the structure and function of biological molecules.  He and his colleagues use x-ray crystallography to study molecular properties in atomic detail.  By analyzing x-ray beams diffracted from crystals, they are able to reconstruct images of crystallized molecules.  Their advances in diffraction methods (notably, stereochemically restrained refinement, the multiwavelength-anomalous-diffraction (MAD) method, selenomethionyl proteins, and synchrotron instrumentation) have been instrumental in the emergence of structural biology as a major force in modern biology and molecular medicine. They use this technology themselves in investigations on membrane receptors and cellular signaling, on viral proteins and HIV infection, on molecular chaperones and protein folding, and in structural genomics of membrane proteins.

Dr. Hendrickson has published numerous research articles and related reviews.  He serves on advisory bodies for various scientific organizations.  He is a founding editor of Current Opinion in Structural Biology and of Structure, and he was a founder of SGX Pharmaceuticals.  His honors include the Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Gairdner International Award, and the Harvey Prize of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://xtl.cumc.columbia.edu/2010/wayne.html

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

John Charles Williams
Ariadno Bello

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