Education and Positions: : B.A., Oxford University, 1981; Ph.D., MIT, 1987; Visiting Scientist, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and LMB, MRC, Cambridge UK; Assistant Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 1990. Currently: Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Professor, Chemistry; Director, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Science; Director, Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology, Yale University.
Research Interests: Protein structure, function and folding and design; protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions; my laboratory uses an array of approaches from molecular biology to biophysics, from experiment to theory to address these topics.
Honors and Awards: Gibbs Prize (top first class honors degree in Biochemistry, Oxford University); Fulbright Scholarship; Margaret O. Dayhoff Award (most promising young woman in biophysics); NSF National Young Investigator Award; Herbert Dickerman Award (exceptional creativity in basic science); Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award; Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Protein Society:
The Protein Society Executive Council, Nominating Committee, and International Affairs ad hoc Committee; Symposium Co-Organizer, 18th (2004) Annual Symposium of The Protein Society, President, 2011-2013.
Service: NIH and NSF – service on study sections and review panels; past or present member of the editorial boards of Protein Science, Biophysical Journal, Protein Engineering Design and Selection, FEBS J., section editor Current Opinion in Structural Biology, Engineering & Design