
Position Title
Professor Emerita
Unit
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences
Department of Chemistry, College of Letters and Science
Profile Introduction
My current research interests include: Structural characterization of proteoglycans and protein:carbohydrate binding partners involved in immunology and infectious disease; differentiation of Protein:Protein and Protein:Ligand complex conformations including proteomics as it applies to analysis of viral recruitment of the human ribosome/eukaryotic initiation factors and mapping of the protein modifications of the ribosomal protein subunits; investigation and characterization of inflammatory protein: glycosaminoglycan binding partners in rheumatoid arthritis.
Specialities / Focus
- Biochemistry and Molecular Recognition
Grad Group Affiliations
- Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
Honors and Awards
- 2010 Appointed Fellow to AAAS
- 2000 Biemann Award in Mass Spectrometry
- 1984 Eastern Analytical Grad Student Award
- 1977 Sigma Xi undergraduate award
Professional Societies
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Protein Society
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- American Chemical Society
- Biophysical Society
Degrees
- 1985 PhD Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology