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