Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry

Virginia W. Cornish博士被授予美国国家科学基金会化学博士后研究奖学金。他在Peter G. Schultz教授的指导下获得了加州大学伯克利分校的博士学位。科尼什博士将在麻省理工学院罗伯特·t·绍尔教授的赞助下继续研究。博士后研究考察了N-和c -帽残基在稳定α -螺旋中的重要性。这项工作使用遗传选择来分离在N-和c -帽位置具有特定残基的蛋白质，以及x射线晶体学和核磁共振波谱来表征蛋白质的三维结构。了解如何设计基因选择，以便除了具有新催化特性的工程蛋白外，我还可以使用这些选择来了解成功催化的要求。化学博士后研究奖学金项目被视为一项重要的基础设施项目，旨在拓宽新博士的知识和经验，吸引他们从事当代化学研究和教学中有意义的职业。

Dr. Virginia W. Cornish has been awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Dr. Cornish received the doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Peter G. Schultz. Dr. Cornish will continue research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the sponsorship of Professor Robert T. Sauer. The postdoctoral research examines the importance of N- and C-cap residues in stabilizing alpha-helices. The work uses genetic selections to isolate proteins with particular residues in the N- and C-cap positions, as well as x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to characterize the three-dimensional structure of the proteins. Understanding is gained into how to design genetic selections so that in addition to engineering proteins with novel catalytic properties, one my use the selections to learn about the requirement for successful catalysis. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry Program is viewed as an important infrastructural program designed to broaden the knowledge and experience of new Ph. D.s and attract them into meaningful careers in contemporary chemical research and teaching.