Sean Crosson

Biography

Sean received his B.A. in Biology from Earlham College in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Chicago in 2002.  His Ph.D. research in the laboratory of Keith Moffat focused on the structural and photochemical basis of plant phototropism, and culminated in the first crystal structures of photosensory LOV domains in both dark (inactive) and illuminated (active) states. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked under the mentorship of Lucy Shapiro on mechanisms of bacterial sensory transduction.  He is currently Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Department of Microbiology, and is Program Chair of the Commitee on Microbiology.  

Research Interest

 Microbiology,Biochemistry,Molecular Biophysics