John Spudich
Chemistry; Director, Center for Membrane Biology;
Department of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology
The University of Texas Health Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Dr. John Spudich has received his PhD in University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is working as Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; Director, Center for Membrane Biology; Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in University of Texas Medical School. He has Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship in Harvard Medical School.
Research Interest
Light sensors & photosensory transduction, Microbial rhodopsins, Membrane receptor structure/function, Optogenetics
Publications
-
Spudich JL, Yang CS, Jung KH, Spudich EN. Retinylidene proteins: structures and functions from archaea to humans. Annual review of cell and developmental biology. 2000 Nov;16(1):365-92.
-
Béja O, Spudich EN, Spudich JL, Leclerc M, DeLong EF. Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean. Nature. 2001 Jun 14;411(6839):786.
-
Ng WV, Kennedy SP, Mahairas GG, Berquist B, Pan M, Shukla HD, Lasky SR, Baliga NS, Thorsson V, Sbrogna J, Swartzell S. Genome sequence of Halobacterium species NRC-1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2000 Oct 24;97(22):12176-81.
-
Béja O, Aravind L, Koonin EV, Suzuki MT, Hadd A, Nguyen LP, Jovanovich SB, Gates CM, Feldman RA, Spudich JL, Spudich EN. Bacterial rhodopsin: evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea. Science. 2000 Sep 15;289(5486):1902-6.
