Bruce Stillman

Bruce William Stillman (born October 16, 1953 in Melbourne ) is an Australian biologist and basic researcher . He has been President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , a prestigious research facility in Cold Spring Harbor , Long Island , New York , since 2003 .

Life

Bruce Stillman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney in 1975 and a Ph.D. at the Australian National University in Canberra . As a postdoctoral fellow , Stillman went to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the US state of New York and always stayed at this institution: since 1985 as a professor, since 1992 as director of the local cancer research center, from 1994 to 2003 as director of the entire institution (successor by James Watson ) and since 2003 as its President. In addition, since 1992 he has held a professorship in microbiology and molecular genetics at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook on Long Island .

Act

Bruce Stillman is regarded as a pioneer in the study of DNA replication and chromosomal inheritance . Stillman and his colleagues were able to identify numerous proteins that are required for DNA replication. The nucleosomes are of particular interest . Stillman and co-workers succeeded in recreating the complete replication apparatus of the simian virus 40 in vitro. Stillman's work contributed significantly to the understanding of the replication fork in eukaryotic cells.

Stillman is a co-editor of Cell magazine and serves on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge , Massachusetts . He is also a member of the scientific advisory boards of numerous institutions, specialist societies (including the National Research Council and the National Cancer Institute ) and specialist journals.

According to Google Scholar, Stillman has an h-index of 104, according to the Scopus database it is 91 (as of June 2020).

Awards (selection)

1993 membership in the Royal Society
1999 Order of Australia
2000 member of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize with Thomas J. Kelly
2008 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize with Thomas J. Kelly
2019 Canada Gairdner International Award
2020 HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics

Web links

Bruce Stillman at cshl.edu ( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ); Retrieved February 3, 2011
Bruce William Stillman, curriculum vitae (PDF, 322 kB) at cas.cn; Retrieved February 3, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ Bruce Stillman. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar, accessed June 2, 2020 .
^ Stillman, Bruce W. In: scopus.com. Scopus, accessed June 2, 2020 .
↑ Bruce Stillman. In: royalsociety.org. Royal Society, accessed June 2, 2020 .
^ The 2004 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Laureates ( September 4, 2005 memento in the Internet Archive )
↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
↑ Horwitz Prize Awardees. In: columbia.edu. Columbia University, accessed June 2, 2020 .
^ All Gairdner Awards Laureates. In: gairdner.org. Gairdner Foundation, accessed June 2, 2020 .
↑ Dr HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2020 awarded to Bruce Stillman. In: heinekenprizes.org. Heineken Prizes, June 2, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Stillman, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stillman, Bruce W .; Stillman, Bruce William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian biologist and basic researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne

[1] Bruce Stillman. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar, accessed June 2, 2020 .

[2] Stillman, Bruce W. In: scopus.com. Scopus, accessed June 2, 2020 .

[3] Bruce Stillman. In: royalsociety.org. Royal Society, accessed June 2, 2020 .

[4] The 2004 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Laureates ( September 4, 2005 memento in the Internet Archive )

[5] Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 2, 2020 .

[6] Horwitz Prize Awardees. In: columbia.edu. Columbia University, accessed June 2, 2020 .

[7] All Gairdner Awards Laureates. In: gairdner.org. Gairdner Foundation, accessed June 2, 2020 .

[8] Dr HP Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2020 awarded to Bruce Stillman. In: heinekenprizes.org. Heineken Prizes, June 2, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .