Carlos Bustamante (biologist)

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos José Bustamante (born May 6, 1951 in Lima , Peru ) is an American molecular biologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Life

Bustamante has been Professor of Molecular Biology and Cell Biology , Physics and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley , since 1998 . He received his BS from the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, his Master in Biochemistry at the University of San Marcos and his Ph. D. Biophysics from UC Berkeley, where he along with Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. studied. As a post-doctoral student at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Bustamante studied with Marc Maestre. Before moving to Berkeley, he did research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Oregon .

Scientific focus

Carlos Bustamante uses novel methods of single molecule visualization to study the structure and functions of nucleoproteins . He also uses the optical tweezers .

Positions

• Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1976–1981)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (1981–1982)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1982–1986)
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986–1989)
• Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1989–1990)
• Professor of Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon (1991–1998)
• Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, UC Berkeley (since 1998)

Fellowships and Awards

• Kellogg Foundation scholarship during the Master's in Biochemistry (1973–1975)
• Fulbright Commission and Institute of International Education Fellow (1975–1976)
• Abraham Rosenberg scholarship, UC Berkeley (1975–1976)
• Searle Scholar (1984)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1985)
• Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986)
• State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1994–1998, 2000)
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)
• Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program (1997–2000)
• Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics (2004)
• Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society (2004)
• Sackler Prize in Biophysics (2012)
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)

Web links

Commons : Carlos Bustamante  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bustamante Lab
• Carlos J. Bustamante on the pages of the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
• Carlos Bustamante, Ph.D. on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute website
• Protein Wizard