Cynthia Wolberger

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Cynthia Wolberger

Cynthia Wolberger (* 1957 ) is an American biophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine .

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Wolberger earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Cornell University in 1979 . After a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart in 1979/1980 , she obtained a Ph.D. in 1987 from Harvard University. in biophysics. As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Robert Stroud at the University of California, San Francisco , and with Carl O. Pabo at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Here she received her first professorship (assistant professor) in 1991 , in 1997 she became an associate professor , and since 2000 she has held a full professorship. From 1994 to 2014 Wolberger also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Since 2001 she has headed the Transcription and Translation department of the Faculty of 1000 .

Wolberger was able to make fundamental contributions to the biochemistry and structural biology of transcription regulation and the ubiquitin signaling pathway of eukaryotic cells . She contributed significantly to the research of sirtuins and histone deacetylases . At Johns Hopkins University, she also made an outstanding contribution to gender equality in academic operations.

According to Google Scholar , Wolberger has an h-index of 53 (as of June 2019).

Wolberger has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2009 . In 2019 she was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2013 she and Christopher Hill received the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from the Protein Society .

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  1. ↑ Yves Epelboin: World Directory of crystallographers . Springer Science & Business Media, 2013, ISBN 978-94-017-3697-8 , pp. 256 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Cynthia Wolberger. In: hhmi.org. Howard Hughes Medical Institute , accessed June 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Cynthia Wolberger. In: f1000.com. Faculty of 1000 , accessed June 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cynthia Wolberger. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed June 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2019 NAS Election. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , April 30, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cynthia Wolberger. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , May 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  7. ^ Protein Society Awards. In: proteinsociety.org. Protein Society, accessed June 9, 2019 .
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SURNAME Wolberger, Cynthia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957